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The 50 Best LGBTQ Movies Ever Made

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Love, Simon ()

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If it feels a bit like a CW version of an after-school special, 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 see in the 21st century—the hunky gardener who makes the title teen question his sexuality is wearing a long-sleeved shirt, for God’s sake—but you know what? The queer kids of the future need their wholesome entertainment, too.

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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

So many of your favorite television shows are based loosely or explicitly on books, including a whole lot of queer series Autostraddle has covered through the years. Sometimes, the books they&#;re based on are also queer in similar or divergent ways. Often, the series inject queerness where there previously was none. That&#;s how adaptation should work in my opinion! Each iteration of a story should get queerer and queerer. If you&#;ve been curious to check out the book versions of the queer shows you cherish but have been wondering if the books are queer or not, we&#;ve got you covered with this massive list of over 65 book-to-series adaptations.

A note on methodology: I certainly contain not read every book/series of books on this list. For any entries I hadn&#;t peruse myself, I started by asking friends I thought may have read them to give me a quick gay book report. From there, I used reader review aggregate sites, reviews, and BISAC subject codes as well as just good ol&#; search engine keywords to try to determine just how queer the books are. It&#;s not a perfect system! Even mor

9 Movies Based on LGBTQ+ Books, Ranked

The book-to-movie adaptation genre of movies is a favorite among film lovers as well as readers. When books advance out, they confirm a dedicated fanbase and the personification of the story/series can be both hit or overlook. With the necessitate to please fans of the guide, creating movies that tell stories we already know and love is a tall order. However, even with the added pressure, the excitement that builds when a adj book becomes greenlit for an onscreen adaptation is unparalleled.

Of course, when creating a film version of a novel, it is almost impossible to involve every single plot line, scene, and even character. However, the success of book-to-movie adaptations is indisputable with some historically iconic franchises that include the likes of Harry Potter, The Hunger Games, and The Lord of the Rings. From juvenile adult fantasy and romance to LGBTQ+ stories, there is a book-to-movie adaptation for everyone. Many movie lovers out there are completely unaware that some of their favorite films began as just words and sentences on a page. Du

Phil Graziadei, the openly gay screenwriter behind Netflix's new queer-inclusive film trilogy based on spook master R.L. Stine's classic "Fear Street" series, remembers those teen horror-fiction books skillfully. And he definitely remembers them not being very gay.

Published first in with "The New Girl," the "Fear Street" series focused on whodunit and paranormal events in the town of Shadyside, Ohio. The books weren't short on sinister camp, but they definitely lacked any kind of blatantly queer representation. 

That hasn't stopped fans, as Graziadei notes, from cataloging "all the homoerotic undertones of each book" for years. In the '90s, when Stine published bestselling "Fear Street" titles like "Truth or Dare" and "The Boy Next Door," the LGBTQ+ community was more willing to accept queer crumbs. 

But now it's On "Fear Street," bodies might be buried, but queerness shouldn't be.

"One of the first conversations that I had with the producers about it was, 'Why do we do this now?'" director Leigh Janiak tells Pride Source.

The answer came to them quickly: Shadyside, they