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“What happens when someone dies, but they have no one there waiting for them yet?”
you are never truly alone
alternate title: young children gawk at flaming homosexuals
Another alternate title: the bailey school kids need to mind their own damn business
the covers with women are equally gay
so basically having these obnoxious kids pry into your personal life is mlm/wlw solidarity
I love that this meme is from that movie.
josh?
where’s the body of christ?
drew some clown emojis >:)
ford gifs for no reason
Spacecore // Aliencore // Starcore // Mooncore
•bomber jackets
•combat boots
•black nails
•dark ripped jeans
•alien tattoos
•bobbed hair w/ bangs
•heavy winged eyeliner
•fishnet stockings
•tight black skirts
•NASA shirts
•astronomy nerds
•choker necklaces
•alien/space posters
•neon signs
•synthwave music
•late nights stargazing
•sitting on the roof at 3am
•road trips to Area 51
•slight caffeine addiction
•abandoned buildings
The Doodle Boy
Alex Strangelove on Netflix is so good. Heartwarming, comforting, quirky, funny and just a well-made movie. It’s got the love I saw in Love, Simon and I hope that this future of LGBT teen movies made with love and respect is just the beginning. Highly recommended. Alex is so lovable, Claire is the best and Elliot, the sweetest. I wish we had a tv show like this. It’s streaming on Netflix right now, please support it and show them we want more happy, relatable LGBT characters who thrive!! Also, the supporting cast is also great. BTW, I’m not comparing the two movies, it’s just we have so little and they are the only good ones for teens in the recent year so please watch them. Both are special, both are valid, all need support.
lists for lesbian media with no homophobia or death or sadness? just happy films
Ooh fun! But also difficult. I’m going to focus on lesbian/bi films that have super happy feelings for the majority of the movie + happy endings! Fair warning that there may still be passing homophobic remarks/behavior in them.
Link to Queer Film Google Sheet
Happy Lesbian (Mostly Comedy) Movies:
Blockers - This is genuinely such a good movie! It had me rolling on the floor laughing, the lesbian character and coming out/romance subplot was a gift and it was surprisingly, refreshingly feminist for a sex comedy about parents trying to stop their teenage daughters from having sex on prom night! It portrays women’s experiences with sexuality & sex really well and one of my favorite lines from a film in 2018 was from the gay character’s father worrying that the girl’s peers were pressuring her into “losing her virginity to someone of the wrong sex” (in reference to her trying to have sex with a boy.)
But I’m a Cheerleader - Don’t let this movie’s premise scare you out of watching it! In today’s post “The Miseducation of Cameron Post” and “Boy Erased” world with two films that gave us a shocking, scary, and far more truthful look into what conversion camps are actually like, this satirical dark comedy might offend some so proceed with caution. It has a very happy ending (with rainbow clad gays whisking away queer teenagers to a better life) and is pretty damn groundbreaking considering it came out in 2000. The colors, music, and aesthetic are all on point and it was one of the first gay films i ever watched!!
D.E.B.S - I imagine this was created because somebody wrote a fanfic about lesbian teenage spies and mastermind villians and then somebody else decided to make it into a movie. Don’t take it too seriously, don’t expect an oscar worthy experience, and you might really like it! It’s happy, cute, weird, and really easy to watch!
Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga - This movie made me cry so hard, but I’m including it because of it’s truly amazing, Disney-esque happy ending and the general good vibe feelings I got when I wasnt sobbing. There are some graphic depictions of homophobia and the queer experience in it, but I highly suggest watching anyways! There’s no other film quite like it. Its the first Bollywood film to star a mainstream actress (Sonam Kapoor) and its important to show support for things like this so that people know theres a market out there for them and make more.
Hearts Beat Loud - I havent seen this yet, but its on the to-be-watched list! From what I’ve read it doesnt have a coming out or anything, its just about a dad, his lesbian daughter, and music!
Lez Bomb - This has been best described as a “lesbian hallmark movie.” The family comedy is set over the American holiday Thanksgiving and is light, sweet, and cute. Laugh along as a closeted woman tries and fails repeatedly to come out to her family and deals with rumours that her and her male roomate are dating.
LGBTQ+ Movies
Alright. People are happy about Love, Simon. I am, too. It is now my favorite movie. However, I’ve been seeing people complain that there aren’t any other LGBTQ+ movies.
ACTUALLY LET’S GO
L - I Can’t Think Straight, Bound, Carol, Blue is the Warmest Color, But I’m a Cheerleader, The Kids are All Right, Pariah, Desert Hearts, Heavenly Creatures, Show Me Love, etc.
G - Love, Simon, Moonlight, Brokeback Mountain, Call Me By Your Name, Milk, Weekend, The Kids are All Right, Pride, Happy Together, Parting Glances, etc.
