There are as many paths to discovering queer history as there are people who have lived it, and there are many legends we have almost forgotten about who would have become household names in a more just world. History can provide inspiration and help us avoid making the same mistakes over and over again—like forgetting that trans people of color were at the vanguard of gay liberation .
Pride is a time to celebrate, honor and remember it all, whether you are trans, bisexual, ace, multi-gender, pansexual, intersex, non-binary, or across the spectrum of gender, sexual identity and expression Anyone else on...or just proud to support your queer friends.
These 50 films reflect elements of modern queer (LBGTQIA+) history—sometimes as dramatizations, sometimes as documentaries, and sometimes as the films themselves make history. They reflect decades of love, sex, activism and art. Some called for tolerance, others raised their middle fingers at narrow-minded bigotry. Many ask us to love one another, but others ask us to issue a battle cry: be gay, sin.
Or just put on your cha-cha shoes and watch some good movies. Just be you.
Salome (1923)
In the Roaring 1920s, the rules for depicting queer people in film were looser than they would later be. Germany has produced some queer-positive films, although several American films have played fast and loose with gender and sexual roles. Case in point: Salome, a biblical epic produced by and starring queer provocateur Alla Nazimova.
Nazimova (often simply "Nazimova") was one of Hollywood's early power figures and an accomplished artist who drew on Oscar Wilde's plays, including those played by men in drag , overt sexuality and female characters in silver lamé loincloths. It's very campy and stylized, and it didn't make a dime, but it's a reminder that your great-grandparents might have enjoyed some of the movies produced by Queer Fox.
With the rise of the Hays Production Code in the United States and the Nazi Party in Germany, it would be decades before movies could once again move beyond hinting at unsanctioned relationships.
Where to watch: Easily watch on YouTube or purchase digitally through KinoNow (under Pioneers: The First Female Filmmakers )
Paris is Burning (1990)
As Faulkner said, "The past is never dead. It's not even past." This is especially true when it comes to queer history, as Paris Is Burning demonstrates. Director Jennie Livingston's documentary explores drag ball culture in late 1980s New York, with a special focus on the gay, trans and genderqueer experiences of black and Latinx people, and is both joyful and There is also a heartbreaking side. Many of the transgressions here have made their way into pop culture, for better or worse: Madonna is praised for her fashion, but the style has its roots in Harlem dance halls. Much of the language and culture here will make perfect sense to fans of "RuPaul" or "Pose," and many of the documentary's darker elements will be familiar: racism, poverty and anti-trans violence remain is a very real part of the queer BIPOC experience. All the more reason to appreciate authenticity and self-expression, and to give a middle finger to gender expectations.
Live broadcast location: Max, The Criterion Channel
Mei Chen in Uniform (1931)
The story of troubled schoolgirl Manuela (Hertha Thiele), who soon becomes a teacher at her all-girls school Medchen in Uniform , takes place at a pivotal moment in German history: Paragraph 175, which banned homosexuality, was subject to its first major legal challenge. A few years ago, the Weimar era, later seen as "decadent," was in full swing. With queer women behind the camera, plenty of lesbian desire, and on-screen kissing, the film was a hit in much of Europe, and Eleanor Roosevelt's lobbying ensured that American audiences would see it. (I like this detail). It's a perfect movie about romantic longing, but never devolves into melodrama. It also invites us to imagine what kind of female-centered films we might have seen if there were more women behind the camera during the golden age of cinema—and if the Nazis hadn't made their anti-queer movement central to their agenda. What kind of movies might we see on their rise.
Where to stream: Plex
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)
Look, we've all been there, those nights. get down. Do you think so? So why not put on some makeup, open the box of tapes, and pull the wig off the rack? Chances are you've already started singing along, but if not, Hedwig is a musical about a German genderqueer rocker whose botched gender reassignment surgery leaves them with the titular "angry inch" ". After more than two decades of anticipating a much-needed cultural conversation about the gender binary, this is also a good old-fashioned rock opera, just the kind they don't make anymore. The film, based on the stage musical of the same name, didn't make any money but earned well-deserved cult classic status.
Where to watch: Criterion Channel
The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Director James Whale (whose later life was dramatized in Gods and Monsters ) followed up what should have been the greatest monster movie with one of the most impressive feats in the history of American cinema: Some funnier, weirder, weirder stuff, with gay icon Ernest Thesiger strutting around a gothic set, delivering vicious retorts and seducing his old é into raising the dead yet again. As he's about to marry Elizabeth, his Dr. Pretorius returns to Frankenstein's (Colin Clive) life - but if given the choice, he'll run off and marry Pretorius Living with Reese. This was all before Elsa Lanchester swapped her Mary Shelley costume for a bridal wire cage wig and an icon was born.
