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Acclaim for Out Actors Colman Domingo and Jodie Foster

LGBTQ Actors Playing LGBTQ Characters

Straight actors have a long history of being recognized by the Academy Awards for playing gay characters, but the list of openly LGBTQ actors who have had such recognition is much shorter. In 2024, however, Colman Domingo and Jodie Foster have joined that exclusive club.

Domingo received a nomination for best actor in a leading role for playing the title character in “Rustin,” Netflix’s biopic about the gay Black civil rights leader Bayard Rustin, an adviser to Martin Luther King Jr. and the architect of the 1963 March on Washington. According to The New York Times, Domingo is only the second openly gay man to earn an Oscar nomination for playing a gay character, following the 1999 nomination of Ian McKellen for his leading role in “Gods and Monsters.”

Foster was nominated for her supporting role in “Nyad,” yet another Netflix biopic. Foster plays out lesbian Bonnie Stoll, the real-life friend and coach of the title character, long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad. If Foster wins in 2024, she will become part of a very exclusive club of actors who have three Oscars. Currently, this list has only six people on it: Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson, Ingrid Bergman, Daniel Day-Lewis, Frances McDormand and Walter Brennan.

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Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution features several generations of queer comedy royalty

From Tig Notaro’s legendary album Live to movies like Bottoms, queer and trans people have been dominating the modern comedy landscape. But until relatively recently, that was not the case. A forthcoming documentary from Netflix will explore the history of LGBTQ stand-up comedy, from the days when the phrase “out comedian” was an oxymoron to today’s renaissance.

The documentary, Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution, will premiere on the streamer in June 2024. According to an official description, it is the first feature-length documentary to look at the history of queer stand-up as “an instrument for social change over the past five decades.”

Written and directed by Page Hurwitz, who founded a comedy production company with Wanda Sykes in 2013, Outstanding gathers a veritable who’s who of queer comedy to speak to that history. Interviews and clips of Sykes, Suzy Izzard, Hannah Gadsby, Tig Notaro, Rosie O’Donnell, Margaret Cho, Bob the Drag Queen, and Trixie Mattel, among many others, are all featured in the film. The film also taps several historians and journalists for their expertise, including Shar Jossell and Susan Stryker.

Netflix dropped the trailer for Outstanding on YouTube, featuring a blend of archival footage and interviews with some of the aforementioned pioneers of queer comedy. As Guy Branum says in the sneak peek, humor has long served a social function for LGBTQ people beyond just making each other laugh. “Queer people taught America to stop being scared of us by making jokes,” he observes.

In a statement to Variety, Hurwitz asserted that the history of queer stand-up is intertwined with liberation. “We don’t normally think of comedians when we think of social movements but the talented artists in this film helped to shift the culture in significant ways, sometimes having to make great personal sacrifices,” she said. “I hope this film honors and celebrates their contributions to LGBTQ history and to the larger community.”

Outstanding is intended to complement Stand Out, Netflix’s 2022 special featuring sets from several of the comedians featured in the documentary. The streamer also recently released Gender Agenda, hosted by Hannah Gadsby, which highlights the talents of seven trans and genderqueer comedians.

[Source: James Factora, Them, April 2024]

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NYAD - Endurance swimmer Diana Nyad arrived in Key West, Fla., to cheers and rainbow flags on September 2, 2013, having finally fulfilled her dream of swimming from Cuba to Florida at age 64 and after three incomplete attempts. Throughout the 110-mile feat, Nyad's friend and coach, Bonnie Stoll, was at her side, cheering her on, guiding her, staving off jellyfish, and monitoring her nutrition. The new Netflix film stars Annette Bening as Nyad and queer icon and double Oscar winner Jodie Foster as Stoll. The film opens with Nyad — despite her successful career in sports journalism — determined to complete the swim she first attempted in 1978 but was forced to quit after 42 hours due to massive waves. At the time of her decision to get back in the water, Nyad had completed major swims like circling the island of Manhattan in seven hours and 59 minutes and completing what was then the longest swim in history in 1979 — 102.5 miles from the Bahamas to Florida.

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MAESTRO - Bradley Cooper plays bisexual legend Leonard Bernstein. The new film "Maestro" is a towering and fearless love story chronicling the lifelong relationship between Leonard Bernstein and Felicia Montealegre Cohn Bernstein. Bernstein is one of the most legendary conductors and composers of all time, and is considered to be the first American conductor to receive worldwide acclaim. In his career, he won seven Emmys, two Tonys, and 16 Grammy Awards. He’s known for works including the musical West Side Story, several symphonies, and original scores for several films.  And while the film focuses on the love story between Bernstein and Montealegre, it doesn’t shy away from showing the musical legend’s bisexuality. Throughout his life, Bernstein had relationships with both women and men, and his wife knew about his sexuality.

RUSTIN - Bayard Rustin, advisor to Martin Luther King Jr., dedicates his life to the quest for racial equality, human rights and worldwide democracy. Despite incredible odds, he managed to organize the March on Washington in 1963. However, as an openly gay Black man, he is all but erased from the civil rights movement he helped build. The film, based on the true story of Rustin, stars Colman Domingo in the title role. It is directed by George C. Wolfe. Written by Dustin Lance Black. Lenny Kravitz wrote and performed an original song, "Road to Freedom," for the film.

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IT'S ONLY LIFE AFTERALL - Documentary by the Indigo Girls about the Indigo Girls. It is an intimate look into the lives of one of America's most iconic folk-rock bands, the Indigo Girls. Never-before-seen archival footage and intimate real-life conversation dives into the songwriting and storytelling of the music that transformed a generation. Known for stirring harmonies and socially conscious lyrics, iconic folk rock duo of Emily Saliers and Amy Ray are the subject of this intimate and insightful documentary, which tracks their decades-long career.
 

WHAM! - The musical duo Wham! dominated radio and television in the 1980s with feel-good, fun-loving pop hits. Now, a new Netflix documentary titled "Wham!" looks at how George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley formed a teenage friendship and went on to create one of the most distinct sounds of the post-disco era. The film by director Chris Smith is a personal take that often relies on footage and audio the two recorded themselves. Ridgeley's mother kept scrapbooks of their rise, as well, starting with when they became inseparable in high school. "The whole movie was about this temporal nature of youth. It's something that is so beautiful, but it can't be sustained," said Chris Smith. The documentary interweaves existing footage and audio of Michael (who died in 2016) with current interviews of Ridgeley.

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Mother Mary - Anne Hathaway, Michaela Coel

The Murderous Mrs. Highsmith - Shailene Woodley, Cara Delevingne, Noémi Merlant

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An ordinary guy who is having a big year...

Colman Domingo is having a big year. From receiving buzz around his commanding performance in Netflix’s new Bayard Rustin biopic that sees the actor portraying the seldom championed queer civil rights icon, to a standout turn in the much-buzzed about musical film adaptation of “The Color Purple,” Domingo is out in front for everyone to see. The Emmy award-winning and Tony nominated actor is finally receiving his long overdue moment, but the out performer has always made himself known.

Colman Domingo thinks he’s just a regular guy. Never mind the Emmy he won in for a deeply compassionate role opposite Zendaya in Max’s Euphoria, or the Tony nomination he received in for his supporting performance in the historical musical The Scottsboro Boys. “On an ordinary day, I think I’m pretty ordinary,” he proclaims.

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He is currently in the midst of the promotional tour and award season campaigns for two films in which he stars: Netflix’s Rustin, about an unsung Black gay civil rights hero, and the movie musical adaptation of Alice Walker’s The Color Purple — there is nothing regular about him.

The range of Domingo’s latest roles is evidence of such an unfolding. In the George C. Wolfe-directed Rustin, he plays Bayard Rustin, the pioneering organizer behind the historic 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom at which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. famously declared, “I have a dream.” Detailing the immense barriers the West Chester, Pennsylvania-born activist overcame to make history — particularly as an openly gay Black man at a time when being queer was especially criminalized — the movie rescues Rustin’s importance and impact from the sidelines and footnotes. Domingo’s performance is a commanding character study — and career-defining. Though his over 30-year career in entertainment has been peppered with standout supporting roles in film and television — from the series Fear The Walking Dead and Lucifer to movies like Barry Jenkins’s If Beale Street Could Talk, Janicza Bravo’s Zola, and Wolfe’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom — Rustin is his first time as lead.

In The Color Purple, Domingo plays Mister, a very different kind of character, as he is the canonical narrative’s main antagonist. The abusive husband of Celie (played by season 3 American Idol winner Fantasia Barrino), he’s the embodiment of toxic masculinity and generational trauma. And while the role was made famous by Danny Glover in the 1985 Steven Spielberg-directed The Color Purple (Whoopi Goldberg played Celie in that version), Domingo puts his own notable spin on the complex character. Together, Rustin and The Color Purple made Domingo worthy of a rare double nomination for leading and supporting roles during this single awards season.

And Domingo just received a Best Actor Oscar nomination for his Rustin performance.

[Source: Out Magazine, January 2024]
 

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Will and Harper...  Film Well Received at Sundance Festival...

Unlike Cannes and Venice, Sundance isn’t a film festival that inspires too many standing ovations. But moviegoers at the Eccles Theatre were moved (more than once!) to stand up and applaud after the premiere of “Will & Harper,” a funny, heartbreaking and poignant documentary about Will Ferrell taking a road trip with his longtime friend, Harper Steele, who transitioned at 61.

“Look at this! And this is for a documentary,” Ferrell said as he greeted the packed house in Park City on Monday night. “Wow! If we were going to be at Sundance, we thought it would be at a 10 AM screening in someone’s garage.”

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“Will & Harper” chronicles the duo over 17 days as they drive from New York to California, making pit stops at basketball games, dive bars, “swanky” Las Vegas restaurants and other places where Steele hopes to feel more comfortable since she came out as a trans woman in 2022.

Along the way, they are greeted by many “Saturday Night Live” veterans, including Tina Fey, Kristen Wiig, and Molly Shannon, which is fitting because Ferrell and Steele met while working on “SNL” — as a performer and writer, respectively — in the ’90s. (“They were important to my transition; they’re my family,” Steele said of her “SNL” friends.)

“The love these two friends have for one another fills me up,” a misty-eyed director Josh Greenbaum said during a post-screening Q&A. “I’m so grateful for this moment. I’m going to get it together and –”

Although Greenbaum is known for kooky comedies like “Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar” and “Strays,” Steele said the director felt like the right fit to handle this documentary with love, care and sensitivity. “Will & Harper” captures serious and emotional conversations about being transgender, but there’s plenty of levity from comical moments involving Pringles, wacky costumes and a fateful trip to Dunkin’ Donuts.  “We are comedy writers, so we came up with a lot of bad ideas at first. We planned setups, and it felt weird and prank-y and inauthentic,” Steele said. “We said, ‘Let’s get in the car and see what happens.'”

Ferrell, who has endeared himself to America through comedies like “Elf,” “Step Brothers” and “Anchorman,” wanted to share a more personal side in the documentary. He broke down in tears more than once during conversations with Steele throughout the film.  “I felt like if we were going to be a part of this and create it with integrity, I owed it to Harper to be as open and emotionally available to what was going to happen,” Ferrell said.

Steele said she was inspired to make the documentary at a time when LGBTQ rights in the US have been under attack.  “I had this friend — this is my privilege — who has made movies that appeal very broadly. That was the deciding factor … I could abuse this relationship for the good,” she joked. “I still don’t think Will knows what he did.”

Ferrell spoke to Variety prior to the film’s premiere and admitted that he had “zero knowledge” about the trans community before Steele came out.  “I had met trans people, but I didn’t have anyone personally in my life,” Ferrell said. “So this was all new territory for me. It’s a chance for us in the cis community to ask questions, listen and be there as a friend to discuss this journey.”

