I love you Priscilla Queen of the Desert I love you But I’m A Cheerleader I love you Velvet Goldmine I love you To Wong Foo I love you Hedwig and the Angry Inch I love you queer movies from the 90s that are fun and camp and over the top with characters that are messy and loud and make mistakes. We’re getting fun movies back can we bring back these
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Kicking off Pride Month with a list of the best Queer movies I've seen:
Paris is Burning (1990): an absolute MUST WATCH for every single queer person
Fire Island (2022): Bowen Yang, Joel Kim Booster, Margaret Cho and Pride and Prejudice, what's there not to love??
But I'm a Cheerleader (1999): Natasha Lyone and Clean Duvall do gay stuff together, RuPaul plays an ex-gay, need i say more?
Maurice (1987): the dark academia gay period piece of our dreams (plus Hugh Grant???)
Dating Amber (2020): one word - ireland (see also: Handsome Devil)
Nowhere (1997): if you're not saying "huh?" you're not watching it right
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) is the absolute basis for camp
Moonlight (2016) needs no introduction
Été 85 (2020): gays on motorcycles cinematic universe
Fear Street Trilogy (2021) and Bodies, Bodies, Bodies (2022) because lesbians can kill, too
Edge of Seventeen (1998): what is gayer than a bad bleach job?
God's Own Country (2017)
The Watermelon Woman (1996): absolutely underrated classic
The Thing About Harry (2020), Alex Strangelove (2018), Crush (2022), Bros (2022) because we deserve dumb lil rom coms
120 Battements par Minute (2017), Arrête avec Tes Mensonges (2023), Pariah (2011), My Own Private Idaho (1991), for when you just wanna sob uncontrollably
Happy Pride ! 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
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Was sitting in a cinema class the other day (the instructor of which also counts Velvet Goldmine amongst her favorite films) and I was asked what genre of movie I like to watch. I said that I like, for lack of a better term, weird gay movies, like velvet goldmine. She countered that velvet goldmine isn't that weird, ultimately I couldn't really explain what it was that I meant at the time, but I can now so here it is.
For the sake of explanation I'm going to compare it to Love, Simon. Obviously these movies are not comparable in content but Love, Simon is the perfect example of what I'm talking about. This is also not to disparage Love, Simon, it exists to be a cute feel good movie and it does that very well and I enjoy it for that.
That said, Love, Simon is there to make straight people who "are supportive" but think of gay people as wholly separate, a different species of person, who's experiences they could never relate to, feel a connection to gay people. Straight people can see themselves in Simon, see their own first love in his, and understand what he's going through. Velvet Goldmine exists to be queer. To tell a queer story to queer people. And that's not to say straight or cis people can't relate to it, the instructor of this class is a straight cis woman. But straight people relating to Velvet Goldmine happens because queer people are not some kind of separate species, not because it was made for them to relate to.
Love, Simon gives a teenage boy saying 'I'm gay but I don't look gay'. Velvet Goldmine gives a teenage boy putting on makeup and spraying his hair blue. Love, Simon gives a teenage boy nervously texting his crush on his room. Velvet Goldmine gives a teenage boy alone in his room jacking off to pictures of rockstars. Love, Simon gives a heartfelt coming out that's met with love and compassion. Velvet Goldmine gives an embarrassing forced outing and a boy being chased from his home. Love, Simon is teenage meetcute. Velvet Goldmine is sex drugs rock n' roll.
Love, Simon says "we're just like you". Velvet Goldmine says "we're fucking freaks and isn't that fun?"
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nowhere, 1997 (dir. gregg araki)
the raspberry reich, 2004 (dir. bruce labruce)
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