Where to Stream: Digital Rental
Rose Funeral Parade (1969)
At the height of the Japanese New Wave, writer-director Toshio Matsumoto created this classic that blends surrealism with hauntingly beautiful, occasionally psychedelic imagery. The storyline takes inspiration from the Oedipus King story and flips it on its head, seamlessly blending the mythical and the secular, following Addie (Shinnosuke Ikehata) and other transgender women in the very swinging, very gay 1960s of Tokyo ("Rose" is a pun related to the pansy). At the time, the film had no difficulty getting released in Japan, but it did run into difficulties with censorship in the United States.
Live broadcast location : Kanopy, Night Flight
The Boys in the Band (1970)
William Friedkin ( The Kingpin , The Exorcist and the slightly more infamous Cruising ) directs this film adaptation of the controversial Off-Broadway play - which features every character Both are controversial for being gay or bisexual, and are often controversial among queer audiences for portraying its characters as self-pitying. It's not exactly an uplifting portrait of gay America, but it reflects something true, if not always pretty, about a work from the pre-emancipation period. There are many aspects here that are still sadly relevant.
Where to Stream : Digital Rental
Stranger by the Lake (2013)
This 2013 French film feels somewhat like an homage to erotic thrillers from decades past, in the same way that some of the better thrillers of the '80s paid homage to film noir. Pierre Deladonchamps plays Franck here, a regular visitor to the nude beach and surrounding woods, both of which are popular cruising spots. Frank begins a passionate relationship (meaning: lots of sex in the woods) with Michelle (Christopher Pau), whom Frank later discovers drowned a man in a lake . Which, okay: red flag. But D is just that good. As the investigation into the incident heats up, Frank finds it difficult to let go of a good thing, even in the face of murder. We are firmly entering a time where queer people can be both prey and predator without resorting to exhausting tropes.
Where to play : Kanopy
Querrel (1982)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder's dreamy queer film follows a handsome young sailor who finds himself entangled in a web of sex, sibling rivalry, and slightly sublimated desire in a French brothel. The plot here, though, is almost entirely secondary: there's a lusty atmosphere, plenty of sweat and utterly shameless sex.
Live broadcast location: Max, Tubi, The Criterion Channel
Nighthawk (1978)
Its pseudo-documentary style may be a little too believable for modern audiences—a little narrative momentum could go a long way—but what's here remains compelling both as a drama and as a time capsule. The film offers a realistic look at London's gay nightlife (at least as far as I know), telling the story of Jim (Ken Robertson) who teaches geography by day and goes to clubs by night. The film depicts the gay scene of the time almost entirely positively, with the second half of the film devoted to candid conversations about his life between Jim and his class.
Where to stream: Prime Video, Tubi, Kanopy
Rope (1948)
Alfred Hitchcock began collaborating with queer (straight and other) performers from early in his career, with Ivor Novello in 1927's The Lodger Novello) and achieved great success for the first time. I'm not sure he thinks much about queer identity, which actually works in Rope's favor: it doesn't feel like there's any kind of pro- or anti-gay framework here, just a murder involving a few people. ...let's say the "gorgeous" roommate. Based on the story of real-life lovers Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, who murdered a 14-year-old just to prove they could do it, and In the drama that followed, the film dropped any direct references to same-sex relationships, but it's all pretty hard to miss, especially when the leads are played by openly (later) bisexual Farley Granger and When played by gay actor John Dahl.
Where to play: Prime Video
Female Trouble (1974)
Many early queer-positive films were aimed squarely at heterosexual audiences—portraying gays as angelic figures or pitiable victims of society's cruelty. John Waters skips all that well-intentioned nonsense and creates films where there is no greater crime than boredom . While Pink Flamingos ( whose memorable climax is set against the backdrop of How Much Is That Dog in the Window) is better known for its high school villain Dawn Davenport (played in drag) Queen Devine)'s story completes the Waters style. ), she turns to a life of crime when her perfectly upright parents can't give her the Christmas gift she really wants: "Good girls don't wear cha-cha heels!" Their cruel denial of such an important accessory sends Dawn into a trap An orgy of sex and crime, it's a bit like an homage to Mildred Pierce - if Joan Crawford had conceived her daughter on camera.
