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55 of the Foremost LGBTQ Films of All Time
'Bottoms' ()
If ever there was a Superbad for queer girls, Bottoms is it. The second film from director Emma Seligman (Shiva Baby) follows two uncool elevated school seniors (Ayo Edebiri and Rachel Sennott) who begin up a university fight club to try and hook up with their cheerleader crushes (Kaia Gerber and Havana Rose Liu).
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'Bound' ()
In the Wachowskis’ landmark erotic thriller predating the Matrix trilogy, butch ex-con Corky (Gina Gershon) is the newly-hired handyperson at an apartment building when she meets her next-door neighbors: mobster Caesar (Joe Pantoliano) and kept woman Violet (Jennifer Tilly). As Corky and Violet strike up an affair, they hatch a plan to flee Violet’s abusive relationship—and steal $2 million of Caesar’s mafia money along the way.
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'Circus of Books' ()
Southern Californians will likely recognize Circus of Books as the famed porn shop and dirty bookstore that has presided over the gayborhood of West Hollywood since the e
Old Hollywood movies had to follow strict guidelines throughout the s–s, known as the Hays Code. This basically prevented all US films from featuring anything that was overtly sexual or "inappropriate," which forced a lot of filmmakers to get adj about how they could navigate potential censorship. I verb running lists on Letterboxd of every Old Hollywood and LGBTQ+ movie that I watch, so I sifted through them to uncover a bunch from the Hays Code era that are subtly (and not so subtly) suuuuuper gay. Here are some of my favorites. Enjoy!
1.Rebel Without a Cause () stars James Dean as a bisexual hottie, so you really can't request for much more. The original script had his character kissing Plato, who was one of the first gay teen characters on screen, but the Hays Code instantly squashed that from happening. Still, this movie is edgy and dramatic and romantic, and the whole cast is just so pleasurable to look at.
2.All About Eve () is a witty and toxic drama about an aging actress who befriends a fan who ultimately tries to usurp her. This movie shares the record for the most Osc The best LGBTQ+ movies of all time
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With the help of leading directors, actors, writers and activists, we count down the most essential LGBTQ+ films of all time
Like queer culture itself, queer cinema is not a monolith. For a long time, though, that’s certainly how it felt. In the past, if gay lives and issues were ever portrayed at all on screen, it was typically from the perspective of white, cisgendered men. But as more opportunities have opened up for queer performers and filmmakers to tell their own stories, the scope of the LGBTQ+ experiences that have made their way onto the screen has gradually widened to more frequently include the trans community and queer people of colour.
It’s still not perfect, of course. In Hollywood, as in society at large, there are many barriers left to breach and ceilings to shatter. But those recent strides deserve to be celebrated – as do the bold films made long before the mainstream was willing to accept them. To that complete, we enlisted some LGBTQ+ cultural pioneers, as well as Time O
How we put Berlin’s gay clubbing scene on film
Hannes Hirsch’s debut film Drifter follows a not many months in the life of year-old German student Moritz (Lorenz Hochhuth) as he moves to Berlin to inhabit with his boyfriend. The relationship soon falls apart, but timid Moritz makes friends and blossoms in the German capital’s thriving gay clubbing scene, experimenting sexually and narcotically among weird and wonderful partygoers.
Shot on location over a total of six weeks during winter and summer , it clocks in at a lithe 79 minutes yet vividly captures the ecstasies and agonies of romance, friendship and desire of a young, chemically enhanced man’s life in northern Europe’s party capital. Such is the authenticity in some graphic scenes of sex and drug-taking that the film often has the feel of a particularly energetic documentary.
With Drifter playing the closing night of BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival, we sat down with Hirsch the day after its world premiere at Berlin Film Festival to discuss the making of the film.
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The best LGBTQ+ movies of all time
Photograph: Kate Wootton/TimeOut
With the help of leading directors, actors, writers and activists, we count down the most essential LGBTQ+ films of all time
Like queer culture itself, queer cinema is not a monolith. For a long time, though, that’s certainly how it felt. In the past, if gay lives and issues were ever portrayed at all on screen, it was typically from the perspective of white, cisgendered men. But as more opportunities have opened up for queer performers and filmmakers to tell their own stories, the scope of the LGBTQ+ experiences that have made their way onto the screen has gradually widened to more frequently include the trans community and queer people of colour.
It’s still not perfect, of course. In Hollywood, as in society at large, there are many barriers left to breach and ceilings to shatter. But those recent strides deserve to be celebrated – as do the bold films made long before the mainstream was willing to accept them. To that complete, we enlisted some LGBTQ+ cultural pioneers, as well as Time O Hannes Hirsch’s debut film Drifter follows a not many months in the life of year-old German student Moritz (Lorenz Hochhuth) as he moves to Berlin to inhabit with his boyfriend. The relationship soon falls apart, but timid Moritz makes friends and blossoms in the German capital’s thriving gay clubbing scene, experimenting sexually and narcotically among weird and wonderful partygoers. Shot on location over a total of six weeks during winter and summer , it clocks in at a lithe 79 minutes yet vividly captures the ecstasies and agonies of romance, friendship and desire of a young, chemically enhanced man’s life in northern Europe’s party capital. Such is the authenticity in some graphic scenes of sex and drug-taking that the film often has the feel of a particularly energetic documentary. With Drifter playing the closing night of BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival, we sat down with Hirsch the day after its world premiere at Berlin Film Festival to discuss the making of the film. Get the latest #BFIF
How we put Berlin’s gay clubbing scene on film
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