[Source: Rebecca Rubin, Variety, Jan 2024]

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All of Us Strangers - Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal

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Blue Jean - Rosy McEwen

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Monica - Trace Lysette

Sublime - Martin Miller, Teo Inama Chiabrando

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Love in Country - David Garber, Michael Southworth, Vincent van Hinte
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Erin's Guide to Kissing Girls - Elliot Stocking, Jesyca Gu, Rosali Annikie
In From the Side - Alexander Lincoln

Conversion - Documentary by Zach Meiners

Knock at the Cabin - Jonathan Groff, Ben Aldridge

Good Grief - Directed by Dan Levy, Starring Luke Evans

Framing Agnes - Angelica Ross, Jen Richards, Zackary Drucker

Of An Age - Goran Stolevski

Darby and the Dead - Directed by Silas Howard, starring Riele Downs, Auli’i Cravalho

Rustin - Documentary Directed by George C. Wolfe, Written by Dustin Lance Black, Starring Colman Domingo, Audra McDonald

Scream - Jasmin Savoy-Brown

Bottoms - Rachel Sennott, Ayo Edibiri
Cassandro - Gael García Bernal, Raul Castillo, Roberta Colindrez, Bad Bunny
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Love Lies Bleeding - Kristen Stewart, Ed Harris, Jena Malone, Dave Franco, Katy M. O’Brian
Strangers - Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Claire Foy, Jamie Bell
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It all starts with a royal wedding and catastrophic cake smash. What ensues is an enemies-to-lovers romance between Alex Claremont-Diaz, the son of the US president, and a British royal, Prince Henry. That's the plot of the new Amazon Studios movie, Red, White & Royal Blue, that's now streaming on Prime Video. It is a screen adaptation of Casey McQuiston's bestselling novel of the same name, published in 2019. It's also the directorial debut of Matthew López, the first Latine to win a Tony award for best play, for his play The Inheritance.  The film stars Taylor Zakhar Perez (Alex) and Nicholas Galitzine (Henry) in the main roles.  And Uma Thurman plays the President of the United States.

López said that he was captivated by the main characters after reading the novel. "For me, especially Alex, you know, I'm a queer Latine, biracial son of the South, and so is he," López said. "I had never encountered a book before that had a character like him at the center, and it really just made all of my imagination, you know, light up."  López also spoke about the challenge of adapting a popular book to the screen; how his own life influenced his approach to the story; and the importance of showing queer intimacy on the screen.

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Juana Summers (NPR Interviewer): I am a huge fan of romance books, and oftentimes when I read them, I feel like I'm kind of scripting my own movie in my head. I'm envisioning what the leading characters look like, the way their voices sound, the soundtrack that plays as they're interacting, and I know I'm not the only person who reads these books that way.

And that, I think, is one of the things that can make tackling a movie adaptation really tricky. Like, can the movie that a director and a cast are building ever live up to this incredible thing that I've created in my head? How did you approach that with a book like this one that's the source material, that has just been so beloved by so many fans?

Matthew López: I think you really identified it with your question, because every reader of a novel is a film director while they're reading the book. They have control over everything: costume, design, casting. As you're reading a book, it's your little movie in your head. And with a book as popular as this one, you've got millions and millions of people with their own version of it in their head. And then there's one person who makes the movie, right?

The high wire act that I was engaged in is, "How do I take a very popular bit of literature and make a movie of it?" And the answer I really came to was, I have to make the movie that is inside my head. I have to make the movie that is personal to me. I have to make the movie that I'm capable of making — my response to the book, in many ways.

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Summers: You've talked a good deal about how much you immediately were drawn to and related to Alex's character, but do you see shades of yourself or were there parts of your own story that inspired the way that you think about Henry?

López: You know, growing up in the 1980s and early 1990s, my experience was a lot more like Henry's than it was Alex's. Alex's story is kind of only possible right now, and it's not something that I had in my life growing up. I knew what it was like to pretend I was something I'm not. I knew what it was like to believe that if I wasn't this thing in the world, that I believe that I'm supposed to be, I would be letting down my family; that I would be out of step with the nation. So even though Alex demographically and sort of personally checks a lot of boxes for me, in my experience, the pain of being a young queer kid in the 1980s and '90s is really reflected very strongly for me in Henry's story. It is what allowed me to access Henry. I think in some ways, Henry represents my past, and Alex represents my present and my future.

Summers: I can't have this conversation with you without talking about the intimacy of this film and the way that it depicts intimate moments in sex. I mean, there's one scene that I'm thinking about in particular. It's when Henry and Alex are in Paris, and it feels personal and sensual and not at all contrived, and I don't know if in any other romantic comedy that I've watched, that I've seen a sex scene between two men portrayed in that way. I'd just love to talk with you a bit about how you approached as a director depicting their physical relationship.

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López: That scene in Paris was something that we discussed from the very beginning of the process. It was the scene that I told the studio and the producers that if they hired me, they were gonna get, and that if they didn't want that scene to be in the movie, they should find another filmmaker. It was a big bluff, but it worked! I had never seen in mainstream studio finance movies, a scene between two men, of love and communion, that reflected the way I as a gay man have sex. I wanted to show a scene of two characters genuinely making love and having a night that is life changing. But I also wanted to show a scene that quite simply made logical physical sense to anyone watching the scene who has had this kind of sex before.

I do think that the difference between a romantic comedy and a love story is sort of that scene, and when we talked about where that scene falls in the film, I was telling the studio and the producers that that's the moment the romantic comedy ends and the love story begins, and it's almost through the looking glass.

And as a result of that scene, we are now in a different storytelling mode and we are in love story mode and that energy carries us. There are still tons of laughs, hopefully, through the movie, but we understand and we care about the characters in a very different way after that scene.

Summers: One of the things that I really loved when I watched this movie is the fact that even though there were parts of it that were hard and complicated, it was incredibly hopeful and optimistic at a time where for some of us it can be challenging to find that joy. What do you hope that people take away from this movie when they see it?

López: I hope people remember what it feels like to believe in their ability to change the world through the simple act of being themselves. There is a power to fairytales, which is why fairytales are one of the earliest forms of storytelling, because they are our fondest hopes and wishes set within a framework that we can understand that the world is perfected in fairytales, because that's possible, because we cannot often perfect the world on our own.

But they are reflections of our hopes and they are reflections of our desires. And so we now live in an age where we know that our hopes and desires are something that we can achieve. But we always have to keep telling ourselves stories in order to remember what our hopes and our desires are. So yeah, I hope people watch this movie and are thoroughly entertained. If people watch this movie and just say, "That was so much fun," that's enough for me. But if people also watch this movie and say, "That made me remember why I love politics; that movie made me remember why I used to volunteer for campaigns; that movie made me remember that I actually have some agency in the world;" well, that's a good thing too.

[Source: Juana Summers, Alejandra Marquez Janse, Tinbete Ermyas, National Public radio, August 2023]

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Andrew Scott: I Feel Lucky to Have Been Born Gay

Andrew Scott has said he “enjoys being gay so much, on so many levels”, and says he feels “lucky” to have been born that way.

Speaking about his upcoming film, All of Us Strangers, the Irish actor said it was an “extraordinary privilege” to play the character of Adam in Andrew Haigh’s acclaimed drama. Scott stars alongside Paul Mescal in the film, which follows screenwriter Adam as he is drawn back to his family home, where he connects with the ghosts of his parents, who died in an accident thirty years earlier. Based on Taichi Yamada’s 1987 novel, Strangers, the movie explores themes around grief, coming out and loneliness, as Adam and his neighbor Harry (Mescal) find solace in each other.

“I wanted to bring as much of myself as I could, because I feel that’s what the audience is going to relate to the most,” Scott said, adding playing the role had been “cathartic”.  Another of the themes of All of Us Strangers is that his character would have grown up in “the shadow of Aids”, while Harry is younger, meaning the way they relate to their sexuality is vastly different.

“I certainly know that the shadow of AIDS was looming when I was growing up in the nineties,” Scott went on. “And, of course, that’s going to affect the way we think about sexuality, in the sense that [we felt we were being] punished for being physical or for expressing love.”
 

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The emancipation from that feeling of shame after the crisis is “one of the wonderful things” about being gay, the Fleabag star said. “I enjoy being gay on so many levels, it’s such a wonderful thing to me. It’s an extraordinary gift and just to be able to see the real beauty in being gay is completely wonderful.

“The older I get, the more I feel lucky to have been born gay, and that pervades my life in the sense of all my friendships. I have so many amazing queer friends [who] I just adore.” And when he sees same-sex couples holding hands on the street, “I’m like a little weirdo. I’m smiling at them. They’re like: ‘What’s that dude smiling at us for?’ Because I just think it’s so wonderful.”

    

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All of Us Strangers representation of LGBTQ romance is critical, Scott continued. “When we read positive things or see representation on screen, when we see ourselves, we think: ‘Oh, well, we can forge a way in the world’. That’s why a movie like this is so important, because it’s incredibly compassionate and tender, but it also doesn’t erase the fact that it’s painful and it can be lonely being gay.

“There’s a certain thorny path that we all have to go to in order to find love, not just in another person, but in ourselves.” Scott also believes the phrase “openly gay” should be retired for good, and replaced with the word “out”, with the former phrase making him “uneasy about what it implies”.  He explained: “I do understand that historically we need a word to recognize the fact that there are sometimes people who are gay, but, for whatever reason, aren’t able to be open about it. I totally get that. And so, I just feel the word ‘out’ does that. It’s simpler. It does the job, with less implications.”

[Source: Emily Chudy, Pink News, Jan 2024]
 

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Everything Everywhere All at Once, a film about the Asian-American experience with a prominent queer character played by an out actor, swept the 95th Academy Awards in March 2023. The film, which was nominated for 11 Oscars, scored seven wins, including Best Picture and two historic wins for Michelle Yeoh and Key Huy Quan for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor.

Alongside Yeoh and Quan, directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert won for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay, and Jamie Lee Curtis won for Best Supporting Actress. In Kwan and Scheinert’s acceptance speech for Best Director, Scheinert thanked his parents. “Thank you for not squashing my creativity when I was making really disturbing horror films, or really perverted comedy films,” he said, “or dressing in drag as a kid, which is a threat to nobody.” Scheinert’s comment was a clear shot at anti-LGBTQ laws like the one recently enacted in Tennessee that aim to restrict or ban drag performances.

Following her win for Best Supporting Actress, Curtis was asked how she felt to be nominated alongside the other women nominated this year. “Surreal and proud,” she said. “And, obviously, I would like to see a lot more women be nominated so that there’s gender parity in all the areas and all the branches. And I think we’re getting there. We’re not anywhere near there.”

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Best Supporting Actor - Ke Huy Quan / Everything Everywhere All at Once
Best Supporting Actress - Jamie Lee Curtis / Everything Everywhere All at Once

Curtis went on to address the idea of non-gendered acting categories at the Oscars. “Of course, inclusivity then involves the bigger question which is, how do you include everyone when there are binary choices? Which is very difficult,” she said. “As the mother of a trans daughter, I completely understand that. And yet to de-gender the categories also, I’m concerned will diminish the opportunities for more women, which is something I also have been working hard to try to promote. So, it’s a complicated question. But I think the most important thing is inclusivity and more women.”

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Elsewhere in the show, Brendan Fraser won Best Actor for his lead role in the controversial film The Whale. While Fraser’s performance has been praised by critics, the film has been widely criticized for its portrayal of his character, an obese gay man dealing with grief and depression, as well as the decision to have Fraser wear prosthetics and a fat suit rather than hiring an actual fat actor for the role. It was also noted that Fraser is also the sixth straight man to win an Oscar for portraying a gay character. While Ariana DeBose, Angelina Jolie, and Linda Hunt were all out when they won for Best Supporting Actress, to date no actor who was out at the time has won an Academy Award.

[Source: John Russell, LGBTQ Nation, March 2023]
 

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2022 FILMS

Apostles - Queer Philosophical Film

Anais in Love - French Film

Joyland - Pakistani Film

Dear Noah: Pages From a Family Diary - Documentary

People We Hate at the Wedding - Ben Platt, Kristen Bell, Allison Janney
Everything Everywhere All at Once - Michelle Yeoh, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jenny Slate
The Holiday Sitter - Hallmark

Close - Directed by Lukas Dhont, Written by Dhont, Angelo Tijssens

Erin's Guide to Kissing Girls - Elliot Stocking, Jesyca Gu, and Rosali Annikie
The Whale - Brendan Frasier

Spoiler Alert - Jim Parsons, Ben Aldridge, Sally Field
Tar - Cate Blanchett

Don’t Worry Darling - Harry Styles, Chris Pine, Florence Pugh
Knives Out - Janelle Monae

In From The Side - Directed by Matt Carter, starring Alexander Lincoln, Alexander King
The Inspection - Jeremy Pope, Gabrielle Union

Anything’s Possible - Directed by Billy Porter, Written by Ximena Garcia Lecuona
They/Them - Theo Germaine, Austin Crute, Kevin Bacon, Carrie Preston, Anna Chlumsky
Strange World - Disney Animated Feature

Three Months - Troye Sivan, Javier Muñoz, Ellen Burstyn, Louis Gossett Jr.

