The Cinesexuals

Anyone who has been following the news at film festivals over the past few months knows, by now, that 1992 has become a watershed year for independent gay and lesbian film and video. Early last spring, on the very same day, Paul Verhoeven’s Basic Instinct (1992) and Derek Jarman’s Edward II (1991) opened in New York City. Within days, the prestigious New Directors/New Films Festival had premiered four new ‘queer’ films: Christopher Munch’s The Hours and Times (1991), Tom Kalin’s Swoon (1992), Gregg Araki’s The Living End (1992) and Laurie Lynd’s R.S.V.P. (1991).

As My Best Friend’s Wedding turns 25, Emily Maskell looks at the problematic legacy, influential gear shifts and evolving future of rom-com cinema’s Gay Best Friend.

Elizabeth Purchell explores the real roots of queer cinema, all-male movie pioneers, and the evolution of gay masculinity on screen.

The queer canon should point us toward the future. We made a list of new, vibrant queer stories helping us get there.

"If we know we need a different future, then what are the texts that help us get there?"

Hamlin discusses how "Making Love" impacted his career on the film's 40th anniversary.

As with any marker of identity, the LGBTQ+ experience is one of multitudes, filled with as much joy, heartbreak, fun, and even mundanity as any great story.

Matt Walsh pranks the pants off America's silliest intellectuals, and the sad thing is, it wasn't hard at all

If you want to avoid having to think, and want to have your most cruel, mindless prejudices treated as “common sense,” join the right.

Depictions of queer and trans people have been present in the film medium since its inception more than 100 years ago, but due to censorship and varying degrees of prejudice

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We've rounded up 33 of the best LGBTQ+ comedies, dramas and horror films that you can watch right now on the UK version of Netflix.

FilmDoo looks at Thailand's ten most commercially successful gay films.

These culturally significant films range from subtle and quiet to political and groundbreaking.

John Cameron Mitchell's 2006 queer erotic masterpiece "Shortbus" is nowhere to be found on streamers. Here's why Prime Video censored it.

‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’ explores the grief of my lesbian identity remaining unrecognized by my mother.

Joe Locke and Kit Connor, who play two British teens at an all-boys school who discover their friendship might be something more, say they want to normalize queer joy on-screen.

The Hours and Time subverts viewers’ expectations of what a gay John Lennon movie would be.

The stars of 'Heartstopper' want a season 2, which means they need you to watch season 1.

In August 2018, Edwin Shirley III sat in disbelief as he watched a screening of Peter Farrelly’s new movie Green Book , a simplistic racial harmony story set in the Jim Crow south. Viggo Mortenson stars as Tony “Lip” Vallelonga, a racist Italian American New Yorker. Mahershala Ali is the supporting actor who is tapped to play Dr. Donald Waldridge Shirley, a Black, queer, musical genius—and Edwin’s uncle—who died at 86 in 2013. As is typical of a Hollywood White Savior Film , Green Book places Dr. Shirley in several dangerous circumstances with racist white men so that Vallelonga can swoop in and save the day. In the process, Vallelonga teaches the world-renowned Black pianist about Black music and how to eat fried chicken. Though Dr. Shirley did hire Vallelonga as a driver and bodyguard during one of Dr. Shirley’s concert tours in the south, much of the rest of the movie’s plot (co-written by Vallelonga’s son Nick Vallelonga) is disputed by more family members of Dr. Shirley...

Since the transition into the modern-day gay rights movement, homosexuality has appeared more frequently in American film and cinema.

To celebrate LGBT+ History Month, we look at the inventive ways in which filmmakers have tackled queer history.

Watch the best Gay short films. Featuring films about homosexuality, sexual identity, coming out, same-sex relationships, homophobia, prejudice and more. Discover the best independent short films at Think Shorts.

Director Francis Whately tells Grant about BBC2 documentary series Andy Warhol's America

He escaped death, fled across the Baltic, and eventually found love and a new life. Jonas Poher Rasmussen describes how he turned Amin’s often harrowing story into an uplifting, award-winning animation