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Former MLB umpire Dale Stt, an excerpt om his new book, reunts how he me out as gay baseball first and then the world. * gay empire *

Throughout the history of cema, there have been grippg and groundbreakg LGBTQ+ films – stori takg the liv, history, and experienc of people who intify as gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, pansexual and beyond.

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Fox's new hip-hop seri tak a stand by troducg a gay character wh a notorly homophobic genre * gay empire *

A key shkicker the early '90s New Queer Cema movement, Araki took a baseball bat to hetero-normative culture and explored gay life on the margs durg Bh's admistratn films by turns funny, ank and anguished.

The Livg End is his bt picture, a so-lled 'gay Thelma & Louise', as film cric Jon (Craig Gilmore) and drifter Le (Mike Dytri), both diagnosed as HIV-posive ("the Neo-Nazi Republin fal solutn, " says Jon about AIDS), kill a homophobic p and go on the lam, offg any bigot who stand their way.

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Buy on Amazon UK3 of 50Eliza Htman's send film is an timate portra of ternalised homophobia and toxic masculy, the bed force of which sends Frankie (a brilliant breakout om future star Harris Dickson) to a tailsp.

‘DALE, WE KNOW YOU’RE GAY. WE DON’T RE.’ HOW A MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL UMPIRE ME OUT

Pched very much as an antihero, Woodroof is shown as toxilly homophobic before his illns, velopg empathy for fellow gay and trans patients across the film. All that, and am Dive as a pneer who preced the trends of punk, dis and techno before they h big, and reveals the very human vulnerabily behd the sndalo on Amazon UK7 of 50Conversn therapy isn't new ground for LGBTQ+ cema, but Diree Akhavan's take on one of the most sid forms of homophobia blends drama, edy, and an timate die sensibily a film that wtily rais a cked eyebrow at their ridiculo practic, whout unrmg the pa and harm they e to those forced to enter them. It's the b, fact, that is the Priscilla of the tle – a vehicle which needs regular repatg (most strikgly an all-pk makeover) to ver up the homophobic abe scrawled on s si, as the gang enunter iendly Aborigals and some ls-iendly townsfolk as they travel om Sydney to Alice Sprgs.

If you wouldn't st Terence Stamp as trans woman Bernatte today, Priscilla boasts great performanc om Stamp, Hugo Weavg and Guy Pearce – the tr absolutely turng out their inic lip sync performance of CeCe Peniston's 'Fally', and htg all the dramatic beats as the story unvers revelatns about their personal liv and on Amazon UK10 of 50The wner of the Queer Palm award 2014, Ala Guirdie's elegant, credibly watchable film is a provotive batn of Hchck thriller, doomed love story, and perhaps the bt-acted gay porn flick ever ma. Directed by William Friedk, who later directed a more qutnable pictn of gay life Cisg, the film's place history is ensured as the first major stud picture to tackle homosexualy head on.

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If subsequently divid the muny for s characters' sense of self-loathg and reprsn, sails by on top flight bchery, fluid filmmakg and serv as an important time psule pturg what meant to be gay late '60s Ameri. It's an even more powerful statement nsirg homosexualy is still currently illegal Kenya, and Rafiki was banned there due to s "clear tent to promote lbianism". Tom Hanks livers an Osr-wng turn as Andrew Beckett, a high-flyg gay lawyer who's abptly disrd om his law firm when the senr partners disver he has AIDS.

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Screenwrer Ron Nyswaner is himself a gay rights activist, which permeat through his work – and Philalphia, he livers a eply affectg story that at the time served to put a human face (and, Hanks, a major hoehold name at that) to the harrowg headl.

Watchg today, 's hard to stomach Miller's unpalatable homophobia, but Demme's film also offers a betiful portrayal of Beckett's extend fay who love and support him on Amazon UK17 of 50When Marsha P. As s tle suggts, David France's documentary is partly a celebratn of Marsha's life – beg one of the key lears of the origal Gay Rights movement and the foundatn of Pri the wake of the Stonewall rts – and also an vtigatn of her ath, as activist Victoria Cz sets out the prent day on a renewed missn to dig further to the circumstanc of her passg.

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Filmed long tak, subjective close ups, and guerilla style on trams and crowds, Weekend is an credibly timate look at the polics of gay relatnships, and how even the most brief teractns n change your life for the on Amazon UK19 of 50There are few pictns of genr fluidy on screen both as somewhat abstract and pletely leral as Sally Potter's Orlando.

On Amazon UK20 of 50If bears all the hallmarks of Osr-iendly awards-ba, G Van Sant's bpic of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official California, is still a highly effective piece of work. Protts and activism appear often gay cema, but the stak feel particularly big here as Harvey challeng the relig fervour and overt homophobia of the 1970s to protect LGBTQ+ people their hom and jobs.

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Brazen s rampant male nudy and wh no homophobia sight, Fox And His Friends feels ahead of s time s sharp dissectn of social mobily and plex gay characters, whose sexualy is important to the story some ways, but don't fe them or the film.

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