Jump Darling - Cloris Leachman

Benediction - Biopic of Siegfried Sassoon, directed by Terence Davies, starring Peter Capaldi, Jack Lowden
Bros - Billy Eichner, Bowen Yang, Ts Madison, Guillermo Diaz, Luke Macfarlane, Debra Messing

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Bodies Bodies Bodies - Amandla Stenberg, Maria Bakalova, Myha’la Herrold, Chase Sui Wonders, Rachel Sennott, Lee Pace, Pete Davidson
Do Revenge - Camila Mendes, Maya Hawke, Austin Abrams, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Rish Shah, Talia Ryder, Alisha Boe

The Last Thing Mary Saw - Isabelle Fuhrman, Stefanie Scott, Rory Culkin
Catch the Fair One - Kali Reis
The Fallout - Maddie Ziegler, Niles Fitch
Great Freedom - Franz Rogowski
Nope - Keke Palmer, Barbie Ferrerira
Am I OK? - Directed by wife team Tig Notaro, Stephanie Allynne, starring Dakota Johnson, Sonoya Mizuno
Beauty - Written by Lena Waithe
Fire Island - Joel Kim Booster, Bowen Yang
The History of Sound - Paul Mescal, Josh O'Connor
Love in Color - Auli’i Cravalho, Rowan Blanchard
My Policeman - Harry Styles, David Dawson, Emma Corrin, Rupert Everett
What If? - Directed by Billy Porter
Dope Queens - Alexandra Grey, Pierson Fodé, Trace Lysette
The History of Sound - Paul Mescal, Josh O'Connor
Whistler Camp - Theo Germaine, Kevin Bacon, Anna Clumsy

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Rebel Wilson Announces Engagement to Girlfriend Ramona Agruma

Cue the wedding bells! Rebel Wilson and her girlfriend Ramona Agruma are engaged. The Pitch Perfect star expressed her excitement over popping the question at Disneyland in front of Sleeping Beauty’s castle: "We said yes!"

Wilson and Agruma first went public with their relationship back in June 2022. “I thought I was searching for a Disney Prince… but maybe what I really needed all this time was a Disney Princess,” Wilson said.  But two days after her landmark post, it was revealed that Wilson was forced to come out after a columnist for The Sydney Morning Herald planned to run a story about her relationship.

“There are levels to telling people. You tell your close family and your friends and not everybody. Across our two families, not everybody is as accepting as what you’d hope for, and we were trying to be respectful to those people and tell them in our way.”

While the pair’s public debut featured a massive bump in the road, Wilson and Arguma have continued to fall deeper in love while also taking huge steps in their relationship. Five months after announcing their partnership, Wilson announced the birth of her first child Royce Lillian, who was born via surrogate. “I can’t even describe the love I have for her, she’s a beautiful miracle!” Wilson wrote in a post.

We are looking forward to seeing Wilson and Arguma walk down the aisle.

[Source: Jordan Robledo, Gay Times, February 2023]
 

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New Scooby-Doo Movie Finally Depicts Velma as a Lesbian

The creators of a new “Scooby-Doo” movie have finally depicted Velma as a lesbian on screen, after years of speculation about the beloved character’s sexuality but no definitive portrayals of her as queer in the popular cartoon franchise.

Velma crushes on another female character, a costume designer named Coco Diablo, in a Halloween special, “Trick or Treat Scooby-Doo,” that was released online Tuesday and will debut on Cartoon Network on Oct. 14. She’s voiced by actor and comedian Kate Micucci.

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In one scene, Velma’s glasses fog up and her cheeks redden as she fawns over Coco. “Jinkies,” Velma says — her classic tag line. She flirts with Coco throughout the movie, clearly smitten.

As if that wasn't enough to consider the case of Velma's sexuality closed, there is another scene where Velma admits to Daphne that she is "crushing big time" on Coco, causing Velma to ask for advice on what to do with her newfound feelings.

The "Trick or Treat Scooby-Doo!" animated Halloween movie airs Oct 2022.

[Source: Zachary Schermele, NBC News, Oct 2022]
 

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Ariana DeBose Becomes First Openly Queer Woman of Color to Win Acting Oscar
 

Ariana DeBose has won the Oscar for best supporting actress at the 94th Academy Awards. She makes history as first queer woman of color to win an Oscar.  it is the same award Rita Moreno won, her predecessor in the same role in West Side Story in 1962.

DeBose beat out fellow nominees Jessie Buckley (“The Lost Daughter”), Judi Dench (“Belfast”), Kirsten Dunst (“The Power of the Dog”) and Aunjanue Ellis (“King Richard”) to take home the supporting actress trophy Sunday night at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.

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DeBose won the prize for her role in the Steven Spielberg-directed West Side Story remake, in which she plays the key role of Anita, the girlfriend of Sharks gang leader Bernardo, and sings the famous number America. It makes DeBose only the second Latina actor to win an Oscar, after Moreno, and the first queer woman of color.

To a standing ovation, DeBose celebrated Moreno as a trailblazer: “I’m so grateful – your Anita paved the way for tons of Anitas like me, and I love you,” she said, gesturing to Moreno. “Now you see why Anita says ‘I want to be in America’, because even in this weary world that we live in, dreams do come true, and that’s a really heartening thing right now,” DeBose said.

DeBose has already won a string of awards for her role in the film, including best supporting actress at the Baftas, Golden Globes and Screen Actors Guild awards.

At the end of her speech, the 31-year-old actor harkened to her early days as an aspiring performer. “Imagine this little girl in the back seat of a white Ford Focus, look into her eyes,” she said. “You see an openly queer woman of color, an Afro-Latina, who found her strength in life through art. And that is, I think, what we’re here to celebrate.” To anyone who “has ever questioned your identity” or “lived in the grey spaces”, she added, “there is, indeed, a place for us”.

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2021 FILMS

The Novice - Isabelle Fuhrman, Amy Forsyth, Dilone
Supernova - Colin Firth, Stanley Tucci
Benedetta - Virginie Efira, Lambert Wilson, Daphne Patakia, Olivier Rabourdin
Steelers - Documentary About First Gay Rugby Club
Eternals - Angelina Jolie, Kit Harrington, Harry Styles, Richard Madden, Salma Hayek, Don Lee, Kumail Nanjiani, Brian Tyree

Single All the Way - Branden Urie, Jennifer Coolidge, Kathy Najimi, Barry Bostwick, Philemon Chambers

Mayor Pete - Documentary by Jesse Moss

Dear Evan Hansen - Ben Platt, Julianne Moore, Kaitlyn Dever, Amy Adams

Everybody's Talking About Jamie  - Max Harwood

Zola - Taylour Paige, Riley Keough, Nicholas Braun, Ari’el Stachel

Let's Fucking Go - Documentary About Megan Rapinoe and Women's Soccer

Firebird - Tom Prior, Oleg Zagorodnii, Diana Pozharskaya
Along Came Wanda - Constance Brenneman, Cathy DeBuono

Funny That Way - Documentary about Julia Scotti

Swan Song - Directed by Todd Stephens, starring Udo Kier, Jennifer Coolidge, Linda Evans, Michael Urie

Pieces of Us - Documentary by Cheryl Allison

Ride or Die -  Honami Sato, Kiko Mizuhara

Changing the Game - Directed by Michael Barnett
Noor and Layla - Nicole Nwokolo, Sahar B. Agustin-Maleki, Directed by Fawzia Mirza

I Care a Lot - Rosamund Pike, Eiza González, Dianne Wiest, Peter Dinklage

Love the One You're With - Donnie Hue Frazier, Anthony Bawn

The World to Come - Katherine Waterston, Vanessa Kirby

Breaking Fast - Haaz Sleiman, Michael Cassidy

United States vs Billie Holiday - Andra Day

After America - Directed by Jake Yuzna
Ailey - Documemntary Directed by Jamila Wignot
Cinderella - Directed by Kay Cannon
Language Lessons - Natalie Morales, Mark Duplass, Desean Terry
North by Current - Directed by Angelo Madsen Minax
 

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2020 FILMS

Happiest Season - Kristen Stewart, Mackensie Davis, Daniel Levy, Aubrey Plaza, Alison Brie, Mary Steenburgen, Victor Garber

T11 Incomplete - Karen Sillas, Kristen Renton

The Garden Left Behind  - Directed by Flavio Alves (Brazil)

Unpregnant - Haley Lu Richardson, Barbie Ferreira

Jump Darling - Cloris Leachman, Thomas Duplessie, Linda Kash, Jayne Eastwood, Sheldon McIntosh

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom - Viola Davis, Chadwick Boseman

Tahara - Directed by Olivia Peace

Boys in the Band - Jim Parsons, Zachary Quinto, Matt Bomer, Andrew Rannells

Falling - Viggo Mortensen, Lance Henriksen, Sverrir Gudnason, Laura Linney
Giant Little Ones - Kyle MacLachlan, Maria Bello, Josh Wiggins

Summer of Mesa -  Andrea Granera, Alec Bandzes, Molly Miles

Good Joe Bell - Mark Wahlberg

The Prom - Meryl Streep, James Corden, Andrew Rannells, Nicole Kidman

Uncle Frank - Rochelle Aycoth, Paul Bettany, Hannah Black

The Thing About Harry -  Britt Baron, Jake Borelli, Peter Paige

Birds of Prey - Margot Robbie, Rosie Perez

Ammonite - Kate Winslet, Saoirse Ronan

Lazy Susan - Sean Hayes

Mom + Mom - Linda Caridi, Maria Roveran, Andrea Tagliaferri

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The Half Of It -  Leah Lewis, Daniel Diemer, Alexxis Lemire

Straight Up - Directed by James Sweeney

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2019 FILMS

Season of Love -  Dominique Provost-Chalkley, Jessica Clark, Emily Goss

Portrait of a Lady on Fire -  Noémie Merlant, Adèle Haenel, Luàna Bajrami

More Beautiful for Having Been Broken -  Kay Lenz, French Stewart, Harley Jane Kozak

The Accompanist - Frederick Keeve, Angelle Brooks, Juliet Doherty
St. Frances - Kelly O'Sullivan, Charin Alvarez, Braden Crothers

Rocket Man - Taron Egerton as Elton John

State of Pride - Documentary

Tell it to the Bees - Billy Boyd, Gregor Selkirk, Anna Paquin

Wild Nights With Emily - Molly Shannon as Emily Dickinson

JT Leroy - Kristen Stewart

Booksmart - Kaitlyn Dever, Beanie Feldstein, Directed by Olivia Wilde

Elisa and Marcela -  Natalia de Molina, Greta Fernández, Sara Casasnovas

Same But Different - New Zealand

Life Like -  James D'Arcy, Addison Timlin, Steven Strait  

2018 FILMS

Collette - Kiera Knightley

Love Simon - Nick Robinson, Josh Duhamel, Jennifer Garner

Favourite - Olivia Coleman, Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz

Believers - Dan Reynolds, LoveLoud Festival

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Rafiki - Samantha Mugatsia, Sheila Munyiva
Vita and Virginia - Gemma Arterton, Elizabeth Debicki, Isabella Rossellini
Mapplethorpe - Matt Smith

Daddy Issues - Madison Lawlor, Montana Manning, Andrew Pifko

Sorry Angel - France, Vincent Lacoste, Pierre Deladonchamps, Denis Podalydès
A Kid Like Jake - Jim Parsons, Claire Danes
Bohemian Rhapsody - Rami Malek as Freddy Mercury
Happy Prince - Rupert Everett as Oscar Wilde
Death and Life of John Donovan - Kit Harrington, Natalie Portman
Every Act of Life - Documentary, Terrence McNally, F Murray Abraham, Christine Baranski, Directed by Jeff Kaufman
Boy Erased - Russell Crow, Nicole Kidman

Dumplin - Jennifer Aniston, Danielle McDonald, Luke Benward

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Victor Garber: Versatile Actor

Victor Garber is a talented gay Canadian actor and singer. Known for his work in film, television, and theatre, he has been nominated for three Gemini Awards, four Tony Awards, and six Primetime Emmy Awards. He has also been nominated for three Screen Actors Guild Awards.  His film work includes Godspell (1973), Sleepless in Seattle (1993), The First Wives Club (1996), Titanic (1997), Annie (1999), Legally Blonde (2001), Tuck Everlasting (2002), Big Game (2014), Happiest Season (2020).  Garber has been in a relationship with Canadian artist and model Rainer Andreesen since 2000.  They were married in 2015.

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America Chavez, Lesbian Superhero, Debuts in Marvel's Doctor Strange

The dimension-hopping, super strong teenaged Latina with the ability to fly will be played by Xochitl Gomez.  The Babysitter’s Club star Xochitl Gomez has been confirmed by Disney and Marvel to be playing lesbian teen superhero America Chavez in the upcoming film Doctor Strange In the Multiverse of Madness.

