Dear lennials, the generatn born durg the '80s, the are the gay-themed movi — some wonrful, some wonrfully terrible — worth your time.
Contents:
- GAY MEN AT THE MOVI
- GAY CEMA HISTORY: WATCH: “OUTRAGEOUS!” (1977) STARRG: CRAIG RSELL [FULL MOVIE]
- 16 MT-SEE CLASSIC GAY MOVI FROM BEFORE YOU WERE BORN
GAY MEN AT THE MOVI
The book Gay Men at the Movi: Cema, Memory and the History of a Gay Male Communy, Stt McKnon is published by Intellect Ltd. * gay cinema history *
While gay characters were equently ed for lghs or not explicly stated to be queer the earlit mastream Hollywood films, a brief relaxatn Germany's film productn the early 20th century allowed for LGBTQ+ classics like "Different om the Others" and "Mädchen Uniform. Later, the New Queer Cema the 1990s flourished as many pennt filmmakers (many of whom were gay) told fluid, empathetic stori about queer dividuals.
The film, which featur an all-Black st, was one big step toward makg gay cema that isn't whewashed, featur a range of inti, and don't make s queer characters one-note or vehicl of sufferg. The German film "Anrs als die Anrn" (English: "Different om the Others") is one of the olst survivg movi wh a gay protagonist and was ma durg a rare perd when German film censorship was relaxed after World War I. It centers on a vlist who tak his life after gettg blackmailed for his sexualy and ends wh an appeal for gay tolerance by German gay rights activist Magn Hirschfeld.
Charl Bryant's adaptatn of gay wrer Osr Wil's play of the same name reportedly featured several queer llaborators—namely, bisexual lead actor Alla Nazimova and set signer Natacha Rambova (her mored lover). In one scene om the 1938 screwball edy "Brgg Up Baby, " the word "gay" was ed a queer ntext for likely the first time (possibly thanks to queer performers' e of "gay" as a slang term). Loosely based on the Leopold and Loeb murr se, Aled Hchck's "Rope" tells the story of two heavily d gay men who murr one of their classmat for the sheer thrill of .
GAY CEMA HISTORY: WATCH: “OUTRAGEOUS!” (1977) STARRG: CRAIG RSELL [FULL MOVIE]
Outrageo! released 1977 was a Canadian film and one of the first gay-themed films ever to get a wispread theatril release North Ameri. It is regard as gay cema landmark * gay cinema history *
While "The Children's Hour" is notable for prentg a sympathetic queer ma character a time when that was rare, has also been cricized for rercg the "tragic gay endg" stereotype. "Portra of Jason" was shot over 12 hours, as experimental filmmaker Shirley Clarke terviewed Jason Holliday, a Black gay sex worker and aspirg baret dancer. Although one uld argue that such a gelg terview procs was exploative, Holliday's mgs about his life, dreams, and art the face of societal anti-Blackns and homophobia provi the kd of tersectnal look at LGBTQ+ inty that '60s media sorely lacked.
16 MT-SEE CLASSIC GAY MOVI FROM BEFORE YOU WERE BORN
Decrimalisatn changed the way homosexualy and gay culture were portrayed on screen. * gay cinema history *
Produced durg the fal months of the Hays Co, Robert Aldrich's film about the breakdown of an agg lbian TV actor clud a lbian sex scene that broke down a major taboo associated wh the Co's erasure of gay characters on screen. Origally an Off-Broadway play by Mart Crowley, the film explor the unrlyg tensns that surface when a iendly group of gay New Yorkers gathers for a birthday party. "Word Is Out: Stori of Some of Our Liv" prised terviews wh 26 lbians and gay men who spoke about their liv and experienc as part of the LGBTQ+ muny.
William Friedk's "Cisg" was reviled by many gay viewers, wh one pamphlet sayg that, the film, "gay men are prented as one-dimensnal sex-crazed lunatics … It is a film about why we should be killed.