On a rotten old mattress.
In the dump.
It's all appropriately outrageous, and the audience is outraged - but only the boring ones.
Where to stream: Digital rental via Fandango at Home
Un chant d'amour/Love song (1950)
Jean Genet's short film, in which two prisoners are tortured by a voyeuristic prison guard, is filled with homoerotic imagery that may be less shocking now, but is no less effective. The two never came into contact except in fantasy scenes, but seeing the two share the smoke of a cigarette remains one of the most popular images in film. If you search under a movie's English title, don't be confused by the 1947 Katherine Hepburn film of the same name.
Live broadcast location: Kanopy, Vimeo
Victim (1961)
It is sometimes called the "blackmailer's charter." British law had allowed criminal prosecution for homosexual acts since 1885, but by the 1960s the law was barely enforced. Still, the mere threat of arrest, and the public proceedings that follow, makes it distressingly common for blackmailers (gay and straight) to exploit symbols of affluence—in this case, blackmailers is a married London lawyer played by Dirk Bogarde. Exploring social issues in the style of a neo-noir thriller, The Victim was an early example of a major director and star portraying gay characters sympathetically, even acknowledging the existence of homosexuals, inevitably shocking audiences and censors alike. It wasn't a huge success, but it came at a crucial time: the sixties had really begun and attitudes were starting to change.
Live broadcast location : Max, The Criterion Channel
Before Stonewall (1985)
If Stonewall sometimes seems like ancient history, it's important to remember that queer history didn't begin there—not even remotely. Greta Schiller and Robert Rosenberg's 1985 documentary looks back at the early 20th century through interviews with activists and writers who helped chart the evolution of a movement that Movements among people struggling to live authentic lives at a time when the wider culture favored them. Pretend they're not there.
The film is an important document, capturing many important voices while they were still with us, but it is also inspiring and often delightful. It's hard not to smile when we think about what these legends were doing while the rest of America was sleeping. (It had an HD restoration a few years ago, so now is an especially good time to check it out.)
Where to play: Prime Video
Some of my best friends are... (1971)
This is a fascinating time capsule of the often entertaining soap opera about a gay bar on Christmas Eve, filmed and set just a few years after Stonewall. There are a ton of characters hanging around, some touching, some just rough sketches of character types, but representing a wide swath of the community. It was made during a transitional period, when queer activism and visibility was on the rise but not yet having its impending impact, so the film gives off an air of alternate joy and fear about what's outside the door. The welcoming space of the bar.
(If all that wasn’t enough to secure the film’s place in queer history, it also features an early screen appearance from Rue McClanahan herself, just before she teamed up with Bea Arthur on Maude 》 one year ago.
Where to stream: Prime Video, Sling TV
Happy Together (1997)
" Happy Together " is Wong Kar-Wai's beautifully dark triumph about a deeply mismatched couple (Leslie Cheung and Tony Leung) whose relationship falls apart during a trip to Argentina. This ultra-sexy yet deeply codependent pair are constantly drawn back into each other's orbit - they make young, gay, and passionate love look so cool that you can't help but hope they succeed. The cinematography here is stunning and every frame feels like a mini work of art. There’s also a lot of subtext here related to the handover of Hong Kong from Britain to China, which happened around the time the film was shot—a reminder of the layers of identity involved in being queer.
Live broadcast location: Max, The Criterion Channel
Knife+Heart (2018)
Some dirty deeds happen on the set of this ultra-stylish, colorful, psychedelic French gay porn film that pays homage not only to the Italian jali of yesteryear, but also to the golden age of porn in the 1970s. Director Yann González has crafted a film whose queerness is far from accidental: it's the focus of the entire film (beginning with the opening switchblade dildo), but it remains one of the most iconic films of the past decade. Effective and one of the most beautiful horror movies ever made.
Where to play: Shudder, Tubi, Freevee
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
I've watched Rocky at least a dozen times and know every line by heart, but I still can't tell you anything about the plot. (This may have less to do with the movie itself and more to do with the state of people's traditional viewing of the movie...but let's say it's a little bit of both.)
In a way, it's a celebration of queerness in its many forms, and provides even the straightest of heterosexuals with an excuse to engage in some gender role-playing. It's weird, a little sloppy, and doesn't make a lot of sense - but other than that, it's more fun.
