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Pride Month Viewing: 20 Buzzy LGBTQ Movies Of 2025
With another Pride Month underway, LGBTQ rights and voice in media have never been more important.
Following the Trump administration’s attacks on DEI and recent seek to cancel Pride Month, GLAAD is preparing to release its 13th annual Studio Responsibility Index on June 11, showing the lowest percentage of LGBTQ-inclusive films in the past three editions of the report. The study tracks scripted films released in 2024 from ten superior film distributors.
Although those numbers are bleak, LGBTQ stories continue finding a way to the big screen and streamers alike, with titles from Andrew Ahn, Bill Condon and Ethan Coen, navigating topics of same-sex marriage, police profiling, sex work and anti-trans legislation.
From groundbreaking documentaries to kink-driven romance and intergenerational stories of family and community, these are some of the buzziest novel and upcoming LGBTQ releases of 2025.
‘The Parenting’
The Parenting follows young couple Rohan (Nik Dodani) and Josh (Brandon Flynn) as they plan a perfect weekend getaway in the land to introduce their parents. As tensions begin to flar
28 Best LGBTQ+ Movies to Stream Now
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For about as long as there’s been cinema, there’s been queer cinema. I don’t just mean queer subtext, of which there has always been plenty; I mean overtly queer characters as early as Zapatas Bande in 1914, Ich möchte kein Mann sein in 1918, and Anders als die Andern in 1919, all of which were German films made during the country’s Weimar period. There are initial examples of films made in Hollywood, too, before the Hays Code was adopted in 1930, that featured LGBTQ+ characters or played with gender persona, albeit in some harmful ways.
We’ve come a distant way since then; the past 15 years in particular have been a boon for queer cinema, so much so that there are as many bad movies as nice ones. Which means there is space for experimentation and, often, failure for queer and trans cinema where there wasn’t before. And personally, if I’m going to watch a bad movie, I’d select it to be at least a little bit gay. But that’s not why we’ve gathered here. No, we are here to instead highlight some of the greatest movies in the canon of queer cinema tha
The Greatest LGBT Films and TV Shows of 2024
Look over the menagerie of LGBT movies and TV shows released in 2024 carefully enough, and you’ll find as many disguised gems as you will worsening cracks. In others words, there’s good news and bad news — but in the year’s overall impressive lineup, also a glimmer of hope.
On the small screen, the seemingly unending aftermath of the streaming bubble burst from 2022 saw the “Cancel Your Gays” trend push forward as LGBT series ended abruptly, and fewer projects were verdant lit to take their place. Stand-up comedy specials, particularly those at Netflix, continued to platform inconsistent political voices with hugely disparate views about human rights — which created some bizarre situations, for great and for bad.
There include been reported declines in onscreen queer representation across film too, albeit not as stark as those impacting actors on television. Still, looking back at a year that included several remarkable success stories from throughout queer cinema, the silver screened side of the industry certainly seems more hopeful heading into the new year.
In 2024 LGBT movies, “The People’s
Autostraddle’s 2023 Pride theme was Rage Party. That’s also how I would detail the best queer cinema of 2024.
While I care for an easy-to-digest comedy or an unapologetically heavy drama, something is lost when our cinema treats playfulness and importance as diametrically opposed. Queer cinema can be about the challenges we face, the oppression we experience, the microaggressions and aggression aggressions and all the rest, and still be fun and sexy. In fact, joy and sexy are two of our greatest tools.
Even though Hollywood has pulled back from “diversity” this was still an superior year for queer cinema. Below, I’ve written in-depth about my ten favorites, and also felt the need to shout out 20 more queer titles. (Plus 10 non-queer movies I loved too.) But as long as we’re living in complexity, I think it’s important we reflect on which homosexual people are able to create in the absence of more mainstream encourage. The vast majority of directors who released gender non-conforming films this year are white — even more than most years. There’s plenty to complain about in the mainstream as Emilia Pérez will likely be the only homosexual film in the Optimal Picture Oscar race, but I think it’s also important to l
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