Wh more films stg LGBTQ+ actors to play gay characters and the succs of numero recent queer films, 2023 uld be the year for LGBTQ+ cema.
Contents:
- INTERNATNAL GAY CEMA: 33 LGBTQ MOVI TO SEE OM AROUND THE WORLD
- IS BARBIE GAY AND WHY IS THE NEW MOVIE RATED PG-13?
- 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
- FEBARY 2023: WHAT’S NEW, GAY AND STREAMG ON NETFLIX, HBO MAX, HULU, PRIME VIO, PEACK, DISNEY+, SHUDR AND PARAMOUNT+
- ‘SPOILER ALERT’ TRAILER: JIM PARSONS STARS IN A LIFE-AFFIRMG GAY LOVE STORY ABOUT INTIMACY, GRIEF, & REVERY
- THE 8 TOP GAY CIS FOR 2023
INTERNATNAL GAY CEMA: 33 LGBTQ MOVI TO SEE OM AROUND THE WORLD
Get ready to get all up your feelgs wh the bt LGBTQ+ romance movi and romantic gay movi available to stream right now. * gay movies 2023 *
Rt assured, there are still plenty of cematic treats on the horizon: We’ve got an Atralian ballroom romance, a Bayard Rt bpic, Pedro Pasl playg a gay wboy, and loads of lic queer horror. Night Shyamalan’s Knock at the Cab tells the story of a gay uple (Jonathan Groff and Ben Aldridge) and their adopted dghter Wen (Kristen Cui) as they grapple wh an impossible ultimatum: sacrifice someone or else the world will end. Hontly, the whole thg sounds like Booksmart meets, well, Fight Club, and that’s exactly the kd of energy queer-themed teen edi — TBDDavid Lee / NetflixRarely has there been a bpic stg cisn as perfect as tappg Tony and Emmy-wng actor Colman Domgo to play gay civil rights activist Bayard Rt, a man who was an enormo fluence on Mart Luther Kg, Jr., among other key lears, but who mostly worked behd the scen.
So if you make him a gay wboy a short film directed by Pedro Almodóvar — who, by the way, was once poised to direct Brokeback Mounta — I’ll s up straight my chair and pay rapt attentn. In Brish wrer/director Geia Oakly’s but film, a high school gym teacher named Jean (Rosy McEwen) is livg 1980s England when the Conservative party, led by Margaret Thatcher, announced Sectn 28, which prohibed the “promotn” of homosexualy as a “pretend fay relatnship.
IS BARBIE GAY AND WHY IS THE NEW MOVIE RATED PG-13?
From Fassbr to Pasoli and Sciamma, here are some of the bt gay movi om the global arthoe. * gay movies 2023 *
After was origally supposed to be a Disney movie, Netflix soped up this stant classic about a gay supervilla and his shaphiftg sikick based on the award-wng graphic novel om ND Stevenson. Somehow the movie is even gayer (and dare we say, better) than the amazg book, and arriv wh some of the most betiful animatn and one of the most powerful msag about seeg yourself and others for who they are you’ll see. Night Shyamalan is back his groove, and his next feature is about gay fathers—played by Jonathan Groff and Ben Aldridge—whose scenic woodland getaway wh their dghter is terpted by strangers who force them to make an impossible cisn orr to stop the apolypse.
'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
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Prolific gay character actor Colman Domgo (Fear The Walkg Dead, Zola, Euphoria—we uld go on and on!) gets the lead role he’s long served this star-studd bpic of trailblazg gay civil rights activist Bayard Rt, the man who anized the 1963 March on Washgton. Gays have long loved this inic horror-whodun seri, and though the latt stallment shockgly won’t feature Neve Campbell‘s Sidney Prtt, do have queer star Jasm Savoy-Brown, Wednday It Girl Jenna Ortega, thirst-trap kg Mason Goodg Jr., and the return of Hayn Patiere’s fan-favore character.
This movie has all the gay ins you uld want: Jane Fonda, Ra Morena, Sally Field, and lba legend Lily Toml star as a group of iends who plete a lifelong goal by travelg to the Super Bowl to meet their favore player, quarterback Tom Brady.