A list of 16,760 films piled on Letterboxd, cludg The Stunt of Prague (1913), A Florida Enchantment (1914), Zapata's Gang (1914), Filib (1915) and The Wgs (1916). About this list: It’s an LGBTQ+ world and the are my other LGBTQ+ lists on Letterboxd: ➡️Mor Intert Films: In the Closet: A List of Mor Intert LGBTQ+ Films ➡️Short Films: Size Don’t Always Matter: A Collectn of Fe LGBTQ+ Shorts for Boys and Girls All Over the World ➡️Berl: Teddy Award – Berl Film Ftival (1987-2023) ➡️Cann: Queer Palm – Ftival Cann (2010-2023) ➡️Venice: Queer Ln – Venice Film Ftival (2007-2022) ➡️Top 200: MundoF’s Top 200 LGBTQ+ Films of All Time ABOUT THIS LIST The purpose of this list is to offer a chronologil look at the multiple films that have had signifint lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr or queer ntent over the years. Now, there are legns of reasons why a movie might be nsired sential to the LGBTQ+ muny. As such, this broad and prehensive list clus films that al wh or feature signifint LGBTQ+ characters or issu, and may have same-sex romance or relatnships as an important plot vice. The films on the list e om all over the world and they ver the whole spectm of the LGBTQ+ experience. FAQ ▻ How did this list e about? Like everyone else here, I love watchg movi general and, like a few others, LGBTQ+ movi particular. As happens, I uldn’t fd a prehensive list of LGBTQ+ films that tly satisfied me anywhere I looked, so I cid to create one right here, on Letterboxd, Febary 2018. Sce untls LGBTQ+ entri happened to be missg om the TMDB database at the time, took me a uple of months to build the list, and I’m que happy wh the rult as stands today, although ’s still a work progrs sce I’m nstantly addg new tl; not only new releas but smaller films that might have been overlooked along the way. ▻ What kd of films are clud on your list? Generally speakg, films that will likely appeal and speak to LGBTQ+ dienc. Therefore, movi wh overtly – or sometim subtle - gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, queer ntent or characters ma by LGBTQ+ - or sometim non LGBTQ+ - filmmakers. Films different languag om different parts of the world that exprs general LGBTQ+ experienc, issu, needs, and ncerns. The list is meant to be prehensive, so I didn’t want to impose any sort of rtrictns when creatg . For that reason, the list also clus films that al wh bullyg and homophobia. Movi on this list n be flamboyantly gay or, some s, barely out of the closet. ▻ How did you build your list? This list is pilatn of entri that I gathered om several sourc, namely: • Vo Rso’s The Celluloid Closet. Published 1981, before the Inter ever existed, The Celluloid Closet was a groundbreakg book about the portrayal of homosexualy film. You n check Alex’s The Celluloid Closet (Revised Edn) page for a plete list of entri featured that particular book. • Screengs at notable LGBTQ+ film ftivals om around the world. • Books I personally own, like Raymond Murray’s Imag the Dark: An Encyclopedia of Gay and Lbian Film and Vio & Blood Moon's Gui to Gay and Lbian Film: The World's Most Comprehensive Gui to Recent Gay and Lbian Movi or Inter talogu Fabric Pradas’s Céma gay: un siècle d'homosexualé sur grand écran, and others. • Wikipedia lists and relevant IMDB keywords such as gay, lbian, bisexual, and more. • Amazon Prime, notably the ''Ctomers who watched this em also watched'' feature, which - surprgsgly enough - featur a ton of smaller LGBTQ+ films. • CGiii’s database. The folks at CGiii like to boast themselv as ‘’the most prehensive LGBT film se the entire Universe’’, and I have to adm that they have a solid and thorough database that clus films the Gay, Lbian, Bisexual, Trans, Intersex and Mor Intert tegori. * gay cinema history *
Gay first-time director Bill Sherwood's "Partg Glanc" is regard as the first film to al wh the AIDS crisis, which had a vastatg impact on gay and bisexual men particular the late 1980s and early 1990s.
In the early 1990s, several openly gay directors beme volved pennt cema, creatg a crop of queer movi that treated sexualy as fluid—exampl clu "Orlando, " "My Own Private Idaho, " "Poison, " and many more. Starrg major Hollywood actors like Patrick Swayze, John Leguizamo, and Wley Snip as drag queens, "To Wong Foo" was the rare, explicly gay stud film that rose to the top of the box office durg s first two weeks theaters.