Where to Stream: Digital Rental
Scream Queens: Riot at Compton's Cafeteria (2005)
Stone walls have been built for a long, long time. This may have been the explosion of the modern queer liberation movement, but there have been sparks for decades — one of which was the 1966 Compton Cafeteria Riots. Trans people in San Francisco are essentially banned from gay bars (transphobia has never been an exclusive phenomenon). cis, heterosexual phenomenon), and the all-night Compton Cafeteria was once a hangout and a cheap coffee stop, especially for trans sex workers. Of course, their presence also facilitated local police, who found ready targets for harassment among the cafeteria's transgender and cross-dressing patrons. The iconic image of Stonewall remains a brick through a window, and the Compton riots had a similar image: a cup of coffee facing a police officer who grabbed and tried to arrest a customer. What followed were the first openly queer protests in American history and the beginning of trans activism in San Francisco.
Where to play: Prime Video
Heart of the Desert (1985)
By the mid-1980s, these tropes had begun to solidify: we were getting a slew of movies about HIV/AIDS (many of them brilliant), and were in the middle of a major cinematic era ( Dressed to Kill , Cruise ”) , The Silence of the Lambs , Basic Instinct ) connects queer identity with extreme violence. Amid it all, "Desert Heart" is an absolute breath of fresh air: Vivian, a divorced English professor, meets Kay, an uninhibited sculptor, on a ranch in Reno. The course of true love is never smooth (or, in this case, straight), so Vivian struggles a bit with the unexpected lesbian attraction. This romantic drama never veers into tragedy, and is all the better for it.
Live broadcast location: Max, The Criterion Channel
My Beautiful Laundry (1985)
The best queer-themed movies understand that no one is the same and that any kind of queer identity intersects with all the other labels we choose for ourselves (or others choose for us). That's why My Beautiful Laundromat is not only a great gay movie, but also a great movie about class, racism, and a vivid portrait of life in the Thatcher/Reagan era of the 1980s.
Where to play: Pluto TV, Hoopla
Edward II (1991)
Do you want queer history? beautiful. Let’s travel back in time to 14th century England and tell the story of Edward II’s famous infatuation with courtier Piers Gaveston. Gay filmmaker, provocateur and activist Derek Jarman removes any historical ambiguity in the relationship between the two and imagines medieval Europe as a postmodern fantasy, full of intentional anachronisms and soundtrack Anne Lennox in . Think Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette , but much happier. It also made a star of Tilda Swinton, who went on to star in another queer classic , Orlando .
Where to stream: Peacock, Tubi, Freevee, Roku Channel, Hoopla
Rafiki (2018)
The first Kenyan film to screen at the Cannes Film Festival has also been banned in the country because it challenged Kenya's legal ban on same-sex sex. The romantic drama follows young women Kena and Ziggy (Samantha Mugarcia and Sheila Munywa) as they develop a romantic relationship amid pressure from their family and community. The love story is joyful and charming, but the movie doesn't shy away from real challenges.
Where to watch: Hoopla, Kanopy
Birdcage (1996)
The Birdcage was a slick, funny, charming and engaging Hollywood entertainment starring some of the biggest stars of the day that made a fortune selling accepted information (despite its bizarre and completely unnecessary ratings). Unlike many of the serious queer-related films of the '90s, this one actually made being gay look fun. Ridiculous. And it's usually not a tragedy. Despite the specific stereotypes associated with these characters, the film makes it clear that being an oversized drama queen like Robin Williams' Armand is a lot less boring and boring than being a big-time drama queen like Gene Hackman's The Senator. It's much better (and totally fine) to be narrow-minded. It's all done so carefully and carefully that it can't help but appeal to a broad audience, paving the way for a long and winding road to future queer-positive films.
Where to stream: Prime Video, Tubi, Freevee
Watermelon Woman (1996)
The mid-1990s saw a series of Hollywood films with gay themes. These movies had good intentions and big-name stars, even if they were predominantly male, straight and white: the aforementioned The Birdcage , plus Philadelphia and In and Out , to name a few. But more importantly, it was a golden age for independent filmmakers, who began to make more personal, authentic, and unique films that rejected heteronormativity — what came to be known as the New Queer Cinema. Director/actor Cheryl Dunye stars as Cheryl, who continues her search for fictional black actresses from old Hollywood to explore the lives of those living on the margins.
