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Love, Simon ()

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If it feels a bit like a CW version of an after-school special, that's no mistake: Teen-tv super-producer Greg Berlanti makes his feature-film directorial debut here. It's as chaste a love story as you're likely to see in the 21st century—the hunky gardener who makes the title teen question his sexuality is wearing a long-sleeved shirt, for God’s sake—but you know what? The queer kids of the future need their wholesome entertainment, too.

Rocketman ()

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A gay fantasia on Elton themes. An Elton John biopic was never going to be understated, but this glittering jukebox musical goes way over the top and then keeps going. It might be an overcorrection from the straight-washing of the previous year's Bohemian Rhapsody, but when it's this much fun, it's best not to overthink it.

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Handsome Devil ()

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A charming Irish show that answers the question: "What if John Hughes were Irish and gay?" Misfit Ned struggles at

The 30 Best LGBTQ+ Movies of All Time, Ranked

Cinema lovers should always struggle to celebrate diversity in film. It might've taken long - too distant, in fact - but cinema is becoming more inclusive, celebrating stories about every identity in the wide and colorful sexual spectrum. Going back to the New Hollywood Age, stories about LGBTQ+ people have been around, often standing as groundbreaking and pioneering efforts, especially at a time when such films remained controversial and scarce.

Nowadays, representation is much healthier and standardized, with writers, directors, and producers making real and tangible efforts to increase Queer presence in mainstream cinema. Fortunately, their efforts include paid off. From certified classics about the seemingly never-ending struggles facing the community to lighthearted comedies about the nuances of gay life, these endeavors represent landmark achievements in representation and stand as the best LGBTQ+ films of all time.

30 'Bottoms' ()

Directed by Emma Seligman

Taking an LGBTQ+ approach to the classic style of raunchy, over-

The best LGBTQ+ movies of all time

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With the aide of leading directors, actors, writers and activists, we count down the most essential LGBTQ+ films of all time

Like queer identity itself, queer cinema is not a monolith. For a prolonged time, though, that’s certainly how it felt. In the past, if gay lives and issues were ever portrayed at all on screen, it was typically from the perspective of light, cisgendered men. But as more opportunities have opened up for queer performers and filmmakers to tell their own stories, the scope of the LGBTQ+ experiences that have made their way onto the screen has gradually widened to more frequently contain the trans community and gay people of colour.

It’s still not perfect, of course. In Hollywood, as in society at big, there are many barriers left to breach and ceilings to shatter. But those recent strides deserve to be celebrated – as do the bold films made long before the mainstream was willing to accept them. To that end, we enlisted some LGBTQ+ cultural pioneers, as well as Time O

The 30 Best LGBTQIA+ Films of All Time

In this first major critical survey of LGBTQIA+ films, over film experts including critics, writers and programmers such as Joanna Hogg, Mark Cousins, Peter Strickland, Richard Dyer, Nick James and Laura Mulvey, as well as past and present BFI Flare programmers, have voted the Uppermost 30 LGBTQIA+ Films of All Time. The poll’s results represent 84 years of cinema and 12 countries, from countries including Thailand, Japan, Sweden and Spain, as well as films that showed at BFI Flare such as Orlando (), Beautiful Thing (), Weekend () and Blue Is the Warmest Colour ().

The winner is Todd Haynes’ award-winning Carol, closely followed by Andrew Haigh’s Weekend, and Hong Kong romantic drama Happy Together, directed by Wong Kar-wai, in third place. While Carol is a surprisingly recent film to top the poll, it’s a feature that has moved, delighted and enthralled audiences, and looks arrange to be a modern classic.

“The festival has long supported my work,” said Haynes, “from Poison and Dottie Gets Spanked in the early s through to Carol which is screen