I reckon I’ve seen enough gay cinema to be making this list and while it’s probably hard to narrow it down to just ten, here’s a run down of of my all time favourite LGBTQ+ films. 10) The Way He Looks The Way He Looks is a Brazilian coming of age movie about blind teen …
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Ideal Home or Ideal Movie?
This is a film that I hadn’t heard of before, but whilst browsing the Netflix ‘Gay Movies’ genre with my mum (the biggest LGBT+ ally I know) on a visit home we came across the 2018 film ‘Ideal Home’. We quickly decided to watch it because, well, it stars Paul Rudd as a cowboy hat …
It’s the gay SUBTEXT!
I’m possibly going against my own blog by making this post but some movies that have characters that claim to be straight just have too much homoerotic subtext for them to not be written about, but hopefully not to be confused with queerbaiting. So, in no particular order here’s some of my favourite gay ‘couples’ …
Pride, but it’s a movie.
Matthew Warchus’s 2014 film Pride is one of the best all round LGBTQ+ movies I’ve ever seen. The film centres around the true story of a group of young lesbian and gay activists who raise money for Welsh miners during the miners strikes in 1984-85. It’s heartwarming and uplifting and extremely well acted to round …
San Junipero, the Black Mirror episode we deserve.
Black Mirror’s San Junipero isn’t technically a movie, but I think it’s Emmy more than qualifies itself for it’s own dedicated blog post. If you’re not familiar with Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror then the simplest way to explain the complex series that it is, is to say that each episode is full of twists and …
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The Miseducation of Gays in Hollywood
The first time I remember knowing an actor was gay was Neil Patrick Harris. My family would sit and watch How I Met Your Mother together, when I was certainly too young to be watching it. One night my older brother announces to me that the guy who plays Barney is gay. ‘That’s cool’, I …
Mario: teammates to lovers
Marcel Gisler’s 2018 Swiss film Mario probably changed my life. I’m aware that seems dramatic but after watching it I spent weeks telling everybody I spoke to about how amazing it was, despite the headache I had from crying over it. The movie centres on two young, up and coming footballers falling in love and …
Call Me By Your Favourite Film
Okay so, Call Me by Your Name being the first film to feature on this blog is probably a cliche. The peach film; the one with Timothee Chalamet; the one with the twins from the Social Network; whatever you call it, there’s no doubting that it’s one of the best pieces of LGBTQ+ cinema to …
Queer as Film 