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!
Contents:
- SEPTEMBER 2022: WHAT’S NEW AND GAY ON NETFLIX, PEACK, HULU, HBO MAX, SHOWTIME, PARAMOUNT+ AND DISNEY+
- APRIL 2022: WHAT’S NEW AND GAY ON NETFLIX, HULU, HBO MAX, SHOWTIME, AMAZON PRIME VIO AND PARAMOUNT+
- MARCH 2022: WHAT’S NEW, GAY AND STREAMG ON NETFLIX, HULU, HBO MAX, AMAZON PRIME, PEACK AND PARAMOUNT+
- FEBARY 2022: WHAT’S NEW AND GAY ON NETFLIX, HULU, PEACK, HBO MAX, AMC+, DISNEY+ AND AMAZON PRIME VIO
SEPTEMBER 2022: WHAT’S NEW AND GAY ON NETFLIX, PEACK, HULU, HBO MAX, SHOWTIME, PARAMOUNT+ AND DISNEY+
From gay pirat and lbian baseball players to queer vampir and ballroom legends, this was a hugely entertag year for LGBTQ+ TV. * gay series 2022 netflix *
The story follows Charlie, an openly gay high-stng teen, and Nick, a kd gby-lovg jock. In the teen seri, an openly gay character was volved a love triangle wh two boys, which isn’t somethg we’ve seen a lot of on TV.
And we n’t fet Patrick, the openly gay teen who has no problem g trouble for other characters. And although ’s absolutely lovely to see a film for kids embrace explic gay romance, the queerns of Nick Bno and Troy Quane’s film, adapted om the graphic novel by ND Stevenson, go further and extends to the tle character.
But nsir this: let gay art flop. In a sea of gay ntent that aims to be excellent, “First Kill” has the bravery to be pellgly terrible, and for that we mt pay our rpects.
APRIL 2022: WHAT’S NEW AND GAY ON NETFLIX, HULU, HBO MAX, SHOWTIME, AMAZON PRIME VIO AND PARAMOUNT+
Febary is brgg many LGBTQ+ tidgs cludg the last seasons of Killg Eve and Better Thgs, Shay Mchell playg gay aga, celbian-studd game shows, an Anne+ movie, Abbi Jabson as an animated queer prcs and more! * gay series 2022 netflix *
Charmg voice work om a mostly queer st of voice actors — cludg Sean Hay, Matt Rogers, Wanda Syk, and Patti Harrison — boosted the show’s lighthearted tacklg of stutnal homophobia, and ma for a seri that had real potential before got Netflix’s axe. She-Ra and the “He-Man” anchise have always had a strong mpy appeal that ma at least gay-adjacent, but ND Stevenson’s acclaimed reboot of the anchise for Netflix rehgly dropped the -adjacent part pletely. Soapy teen stori are so much better when they’re gay, and “Young Royals” is one of the gayt and soapit.
A marked improvement om the origal “The Ultimatum,” which featured a st of nttants so toxic that went past entertag and to ncerng terrory, the “Queer Love” eratn stars a group of gay women and non-bary leads on the verge of marriage as they are tasked wh mglg wh other upl, and choose to pair up wh someone outsi their origal pairg to live wh for three weeks. Also, mercifully, this show is NOT hosted by Nick and Vansa Lachey, but stead by JoAnna Garcia Swisher, one of the biggt ws for the gays Netflix uld have ever provid . From datg farmers and dsters to ventg a vibrator for women wh arthristis, the sex-posive and nately femist antics of Grace, Frankie, and their gay ex-hbands make for generally light fare.
In orr to get closer to Nick, Charlie jos the gby team and kicks off que lerally a gusg game over whether or not Nick is gay.
MARCH 2022: WHAT’S NEW, GAY AND STREAMG ON NETFLIX, HULU, HBO MAX, AMAZON PRIME, PEACK AND PARAMOUNT+
As Dani reliv her personal trma and guilt for beg engaged to her now-ceased fiancé Eddie (Roby Attal) spe beg gay, she fds solace groundskeeper Jamie (Amelia Eve). Though Alex has plans to lose his virgy to his bt iend Claire (Male Weste), a queer ex macha arriv the form of openly gay Ellt (Anton Marziale), who leads him to qutn his sexualy. Director Joe Mantello, who first revamped Mart Crowley’s 1968 play on Broadway three years ago wh an all-star st of out-gay male actors, brgs that exact same troupe, and sensibily, to the not-que-big-screen wh his new film adaptatn produced by Ryan Murphy for Netflix.
The rult is a sophistited, tart-tongued revival, and a gayed-up “Who’s Aaid of Virgia Woolf?” that surmounts the challeng faced by stage-to-screen adaptatns, specifilly the utter nfement to a sgle space.
The performanc are all superb, and the fact that the st pris solely out-of-the-closet gay men creat for a special alchemy here, as the actors, first tablished their summer 2018 Broadway n, have a faiary and fort wh each other you’d be unlikely to see a mixed st of straights and gays.
FEBARY 2022: WHAT’S NEW AND GAY ON NETFLIX, HULU, PEACK, HBO MAX, AMC+, DISNEY+ AND AMAZON PRIME VIO
It’s hard to thk of a better premise for a documentary than a gay porn shop n by a straight Jewish uple, but throw to the mix that their dghter is the filmmaker and you have one of the most surprisg films of the year.
Filmmaker Rachel Mason follows the footsteps of hybrid documentarian Kirsten Johnson, but throws a heapg dose of Borscht belt humor, Jewish tradn, and gay history. Her lovg acunt of her parents Barry and Karen Mason and how they me to n one of LA’s most popular gay cisg spots is the perfect blend of personal exvatn and engagg storytellg.
Curlg up wh “Tal of the Cy” feels like steppg to your neighborhood gay bar, where everybody knows your name — and your pronouns. School is back ssn at Las Encas, and another year means another new season of Netflix's popular, wild, and gay as hell teen drama seri Ele!