Best gay movie 2024
Autostraddle’s 2023 Pride theme was Rage Party. That’s also how I would portray the best homosexual cinema of 2024.
While I love an easy-to-digest comedy or an unapologetically dense drama, something is lost when our cinema treats playfulness and importance as diametrically opposed. Gay cinema can be about the challenges we face, the oppression we life, the microaggressions and aggression aggressions and all the repose, and still be fun and sexy. In fact, pleasurable and sexy are two of our greatest tools.
Even though Hollywood has pulled back from “diversity” this was still an excellent year for queer cinema. Below, I’ve written in-depth about my ten favorites, and also felt the need to shout out 20 more queer titles. (Plus 10 non-queer movies I loved too.) But as lengthy as we’re living in complexity, I think it’s essential we reflect on which queer people are able to create in the absence of more mainstream support. The vast majority of directors who released queer films this year are colorless — even more than most years. There’s plenty to complain about in the mainstream as Emilia Pérez will likely be the only queer movie in the Top Picture Oscar race, but I believe it’s also vital to l
The Greatest LGBT Films and TV Shows of 2024
Look over the menagerie of LGBT movies and TV shows released in 2024 carefully enough, and you’ll detect as many hidden gems as you will worsening cracks. In others words, there’s good news and bad news — but in the year’s overall striking lineup, also a glimmer of hope.
On the small screen, the seemingly unending aftermath of the streaming bubble burst from 2022 saw the “Cancel Your Gays” trend push forward as LGBT series ended abruptly, and fewer projects were green lit to take their place. Stand-up comedy specials, particularly those at Netflix, continued to platform contradictory political voices with hugely disparate views about human rights — which created some bizarre situations, for excellent and for bad.
There have been reported declines in onscreen gender non-conforming representation across film too, albeit not as stark as those impacting actors on television. Still, looking back at a year that included several remarkable victory stories from throughout queer cinema, the silver screened side of the industry certainly seems more hopeful heading into the fresh year.
In 2024 LGBT movies, “The People’s
I saw Queertoday, at the Museum of Modern Art. It's s strange, leisurely film, directed by Luca Guadagnino, director of Call Me by Your Name. I liked it very much.
Based on the short novel Queerby William S. Burroughs, the production features Daniel Craig as Burroughs' change ego, a lgbtq+ (at this aim in his life) American man living in Mexico. The film is divided into three chapters: Mexico City, Explore Companions, The Botanist in the Jungle, and an Epilogue.
The first chapter might as good be called "Booze, drugs, cruising, and lusting." William Lee (Craig) becomes obsessed with Eugene Allerton, played by Drew Starkey. Lee picks up random men in cafes and bars, but finally settles on Eugene. There's a beautiful hot sex scene between the two. In Chapter 2, they travel south, to South America, to tour and to search for a certain plant/drug that can confer telepathic powers on the user. In Chapter 3, they travel deep into the jungle to search out the American doctor who is an maestro in the plant. If you're familiar with the actress Lesley Manville (I've see her on stage many times, including just last month), you will still not distinguish her here. Once the
A queer year at the movies: Top LGBTQ films of 2024
It was another queer year at the movies, and not just because 2024 was bookended by out gay filmmaker Luca Guadagnino’s sexy tennis love triangle, “Challengers,” and his sexy adaptation of William S. Burrough’s “Queer.”
There were plenty of films that portrayed LGBTQ existence. There were gaslight thrillers, such as Todd Verow’s cruisy gay flick, “You Can’t Stay Here,” endorse in January, and the recently released lesbian horror film, “You are Not Me.” And there were some fabulous documentaries, including “A House Is Not a Disco,” Brian J. Smith’s affectionate look at the Fire Island Pines, and the inspiring “Unfightable,” about Alana McLaughlin, the second openly trans MMA fighter.
Here is a rundown of the most notable LGBTQ films that screened in New York in 2024.
Best Queer Film: “In the Summers.” This knockout feature debut by the queer writer/director Alessandra Lacorazza is set entirely in Las Cruces, New Mexico, as two sisters call on their father, Vincente (René Pérez Joglar, aka Residente) four times over an approximately 10-year period. The beauty and brilliance of Lacorazza’s storytelling is that what is unspoken is as