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Beautiful Thing is the kindest film on this list. That is not a small thing. Queer cinema has often felt compelled to earn its right to exist throug...
Brokeback Mountain won three Academy Awards, including Best Director for Ang Lee, and was widely expected to win Best Picture before the Academy vot...
Midnight Cowboy won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1970. It was rated X at the time of its release — the only X-rated film ever to win the Os...
There is a reveal in The Crying Game that, in 1992, the entire cultural apparatus of film promotion worked to protect. Critics agreed not to mention...
Weekend takes place over forty-eight hours in Nottingham. Two men meet at a bar on Friday night, go home together, and spend the weekend in the spec...
There is a cinema of the body. Not pornography — something more considered than that, and more honest. A cinema that understands desire as a subject w...
In the late 1980s, in Harlem and the South Bronx, Black and Latino gay and trans people built a culture of extraordinary invention and beauty in the m...
My Beautiful Laundrette was made for television. Channel 4 commissioned it, Hanif Kureishi wrote it in six weeks, Stephen Frears shot it in six week...
There is a lineage. It doesn't announce itself, but it's there — running from a Harlem studio in the 1970s through a California beach, a Berlin apartm...
River Phoenix died two years after My Own Private Idaho was released. He was twenty-three. The film has been lit differently ever since — biographic...