Inclus Showtime seri Yellowjackets and Unupled, films Scream VI and The Birdge, as well as new seasons of realy shows such as RuPl’s Drag Race and Love ALLways, and documentari cludg The Only and Gay Chos Deep South. Across the major streamg platforms, this month will see the premiere of a beloved s reboot, an A-List rom-, the return of one of televisn’s gayt procral dramas, and what’s sure to be the first big wateroler show of 2023.
FEBARY 2023: WHAT’S NEW, GAY AND STREAMG ON NETFLIX, HBO MAX, HULU, PRIME VIO, PEACK, DISNEY+, SHUDR AND PARAMOUNT+
Is Barbie gay the new movie and why is rated PG-13? The 2023 film starrg Margot Robbie has already generated a lot of discsn. * gay movies 2023 *
Y, sure, they were a pair of straight actors playg gay, but the film reprented a major shift for queer stori the mastream, and went on to earn eight major Osr nomatns (wh three ws!
And, assumg the seri adher closely to the thrillg gam, there are queer storyl store, cludg one centerg on a gay survivalist uple played by Nick Offerman and Queerty favore Murray Bartlett. Dcribg self as a horror thriller the film, was shot Holt’s hometown of Paduh, Kentucky and the director has shared his cisn for the lotn: “We wanted to explore the queer experience the morn South, and the terror one n be ma to feel wh the realizatn they are gay or queer-intified.
‘SPOILER ALERT’ TRAILER: JIM PARSONS STARS IN A LIFE-AFFIRMG GAY LOVE STORY ABOUT INTIMACY, GRIEF, & REVERY
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The directors have mented, “by puttg a gay protagonist at the heart of a thriller, we aim to vert expectatns, and ph stori om the marg, and ourselv as queer artists, to the mastream. : The Hero Di, was released quietly December 2022, but was overshadowed by other holiday releas and the fallout om the failure of Bros, the season’s other gay rom- starrg Billy Eichner.
Through highs and lows — meetg Michael’s WASP-y parents, movg together, and a health crisis — the movie prents a surprisgly hont portrayal of a relatnship that’s at once universal, but also specifilly gay, and is both strengthened and tted by Michael and K’s flaws. But for closeted gay men the 1980s and 1990s, one talogue particular, Internatnal Male, was their only way to see and exprs their reprsed sexualy, all unr the guise of sellg terrible outfs for men. Through terviews wh the talogue’s creators, workers, and ctomers, the documentary looks at what the talogue meant to a gay muny that was beg wiped out by the AIDS crisis the ’80s and modified the ’90s.
THE 8 TOP GAY CIS FOR 2023
Here's our list of the Bt Gay movi and LGBTQ+ TV shows of the year that was 2022 — and what a queer year was! * gay movies 2023 *
Frank Oz’s dated but still entertag edy In & Out stars Kev Kle as Howard Brackett, a soon-to-be-married man whose life is thrown to disarray after a former actg stunt lls him gay durg his Osr speech. Thanks to their fierce humor, great strength, termatn to own their sexualy, and some s, some credibly obv queer dg, the 10 female characters ronated wh LGBTQ viewers and beme gay ins.
One of last summer’s surprise streamg lights was Canadian dramedy seri The Lake, about a divorced gay man named Jt (Orphan Black‘s Jordan Gavaris) returng to the laki town he grew up and attemptg to rennect wh the dghter (Madison Shamoun) he had given up for adoptn years earlier. Eventually, they would open a bar of their own, Sitrack, the cy’s still nascent gayborhood, and along the way found themselv ccial figur the LGBTQ+ civil rights movement, leadg their lol muny both activism and celebratn. That unbearable, paful erotic tensn is more or ls the staed mood of Oliver Herman’ shimmerg and sensual ary drama “Moffie, ” which is easily the bt movie about gay male reprsn sce “God’s Own Country.
It’s an adaptatn of a novel by French liberte and gay in Jean Ge, settlg to a French port cy where a madame played by Jeanne More ns the world, and sailors engage explic sex acts that turn vlent.