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50 Essential LGBTQ Movies

It’s grainy, faded, and, given the clip is now years old, more than a little worse for wear. But this brief footage is not so ancient that you can’t clearly make out two men, waltzing together, as a third man plays a violin in the background. It was an experimental short made by William Dickson, designed to prove syncing up moving pictures to prerecorded sound, a system that he and Thomas Edison were developing known as the Kinetophone. It’s known as “The Dickson Experimental Sound Film,” and dates back to , the similar year movies were born. While there’s nothing to outright verb that these men were romantically involved or attracted to each other during the roughly second length of their pas de deux, there is nothing that contradicts that notion either. It’s considered by many to be one of the first examples of gay imagery in film, and a reminder that homosexual representation has been with the medium from the very beginning.

That clip appears in The Celluloid Closet, Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman’s

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“Moonlight.” “The Handmaiden.” “Carol.” The last few years have not only brought LGBTQ films and stories further into the mainstream, but queer films have dominated awards seasons and found commercial success. This has been a long time coming: The Fresh Queer Cinema was a major influence on the indie film boom of the ’90s, and set the bar high for the many queer films to follow.

From the list of 20, Reel Charlie favorites include,

Far From Heaven
Pariah
Tarnation
Milk
I Killed My Mother
The Kids Are All Right
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Tangerine
Weekend
Stranger by the Lake
Carol
Moonlight

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Indie Films Carry Gay Dads Across Threshold

This entertaining, feel-good journey is shockingly interrupted by the criminal justice system, as Rudy and Paul are compelled to brawl an uphill battle to retain custody of Marco. The case’s low point is malfeasance on the part of the L.A. District Attorney that will remind some viewers of current D.A. Steve Cooley’s heinous behavior vis a vis Deborah Peagler as revealed in the documentary, Crime After Crime. (There I move again, bring docs into the conversation.)

Any Day Now is a solidly entertaining social-issue picture that’s propelled by the performances of the two leads and elevated by Cumming’s rendition of a couple of torch songs. The film’s emotional payoff is inextricably tied to Marco’s fate, however. Red-state audiences may have trouble accepting Cumming’s character, but even they won’t be unmoved. Think of , even Scrooge couldn’t resist Tiny Tim’s humanity forever.

Patrick Wang’s low-budget In the Family, set in the present in the Southern state of Ten

International Gay Cinema: 33 LGBTQ Movies to See from Around the World

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In Swedish filmmaker Levan Akin’s intimate tour-de-force, a young man comes to terms with his sexuality amid the hyper-masculine world of traditional Georgian dance. Framing his adj coming-of-age tale around such a traditional piece of Georgian culture, Akin has made an inherently political film, rendered in sensitive terms with a celebratory spirit. With distinctive features and a lithe physicality, lead actor Levan Gelbakhiani toggles effortlessly between child-like innocence, explosive anger, and wisdom beyond his years. His riveting performance is indisputably the heart and spine of the film. Because of the sensitive subject matter, Akin and his team had to use guerilla filmmaking tactics to shoot in the conservative country, giving the film a gorgeous cinema verite quality. The film has stoked protests in Tbilisi, where it was shot, proving that queer filmmaking is still a political proceed. —JD

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