Call Me By Your Name won an academy award for Best Adapted Screenplay (it was based on a gay book) and Timothee Chalamet nominated for his performance. So, ranging from a historic biopic about a gay rights activist to a cheesy 2000s rom-com that’ll turn even your worst mood around, here are 25 of the best LGBTQ movies you need to see - or see again. Set in 1973 in the Italian countryside, 17-year-old Elio forms an intense and romantic bond with his father’s research assistant Oliver. Luckily, hope is on the horizon: Although LGBTQ people used to be less visible than Sia’s face in a music video, more LGBTQ-identifying filmmakers, actors, producers, and directors than ever are being given the opportunity to tell their stories.
For marginalized groups, truthful representation in film is imperative, even lifesaving, and in today’s stormy political climate there’s an urgency for straight cisgender people to see LGBTQ characters portrayed accurately and unapologetically - and by people who actually know what LGBTQ life is like because they live it. Whether youre looking for a new teen romance film or prefer to go the superhero route, theres. Still, from Sacha Baron Cohen’s fashion-obsessed Brüno to a Scream Queens character nicknamed Predatory Lez, we unfortunately continue to see it all. Teen movies are starting to take over the box office and 2019 is sure to include some massive hits. LGBTQ people have long been buried under tropes and unsubtle stereotypes in film and television.
