Stewart’s character would like to propose to her girlfriend over the festivities.Įxcept, record scratch, Davis isn’t out to her conservative parents who think that she and Stewart are just a couple of gals being pals. Happiest Season follows Stewart and Mackenzie Davis ( Terminator: Dark Fate ) as a happy couple who go spend the holidays with Davis’ character’s family. Listen it’s not a list of gay films unless we’re talking about something involving Kristen Stewart. Lee responded by saying, “After seeing queer history be routinely ‘straightened’ throughout culture, and given a historical figure where there is no evidence whatsoever of a heterosexual relationship, is it not permissible to view that person within another context? As a working class, queer filmmaker, I continually explore the themes of class, gender, sexuality within my work, treating my truthful characters with utter respect and I hope giving them authentic respectful lives and relationships they deserve.”Ĭurrently, there is no set release date for Ammonite, but it will be out sometime in 2020. Now the director is back with Ammonite, which is a period film that follows the affair of famed British paleontologist Mary Anning (Kate Winslet) and wealthy socialite (and wife of the man who funded her latest expedition), Charlotte (Saorise Ronan).Īnning’s living relatives have since criticized the film, saying that her sexuality has never been confirmed. We’ve praised Francis Lee’s gorgeously shot God’s Own Country as one of the best LGBT+ films of the 2010s. The Thing About Harry will air on Saturday, Feb. Stuck together as they head back to Missouri, the duo find themselves on one interesting road trip.Īlso in the film is Karamo Brown ( Queer Eye ), Peter Paige ( Queer as Folk ), and Britt Baron ( GLOW ). Not helping things was Harry (Niko Terho), who went to high school with Sam and came out later. In high school, Sam came out as gay, which took a lot of courage in small town Missouri. The Thing About Harry follows Sam (Jake Borelli) as a neurotic and intelligent young gay man who “combines a scathing wit with an overly idealistic worldview”.
That’s pretty much what The Thing About Harry will give you. Oh, do you want some good romance road trip vibes mixed with high school enemies slowly falling for each other? Yeah.
15)ĭo you enjoy the slight formulaic Hallmark-style movies but are tired of the forced hetero-romance? Freeform has your back with its Valentine’s Day made for TV movie, The Thing About Harry. From a Hallmark-ish style romcom courtesy of Freeform to an adaptation of a Broadway musical, here are the best gay films to look forward to in 2020. With the start of the decade, it’s time to find out which LGBT+ films will be worth checking out for the year. Now with 20gayteen and 20biteen over with, the gay 20s have taken on a very different meaning in the 2020s.
Borrow a streaming service password from family– however you define it!–and dive in.The gay twenties have rolled in, everyone! I mean back in the 1920s, it was gay because happy. There’s a lot of history to explore, and there’s never been a better time to do it. While gay characters tended until much too recently to be one-dimensional, white, and doomed, in 2018 Barry Jenkins won a Best Picture Oscar telling the layered and hopeful story of a gay Black man in Moonlight.
1982’s tentative Making Love derailed the careers of its two lead actors 2017’s Call Me By Your Name cemented its pair as movie stars. The range runs from the shoestring brilliance of The Watermelon Woman to the big-budget glitter-bomb that is Rocketman. We’ve come a ways in fifty years, from the self-loathing middle-aged men of The Boys In The Band to the peppy teens of Love, Simon. The conditions are optimal for you to catch up on your queer cinema. The few bars that have reopened are for the reckless and foolish, and let's be honest: there’s only so much dancing a person can do on Zoom. We’re stuck inside unless we’re marching for police reform. This year, the public events of LGBTQ Pride Month-much like sports, school, and life itself-are cancelled. And if you can bear the crowds, you leave a Pride festival with a draft-beer buzz, an application for a rainbow-flag credit card, and a paper fan with Chelsea Handler’s face on it. Your bank, cable company and sandwich shop rush to remind you of their support for the LGBTQ+ community. The gay neighborhood thumps with house music. Under normal circumstances, June busts out all over with Pride Month parties and parades. The good news: this year you have time for some movies.