Lgbtq movies 2020
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From docs to drama to horror, these films stood out
Gregg Shapiro | Contributing Writer
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Let’s be honest: The moviegoing experience has lost its luster in recent years. Stadium seating is a good noun, but the pressure of having to choose seats in advance takes the fun out of the hunt. People still talk during the movie — to each other, to themselves, to the characters on the screen. Texting during movies is at an all-time high, and Apple watches illuminating throughout the theater are a distraction.
Then came the COVID pandemic. Movie theater chains shuttered while the idea of sitting in lock proximity to other audience members caused us to shudder.
Not that they could have predicted a health crisis of this magnitude, but forward-thinking streaming services such as Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, Disney+ and HBO Max benefited in a huge way from the pandemic. The following wrap-up of LGBTQ+ movies are drawn from traditional, independent and streaming sources.
Dynamic docs
Lesbian filmmaker Catherine Gund, who has a history of choosing fasci
The 30 Best LGBTQ Movies on Netflix Right Now
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In celebration of Pride month, we compiled a list of the best Fresh lesbian, gay, trans, and queer films you can survey on Netflix right now. You&#;ll discover Netflix originals (like recent documentaries Circle of Books and A Secret Love) as well as award-winning theatrical releases.
The titles below are sorted from the best LGBTQ films on Netflix and ranked by adjusted Tomatometer score (which takes into account the number of reviewers weighing in, and the number of reviews per film for movies released in a given year). To be included, films had to have a Fresh Tomatometer score (60% or above).
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Critics Consensus:I Am Michael takes a determinedly balanced approach to its complex subject, and although the results don't always add up, they're anchored by tough work from James Franco.
Synopsis: Based on the fascinating, true-life story of Michael Glatze (James Franco), a gay activist who becomes an anti-gay Christian pastor. [More]
- Of the films GLAAD counted from the major studios in , 22 ( percent) contained characters identified as LGBTQ. This is a slight improvement of percent, an amplify of two films from the previous year’s percent (20 of films).
- This year showed a lower in lesbian and bisexual representation. Gay men appear in 68 percent (15) of inclusive films, an increase from last year’s 55 percent. Lesbian representation has decreased significantly, down to 36 percent (8) of inclusive films from 55 percent in Bisexual representation slightly decreased to 14 percent, a one-percentage point drop but an equal number of films (three). There were zero films with transgender characters from the major studios in , a disappointing finding consistent with the last two years.
- GLAAD tallied 50 total LGBTQ characters among all mainstream releases in , an increase from 45 in Men continue to outnumber women characters, by an even greater margin than last year. In , of the LGBTQ characters, there were 34 men and 16 women, compared to the 26 men and 19 women of ’s maj
The Best Queer Films of
Being a year where everyone was trapped indoors glued to their screens meant, for moviegoers, that smaller films were capable to sneak onto the radar, and that especially extended to queer storytelling in
From unlikely romances like Miranda July&#;s &#;Kajillionaire&#; to genre-pushing nonfiction portraits like David France&#;s &#;Welcome to Chechnya&#; and Rachel Mason&#;s &#;Circus of Books,&#; there were plenty of enjoyable and inspiring LGBTQ movies to engage with in an otherwise dour and painful year.
In &#;Monsoon,&#; Henry Golding burst out of the matinee idol image he established in &#;Crazy Rich Asians.&#; Mart Crowley&#;s scandalous s play &#;The Boys in the Band&#; lived again on Netflix. In &#;Lingua Franca,&#; Isabel Sandoval wrote, directed, and starred in a breakout indie about an undocumented trans Filipina worker. In &#;Shirley,&#; Elisabeth Moss once again burned down the screen in her sly and kinky verb as gothic writer Shirley Jackson.
Yet there were also movies as queer in their expression as in their content, like the body-swapping,
- GLAAD tallied 50 total LGBTQ characters among all mainstream releases in , an increase from 45 in Men continue to outnumber women characters, by an even greater margin than last year. In , of the LGBTQ characters, there were 34 men and 16 women, compared to the 26 men and 19 women of ’s maj