The film, which stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Elizabeth Olsen, Benedict Wong, Rachel McAdams, and Chiwetel Ejiofor, will be directed by Sam Raimi, and will have direct ties to the series WandaVision, as well as the next Spider-Man film. It will be released March 2022. America Chavez is a dimension-hopping, super strong teenaged Latina superhero who has the ability to fly and is known in the comics for her amazing style, quick tongue, and way with the ladies. She is also sometimes referred to as Miss America.

Chavez rose to popularity as a part of the Young Avengers team of teen superheroes, before later starring in her own comic series by Gabby Rivera. She’s long been a fan favorite, especially among queer people and Latinx fans.

[Source: Mey Rude, Out Magazine, Dec 2020]

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The Prom's Jo Ellen Pellman: Helping Queer Kids

Kal Penn Reveals He's Engaged to Fiancé Josh

Beanie Feldstein Engaged to Bonnie Chance Roberts
 

Beanie Feldstein called Bonnie Chance Roberts the "love of my life" in a birthday tribute
 

The Booksmart actress, who who just turned 29, announced that she is engaged to girlfriend Bonnie Chance Roberts, 31. Feldstein shared photos from the proposal on Instagram, showing Roberts down on one knee presenting the ring then celebrating the milestone with friends and family. Pals like Ben Platt and Kaitlyn Dever were in attendance, as well as her brother Jonah Hill, among others. Beanie Feldstein said yes!  In her Instagram Story she wrote, "You make me happier than I knew was possible. I love you."

The actress recently portrayed Monica Lewinsky on Impeachment: American Crime Story, and she currently headlines as Fannie Brice in the Broadway musical Funny Girl.

Feldstein opened up about Roberts while promoting her 2019 film Booksmart, which features a love story between costar Dever's character Amy and a cool-girl classmate Hope (Diana Silvers). Feldstein said the "best" part of the love story is that the movie doesn't make a big deal about Amy being gay. "It's not just about representation, it's about how you are representing, and the form that representation is taking," Feldstein said at the time. "And I think Booksmart really asks the question of what happens after teenagers come out? Let's tell that story."

"The only love scene in the film is a queer love scene, and that's so radical. By doing that, you're asking that to be the norm. By showing queer sexuality and making heterosexual people relate to it is actually really deeply meaningful," she said.
 

[Source: Benjamin VanHoose, People Magazine, June 2022]

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Bros: Billy Eichner's New Gay Rom-Com

Billy Eichner's Gay Rom-Com To Make History With All-LGBTQ Cast Playing Every Major Role! The cast, which includes “Drag Race” star Symone and "Scandal" alum Guillermo Díaz, will play the principal queer and heterosexual roles in the film.

Call it a rom-com revolution: Billy Eichner will not only be the first out gay man to write and star in a romantic comedy from a major studio when his movie “Bros” hits theaters in 2022, but now he’s bringing a few friends with him. The film is making history yet again, with Universal Pictures announcing that its principal cast will only feature LGBTQ actors, who will play both the principal queer and heterosexual roles in the project, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

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The Judd Apatow-produced pic, which “centers on two gay men with commitment issues who attempt a relationship,” according to the film’s logline, now also stars “RuPaul’s Drag Race” winner Symone, “Scandal” alum Guillermo Diaz, comedian Guy Branum and TS Madison, who recently appeared in this summer’s “Zola.”  “Brothers and Sisters” actor Luke Macfarlane was previously announced as the other half of the film’s central couple.

“I could not be more proud or excited about the historic nature of the all openly LGBTQ cast of ‘Bros,’” Eichner said in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter. “After queer actors have spent decades watching straight actors capitalize both artistically and professionally by playing LGBTQ characters, it is a long overdue dream come true to be able to assemble this remarkable, hilarious cast.”

“And while ‘Bros’ may be the first of its kind in several ways, my real hope is that it is only the first of many opportunities for openly LGBTQ ensembles to shine and show the world all we are capable of as actors, beyond just being the wacky sidekick, token queer or a straight movie star’s ‘gay best friend.’ And beyond all of that, this cast is fucking hysterical and you’re going to love them.”

Meet the All-LGBTQ Cast of 'Bros,' Billy Eichner's New Gay Rom-Com
Billy Eichner’s Gay Rom-Com Makes History: All-LGBTQ Cast

Nicholas Stoller, who previously wrote the script for “The Muppets” and helmed comedies of a similar flair, including “Forgetting Sarah Marshall,” is directing the film, which he co-wrote with Eichner.

When the project was first announced, Eichner, who rose to fame for his acerbic pop culture game show “Billy On the Street,” pointedly noted the historic nature of the project.

“In shocking news, "Bros" will be the first rom com about gay men ever produced by a major studio and, apparently, I’m the first openly gay man to ever write and star in their own studio film,” he captioned the post on Instagram back in March 2021. “Only took 100 years! Thanks Hollywood!”

On Twitter, he later added, “I honestly can’t believe it! Move over Julia Roberts, there’s a new rom-com queen in town!”

Eichner can currently be seen portraying Matt Drudge on FX’s “Impeachment: American Crime Story” and is also set to star in an upcoming biopic about the groundbreaking TV icon Paul Lynde. “Bros” is scheduled to arrive in theaters in Aug 2022.

[Source: Cole Delbyck, Huff Post, Oct 2021]

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The Gay Superhero in ‘Eternals’ Is What Audiences Have Been Waiting For

LGBTQ comic book and superhero fans have long been waiting to see themselves reflected in the pages and stories of the heroes they love. While progress has been made in the books themselves, that content has often been minimized or entirely erased when it comes to adapting those stories for the big screen. Now, in 2021, all that is finally beginning to change. Most notably, this week’s release of “Eternals,” which features the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s first ever LGBTQ superhero, is a powerful step forward for the genre, one that will hopefully pave a new path for LGBTQ inclusion on the big screen.

Queer heroes in the pages of comics have made plenty of headlines this year alone. Recognizable and iconic heroes including those who take up the mantle of Superman, Green Lantern, Robin, and a new Captain America all had comic stories exploring their characters’ queerness. All of these moments garnered major media attention and fan excitement from readers, highlighting that these stories are not only highly anticipated, but that they are also being embraced and celebrated by audiences everywhere.

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In recent years, television has also begun to introduce meaningful LGBTQ heroes. Most have appeared in the Berlanti universe of series, with highlights including the introduction of Dreamer, television’s first transgender hero, on The CW’s “Supergirl,” as well as a Black lesbian hero leading “Batwoman.” In its second season, HBO Max’s “Harley Quinn” centered its plot on the romantic relationship of Harley and Poison Ivy, while the titular character in Disney Plus’ “Loki,” released this year, came out as bisexual.

Despite all this progress, the LGBTQ inclusion seen on the page and on the small screen is still severely lacking when a character makes the jump to the big screen (and the big budget). DC’s “Birds of Prey” (the only major studio theatrical release in 2020 to include a bisexual character) included the long-awaited film confirmation that Harley Quinn is bisexual, a moment so quick that many audiences could have missed it. The “Wonder Woman” films continue to portray Diana as straight (despite her bisexuality in the comics) and there were scenes cut from “Thor: Ragnarok” and “Black Panther” which would have confirmed the identity of queer characters. “Deadpool 2” and “The New Mutants” are two examples of films in recent years which did introduce queer heroes with some significant story impact, but neither films were part of larger cinematic universes at the time of release.

Luckily for queer comic and hero fans, things are changing.  in Nov 2021, the first Marvel Cinematic Universe movie to include a LGBTQ hero hit theaters. “Eternals” introduces audiences to a new team of heroes, including the brilliant Phastos, an unmatched genius and inventor, as well as a loving husband to Ben and father to their son Jack. The couple’s relationship is a key aspect of Phastos’ story and helps viewers to find a relatable aspect of Phastos’ life. And they even get to share a moment that is still so rarely seen between queer couples in mainstream films – a kiss.

GLAAD is a frequent advisor to Disney’s Studio on LGBTQ representation and inclusion in their films, and “Eternals” was no exception. During the premiere screening of “Eternals,” I will never forget hearing the entire theater erupt into clapping and cheering when Phastos and Ben finally kissed. It is clear that this is what audiences have been waiting for.

 

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We know that the LGBTQ community is quickly growing, with one in six members of Gen Z Americans self-identifying as LGBTQ. Data also shows that LGBTQ audiences are 22 percent more likely to go see a new theatrical release, and that seeing LGBTQ characters is one of the key factors in a person’s support for the community outside of personally knowing someone who is LGBTQ.

Seeing a powerful gay superhero kiss his husband and feeling the reaction in that theater was a real-life example of why it is important for our stories to be told – especially in films that travel to big cities and small towns around the world.

GLAAD’s most recent Studio Responsibility Index study found only 10 theatrically released films from eight major studio distributors included LGBTQ characters in 2020, and only 22 of 118 in 2019 – the most recent study which was not impacted by COVID. Of the 22 LGBTQ-inclusive films GLAAD counted in 2019, more than half of LGBTQ characters (28 of 50, 56 percent) received less than three minutes of total screen time, with 21 of those appearing for less than one minute including “Avengers: Endgame’s” “Grieving Man.”

“Eternals” marks a new path forward for Marvel – expanding the idea of who can be a hero in a way not yet seen in film, especially at the scale or budget of an MCU project. Moreover, the announced plans for the MCU’s future seem to make it clear that introducing heroes who look and love more like those in the world they defend is a sustained focus for the studio moving forward.

America Chavez, a Latina lesbian hero, will be introduced in the 2022 flick “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,” and next summer’s “Thor: Love and Thunder” is set to bring a renewed focus on Valkyrie, the new King of Asgard, who “needs to find her queen.” Even beyond these confirmations, there are so many opportunities on the pages of comic books for queer heroes to reign supreme on big screens worldwide.

Entertainment remains our biggest cultural export and it is essential that those stories include LGBTQ people. Most importantly, they must reflect the full diversity of our community and experiences, from heroes to villains to the office employees who just wish they could go to work without aliens and Avengers destroying the city. “Eternals” may have been the first time I got to see a queer super hero live out his best life in the theaters, but I know it won’t be the last.
 

[Source: Megan Townsend, GLAAD, Director of Entertainment Research & Analysis, and lead author of GLAAD’s annual Studio Responsibility Index and Where We Are on TV studies on inclusion in film and television]

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2017 FILMS

Call Me By Your Name - Armie Hammer, Timothée Chalamet

Fantastic Woman - Daniela Vega, Fransisco Reyes, Luis Gnecco, Aline Küppenheim

My Days of Mercy - Ellen Page, Kate Mara

Battle of the Sexes - Emma Stone, Steve Carell

Rough Night - Scarlett Johansson, Kate McKinnon, Jillian Bell, Zoe Kravitz, Ilana Glazer

Bayard and Me - Documentary

Gospel According to Andre -  André Leon Talley, Bethann Hardison, Marc Jacobs
Happy Birthday Marsha - Eve Lindley, Mya Taylor, Grace Dunham 

Princess Cyd - Rebecca Spence, Jessie Pinnick
God's Own Country - Josh O'Connor, Alec Secăreanu, Ian Hart, Gemma Jones
Beats Per Minute - France

Hello Again - Musical, Audra McDonald, Martha Plimpton, TR Knight, Cheyenne Jackson

Laerte-Se - Brazil, Laerte Coutinho, Eliane Brum, Rita Lee, Directed by Lygia Barbosa, Eliane Brum

How to Talk to Girls at Parties - Elle Fanning, Alex Sharp, Nicole Kidman, Ruth Wilson
The Death and Life of Marsha P Johnson - Documentary

Anything - John Carroll Lynch, Matt Bomer, Maura Tierney, Margot Bingham, Michael Boatman

Freak Show - Alex Lawther, Abigail Breslin, Bette Midler, Larry Pine, Lorraine Toussaint, Laverne Cox

Lovesong - Riley Keough, Jena Malone, Jessie Ok Gray

2016 FILMS

Moonlight - Trevante Rhodes, André Holland, Naomie Harris, Janelle Monáe, Mahershala Ali
Kiki - Documentary, Sweden

Almost Adults - Elise Bauman, Natasha Negovanlis

Daddy's Boy - Alessandro Miro, James Koroni, Joe Lopez

Women Who Kill -  Annette O'Toole, Sheila Vand, Deborah Rush

As You Are - Owen Campbell, Charlie Heaton, Scott Cohen, Mary Stuart Masterson
The Assignment - Michelle Rodriguez, Sigourney Weaver, Tony Shalhoub

