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some actually good gay films to close out pride month

Some of my personal favorite queer movies! Image limit is 10 per post, but there’s some others I’ve really liked so I might make a pt. 2!

Alex Strangelove - (Available on Netflix as of 4/19.) Dir. by Craig Johnson, 2018. Teen Comedy following closeted queer high school senior, Alex Truelove. Alex is a straight A student with a perfectly nice longterm girlfriend but his world is flipped upside down when he meets the handsome, charming and out gay kid from the other side of town. This is one of the lighter films on this list, for when you need some feel-good vibes and a nice laugh.

Boy Erased - Dir. by Joel Edgerton, 2018. In this Drama Coming-of-age film based off the memoir by Garrard Conley, the son of a small town Baptist pastor is outed to his family and sent away to a conversion therapy program. While there, he struggles with understanding the twisted and often backwards logic of those leading them. Troye Sivan played a very interesting character in this! This is definitely one of the tearjerkers on this list and contains some pretty dark material (including rape, physical and emotional abuse, religiously motivated abuse, and suicide) but I still highly recc it if you’re in the right emotional place to handle that.

But I’m a Cheerleader - Dir. by Jamie Babbit and released in 2000, this teen Comedy is a satirical and light hearted take on a serious subject, conversion camps. It also features two beloved actors now known for their repeated playing of queer characters, Natasha Lyonne and Clea Duvall, as love interests. Highschooler Megan considers herself to be the typical prototype of an American teenage girl. She has a football playing boyfriend (who she doesn’t particularly enjoy kissing) and a group of fellow cheerleader friends (who she might look at a bit too often.) She’s shocked when one day the people in her life sit her down, accuse her of being a lesbian, and ship her off to “True Directions.”

Carol - (Available on Netflix as of 4/19.) Dir. by Todd Haynes and released in 2015, this period drama is based off the 1952 novel “The Price of Salt” or “Carol” by Patricia Highsmith. Therese Belivet meets Carol Aird in December 1952 while she’s looking for a doll for her daughter. Carol is going through a divorce, Therese is relunctant to get serious with her boyfriend. The two women become fast friends and their relationship quickly develops into something more. People have some pretty divided opinions on this one, but I enjoyed it. The cinematography was beautiful and its a nice film for when you want to sit back and immerse yourself in something. Parts of it made me cry, but for the most part it was just a relaxing experience that didn’t take much emotional energy or brain power. This movie is also the reason you see queer women thirsting after Cate Blanchett all the time. 

Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Laga - (Available on Netflix as of 4/19.) This Hindi-language Coming of age comedy drama is directed by Shelly Chopra Dhar and stars both Sonam and Anil Kapoor. It tells the story of Sweety Chaudhary, a young closeted lesbian Punjabi woman, from childhood to present adulthood as she struggles to reconcile her sexuality with her family’s expectations and her culture. This! film! was! amazing! It’s what inspired me to make this list and I can’t reccomend it enough. I cried SO HARD. I laughed SO MUCH. It was such an enjoyable, cathartic, touching experience and its so important to support. It’s subtitled on Netflix in 5 language options (English, Spanish, French, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese).

Love, Simon - Dir. by Greg Berlanti and released in 2018. This comedy-drama follows closeted gay 17 year old Simon Spier as he begins interacting on the internet with and falling for an anonymous gay kid who goes to his school. This is probably one of the most popular queer films out there but I did watch and enjoy it and thought I would rec it anyways. It was genuinely so good! It’s another one of the lighter films on this list, and at times it had me simultaneously laughing and crying. Keiynan Lonsdale was cast as the love interest, is queer irl, and he makes some amazing music including his very gay single “Kiss the Boy.”

Moonlight - (Available on Amazon Prime Video as of 4/19.) Dir. by Barry Jenkins and released in 2016, this drama takes a look into three distinct chapters or stages in the life of Chiron, a young, queer black man growing up in Miami. It follows his journey to manhood as he’s guided by his family, friends, and community. Janelle Monae made her film debut in this!! i’m assuming most of you already know who she is, but if not: Janelle is pansexual and has been making some amazing, super immersive concept albums over the past decade. “Moonlight” is both the first LGBT-related film and the first film with an all-black cast to ever win an Oscar!! 

Rafiki - Dir. by Wanuri Kahiu, premiered in 2018 at film festivals. Okay so I’m just gonna go ahead and admit I haven’t seen this personally yet because it hasn’t had it’s US wide release yet (but it’s slated for sometime in 2019!!!) and I can’t afford film festivals, but i already know from the trailer that it’s gonna be amazing and I’m gonna love it. “Rafiki” tells the story of Kena and Ziki, two young queer Kenyan girls, as they’re forced to choose between their personal truth and the desires of everyone around them. This was the first ever Kenyan film to be screened at Cannes Film Festival and was actually banned in Kenya. 

The Handmaiden - (Available on Amazon Prime Video as of 4/19.) Loosely based off the novel “Fingersmith” by Sarah Waters this film was directed by Park Chan-wook and released in 2016. It’s primarily in Korean with some Japanese, and English subtitles are available. Ive seen it described as a “lesbian revenge thriller” before and thats pretty accurate. Set in 1930s Korea under Japanese occupation it tells the story of a orphaned pickpocket sent to relieve a wealthy lady of her inheritance.

The Miseducation of Cameron Post - dir. by Desiree Akhavan and based off the novel of the same name by Emily M. Danforth, this coming of age drama is set in the early 90s and follows teenager Cameron Post after she is outed as gay and sent away by her Aunt to “God’s Promise” a Christian gay conversion camp. While there she befriends Jane Fonda, a disabled lesbian raised on a hippie commune and Adam Red Eagle, a lakota two spirit whose father recently converted to Christianity.

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if you tell me that you knew you were bi on the set of Andi Mack and didn't crush on Asher even for a second you're lying

lol no asher and i were always strictly friends. love him to death though ha

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Have you had your first boyfriend yet? I imagine someone with your looks and personality is leaving a trail of brokenhearted boys in your wake.

sadly only one 😎

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Have you ever walked past a boy and thought he is hot

all the time baby!!

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Is it ok, as a straight guy, to admit when another guy is attractive. Not as a jealousy thing or any of that. Just in general, is it ok?

nothing wrong with looking at the menu even if it’s not your type of cuisine my dude

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When did you realise you were *bishreksual*? But for real tho how long have you known?

i went through three real stages:

knowing, since i was about 13

realizing, since i was 16

and accepting, for about two months before i came out publicly

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do you have any advice for overcoming self bi erasure/self bi phobia? :/

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#that glow-up

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So Jonah meeting both sets of Cyrus’ psychiatrist parents and them pointing out everything their son likes about Jonah while Cyrus dies of embarrassment.

Jonah flashes a dimpled smile at Cyrus, clearly enjoying himself and he’s kind of smug about it like, “So what else does Cyrus like about me?” and Cyrus’ parents pull out this long list and Cyrus just facepalms.

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Luke and Josh were at the United Nations in New York today, Sept. 21, for a forum on climate change.

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As requested by anonymous

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I you think about it, our dating pool isn't twice that of the monosexuals (straight men), before you came out your dating pool was straight and bi women, since coming out you've added gay & bi men and all those in-between. the 'gay & bi men and all those in-between' are in a minority so our dating pool only increases by like 10%

bro i’m bad at math

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Josh tells how he came out to his parents.  This is during his Instagram Live with Luke on Aug. 28.

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luke mullen appreciation post