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The 43 Best LGBTQ Shows and Movies Now on Max, from ‘And Just Like That’ to ‘Six Feet Under’
It’s safe to tell a lot of people had a lot of problems with the switch from HBO Max to Max, but there was at least one upside to the streaming shakeup. Now, it’s easier than ever to find the terrific queer stories floating around Warner Bros. Discovery’s platform.
During its lifespan, HBO Max never had an LGBTQ tag to filter its offerings and help subscribers find stories about the queer collective more easily: a surprising move for a streamer named after the channel that brought us boundary-breaking works enjoy “Six Feet Under” and the miniseries adaptation of “Angels in America.” That’s been remedied on Max, which features an “LGBTQ+ Voices” collection. You undertake have to scroll quite far down the homepage to find it in the collections carousel, but when you do, it makes searching for the queer films and shows on the streamer considerably easier. And that’s a wonderful thing because the streamer has some great ones.
No, Max hasn’t brought back some of the queer works like “Generation” or “Legendary” that were among the casualties of the HBO Max cont
(A time capsule of queer view, from the late 1990s)
The Publishing Triangle complied a selection of the 100 best lesbian and gay novels in the slow 1990s. Its purpose was to broaden the appreciation of female homosexual and gay literature and to promote discussion among all readers homosexual and straight.
The Triangle’s 100 Best
The judges who compiled this list were the writers Dorothy Allison, David Bergman, Christopher Bram, Michael Bronski, Samuel Delany, Lillian Faderman, Anthony Heilbut, M.E. Kerr, Jenifer Levin, John Loughery, Jaime Manrique, Mariana Romo-Carmona, Sarah Schulman, and Barbara Smith.
1. Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
2. Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
3. Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet
4. Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust
5. The Immoralist by Andre Gide
6. Orlando by Virginia Woolf
7. The Skillfully of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
8. Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig
9. The Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
10. Zami by Audré Lorde
11. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
12. Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
13. Billy Budd by Herman Melville
14. A Boy’s Own Story by Edmund White
15. Dancer from the Gyrate by A
161 Best LGBTQ+ Movies of All Time
The latest: With out latest update, we’ve added the most recent Certified Fresh films, including Backspot, Good One, Challengers, Bird, Love Lies Bleeding, Queer, Problemista, Fitting In, Housekeeping for Beginners, I Saw the TV Glow, In the Summers, The People’s Joker, National Anthem, Good Grief, Sebastian, FRIDA, Cuckoo, Fancy Dance, Femme, A Nice Indian Boy, and The Wedding Banquet! Watch them and more on Fandango at Home!
Our list of the 200 Best LGBTQ+ Movies of All Time stretches advocate 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 their lives for the cause in Russia; Certified Fresh comedy Shiva, Baby; and Netflix’s The Senior I'm tired of seeing the same 10 films on every website's LGBTQ+ production roundup (hey, I still love Call Me by Your Name and Moonlight just as much as the next person, so don't come for me!), so, as a queer person myself, I wanted to shine a pale on some underrated movies that simply don't get the attention or credit they deserve. Below are 40 that I genuinely assume you'll love, and if you desire even more ideas, you can verify out my running list on Letterboxd with nearly 250 films. Enjoy!
1.Young Hearts (2024) is a modern coming-of-age story about two 14-year-old boys who decline in love for the first period. This Belgian film is awkward and sweet and painfully real. I can't rave enough about it, and the only downside is that it wasn't released 20 years ago when I was their age and needed it most.
2.National Anthem (2023) is one of my favorite movies from the last few years, so I'm sort of hoping (well, demanding) that you survey it. It's a tender, refreshing watch at queerness and chosen family and what it means to actually associate. Too many people are sleeping on Charlie Plummer, but I need the world to comprehend that he is, was, and always will be a star.
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