Live broadcast location: Max, The Criterion Channel
Bondage (1996)
Bound announced the new directing talents of brothers Lily and Lana Wachowski, who would go on to create The Matrix and other imaginative successes (and some equally imaginative failures ). This noir-style thriller blends violence and humor into the story, as well as a lesbian relationship that feels real, and a shameless sex that never feels gratuitous - starring Gina Gershon and Jennifer ·The chemistry between Tilly is off the charts.
The directors remain among the most high-profile transgender filmmakers in Hollywood, and it all started with this instant classic.
Where to play: Pluto TV
All About My Mother (1999)
This isn't the weirdest movie in Pedro Almodóvar 's very weird cinematic history - that's probably 1987's Laws of Desire , which involves a complicated love triangle between two cisgender gay characters and a trans woman . But "All About My Mother" cemented Almodovar's status as one of the world's top filmmakers, blending his early, campy sensibilities with more dramatic material. When Manuela's son is killed in a car accident, she sets out to find his other parent, a transgender woman named Lola, whose identity Manuela has kept secret. Along the way, she becomes embroiled in the lives of other women, including Agrado, a scene-stealing transgender sex worker, and Rosa, an HIV positive who is also pregnant with Lola's child. The film was well ahead of its time in its depiction of queer themes, and it's still a very funny and thoughtful film about motherhood in all its forms.
Where to stream: Max
Tongue Untied (1989)
Tongues Untied is black gay poet and filmmaker Marlon T. Riggs' experimental masterpiece, which explores the silence of mainstream white and black culture and white gay society on the experiences of black gay men. Through interviews, poetry, and a non-linear style, Riggs examines the expectations of people like him and begins a discussion that continues to this day, for better or worse.
Where to watch: The Criterion Channel, Kanopy
Face (2004)
The success of "The Joy Luck Club" in 1993 led to a huge boom in Chinese-themed films. What I mean by "huge boom" is that Hollywood only waited 11 years before the next movie centered around Chinese Americans.
(Sigh.)
but! On the plus side, Alice Wu's "Face" is a charming triumph, telling the love story between a closeted surgeon and his boss's daughter. The setting is the two women's traditional family and community, but ultimately this is a romantic comedy and you can't help but cheer for the protagonists.
Where to watch: Fubo, Pluto TV
Brokeback Mountain (2005)
There are several films on this list that involve a group of straight people making queer-themed films, with mixed results. While "Brokeback Mountain" relies a little too heavily on tragic tropes (by 2005, we'd seen enough movies about doomed gay men), there's an undeniable wealth of talent both behind and in front of the camera -- enough so that for an impactful experience. However, the film's place in queer history is determined as much by the backlash it generated as by the acclaim it received. When the film lost out to Crash (Her?) for Best Picture at the Oscars, the discussion was more about the homophobia of old-school Hollywood and moviegoers at large than the merits of either film. Brokeback sparked a conversation and, just as importantly, reminded studio bosses that queer content could get mainstream attention and make serious money.
Live broadcast location: Starz
Bend (1997)
This book mainly uses the Dachau concentration camp as the background, telling the story of Max (played by Clive Owen) who was arrested by the Nazis after the "Night of the Long Knives" and participated in the Nazi persecution of homosexuals. Sure, it's painful and heartbreaking, but there are moments of true beauty. It also got an NC-17 for no reason, which says a lot about how we treat any movie with queer content.
Where to play: Peacock, Tubi, Hoopla
Paragraph 175 (2000)
An important documentary about the queer experience in Nazi-era Germany, coinciding with interviews with survivors. Memories of a more open and liberal pre-war Berlin were filled with joy, but naturally and horribly turned to heartbreak as the Nazis began to target queer identities. It's very specific in its approach, but its warning feels timeless, that progress can just as easily be lost.
Where to watch: The Criterion Channel, Kanopy
Tropical Diseases (2004)
This completely unique Thai film bills itself as a "romantic psycho-drama art film," which I guess gives you an idea of its weird and wonderful nature. At first, we think we're in a romantic love story, with Keng (Banlop Lomnoy), a soldier stationed in a quiet village, meeting the local Tong (Sakda Kabu). Budi), started a love story. That's before the narrative breaks down and we're following a soldier searching for a troubled soul in the jungle. This is the first Thai film to appear in the main competition at Cannes and the first Thai film to win the Jury Prize.