The Pass - Russell Tovey, Arinze Kene Summertime - French, Belgian, Cécile de France, Izïa Higelin, Noémie Lvovsky

First Girl I Loved - Brianna Hildebrand, Pamela Adlon, Mateo Arias, Tim Heidecker, Cameron Esposito

Closet Monster - Canadian, Connor Jessup

Other People - Molly Shannon, Bradley Whitford, Maude Apatow, John Early, Zach Woods

The Intervention -  Melanie Lynskey, Jason Ritter, Skylar Bernon

New Boys in the Band Movie on Netflix

Brokeback Mountain: Reunited

Wings (1927): First Same Sex On-Screen Kiss

GLAAD Report: LGBTQ Representation in Film

Jean and Lydia: Tell It to the Bees

GayFlix: Top Gay Drama Movies

Blazing New Frontier for Trans Actors

Straight Actors Who Nabbed Oscar Noms for LGBTQ Roles

Cruel Intentions: Getting to First Base

Best Gay Movies of the Decade

Highlights of NYC LGBTQ Film Festival

LGBTQ Film History: Early Years (1910s to 1920s)  

2015 FILMS

Carol - Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Sarah Paulson, Carrie Brownstein
The Danish Girl - Eddie Redmayne

Grandma - Lily Tomlin

Clouds of Sils Maria - Juliette Binoche, Kristen Stewart, Chloë Grace Moretz, Johnny Flynn

Jenny's Wedding - Kathrine Heigl, Alexis Bledel, Tom Wilkinson, Linda Emond, Grace Gummer

Freeheld - Ellen Page, Julianne Moore, Michael Shannon, Steve Carell
I Am Michael - James Franco, Zachary Quinto, Emma Roberts, Daryl Hannah, Lesley Ann Warren

For Which We Stand - Michael Musto, Dolly Parton, Melissa Etheridge, Frenchie Davis, Diana King, Chely Wright

Out to Win - Documentary, John Amaechi, Billy Bean, Jason Collins, Billie Jean King, Martina Navratilova

Summer of Sangalie - France

Coming Out - Directed by Alden Peters

2014 FILMS

The Imitation Game - Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley
Love is Strange - John Lithgow, Alfred Molina
To Be Takei - George Takei, Brad Altman
The Normal Heart - Mark Ruffalo, Matt Bomer, Julia Roberts, Jim Parsons

Pride - Bill Nighy, Dominic West, Andrew Scott, George MacKay, Imelda Staunton

Skeleton Twins - Bill Hader, Kristen Wiig, Luke Wilson

The Way He Looks - Ghilherme Lobo, Fabio Audi

Do I Sound Gay? - Documentary, David Thorpe, Dan Savage, George Takei, David Sedaris, Tim Gunn, Margaret Cho

The Prom's Jo Ellen Pellman: Helping Queer Kids

Time Magazine: Elliot Page Is Ready for This Moment

Jodie Foster Milestone: Kisses Wife After Winning Golden Globe Award

IMDB: LGBTQ Movie Actors

Gay Actors of Hollywood's Golden Age

Scene From The Birdcage

Best American Lesbian Movies

GLAAD Report: LGBTQ Representation in Film

Greatest Queer Sex Scenes in Film History

LGBTQ Directors: Favorite Queer Movies

Time Out: The Best in Gay Film Making

Booksmart: Amy and Molly Missed Out on Fun

Love Simon: Simon Comes Out to Everyone

MUBI: Best LGBTQ Films of All Time

GayFlix: Top Gay Drama Movies

Best Lesbian Scenes from Movies

Gay Times: Best LGBTQ Films You Can Watch on Netflix

Rafiki: Film Review

List Challenge: Top Greatest Gay Movies

New Boys in the Band Movie on Netflix

Mala Forever: Film Studio Focuses on Queer Female Stories

Wings (1927): First Same Sex On-Screen Kiss

Best Bohemian Rhapsody Moments

Queer Period Films

2013 FILMS

Blue is the Warmest Color - France
Philomena - Judy Dench, Steve Coogan
Behind the Candelabra - Michael Douglas, Matt Damon

Dallas Buyer's Club - Matthew McConaughey, Jared Leto, Jennifer Garner, Denis O'Hare, Steve Zahn, Griffin Dunne
GBF - Sasha Pieterse, Natasha Lyonne, Evanna Lynch, Megan Mullally, Andrea Bowen, Horatio Sanz

Stranger by the Lake - French, Directed by Alain Guiraudie

Side Effects - Jude Law, Rooney Mara, Channing Tatum, Catherine Zeta-Jones

Killing Your Darlings - Daniel Radcliffe, Elizabeth Olsen, Michael C. Hall, Ben Foster, Jack Huston, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Kyra Sedgwick

Adult World - Emma Roberts, John Cusack, Evan Peters, Shannon Woodward, Chris Riggi, Scott Coffey

Ashamed - Korea

Two Mothers - Germany

LGBTQ Movies Where No One Has to Come Out

Kristen Stewart Opens Up to Ellen DeGeneres

LGBTQ Sex Scenes That Made Film History

John Tucker Must Die: Kissing Lessons

Backstage: LGBTQ Representation in TV, Film, and Theatre

LGBTQ Coming-of-Age Films Charting the Teen Years

Gay Actors of Hollywood's Golden Age

All-Time Greatest Lesbian Sex Scenes in Movies

Celebrities You Didn't Know Were Gay

IMDB: LGBTQ Movie Actors

Romantic Films All Queer Women Need to Watch

2012 FILMS

Cloud Atlas - Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Jim Broadbent, Hugo Weaving, Keith David, Susan Sarandon, Hugh Grant

Any Day Now - Alan Cumming

North Sea Texas - Flemish, Directed and Directed by Bavo Defurne, Produced by Yves Verbraeken
United in Anger: History of ACT UP - Documentary

Unfit: Ward vs. Ward - Documentary

Struck by Lightning - Chris Colfer, Allison Janney, Sarah Hyland, Rebel Wilson, Angela Kinsey, Polly Bergen, Dermot Mulroney

Live Free or Die - Documentary About Bishop Gene Robinson

How to Survive a Plague - Documentary About AIDS Epidemic

You and Me Forever - Denmark

A Perfect Ending - Barbara Niven, Bryan Mordechai Jackson, Jessica Clark

Iconic Kiss: Sarah Michelle Gellar and Selma Blair

GLAAD Report: LGBTQ Films at All-Time High

Interview: Jodie Foster

Focus Features: Celebrating 20 Years of Independent Queer Films

Sexiest Gay Scenes in Film

Lives of LGBTQ Directors from Old Hollywood
Every Lesbian and Queer Sex Scenes on The L Word: Generation Q Ranked

Listal: List of Gay Films

What Moonlight Means to Queer Black Men

25th Anniversary of Philadelphia

2011 FILMS

Weekend - Tom Cullen, Chris New

Perfect Family - Kathleen Turner, Emily Deschanel, Jason Ritter, Sharon Lawrence, Angelique Cabral, Richard Chamberlain

Wish Me Away: The Chely Wright Story

Becoming Chaz - Documentary About Chaz Bono

The Night Watch - Russia

Kiss Me - Brazil

2010 FILMS

Beginners - Christopher Plummer, Ewan McGregor

Kids Are Alright - Julianne Moore, Annette Bening, Mark Ruffalo

Runaways - Kristen Stewart, Dakota Fanning

Howl - James Franco, Aaron Tveit, Jon Hamm, David Strathairn, Mary-Louise Parker, Jeff Daniels, Jon Prescott, Treat Williams

Black Swan - Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel, Barbara Hershey, Winona Ryder

Burlesque - Cher, Christina Aguilera, Julianne Hough, Alan Cumming, Peter Gallagher, Kristen Bell, Stanley Tucci

Stonewall Uprising - Documentary

Four-Faced Liar -  Daniel Carlisle, Todd Kubrak, Emily Peck, Marja-Lewis Ryan, Liz Osborn

Room in Rome - Directed by Julio Medem

Essential Films of All Time for LGBTQ Viewers

Top 100 LGBTQ Male Celebrities in Hollywood
Wikipedia: History of Homosexuality in Film
GayFlix: Top Gay Drama Movies

LGBTQ Film History: Early Years (1910s to 1920s)

Billy Elliot: Ballet is Not For Lads

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Gay Times: Best LGBTQ Films You Can Watch on Netflix

25th Anniversary of Philadelphia

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Freeheld: Not My Roomate

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Ian McKellen - Lord of the Rings

Angelina Jolie - Maleficent
Zachary Quinto - Star Trek
Kristen Stewart - Twilight
Kelly McGillis - Witness, Top Gun
Shailene Woodley - Divergent

Lee Pace - Hobbit, Pushing Daisies

Miriam Margolyes - Harry Potter, Age of Innocence

Ezra Miller - Fantastic Beasts, Justice League

Auli’i Cravalho - Moana

Ellen (Elliot) Page - Juno, Smart People, Freeheld, My Days of Mercy
Thandie Newton - Crash
Michelle Rodriguez - Avatar

Tommy Kirk - Old Yeller, Shaggy Dog, Swiss Family Robinson

Kal Penn - Harold and Kumar

Ariana DeBose - West Side Story

Rebel Wilson - Pitch Perfect, Bridesmaids

Alexander Lincoln - In From the Side

Janelle Monae - Hidden Figures, Moonlight, Glass Onion

Chloe Grace Moretz  - Miseducation of Cameron Post

Hunter Schafer - Hunger Games

Jim Parsons - Normal Heart, Hidden Figures, Spoiler Alert
Zoe Saldana - Guardians of the Galaxy

Cara Delevingne - Suicide Squad
Lily Tomlin - Nine to Five, All of Me
Jodie Foster - Silence of the Lambs
Colton Haynes - San Andreas
Luke Evans - Hobbit, Beauty & the Beast, Fast & Furious

Matt Bomer - Normal Heart

Beanie Feldstein - Booksmart, Lady Bird

Tracy Turnbald - Hairspray

Heather Matarazzo - Princess Diaries, Saved

Tilda Swinton - Dr. Strange, Orlando

Jo Ellen Pellman - The Prom

Joel Kim Booster - Psychosexual, Fire Island

Luca Guadagnino - Director of Call Me by Your Name

Trace Lysette - Monica

Nikki Blonsky - Hairspray

Tom Ford - Film Director, Screenwriter, Film Producer (A Single Man, Nocturnal Animals)
 

Laurence Olivier - Marathon Man, Wuthering Heights, King Lear
Rock Hudson - Magnificent Obsession, Giant
Derek Jacobi - Murder on the Orient Express, King's Speech, Gosford Park, Gladiator)

Jane Lynch - Best in Show, Wreck It Ralph
BD Wong - Jurassic World
Alec Guinness - Star Wars
Simon Woods - Pride and Prejudice
Cynthia Nixon - Little Darlings

Kristie McNichol - Little Darlings
John Gielgud - Arthur
Lindsay Lohan - Mean Girls
Alan Cumming - Spy Kids, Golden Eye, Eyes Wide Shut
Anna Paquin - The Piano
Holland Taylor - Legally Blonde
Rosie O'Donnell - League of Their Own

Glen Shaddix - Beetlejuice

Keke Palmer - Hustlers
Craig Parker - Lord of the Rings
Nathan Lane - Producers, Bird Cage, Lion King
Patricia Valesquez - Mummy Returns
Tab Hunter - Pleasure of His Company
Victor Garber - Titanic, Argo, Godspell
Neil Patrick Harris - Gone Girl
Rupert Everett - My Best Friend's Wedding
Montgomery Cliff - From Here to Eternity
Richard Chamberlain - Julius Caesar, Three Musketeers, The Swarm
Anthony Perkins - Psycho
Graham Chapman - Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Aaron Spelling - Film Producer

Iconic Scenes and Montages From LGBTQ Movies

Brokeback Mountain: I Wish I Knew How to Quit You

Love Simon: Ferris Wheel Scene

Four Weddings and a Funeral: Funeral Blues

Freeheld: You Have the Power

Call Me By Your Name: First Kiss

The Favourite: Women Ballad Montage

More Beautiful for Having Been Broken: Max and Sam

Milk: Gay Pride Rally Speech

Prayers For Bobby

Tell It To The Bees: Lydia and Jean Montage

Cruel Intentions: Getting to First Base

Philadelphia: Case About Homosexuality

Freeheld: Dance Scene

Bohemian Rhapsody

Love is Strange: Piano Duet

Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love

Moonlight: Diner Scene

Sunday Bloody Sunday: Kiss Scene

To Wong Fu Thanks for Everything Julie Newmar

Philadelphia: The Essence of Discrimination

Tell It to the Bees: Lydia and Jean

Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Love is Strange: George Breaks Down

