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Top 20 Best LGBTQ+ Coming of Age Movies

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#20: “Cowboys” (2020)


Written and directed by Anna Kerrigan, “Cowboys” offers a neo-Western take on the queer experience. The film centers around a trans boy named Joe who, faced with the disapproval of his recently separated mother, struggles to assert his true identity. As a finding, he runs off into the Montana wilderness with his father Troy, kicking off a police investigation into his disappearance as well as his own transformative coming-of-age journey. Kerrigan goes for the gold here, serving up a nuanced, character-driven exploration into themes of family dynamics and the importance of unconditional adore for queer youth. Of course, “Cowboys” would be nothing without the impressive ensemble of actors who bring the well-rounded characters to life.

#19: “Rafiki” (2018)


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20 Upcoming LGBTQ+ Movies We're Looking Forward To

The LGBTQ+ community’s ties to Hollywood and cinema possess been deeply intertwined from the early days of the medium. And yet, the fight for authentic representation of queer people in film continues to be a rarity (especially when it comes to high-profile movies). With the 2025 movie schedule here (and Pride Month coming up very soon!) there’s quite a few LGBTQ+ titles to glance forward to, and we’ve rounded up what to look forward to below.

Coming Soon

Honey Don’t! - August 22, 2025

In 2024, Ethan Coen and wife Tricia Cooke made Drive-Away Dolls, which they called the first of their planned “Lesbian B-Movie Trilogy”, which continues with this summer’s Honey Don’t. The dusky comedy once again stars Margaret Qualley as a lesbian confidential eye named Honey Donahue who gets embroiled in a series of strange deaths tied to a mysterious church in the movie also starring Aubrey Plaza, Charlie Day, Billy Eichner and Chris Evans. I can’t delay for this one.

Twinless - September

161 Best LGBTQ+ Movies of All Time


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Our list of the 200 Best LGBTQ+ Movies of All Time stretches back 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 thei

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Coming of Age Movies

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Coming of Age Movies

  • Azure is the Warmest Color

    ISBN: 9781604658262

    Adele is a high school student who, much to her own surprise, plunges into a thrilling relationship with a female twenty-something art student. This intimate epic sensitively renders the erotic abandon of youth.
    Rating: NC-17

  • But I'm A Cheerleader!

    ISBN: 1588178005

    Megan's super normal suburban existence is filled with friends, pom-poms and rah-rah enthusiasm until her parents suspect that she may be showing deviant tendencies.
    Rating: R

  • Call Me by your Name