Where to watch: The Criterion Channel, Kanopy
Untouchable (2011)
It's not a huge breakthrough, but "Pariah" still feels like the beginning of a new, more assured era for queer cinema. On the one hand, it's absolutely gorgeous, with stunning expressionist cinematography and Dee Rees' confident direction. This is a world you can get lost in. "Pariah" manages to tell a coming-of-age, coming-out story that's so personal that it never feels like a queer message movie, even though it has a lot to say about identity through a young person's journey. Things, black, lesbian protagonists are the same.
Live broadcast location: Starz
Pride (2014)
During the British miners' strikes of the 1980s, activist Mark Ashton and others realized that there was a real opportunity for alliances between miners and queer communities, both of which found themselves under attack An attack on Margaret Thatcher's government (ahem). "Pride" spins the story of the resulting movement (gays and lesbians supporting the miners) into a truly enjoyable comedy (think "The Full Monty ") about the characters behind the unlikely team who ultimately Queer issues have been brought to the forefront of British politics. .
Where to watch: Hoopla, Pluto TV, Showtime
The Best of Drunk Town (2014)
There's a lot in "The Finest" that we've seen before: Set in the Navajo community near Gallup, New Mexico, it highlights poverty, alcoholism, and the conflict between tradition and modern life. Rather than dismantling these stereotypical subjects, transgender Navajo filmmaker Sydney Freeland explores their realities as part of the broader lives of three young Native Americans, including one who dreams of becoming a model Trans women. It's one of several successful films in the past few years that have dealt with the intersection of queer and Indigenous identities.
Where to Stream: Digital Rental
A Night Out (2014)
In 2006, seven black lesbians were harassed and threatened with violence in Greenwich Village. When they fought back, the ensuing brawl resulted in four women being jailed for years and accused of being gang members. The media dubbed them the "New Jersey Four" and the "Lesbian Wolf Pack." One headline warned of "Attack of Lesbian Killers," but of course no one was killed. The relationship between queer people and the American justice system has always been fraught, as has women and people of color. This documentary tells the story of how long histories continue, especially where identities intersect.
Where to Stream: Digital Rental
Tag Hunter Confidential (2015)
He definitely epitomized mid-century American masculinity and beauty ideals: slightly bland but undeniably sexy. With his blond hair, charming smile and chiseled features (and a voice that gave him several hit pop singles), he was a movie star deliberately branded to drive suburban teenage girls wild . His very public romances with stars like Debbie Reynolds and Natalie Wood gave fans something to fantasize about when they weren't intoxicated. Of course, even then, rumors persisted about Hunter's sexuality, which he confirmed in his 2005 memoir, on which the award-winning documentary is based. It's a very personal look at the actor's life in Hollywood, and the lengths the studio system goes to in order to keep some of its biggest stars in the closet.
Where to play: Prime Video
Orange (2015)
Modern technology offers filmmakers opportunities they could only dream of in the past. Imagine if previous generations of queer directors were able to shoot professional-looking films on their phones. Stories that can be told? Director Sean Baker and his team took full advantage of the intimacy and immediacy that came with shooting on several iPhones, without the result feeling shoddy or cheap. It's a girlfriend/buddy/revenge comedy about Sin-Dee Rella and Alexandra, two transgender sex workers who are on the hunt for the man who hurt Sin-Dee. It's interesting.
Where to play: Prime Video
Moonlight (2014)
Two words: Best Picture. Moonlight actually won a lot of awards, but by far the most groundbreaking was the Academy Award. Yes, they did accidentally read the wrong card and let everyone think La La Land won — but on the 89th anniversary of the Oscars, it's worth taking a few extra seconds to learn about the first queer-centered film The film starring the character (and as an all-black cast) won Hollywood's biggest awards. Good movies don't always make history (this is a great movie), but Oscar winners certainly do.
Live broadcast location: Max, Kanopy
Qiqi (2016)
Kiki picks up where Paris Burns left off to examine the current state of the drag ball scene. It's not a sequel, but in examining Kiki culture in New York City more than a quarter of a century after the last documentary, it provides a fascinating glimpse into a community whose influence has only grown. Everything that has and has not changed. Many of the same struggles remain: HIV/AIDS is not going away, especially for those who don’t have the money to pay for treatment, and it’s not over-policed and discriminated against. But wider cultural acceptance of queerness and, to some extent, mainstream acceptance has opened the door for many young, often people of color, to come out in the spotlight with fierce and inspiring performances activist pressure.
