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Pride Month Viewing: 20 Buzzy LGBTQ Movies Of 2025
With another Pride Month underway, LGBTQ rights and representation in media have never been more important.
Following the Trump administration’s attacks on DEI and recent attempt 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 describe. The study tracks scripted films released in 2024 from ten top film distributors.
Although those numbers are bleak, LGBTQ stories proceed 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 new and upcoming LGBTQ releases of 2025.
‘The Parenting’
The Parenting follows young couple Rohan (Nik Dodani) and Josh (Brandon Flynn) as they
161 Best LGBTQ+ Movies of All Time
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Our list of the 200 Best LGBTQ+ Movies of All Time stretches back 90 years to the pioneering German film, Mädchen in Uniform, which was subsequently banned by the Nazis, and crosses multiple continents, cultures, and genres. There are broad American comedies (The Birdcage), artful Korean crime dramas (The Handmaiden), groundbreaking indies (Tangerine), and landmark documentaries (Paris Is Burning). Over the last few years, we added titles like the documentary Welcome to Chechnya, about LGBTQ+ activists risking thei
Proper representation on screen, especially as we grow up, is foundational to our understanding of ourselves. LGBTQ+ representation in films has expanded and evolved, particularly in the late 20th and preliminary 21st century, away from stereotypes and tropes and into more fully fleshed-out characters. The history of queer cinema is prolonged and often fraught, with first high points including The Rocky Horror Picture Show and John Waters's filmography, and many unfortunate low points. But daring artists have explored identity and representation in fascinating and beautiful ways, both in fiction and nonfiction spaces.
From heartwarming rom-coms to tragic dramas to compelling coming-of-age stories, these are some of the best LGBTQ+ movies—some of which have gone down in history as the best films of all time. There's a lot to love, and a lot to choose from, but here are some picks to open with if you're a fan of queer cinema.
'All of Us Strangers' (2023)
(Image credit: Searchlight Pictures)
Andrew Haigh’s fantasy drama will construct you feel a range of emotions you’ve ne
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Coming of Age Movies
- Being 17 (UR)
- Get Real (R)
- Glue (UR)
- Prom Queen (UR)
- Shelter (R)
Coming of Age Movies
- Cobalt is the Warmest Color
ISBN: 9781604658262
Adele is a high school student who, much to her own surprise, plunges into a thrilling relationship with a female twenty-something art student. This intimate epic sensitively renders the erotic abandon of youth.
Rating: NC-17 - But I'm A Cheerleader!
ISBN: 1588178005
Megan's super normal suburban existence is filled with friends, pom-poms and rah-rah enthusiasm until her parents suspect that she may be showing deviant tendencies.
Rating: R - Call Me by your Name