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10 Feel-Good LGBTQ Films To Watching During Pride Month
To put it bluntly, since the recent Presidential election, I&#;ve felt a never-ending sense of fear and anxiety as a gay person living in the United States. Between various executive orders targeting the trans community and one that attempts to dictate what students can or cannot learn in institution and who they can be, to be out and live openly feels even more like an act of defiance than before. Given how Self-acceptance Month started as a riot and is a call to action as well as a celebration, films about activism that dramatize pivotal events in LGBTQ+ history should always make our watchlists.
That creature said, for this list, I&#;ve decided to conjure up ten films that end on a content note because, even in these trying times, we still need stories that end in positive assertion. Whether they&#;re narratives centering on queer joy or films that at least end on a positive note after a dramatic struggle, these ten films create feelings of expect that we need as their last scenes conclude with the protagonists heading into a potentially glowing future after the credits roll. It is not always an easy future, but a hopeful one.
Beautifu With another Pride Month underway, LGBTQ rights and advocacy in media have never been more important. Following the Trump administration&#;s attacks on DEI and recent aim to cancel Pride Month, GLAAD is preparing to release its 13th annual Studio Responsibility Index on June 11, showing the lowest percentage of LGBTQ-inclusive films in the past three editions of the report. The study tracks scripted films released in from ten top clip distributors. Although those numbers are bleak, LGBTQ stories persist finding a way to the big screen and streamers alike, with titles from Andrew Ahn, Bill Condon and Ethan Coen, navigating topics of homosexual marriage, police profiling, sex work and anti-trans legislation. From groundbreaking documentaries to kink-driven romance and intergenerational stories of family and collective, these are some of the buzziest new and upcoming LGBTQ releases of The Parenting follows young couple Rohan (Nik Dodani) and Josh (Brandon Flynn) as they scheme a perfect weekend getaway in the country to introduce their parents. As tensions begin to flare between the more traditi While Queer films have been in existence for the entirety of cinema (here&#;s a great article about some of the earliest examples at the Nerdist), there&#;s certainly been a notable—or perhaps, simply more highlighted—boom in LGBTQ+ storytelling in the 21st century as studios have change into more open to inclusivity in their stories. Film has always, and will hopefully continue to be, a window for empathy for audiences who get to see aspects of experience, love, and community that isn&#;t accessible to them in their everyday lives. It&#;s what makes so many of the choices below not just superb films (and they are) but significant ones in their ability to actively champion diverse storytelling. For Pride but, really, for every other month too, we chose our 60 favorite LGBTQ+ films of the century so far, from musicals and mayhem to coming-of-age tales to a dialogue-free character research . There is no one way to be a Queer film and to try and cram them all under an umbrella would be disingenuous—if anything, this list below is indicative of the wealth of Queer voices and storytelling available to us, and this is merely the tip of the iceberg. Hedwig and the Angry Inch () In this first major critical survey of LGBTQIA+ films, over film experts including critics, writers and programmers such as Joanna Hogg, Mark Cousins, Peter Strickland, Richard Dyer, Nick James and Laura Mulvey, as well as past and present BFI Flare programmers, have voted the Superior 30 LGBTQIA+ Films of All Time. The poll’s results represent 84 years of cinema and 12 countries, from countries including Thailand, Japan, Sweden and Spain, as well as films that showed at BFI Flare such as Orlando (), Beautiful Thing (), Weekend () and Blue Is the Warmest Colour (). The winner is Todd Haynes’ award-winning Carol, closely followed by Andrew Haigh’s Weekend, and Hong Kong romantic drama Happy Together, directed by Wong Kar-wai, in third place. While Carol is a surprisingly recent film to top the poll, it’s a feature that has moved, delighted and enthralled audiences, and looks establish to be a modern classic. “The festival has long supported my work,” said Haynes, “from Poison and Dottie Gets Spanked in the early s through to Carol which is reviewing on 35mm later this week in BFI Flare’s Best of Year programme. I’m so proud to have Carol voted .
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