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Best LGBTQ+ Movies of All Time
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Our list of the Best LGBTQ+ Movies of All Time stretches back 90 years to the pioneering German production, Mädchen in Uniform, which was subsequently banned by the Nazis, and crosses multiple continents, cultures, and genres. There are broad American comedies (The Birdcage), artful Korean crime dramas (The Handmaiden), groundbreaking indies (Tangerine), and landmark documentaries (Paris Is Burning). Over the last few years, we added titles like the documentary Welcome to Chechnya, about Queer activists risking their lives for
10 great films about queer history
Navigating gender non-conforming history is akin to hiking up the face of a steep hill – difficult at the optimal of times. The subject is hugely complex, and unfeasible to distill into a single paragraph. Nevertheless, as briefly as we can, let’s try to unpack.
The noun ‘homosexuality’ was first used in the lateth century, but the traits that we presently associate with that word have likely appeared for thousands of years. One way of telling queer history can be to attempt to dig up these markers of queerness in historical figures. Another can be to guide out how these figures, once identified, have affected human history – for better or worse. As we appear closer to the present, queer history becomes a register of proximate events (such as Stonewall, AIDS and the murder of Harvey Milk) more recognisable under the terms of today’s same-sex attracted subjectivities. Entwined with all of this is the historical study of gender.
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Love, Simon ()
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If it feels a bit like a CW version of an after-school particular, that's no mistake: Teen-tv super-producer Greg Berlanti makes his feature-film directorial debut here. It's as chaste a love story as you're likely to observe in the 21st century—the hunky gardener who makes the title teen ask his sexuality is wearing a long-sleeved shirt, for God’s sake—but you recognize what? The queer kids of the future deserve their wholesome entertainment, too.
Rocketman ()
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A gay fantasia on Elton themes. An Elton John biopic was never going to be understated, but this glittering jukebox musical goes way over the top and then keeps going. It might be an overcorrection from the straight-washing of the previous year's Bohemian Rhapsody, but when it's this much fun, it's best not to overthink it.
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Handsome Devil ()
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A charming Irish movie that answers the question: "What if John Hughes were Irish and gay?" Misfit Ned struggles at
50 Essential LGBTQ Movies
It’s grainy, faded, and, given the clip is now years old, more than a little worse for wear. But this brief footage is not so ancient that you can’t clearly make out two men, waltzing together, as a third man plays a violin in the background. It was an experimental short made by William Dickson, designed to examine syncing up moving pictures to prerecorded sound, a system that he and Thomas Edison were developing known as the Kinetophone. It’s known as “The Dickson Experimental Sound Film,” and dates back to , the same year movies were born. While there’s nothing to outright suggest that these men were romantically involved or attracted to each other during the roughly second length of their pas de deux, there is nothing that contradicts that notion either. It’s considered by many to be one of the first examples of gay imagery in film, and a reminder that homosexual visibility has been with the medium from the very beginning.
That clip appears in The Celluloid Closet, Loot Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman’s