Milk: Harvey Tries to Work With Dan

Freeheld: It Offends Traditional Values

Carol: Piano Scene

Imitation Game: Born Normal

Frida: Tango Dance Scene with Salma Hayek and Ashley Judd

Call Me By Your Name: This is My Spot

Battle of the Sexes: Hair Salon Scene

Miseducation of Cameron Post: Kiss Scene

Desert Hearts: Vivian and Cay
Carol: Carol and Therese Kissing Scene
Freeheld: Motion is Passed

Season of Love

Romantic Lesbian Movies

Bohemian Rhapsody: Recording Studio Scene

Carol: Carol and Therese Montage

Tell It To The Bees: Alone Time

Portrait of a Lady on Fire: Long Story Short

My Days of Mercy

Call Me By Your Name: Summer

Milk: Harvey Debates Senator Briggs

Runaways: Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning

World Unseen: Long Story Short

Jennifer's Body: Megan Fox and Amanda Seyfried
Philadelphia: Opera Scene

Normal Heart

Life Like: Kiss Scene

LGBTQ Films | 2000 to 2009

2009 FILMS

A Single Man - Colin Firth, Julianne Moore

Chloe - Julianne Moore, Amanda Seyfried, Liam Neeson

Hannah Free - Sharon Gless, Maureen Gallagher, Kelli Strickland, Ann Hagemann, Taylor Miller

The Joneses - Demi Moore, David Duchovny, Amber Heard, Ben Hollingsworth, Gary Cole, Glenne Headly, Lauren Hutton

Dorian Gray - Ben Barnes, Colin Firth, Rebecca Hall, Ben Chaplin, Emilia Fox, Rachel Hurd-Wood

Prayers for Bobby - Sigourney Weaver

Dare - Emmy Rossum, Zach Gilford, Ashley Springer, Ana Gasteyer, Rooney Mara, Sandra Bernhard, Alan Cumming

Englishman in New York - John Hurt, Denis O'Hare, Jonathan Tucker, Swoosie Kurtz, Cynthia Nixon

Big Gay Musical - Lena Hall, Daniel Robinson, Joey Dudding, Jeff Metzler, Michael Schiffman

Dance Flick - Shoshana Bush, Damon Wayans Jr, Shawn Wayans, Amy Sedaris, David Alan Grier, Chelsea Makela, Chris Elliott

Make the Yuletide Gay - Keith Jordan, Adamo Ruggiero, Hallee Hirsh, Kelly Keaton, Derek Long, Ian Buchanan, Gates McFadden

Drool -  Laura Harring, Jill Marie Jones, Oded Fehr

Jennifer's Body - Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried

2008 FILMS

Milk - Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, James Franco

Dream Boy - Stephan Bender, Max Roeg, Randy Wayne, Owen Beckman, Rooney Mara, Rickie Lee Jones

Kiss the Bride - Tori Spelling, Philipp Karner

I Can't Think Straight -  Lisa Ray, Sheetal Sheth, Antonia Frering

The Baby Formula - Canada

Affinity -  Zoë Tapper, Anna Madeley, Domini Blythe

2007 FILMS

American Crime - Ellen Page, Catherine Keener, Hayley McFarland, James Franco, Bradley Whitford, Michael O'Keefe

For the Bible Tells Me So - Documentary

Savage Grace - Julianne Moore, Stephen Dillane, Eddie Redmayne, Elena Anaya

Puccini for Beginners - France

Daphne - Emily Beecham, Geraldine James, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor

Shelter -  Trevor Wright, Brad Rowe, Tina Holmes, Katie Walder, Ross Thomas
 

Queer Period Films

LGBTQ Directors: Favorite Queer Movies

Best Bohemian Rhapsody Moments

Queer Kisses That Changed Our Lives

Tango Dance Scene from Frida Film (Salma Hayek and Ashley Judd)

Outstanding LGBTQ Films 

What Moonlight Means to Queer Black Men

Focus Features: Celebrating 20 Years of Independent Queer Films

Wings (1927): First Same Sex On-Screen Kiss

LGBTQ Sex Scenes That Made Film History

John Lithgow and Alfred Molina: Two Friends Play Lovers

GLAAD Report: LGBTQ Films at All-Time High

Unforgettable Moments from Brokeback Mountain

GayFlix: Top Gay Drama Movies

Lives of LGBTQ Directors from Old Hollywood
Milk: Harvey Debates Senator Briggs

IBDM: List of Gay Movies Best to Worst

Scene From The Birdcage

2006 FILMS

Short Bus - Sook-Yin Lee, Paul Dawson, Lindsay Beamish, PJ DeBoy 

A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story - Lifetime Movie, Mercedes Ruehl, JD Pardo

Gray Matters - Heather Graham, Bridget Moynahan, Tom Cavanagh, Molly Shannon, Warren Christie, Alan Cumming, Sissy Spacek

Running With Scissors - Joseph Cross, Annette Bening, Brian Cox, Joseph Fiennes, Evan Rachel Wood, Alec Baldwin, Jill Clayburgh, Gwyneth Paltrow, Gabrielle Union, Patrick Wilson, Kristin Chenoweth

Small Town Gay Bar - Documentary, Directed by Malcolm Ingram

Surrender Dorothy - Diane Keaton, Natalie Swerdlow, Tom Everett Scott, Alexa Davalos, Lauren German, Josh Hopkins, Chris Pine

Night Listener - Robin Williams, Toni Collette, Rory Culkin, Bobby Cannavale, Sandra Oh, Joe Morton
Cruel and Unusual - Documentary About Incarcerated Trans Women

Loving Annabelle - Diane Gaidry, Erin Kelly, Kevin McCarthy

Scenes of a Sexual Nature - Adrian Lester, Ewan McGregor, Tom Hardy, Andrew Lincoln, Catherine Tate, Hugh Bonneville

The Chinese Botanist's Daughters

2005 FILMS

Kinky Boots - Joel Edgerton, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Sarah-Jane Potts, Jemima Rooper, Nick Frost, Linda Bassett

Imagine Me And You - Piper Perabo, Matthew Goode, Lena Headey

Trans America - Felicity Huffman

Family Stone - Claire Danes, Diane Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Dermot Mulroney, Craig T. Nelson, Sarah Jessica Parker, Luke Wilson

Adam and Steve - Craig Chester, Malcolm Gets, Parker Posey, Chris Kattan, Kristen Schaal, Julie Hagerty, Paul Sand, Sally Kirkland

Rent - Rosario Dawson, Taye Diggs, Wilson Jermaine Heredia, Jesse L Martin, Idina Menzel, Adam Pascal

Brokeback Mountain - Jake Gyllenhaal, Heath Ledger, Randy Quaid, Michelle Williams, Anne Hathaway

Bam Bam and Celeste - Margaret Cho, Wayne Federman, Kathy Najimy, Alan Cumming, Jane Lynch, Wilson Cruz, Jackie Beat

Capote - Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Clifton Collins Jr, Bruce Greenwood, Mark Pellegrino, Amy Ryan, Chris Cooper

Happy Endings - Lisa Kudrow, Steve Coogan, Tom Arnold, Jason Ritter, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Bobby Cannavale, Laura Dern

Saving Face -  Joan Chen, Michelle Krusiec, Lynn Chen 

Pixar Releases Animated Short with Positive Gay Theme

Greatest Queer Sex Scenes in Film History

Top 100 Best LGBTQ Movies of All Time

Sexiest Gay Scenes in Film

LGBTQ Directors: Favorite Queer Movies

Advocate: Looking Back at Earlier Lesbian and Gay Films

Every Lesbian and Queer Sex Scenes on The L Word: Generation Q Ranked

GayFlix: Top Gay Drama Movies

Ten Best Lesbian Movies of All Time

Wings (1927): First Same Sex On-Screen Kiss

Milk: Gay Pride Rally Speech

All-Time Greatest Lesbian Sex Scenes in Movies

GLAAD Report: LGBTQ Representation in Film

2004 FILMS

Alexander - Colin Farrell, Angelina Jolie, Val Kilmer, Anthony Hopkins, Jared Leto, Rosario Dawson, Christopher Plummer, Directed by Oliver Stone

Connie and Carla - Nia Vardalos, Toni Collette, David Duchovny

DeLovely - Kevin Kline, Ashley Judd, Jonathan Pryce, Kevin McNally, Sandra Nelson, John Barrowman

Eulogy - Zooey Deschanel, Hank Azaria, Kelly Preston, Ray Romano, Debra Winger, Jesse Bradford, Glenne Headly, Piper Laurie, Rip Torn

Kinsey - Liam Neeson, Benjamin Walker, Laura Linney, Peter Sarsgaard, Chris O'Donnell, Timothy Hutton, John Lithgow, Tim Curry, Oliver Platt, John Krasinski, Lynn Redgrave, Veronica Cartwright, David Harbour

Home at the End of the World - Colin Farrell, Dallas Roberts, Robin Wright Penn, Sissy Spacek

D.E.B.S. - Sara Foster, Jordana Brewster, Meagan Good, Devon Aoki, Jill Ritchie, Geoff Stults, Jimmi Simpson, Holland Taylor

Brother to Brother - Anthony Mackie, Roger Robinson, Alex Burns, Kevin Jackson, Billoah Greene, Brad Bailey

Imaginary Heroes - Sigourney Weaver, Jeff Daniels, Emile Hirsch, Michelle Williams

Andrew and Jeremy Get Married - Documentary, Andrew Thomas, Jeremy Trafford, Hanif Kureishi

Jack - Anton Yelchin, Stockard Channing, Ron Silver

My Summer of Love - Natalie Press, Emily Blunt

When I'm 64 - Paul Freeman, Alun Armstrong, Peter McNamara, Anton Saunders 

Tying the Knot - Documentary About Marriage Equality

Stage Beauty - Billy Crudup, Claire Danes, Tom Wilkinson, Rupert Everett, Hugh Bonneville, Tom Hollander

Mysterious Skin - Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Chase Ellison, Brady Corbet, Michelle Trachtenberg, Elisabeth Shue

2003 FILMS

Angels in America - Al Pacino, Meryl Streep, Emma Thompson, Mary-Louise Parker

Monster - Charlize Theron, Christina Ricci, Bruce Dern, Lee Tergesen

April's Shower - Trish Doolan, Maria Cina, Joe Tabbanella, Denise Miller, Zack Ward

Camp - Daniel Letterle, Joanna Chilcoat, Robin de Jesús, Anna Kendrick, Alana Allen, Vince Rimoldi, Don Dixon

Normal - Jessica Lange, Tom Wilkinson, Clancy Brown, Hayden Panettiere, Joe Sikora, Richard Bull

Dangerous Living: Coming out in the Developing World - Documentary

Latter Days - Steve Sandvoss, Wes Ramsey, Rebekah Johnson, Jacqueline Bisset, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Mary Kay Place

Party Monster - Macaulay Culkin, Brendan O'Malley, Seth Green, Dylan McDermott, Wilson Cruz, Wilmer Valderrama, Chloë Sevigny, Marilyn Manson, Natasha Lyonne, John Stamos

Thirteen - Evan Rachel Wood, Holly Hunter, Nikki Reed

IMDB: Chronological List of LGBTQ Films 1919-1980s

Best American Lesbian Movies

The Kids Are Alright: We Support You

Backstage: LGBTQ Representation in TV, Film, and Theatre

Homosexuality on Film

GLAAD Report: LGBTQ Films at All-Time High

GayFlix: Top Gay Drama Movies

What Moonlight Means to Queer Black Men

Mindlessly Fun Queer Films to Help You Switch Off Your Brain

GLAAD: Classic Romantic LGBTQ Films

Philadelphia: I Have a Case

IMDB: Chronological List of LGBTQ-Themed Films 1916-1989

LGBTQ Film History: Early Years (1910s to 1920s)

Queer Period Films

2002 FILMS

The Hours - Nicole Kidman, Stephen Dillane, Miranda Richardson, Julianne Moore, John C. Reilly, Toni Collette, Meryl Streep, Ed Harris, Allison Janney, Claire Danes, Jeff Daniels

Family Fundamentals - Documentary

Far From Heaven - Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid, Viola Davis, James Rebhorn, Michael Gaston

Family Affair - Helen Lesnick, Erica Shaffer, Michele Greene
Unconditional Love - Kathy Bates, Rupert Everett, Meredith Eaton, Lynn Redgrave, Dan Aykroyd, Jonathan Pryce, Peter Sarsgaard, Barry Manilow, Julie Andrews
Rules of Attraction - James van der Beek, Shannyn Sossamon, Jessica Biel, Kate Bosworth, Kip Pardue, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Faye Dunaway, Eric Stoltz, Fred Savage, Swoosie Kurtz