Where to flow: AMC+, Kanopy
Marsha P. Johnson's death and life (2017)
There are as many people about the stone wall uprising, but if you want to educate these events, you may be worse than carefully studying Marsha P. Johnson. In the era of very wandering labels, Johnson self -recognition is a homosexual, and it is a cross -decoration that often uses female pronouns. She is also a sex worker, a queen, and a radical, model and mentor-Stonewall, who rises in the flame in 1969, is usually a fascinating person. David France's films not only discussed Johnson's life but also recently investigated her tragic and mysterious death survey in 1992. The New York Police Department ruled that there was not much inspection of suicide.
Where to flow: Netflix
120 times per minute (2017)
Director and screenwriter Robin Campillo, together with the common screen author Philippe Mangeot, used some of their own experiences in this 2017 movie. This is a fictional exploration of an era of actionism. This era is not only pleasant and painful, and capture the electricity of a sports member who really fights for his life.
Where to play: TUBI, DEKKOO, FUBO, Crackle, Hoopla
The happiest season (2020)
They expelled these things. The industry throughout the year is committed to feeding Schmaltzy throughout the country. It is feeded by the appetite of TV festival movies. She often involves a difficult professional woman. She discovered the true meaning of this season when visiting her hometown Christmas. The consistency is comfortable. Therefore, despite the huge number of these movies, there are very few types of this form, at least until in recent years. Non -white faces became more common, and one suddenly appeared in 2020, but at least seven holiday movies were centered on the romance (Heuier actor). This is only meaning-compared with homosexuals, is it better to camping, tacky, and top love stories? Hulu's happiest season marketing is better, the stars are slightly larger, and the overall spectrum is better than others, so it has become the biggest focus. If you ask it if it is good, then you will completely miss this: Of course, this is a clumsy TV comfortable food, but this is a clumsy TV comfortable food with lesbian and nearby of.
Where to play: Hulu
Red, white and white blue (2023)
In the happiest season , this kind of successful adaptation of Casey Mcquiston feels Schmaltzy in various correct ways. . Gloss and capable of bringing romantic history to other people. However, where the Royal Blue develops further, its two wires (Taylor Zakhar Perez and Nicholas Galitzine) are produced. Gender may be PG-13 at most, and it will hardly cause a sensation in the straight film, but this feels like making the Cisgender Man-Man-Man-Man-Man-Man-Man-Man- Man-man-man-man-thedent moves forward.
Where to transmission: Prime Video
Discovery: Trans Live on the screen (2020)
The indication on the screen is not everything, but it is important. For most Americans, everything they know about cross -gender people comes from media representatives. For cross -gender young people, this is also the case. They may not have other examples, except for examples obtained from TV. Discovered and watched a transsexual story of more than a century on movies and TV (back to Florida in 1914). This era is very, very slow, and has achieved a huge leap in the past few years. The rise of celebrities, many of them accepted interviews here. When focusing on celebrities, this film also admits that it has increased visibility and will also bring danger. The focus of attention will not necessarily make life safer. Discover the investigations that usually have problems, usually very harmful old movies and programs, in order to figure out how they track the reality of transgender life and how far we go.
Where to flow: Netflix
Queen Christina (1933)
The Queen Christina in Sweden's real life is like Greta Garbo, who portrays her Greta Garbo, enjoys a good reputation in terms of gender ambiguity and Kuer. Some of them are in this pre -code movie Exhibit women. For some people, she is a weak woman. For others, she is not suitable for domineering. Ancient story: too keratin for some people; too cold to others. That was in 1933, before the Hays Production Code and the hammer of most of the sexual behavior in American movies and almost all public Kuae have been hammered for decades, we have only begun to master them from us from us Some things stole there.
Where to flow: Digital rental
Paragraph (2023)
The smart and humane place may be despicable. Director Ira Sachs has made a cute and moving portrait, telling the disintegration between Martin and Ben Whishaw and Franz Rogowski. Although it came for a long time, the unexpected incident was unexpected: Tomas encountered Agathe (Adèleexarchopoulos), and he established an instant contact with him. It is not only an excellent movie, but also a refreshing facts of modern liquidity.
Where to transmission: Mubi or digital lease through Apple TV
Cellulu OID Closet (1996)
Once you watch all the movies in this list, you can get some added contexts through the basic documentary about Hollywood history. This film examines stereotypes, hidden information, and secret passwords. Although they have limited restrictions on their restrictions, the movie is strange.
Where is the flow: Tuobi
