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Proper representation on screen, especially as we grow up, is foundational to our understanding of ourselves. LGBTQ+ representation in films has expanded and evolved, particularly in the belated 20th and premature 21st century, away from stereotypes and tropes and into more fully fleshed-out characters. The history of queer cinema is long and often fraught, with early high points including The Rocky Horror Picture Show and John Waters's filmography, and many unfortunate low points. But daring artists have explored culture and representation in fascinating and charming ways, both in fiction and nonfiction spaces.
From heartwarming rom-coms to tragic dramas to compelling coming-of-age stories, these are some of the best LGBTQ+ movies—some of which include gone down in history as the best films of all time. There's a lot to love, and a lot to opt from, but here are some picks to start with if you're a fan of homosexual cinema.
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Best LGBTQ+ Movies of All Time
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Our list of the Finest LGBTQ+ Movies of All Time stretches back 90 years to the pioneering German film, Mädchen in Uniform, which was subsequently banned by the Nazis, and crosses multiple continents, cultures, and genres. There are broad American comedies (The Birdcage), artful Korean crime dramas (The Handmaiden), groundbreaking indies (Tangerine), and landmark documentaries (Paris Is Burning). Over the last few years, we added titles like the documentary Welcome to Chechnya, about LGBTQ+ activists risking their lives for
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The best LGBTQ+ movies of all time
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With the help of head directors, actors, writers and activists, we count down the most essential Diverse films of all time
Like queer culture itself, homosexual cinema is not a monolith. For a elongated time, though, that’s certainly how it felt. In the past, if queer lives and issues were ever portrayed at all on screen, it was typically from the perspective of white, cisgendered men. But as more opportunities have opened up for queer performers and filmmakers to tell their possess stories, the scope of the LGBTQ+ experiences that have made their way onto the screen has gradually widened to more frequently include the gender non-conforming community and queer people of colour.
It’s still not perfect, of course. In Hollywood, as in world at large, there are many barriers left to breach and ceilings to shatter. But those recent strides deserve to be celebrated – as perform the bold films made long before the mainstream was willing to receive them. To that finish, we enlisted some Queer cultural pioneers, as good as Time O