My Mother Likes Women - Spain

Kissing Jessica Stein - Jennifer Westfeldt, Heather Juergensen, Tovah Feldshuh

Frida - Salma Hayek, Ashley Judd, Antonio Banderas

2001 FILMS

Hedwig and the Angry Inch - John Cameron Mitchell, Ben Mayer-Goodman, Miriam Shor, Stephen Trask, Andrea Martin

All Over the Guy - Sasha Alexander, Dan Bucatinsky, Adam Goldberg, Joanna Kerns, Lisa Kudrow, Andrea Martin, Christina Ricci, Doris Roberts 

Blow Dry - Alan Rickman, Natasha Richardson, Rachel Griffiths, Rachael Leigh Cook, Josh Hartnett, Bill Nighy, Heidi Klum

Lost and Delerious -  Piper Perabo, Jessica Paré, Mischa Barton

Mulholland Drive - Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Justin Theroux, Jeanne Bates

Crying Game: First Kiss

My Days of Mercy: Lucy and Mercy

Memorable Gay Male Characters in Movies

Old Hollywood Film Stars Who Never Came Out of the Closet

Best LGBTQ Movies Ever Made

Love Simon: Ferris Wheel Kiss

Old Hollywood Stars You Probably Didn't Know Were LGBTQ

Tango Dance Scene from Frida Film (Salma Hayek and Ashley Judd)

GayFlix: Top Gay Drama Movies

Best Bohemian Rhapsody Moments

Gods and Monsters: Vice and Indulgence

2000 FILMS

Sordid Lives - Bonnie Bedelia, Delta Burke, Leslie Jordan, Beau Bridges, Beth Grant, Olivia Newton-John

Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy - Zach Braff, Dean Cain, Andrew Keegan, Nia Long, Mary McCormack, Matt McGrath, Timothy Olyphant, Billy Porter, Justin Theroux, Ben Weber, John Mahoney

Billy Elliott - Julie Walters, Gary Lewis, Jamie Bell, Jamie Draven, Stuart Wells, Adam Cooper 

Between Two Women - Barbara Marten, Andrina Carroll, Andrew Dunn, Directed by Steven Woodcock
Truth About Jane  - Stockard Channing, Ellen Muth, Kelly Rowan, Jenny O'Hara

Big Eden - Arye Gross, Eric Schweig, Tim DeKay, Louise Fletcher, Corinne Bohrer

I'm The One That I Want - Margaret Cho

Wonder Boys - Michael Douglas, Tobey Maguire, Frances McDormand, Katie Holmes, Rip Torn, Robert Downey Jr

Things You Can Tell By Looking at Her - Glenn Close, Cameron Diaz, Calista Flockhart, Kathy Baker, Amy Brenneman, Valeria Golino, Holly Hunter, Matt Craven, Gregory Hines, Miguel Sandoval

Boy Named Sue - Documentary

Common Ground - Brittany Murphy, Jason Priestley, Steven Weber, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Edward Asner

If These Walls Could Talk 2 - Vanessa Redgrave, Chloë Sevigny, Michelle Williams, Sharon Stone, Ellen DeGeneres

Next Best Thing - Rupert Everett, Madonna, Benjamin Bratt, Michael Vartan, Josef Sommer, Lynn Redgrave

Best Gay Movies of the Decade

Straight Actors Who Nabbed Oscar Noms for LGBTQ Roles

Gay Actors of Hollywood's Golden Age

Memorable Gay Male Characters in Movies

Interview: Jodie Foster

Romantic Lesbian Movies

Queer Kisses That Changed Our Lives

Scene From The Birdcage

Greatest Queer Sex Scenes in Film History

Homosexuality on Film

LGBTQ People Recreate Iconic Movie Posters

Old Hollywood Stars You Probably Didn't Know Were LGBTQ

LGBTQ Films | 1964 to 1999

1999 FILMS

But I'm a Cheerleader - Natasha Lyonne, Clea DuVall, Melanie Lynskey, RuPaul, Eddie Cibrian, Wesley Mann, Richard Moll
Hit And Runway - Michael Parducci

Getting to Know You - Elizabeth Keener, Dana Delaney

Friends and Lovers - Stephen Baldwin, Danny Nucci, George Newbern, Alison Eastwood, Claudia Schiffer, Robert Downey Jr
Boys Don't Cry - Hilary Swank, Chloë Sevigny, Peter Sarsgaard

Cruel Intentions - Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, Reese Witherspoon, Selma Blair

Talented Mr. Ripley - Jude Law, Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Cate Blanchett, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jack Davenport

Flawless - Robert De Niro, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Barry Miller, Chris Bauer

Trick - Christian Campbell, John Paul Pitoc, Tori Spelling, Lorri Bagley, Brad Beyer, Steve Hayes

Top 100 LGBTQ Male Celebrities in Hollywood
Wikipedia: History of Homosexuality in Film
LGBTQ Film History: Early Years (1910s to 1920s)

Rock Hudson: The Life of Hollywood's Closeted Gay Heartthrob

Billy Elliot: Ballet is Not For Lads

Most Prolific Lesbian and Bisexual Women Actors

25th Anniversary of Philadelphia

GLAAD Report: LGBTQ Representation in Film

Backstage: LGBTQ Representation in TV, Film, and Theatre

Focus Features: Celebrating 20 Years of Independent Queer Films

Lives of LGBTQ Directors from Old Hollywood
Freeheld: Not My Roomate

Best LGBTQ Movies Ever Made

GayFlix: Top Gay Drama Movies

1998 FILMS

High Art - Ally Sheedy, Radha Mitchell, Gabriel Mann, Charis Michelsen, David Thornton, Patricia Clarkson

Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss - Sean Hayes

Gia - Angelina Jolie, Faye Dunaway, Elizabeth Mitchell, Mercedes Ruehl, Scott Cohen
Finding North - John Benjamin Hickey, Wendy Mekkena

Object of My Affection - Jennifer Aniston, Paul Rudd, Allison Janney, Alan Alda, Tim Daly, Joan Copeland, Steve Zahn
Velvet Goldmine - Ewan McGregor, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Toni Collette, Christian Bale

Show Me Love - Sweden, Denmark

Gods and Monsters - Ian McKellen, Brendan Fraser, Lynn Redgrave, Lolita Davidovich

Get Real - Ben Silverstone, Brad Gorton, Charlotte Brittain, Stacy Hart

Edge of Seventeen - Chris Stafford, Tina Holmes, Andersen Gabrych, Stephanie McVay, Lea DeLaria

Opposite of Sex - Christina Ricci, Ivan Sergei, Martin Donovan, Lisa Kudrow, Lyle Lovett, Johnny Galecki, Colin Ferguson

1997 FILMS

My Best Friend's Wedding - Julia Roberts, Dermot Mulroney, Cameron Diaz

Wilde - Stephen Fry, Jude Law, Tom Wilkinson, Gemma Jones, Vanessa Redgrave, Orlando Bloom

Boogie Nights - Mark Wahlberg, Julianne Moore, Burt Reynolds, Don Cheadle, John C. Reilly, William H. Macy, Heather Graham, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Luis Guzmán, Alfred Molina
As Good As It Gets - Jack Nicholson, Greg Kinear, Helen Hunt, Cuba Gooding Jr

In the Gloaming - Glenn Close, Bridget Fonda, Annie Starke, Whoopi Goldberg, David Strathairn

Bent - Clive Owen, Lothaire Bluteau, Ian McKellen, Brian Webber II, Mick Jagger, Jude Law, Rachel Weisz

Twilight of the Golds - Jennifer Beals, Brendan Fraser

Nowhere - James Duval, Rachel True, Nathan Bexton, Debi Mazar, Christina Applegate, Guillermo Diaz, Heather Graham, Beverly D'Angelo, Charlotte Rae, Denise Richards, Traci Lords, Shannen Doherty, Rose McGowan, John Ritter, Christopher Knight, Eve Plumb

All Over Me - Alison Folland, Tara Subkoff, Cole Hauser, Wilson Cruz

Chasing Amy - Ben Affleck, Jason Lee, Matt Damon

It's In The Water - Keri Jo Chapman, Teresa Garret

In and Out - Kevin Kline, Tom Selleck, Joan Cusack, Matt Dillon, Debbie Reynolds, Wilford Brimley, Bob Newhart, Selma Blair, Whoopi Goldberg, Glenn Close, Jay Leno

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - Kevin Spacey, John Cusack, Jude Law, Alison Eastwood, Lady Chablis, Kim Hunter

Breaking the Surface: Greg Louganus Story

GLAAD Report: LGBTQ Films at All-Time High

Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert: I Will Survive

Greatest Queer Sex Scenes in Film History

LGBTQ Directors: Favorite Queer Movies

What Moonlight Means to Queer Black Men

Mindlessly Fun Queer Films to Help You Switch Off Your Brain

Outstanding LGBTQ Films 

Wings (1927): First Same Sex On-Screen Kiss

LGBTQ Sex Scenes That Made Film History

Best American Lesbian Movies

Unforgettable Moments from Brokeback Mountain

GayFlix: Top Gay Drama Movies

Milk: Harvey Debates Senator Briggs

IBDM: List of Gay Movies Best to Worst

1996 FILMS

Beautiful Thing - Glen Berry, Scott Neal, Linda Henry, Ben Daniels, Tameka Empson
Bound - Gina Gershon, Jennifer Tilly, Joe Pantoliano, Mary Mara, Susie Bright, Margaret Smith

Not Love Just Frenzy - Spain

It's My Party - Eric Roberts, Margaret Cho, Lee Grant, Bruce Davison, Olivia Newton-John, George Segal, Marlee Matlin, Gregory Harrison, Bronson Pinchot, Roddy McDowall, Sally Kellerman, Ron Glass

American Buffalo - Dustin Hoffman, Dennis Franz, Sean Nelson

Boyfriends - James Dreyfus, Mark Sands, Michael Urwin, Andrew Ableson, David Coffey

The Birdcage - Robin Williams, Nathan Lane, Gene Hackman, Diane Weist

Basquiat - Jeffrey Wright, David Bowie

The Watermelon Woman

1995 FILMS

The Celluloid Closet - Documentary, Lily Tomlin, Quentin Crisp, Tony Curtis, Armistead Maupin, Whoopi Goldberg, Harvey Fierstein, Gore Vidal, Paul Rudnick, Shirley MacLaine, Mart Crowley, Tom Hanks, Harry Hamlin, Susan Sarandon
Jeffrey - Steven Weber, Michael T. Weiss, Patrick Stewart, Bryan Batt, Christine Baranski, Victor Garber, Camryn Manheim, Sigourney Weaver, Kathy Najimy, Nathan Lane, Olympia Dukakis, Kevin Nealon

Serving in Silence - Glenn Close

The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love - Laurel Holloman, Nicole Ari Parker, Maggie Moore, Kate Stafford

Doom Generation - James Duval, Rose McGowan, Margaret Cho, Parker Posey, Lauren Tewes, Christopher Knight, Nicky Katt, Amanda Bearse, Heidi Fleiss

Total Eclipse - Leonardo DiCaprio
Boys On The Side - Whoopi Goldberg, Drew Barrymore, Mary-Louise Parker
To Wong Foo Thanks For Everything Julie Newmar - Patrick Swayze, Wesley Snipes, John Leguizamo

Wigstock - RuPaul, Crystal Waters, Deee-Lite, Jackie Beat, Debbie Harry

Wikipedia: List of LGBTQ Related Films

Top 100 LGBTQ Male Celebrities in Hollywood

Film Forever: Best LGBTQ Movies of All Time

Brokeback Mountain: I Wish I Knew How to Quit You

IMDB: List of Gay Movies

Living Out Loud: Lesbian Dance Club

Best Bohemian Rhapsody Moments

Logo: Greatest Gay Movies of All Time

Gay Times: Best LGBTQ Films You Can Watch on Netflix

Milk: Harvey Meets Cleve Jones

Old Hollywood Stars You Probably Didn't Know Were LGBTQ

IMDB: LGBTQ Movie Actors

Hottest Openly Gay Male Actors in Hollywood

Old Hollywood Film Stars Who Never Came Out of the Closet

Tango Dance Scene from Frida Film (Salma Hayek and Ashley Judd)

1994 FILMS

The Sum of Us - Jack Thompson, Russell Crowe, John Polson, Deborah Kennedy, Joss Moroney, Mitch Mathews
Four Weddings and a Funeral - Hugh Grant, Andie MacDowell, John Hannah, Kristen Scott Thomas
Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert - Stephan Elliot, Hugo Weaving, Guy Pearce

