The Cinesexuals

This is a list of live action gay characters in television . The orientation can be portrayed on-screen, described in the dialogue or mentioned. Roles include lead, main, recurring, supporting, and guest. The names are organized in alphabetical order by the surname , or by a single name if the character does not have a surname. ‍Some naming customs write the family name first followed by the given name; in these cases, the names in the list appear under the family name .

This is a list of live action made-for-television films that feature lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender characters. The orientation can be portrayed on-screen, described in the dialogue or mentioned. , see lists for asexual, intersex, non-binary, and pansexual characters.)

How many "firsts" can one studio have?

The new animated feature from Netflix treats its protagonist's identity matter-of-factly but with care — which is exactly how it ought to be.

Steven Ryder explores François Ozon’s reverence for the prolific New German Cinema director Rainer Werner Fassbinder by delving into his latest film Peter von Kant

“The point is, we’re gay.”

"New Queer Cinema" is a term first coined by the academic B. Ruby Rich in Sight & Sound magazine in 1992 to define and describe a movement in queer-themed independent filmmaking in the early 1990s. It is also referred to as the "Queer New Wave".

Director Darren Aronofsky spent years searching for someone to play the English teacher with severe obesity at the centre of his film. But the film has been accused of fatphobia.

Tank Fairy, a lighthearted musical comedy, celebrates the island’s LGBTQ+ community – in contrast to China’s cultural crackdown on gay life

Breaking into showbiz ain’t easy. Fortunately, aspiring filmmakers and actors have more opportunity than ever to get a project off the ground thanks to streaming services like YouTube and inexpensive yet high quality film tech. Yet the creative freedom of the digital age has also created an onslaught of content, especially LGBTQ themed content...

Delightfully satisfying (crooked) publications about movies.

Hello to all our queers, peers, queer peers, etc. Queeries is coming right back at you again for the spring 2023 semester. Similarly to last fall, we’ll be discussing anything and everything queer. We’re here, we’re queer and we’re here to spread all the love and joy. Please enjoy our iterations this semester. In the […]

From The Day After Tomorrow to Moonlight, Letterboxd member and sometime-cultural writer Bintang Lestada writes from Indonesia about ten films that helped them see a better world.

A long history of checkered reviews of the film L’Homme blessé betrays a fundamental struggle with tragedy in a queer context.

The late, great, gay filmmaker Patrice Chéreau’s breakout 1983 film, “The Wounded Man” (aka “L’Homme Blessé”), is not soon forgotten by anyone who sees it.

A deep dive with Neptune Frost filmmakers Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman into star systems, upcycled aesthetics and the craft behind their Afrofuturist musical.

12 films saluted gay life on the other side of Hollywood

The Year in Queer Cinema 2022 may be defined by the box office flop of “Bros,” Hollywood’s first studio-backed queer rom-com, as well as the acting highlights

"Queer people didn't just show up at Stonewall—we've been around forever...

“Not quarreling, but a clash of styles,” Lee recalled of Ledger and Gyllenhaal’s respective approaches to their roles.

What Mr. Rogers can teach us about the radical feminism of Andrea Dworkin....

From a Dolly Parton Christmas musical to the internet's most divisive lesbian film "Happiest Season," 2020's holiday streaming bounty has something for you.

The twenty-city “John Waters Christmas Show” tour began November 29 in San Francisco.1PETER VON KANT (François Ozon)By far the best movie of the year. Fassbinder’s classic lesbian melodrama is appropriated and remade as a gay Frenchman’s love letter to the original version. Hilariously stilted, often overwrought, but always highly entertaining, this cock-eyed tribute will make you swoon when Hanna Schygulla finally makes an appearance and Isabelle Adjani soon follows. My God, it’s just plain Douglas Sirk perfect.2 EO (Jerzy Skolimowski)Another tribute film, this time Bresson’s Au Hasard Balthazar

Nuria Ibánez Castañeda’s Una corriente salvaje (A Wild Stream, 2018) opens on Omar, wading waist-deep off a remote beach in...

With the first two episodes of season three of the Emmy & GLAAD Award-winning unscripted series We’re Here now streaming on HBO Max—and new episodes airing on Fridays at 10pm ET/PT on…

The first romantic sequence in Rafiki, by the Kenyan director Wanuri Kahiu, opens with a close-up of a pair of sneaker-clad feet on a skateboard, its wheels thumping along the asphalt. The feet bel…

Lately we've seen a surge in films featuring gay characters whose sexuality feels refreshingly incidental to the plot. Post-gay movies can be love stories, dramas, or comedies, but what they all share is a recognition of gay people as part of the natural fabric of modern life.

As 2018 draws to a close, PinkNews looks at the best of the year in queer cinema.

We sat down with Hari Sama at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival and the interview is being published on the occasion of This Is Not Berlin’s debut at Outfest in Los Angeles.