B - Cabaret, Chasing Amy, French Twist, Kinsey, Velvet Goldmine, Bi the Way, Gia, Score, Theorem, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Appropriate Behavior, Brokeback Mountain, My Own Private Idaho, Frida, Les Biches, De-Lovely, The Pillow Book, A Home at the End of the World, Y Tu Mamá También (And Your Mother Also, in Spanish), Rent, Wild Things, High Art, Showgirls, Imagine Me & You, The Dying Gaul, Kissing Jessica Stein, Liquid Sky, Love Songs, etc.
T (FTM) - 3 Generations (On Netflix, personal favorite), Boy I Am, 52 Tuesdays, Romeos, Boys Don’t Cry, Becoming Chaz, Southern Comfort
T (MTF) - Transamerica, Boy Meets Girl, Romeos, Normal, Let Me Die a Woman, Beautiful Boxer, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Different for Girls, Ticked-Off Trannies with Knives, Gun Hill Road, The Christine Jorgensen Story, and Prodigal Sons
lesbian friendly films
90s films
Aimee & Jaguar - ‘99
All over me - ‘97
Better than chocolate - ‘99
Bound - ‘96
But i’m a cheerleader - ‘99
Edge of seventeen - ‘98
Everything relative- ‘96
Fire - ‘96
Fried green tomatoes - ‘91
Go fish - ‘94
Heavenly creatures - ‘94
High art - ‘98
It’s in the water - ‘97
Revoir Julie - ‘98
Show me love - ‘98
The cheery orchard - ‘90
The watermelon woman - ‘96
Asian leads/main characters
A piece of our life - Japanese film, Drama
All mixed up/Manji - Japanese film from 1964 and remade in 1983, 1998, and 2006. Drama/Comedy
Blue - Japanese film, Drama/LGBT
Candy rain - Taiwanese film, Comedy-Drama
Circumstance - Drama
Drifting flowers - Taiwanese film, Drama/Romance
Fatal frame - Japanese film, Horror
Fire - Indian film, Drama
Ghosted - Taiwanese film, Thriller/Drama
I can’t think straight - Drama/indie
In my end is my beginning - Korean film, Romance
Life is peachy/Ashamed - Korean film, Drama
Love/juice - Japanese film, Drama/romance
Saving face - Indie/Drama
Sayew - Thai film
Spider lilies - Taiwanese film, Romance/Drama
The cherry orchard/sakura no sono - Japanese film,
The handmaiden - Korean film, Drama/Mystery
Three veils - Drama/Romance
Topless - Japanese film
Two weddings and a funeral - Korean film, Romance
Whispering corridors 2: memento mori - Korean film,Horror
Yes or no - Thai film
Black leads/main characters
Bessie
Black.womyn
In my fathers house
Like a prayer
Looking for LaBelle
Pariah
Rafiki
Set it off
Storme: the lady of the jewel box
Stud life
The skinny
The watermelon woman
The women of Brewster place
Comedy/Romcom
Blockers
But I’m a cheerleader
Codependent lesbian space alien seeks same
D.E.B.S
Drool
Edge of seventeen
Fried green tomatoes
It’s in the water
Itty bitty titty committee
Imagine me and you
Life partners
Nanette
The four faced liar
The perfect family
Who’s afraid of vagina wolf?
Coming of age
But i’m a cheerleader
Blue (2002)
Lost and delirious
Pariah
Show me love/Fucking Amal
The miseducation of Cameron Post
Period Pieces
Atomic blonde
Carol
Farewell, my Queen
Fingersmith - BBC miniseries
Heavenly creatures
Reaching for the moon
San Junipero - black mirror episode
The girl king
The handmaiden
The hours
The secret diaries of miss Anne Lister
Tipping the velvet - BBC miniseries
Drama/Romance
Appropriate behavior
Blue is the warmest color
Carol
Circumstance
Desert hearts
Disobedience
High art
I can’t think straight
Imagine me and you
It’s in the water
Jack and Diane
Jenny’s wedding
Princess Cyd
Rafiki
San Junipero - black mirror episode
Saving face
Show me love/Fucking Amal
The handmaiden
The watermelon woman
Three Veils
Horror
All cheerleaders die
Contracted
Fatal frame
Heavenly creatures
Jack and Diane
Jennifer’s body
Whispering corridors 2: Memento Mori
Supernatural
All cheerleaders die
Jennifer’s body
Thelma
The Carmilla Movie
Thriller/Mystery
Atomic blonde
Black swan
Bound
Ghosted
Set it off
The handmaiden
Thelma
Teen flicks
All cheerleader die
Blockers
But I’m a cheerleader
D.E.B.S
Edge of seventeen
Jennifer’s body
The Carmilla movie
and i’ll fucking do it again
Media With LGBT Main Characters
This is an in-progress list, so more titles and categories will be added, but feel free to reblog and/ or add something!
Movies
4th Man Out- A gay man goes through the process of coming out to his aggressively straight buddies. Comedy with a happy ending.
Adam & Steve- Ridiculous series of events during a relationship between two men. Bad comedy with a happy ending.
Beautiful Thing- A teenager dealing with his preoccupied mother falls in love with a classmate. Happy Ending.