Boys Life: Three Stories of Love, Lust and Liberation

Sirens - Hugh Grant, Sam Neill, Tara Fitzgerald, Elle MacPherson, Portia DeRossi
 

1993 FILMS

Philadelphia - Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Antonio Banderas

And the Band Played On - Matthew Modine, Alan Alda, Ian McKellen, Lily Tomlin, BD Wong, Steve Martin, Richard Gere, Anjelica Huston, Charles Martin Smith, Swoosie Kurtz

Poison Ivy - Sara Gilbert, Drew Barrymore, Tom Skerritt, Cheryl Ladd

Six Degrees of Separation - Stockard Channing, Will Smith, Donald Sutherland, Ian McKellen, Mary Beth Hurt, Heather Graham, Bruce Davison, Richard Masur, Anthony Michael Hall

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues - Uma Thurman, Treva Jeffryes, Lorraine Bracco, Angie Dickinson, Pat Morita, Keanu Reeves, John Hurt, Rain Phoenix, Roseanne Arnold, Ed Begley Jr, Crispin Glover, Buck Henry, Carol Kane, Sean Young, Heather Graham, River Phoenix

M Butterfly - Jeremy Irons

One Nation Under God - Documentary

The Wedding Banquet - Directed by Ang Lee

Most Prolific Lesbian and Bisexual Women Actors

Dallas Buyer's Club: I've Been Looking for You, Lone Star

Gay Actors of Hollywood's Golden Age

Wings (1927): First Same Sex On-Screen Kiss

Romantic Lesbian Movies

Memorable Gay Male Characters in Movies

Rock Hudson: The Life of Hollywood's Closeted Gay Heartthrob

Blazing New Frontier for Trans Actors

LGBTQ Directors: Favorite Queer Movies

Time Out: The Best in Gay Film Making

Booksmart: Amy and Molly Missed Out on Fun

Top Ten Memorable Gay Movie Characters

Scene: Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Hottest Openly Gay Male Actors in Hollywood

1992 FILMS

The Crying Game - Stephen Rea, Miranda Richardson, Forest Whitaker, Jaye Davidson, Adrian Dunbar, Tony Slattery, Jim Broadbent

Peter's Friends - Stephen Fry, Kenneth Branagh, Hugh Laurie, Imelda Staunton, Emma Thompson, Rita Rudner

Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives - Documentary

Orlando - Tilda Swinton, Quentin Crisp, Jimmy Somerville, John Wood, John Bott, Elaine Banham, Anna Farnworth

1991 FILMS

Fried Green Tomatoes - Kathy Bates, Mary Stuart Masterson, Nancy Moore Atchison, Mary-Louise Parker, Jessica Tandy, Cicely Tyson, Chris O'Donnell

My Own Private Idaho - River Phoenix, Keanu Reeves, James Russo, William Richert, Rodney Harvey

Absolutely Positive - Documentary About AIDS
 

1990 FILMS

Paris is Burning - Documentary

Henry and June - Fred Ward, Uma Thurman, Maria de Medeiros, Richard E Grant, Kevin Spacey, Gary Oldman

Brokeback Mountain: Reunited

Greatest Queer Sex Scenes in Film History

GayFlix: Top Gay Drama Movies

Wings (1927): First Same Sex On-Screen Kiss

GLAAD Report: LGBTQ Representation in Film

Gay Times: Best LGBTQ Films You Can Watch on Netflix

Best American Lesbian Movies

Jean and Lydia: Tell It to the Bees

Blazing New Frontier for Trans Actors

Straight Actors Who Nabbed Oscar Noms for LGBTQ Roles

Cruel Intentions: Getting to First Base

Best Gay Movies of the Decade

Lives of LGBTQ Directors from Old Hollywood

First Gay Kiss in Film History: Wings 1927

Mindlessly Fun Queer Films to Help You Switch Off Your Brain

GLAAD Report: LGBTQ Films at All-Time High

What Moonlight Means to Queer Black Men

Highlights of NYC LGBTQ Film Festival

LGBTQ Film History: Early Years (1910s to 1920s)

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1989 FILMS

Tongues Untied - Marlon Riggs, Essex Hemphill, Brian Freeman

Common Threads: Stories From the Quilt - AIDS Documentary by Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman

Longtime Companion - Campbell Scott, Patrick Cassidy, Mary-Louise Parker, Stephen Caffrey

Last Exit to Brooklyn - Stephen Lang, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Burt Young, Peter Dobson, Jerry Orbach, Stephen Baldwin, Sam Rockwell, Ricki Lake

1988 FILMS

Torch Song Trilogy - Harvey Fierstein, Anne Bancroft, Matthew Broderick, Brian Kerwin, Karen Young

Liberace: Behind the Music - Victor Garber, Saul Rubinek, Michael Dolan, Maureen Stapleton, Shawn Levy

We Think the World of You - Gary Oldman, Alan Bates

1987 FILMS

Maurice - James Wilby, Hugh Grant, Rupert Graves, Denholm Elliott, Simon Callow, Billie Whitelaw, Barry Foster, Judy Parfitt, Phoebe Nicholls, Ben Kingsley

Beyond Therapy - Julie Hagerty, Jeff Goldblum, Glenda Jackson, Tom Conti, Christopher Guest

I Heard the Mermaids Singing - Sheila McCarthy, Paule Baillargeon, Ann-Marie MacDonald

1986 FILMS

Parting Glances - Richard Ganoung, John Bolger, Steve Buscemi, Adam Nathan, Kathy Kinney, Patrick Tull

Between Two Women - Farrah Fawcett, Colleen Dewhurst, Michael Nouri, Bridgette Andersen

Mona Lisa - Bob Hoskins, Cathy Tyson, Michael Caine

Best LGBTQ Films of the Decade

First Gay Kiss in Film History: Wings 1927

Rock Hudson: The Life of Hollywood's Closeted Gay Heartthrob

Best Bohemian Rhapsody Moments

New LGBTQ Movies

Best Gay Films to Look Forward to in 2020

LGBTQ Directors: Favorite Queer Movies

Wikipedia: List of LGBTQ Related Films

Film Forever: Best LGBTQ Movies of All Time

Best LGBTQ Oscar Moments of 2018

GayFlix: Top Gay Drama Movies

Old Hollywood Stars You Probably Didn't Know Were LGBTQ

Backstage: LGBTQ Representation in TV, Film, and Theatre

IMDB: List of Gay Movies

Best Gay Movies of the Decade

1985 FILMS

Chorus Line - Michael Douglas, Alyson Reed, Terrence Mann, Sharon Brown, Michael Blevins, Yamil Borges, Jan Gan Boyd, Gregg Burge, Cameron English, Tony Fields, Audrey Landers, Nicole Fosse, Vicki Frederick, Michelle Johnston, Janet Jones

Color Purple - Whoopi Goldberg, Desreta Jackson, Danny Glover, Oprah Winfrey, Margaret Avery, Adolph Caesar, Rae Dawn Chong, Laurence Fishburne

Desert Hearts - Helen Shaver, Patricia Charbonneau, Audra Lindley, Andra Akers, Gwen Welles

Kiss of the Spider Woman - William Hurt, Raúl Juliá, Sonia Braga

My Beautiful Laundrette - Gordon Warnecke, Daniel Day-Lewis, Saeed Jaffrey

An Early Frost - Aidan Quinn

Buddies - David Schachter, Geoff Edholm

1984 FILMS

The Times of Harvey Milk - Documentary, Harvey Fierstein

Another Country - Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Cary Elwes, Michael Jenn, Robert Addie, Rupert Wainwright, Tristan Oliver

Bostonians - Christopher Reeve, Vanessa Redgrave, Jessica Tandy, Madeleine Potter, Linda Hunt
 

1983 FILMS

The Dresser - Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay, Edward Fox, Zena Walker

The Hunger - Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie, Susan Sarandon, Willem Dafoe, John Pankow

Silkwood - Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, Cher, Craig T. Nelson, Fred Ward, Diana Scarwid, Ron Silver

Streamers - Matthew Modine, Michael Wright, Mitchell Lichtenstein, Directed by Robert Altman

LGBTQ Film History: Early Years (1910s to 1920s)

GayFlix: Top Gay Drama Movies

Logo: Greatest Gay Movies of All Time

Homosexuality on Film

First Gay Kiss in Film History: Wings 1927

Gay Times: Best LGBTQ Films You Can Watch on Netflix

Memorable Gay Male Characters in Movies

Greatest Queer Sex Scenes in Film History

Straight Actors Who Nabbed Oscar Noms for LGBTQ Roles

Entertainment Weekly: LGBTQ Pride Forever Issue

IMDB: LGBTQ Movie Actors

GLAAD Report: LGBTQ Representation in Film

Romantic Lesbian Movies

1982 FILMS

Come Back to the Five and Dime Jimmy Dean Jimmy Dean - Sandy Dennis, Cher, Karen Black, Sudie Bond, Marta Heflin, Kathy Bates

Making Love - Michael Ontkean, Harry Hamlin, Kate Jackson

Partners - Ryan O'Neal, John Hurt

Personal Best - Mariel Hemingway, Scott Glenn, Patrice Donnelly, Kenny Moore

Tootsie - Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr, Dabney Coleman, Bill Murray, Charles Durning, Sydney Pollack

Victor Victoria - Julie Andrews, James Garner, Robert Preston, Lesley Ann Warren, Alex Karras, John Rhys-Davies

1980 FILMS

Dressed to Kill - Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson, Nancy Allen, Keith Gordon, Dennis Franz

1978 FILMS

La Cage Aux Folles - Ugo Tognazzi, Michael Serrault

Word Is Out: Stories of Our Lives

1976 FILMS

Ode to Billy Joe - Robby Benson

1975 FILMS

Rocky Horror Picture Show - Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick, Richard O'Brien, Patricia Quinn, Meat Loaf

Dog Day Afternoon - Al Pacino

Once is Not Enough - Kirk Douglas, Alexis Smith, David Janssen, George Hamilton, Gary Conway, Brenda Vaccaro

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1974 FILMS

Very Natural Thing - Robert Joel, Curt Gareth, Bo White

1973 FILMS

Summer Wishes Winter Dreams - Joanne Woodward, Martin Balsam, Sylvia Sidney

1972 FILMS

Cabaret - Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Helmut Griem, Joel Grey, Fritz Wepper, Marisa Berenson

The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant - Germany

Pink Flamingos - Directed by John Waters, starring Divine

1971 FILMS

Pink Narcissus - Don Brooks, Bobby Kendall, Charles Ludlam

Some of My Best Friends Are - Fannie Flagg, Rue McClanahan, Candy Darling, David Drew

Sunday Bloody Sunday - Peter Finch, Glenda Jackson, Murray Head

1970 FILMS

Boys in the Band - Kenneth Nelson, Leonard Frey, Cliff Gorman, Laurence Luckinbill, Frederick Combs, Keith Prentice, Robert La Tourneaux, Reuben Greene, Peter White

Myra Breckinridge - Raquel Welch, Rex Reed, John Huston, Mae West, Farrah Fawcett, Roger Herren, George Furth, Calvin Lockhart, Jim Backus, John Carradine, Andy Devine Tom Selleck, Toni Basil

Tell Me That You Love Me Junie Moon - Liza Minnelli, Ken Howard, Robert Moore, James Coco, Kay Thompson

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1969 FILMS

Midnight Cowboy - Jon Voight, Dustin Hoffman

Staircase - Rex Harrison, Richard Burton, Gordon Heath

Women in Love - Alan Bates, Oliver Reed, Glenda Jackson

The Gay Deceivers - Michael Greer

1968 FILMS

Lonesome Cowboys - Directed by Andy Warhol

Rachel Rachel - Joanne Woodward, James Olson, Kate Harrington, Estelle Parsons

Killing of Sister George - Beryl Reid, Susannah York, Coral Browne, Ronald Fraser

The Detective - Frank Sinatra, Lee Remick, Jacqueline Bisset, Ralph Meeker, Jack Klugman

Daughters of Lesbos - Directed by Peter Woodcock

1967 FILMS

Portrait of Jason - Jason Holliday, Shirley Clarke, Carl Lee

The Fox - Sandy Dennis, Anne Heywood

Fearless Vampire Killers - Jack MacGowran, Roman Polanski, Sharon Tate, Directed by Roman Polanski

Reflections in a Golden Eye - Marlon Brando, Elizabeth Taylor, Brian Keith, Julie Harris

1964 FILMS

Scorpio Rising

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