Best lgbt movies 2022
Since I started writing at Autostraddle, my best movies of the year list aimed to refer every queer or lesbian movie — good or bad — to show just how many of our films are made each year. Well, it finally happened. There are finally too many.
I’ve tried to see as much as possible but I simply can’t see them all. What an exciting development! This year is also exciting because my queer list is almost identical to my general list. With the exceptions of Nanny and The Pink Cloud, the movies that moved me most this year were queer. And the movies that moved our culture were too.
Yes, this list has some underrated indies. But it also has several Oscar frontrunners — or at least Independent Spirit Award frontrunners. As queer people, we can’t peek to the mainstream for validation. But it sure is adj when we get it anyway!
It’s also exciting to me that many of these films travel beyond our conventional understanding of a queer movie. For many of these films, queerness is included and centered, but the conventions are not. There’s a difference between queerness not being the point an
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While the preceding days of LGBT representation in films mostly amounted to a stolen kiss, a knowing glance or forbidden love, today LGBT people are written into mainstream Hollywood storylines, and it’s not only fostering long-overdue social inclusion, but it’s also paying dividends at the box-office.
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