Blue is the Warmest Colour- Coming-of-age romantic drama between two teenage girls. Unhappy ending.
Brokeback Mountain-A complex emotional and romantic relationship between two men in the American West develops between 1963 and1983. Unhappy ending.
Carol- A forbidden affair between a young photographer and an older woman going through divorce during the 1950s. Happy Ending.
Capital Games- Two men fighting for the same position in a company struggle with their feelings for each other when forced to do a team-building exercise as part of a business retreat. Happy ending.
Dog Day Afternoon- Hostage drama based on the true story of a man who held up a bank to fund his partner’s bottom surgery. Unhappy ending.
Milk- Documentary about the life and death of pioneering gay politician Harvey Milk. Unhappy ending.
My Beautiful Laundrette- A young man living in london reunites with an old friend, eventually developing a romantic relationship with him after offering him a job running a laundrette to get him off the streets. Happy ending.
My Own Private Idaho- Two friends embark on a journey of personal discovery that takes them to both Idaho and Italy. Unhappy ending.
Pariah- A Black butch lesbian slowly comes to terms with her identity. Ambiguous ending.
Pride- The story of an unlikely alliance between striking miners in a Welsh village and London gay rights activists. Happy ending.
Shelter- Gay surfers fall in love. Happy ending.
Show Me Love- Two teenage girls begin a tentative romantic relationship. Ambiguous ending.
Tangerine-A transgender sex worker discovers her boyfriend and pimp has been cheating on her. Ambiguous ending.
Tomboy- A ten-year-old experiments with their gender. Ambiguous ending.
The Weekend-A romantic drama of a brief, touching encounter between two men. Bittersweet ending.
Tropical Malady- A soldier arriving to investigate the mysterious slaying of animals and a farm boy strike up a connection. Ambiguous ending.
Books
Camp Rewind- Two women strike up a romance at a summer retreat.
Never Lose Your Flames- A fire elemental and the bounty hunter being paid to arrest him fall in love.
Bad Boy- A transgender youtube star by day and vigilante by night, a job goes south and someone is out to ruin Ren’s life, leaving him struggling to clear his name.
Of Fire and Stars- A magic user and future queen falls in love with a princess, and her husband-to-be’s sister.
If I Was Your Girl- Trans romance written by a trans author
The Fifth Season- In the distant future, nature ravages the land, with a select few being able to control it. Main characters include a bi man, a gay man, and a trans woman.
Six of Crows (two book series)- A gang of thieves take on their most ambitious job yet- stealing a magic-enhancing drug. Features a lighthearted love story between a sharpshooter and the demolitions expert.
Into this River I Drown- A man searching for the truth behind his father’s death falls in love with his town’s guardian angel.
Not Your Sidekick- After failing to manifest powers, the local superhero duo’s daughter takes on an internship with their super-villain rival, and falls in love with her. Also has a trans boy.
Chameleon Moon- A group of people struggle to survive in a city of magic and turmoil. Has a married lesbian couple, several gay characters, and a nonbinary character.
Last Seen Leaving- After his sort-of-girlfriend vanishes, a closeted kid is forced to team up with another friend of hers, and develops feelings for him along the way
The Lightning-struck Heart- A wizard and a knight are sent to save the knight’s boyfriend, and fall hopelessly in love along the way. There’s also a gay dragon.
The Girl With the Crooked Fangs- A half-vampire develops a crush on her daring human friend.
Ice Massacre & Ice Crypt (two book series)- A mermaid hunter develops feelings for an old friend of hers, who happens to be one of the mermaids she’s sent to kill.
The Coldest Girl In Coldtown- Vampire story with a twist, and both a bisexual and transgender main character.
The Foxhole Court (3 book series)- Neil, a gifted Exy player with a rocky past, joins a competitive team. Several gay and bi characters, including the protagonist.
The Raven Cycle (3 book series)- A group of boys and a girl who serves as a psychic amplifier try to find and awaken a Welsh king. Stars a romance between a boy who can take things out of his dreams and a magician.
Shallow Graves- A girl awakens several feet underground, at the same moment when all birds in the nearby vicinity drop dead. She struggles to piece together the identity of the killer while finding out what she is. Bisexual protagonist.
TV Series
In The Flesh- Kieran, a Partially Deceased Syndrome (PDS) sufferer, is brought back to live and returned home. He’s gay, as are various other characters.
Carmilla- Lesbian vampires! Plus a nonbinary character played by a nonbinary actor
Skam- The story of teenagers in a secondary school, with each season being told from a different characters point of view. Several gay main characters.
Shadowhunters- Hard to explain, but has both a gay and a bi character.
The Get Down- The lives of a group of nyc teens in the 1970′s, with two of the characters in the latest episode stopping just short of kissing
Torchwood- About an agency created to control alien beings. Lots of bi and gay characters.
The Magicians- A group of students at a college train to use magic and defend themselves against an enemy from another dimension. The protagonist of the series is a bisexual man, and there’s also another gay main character.
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.
