Movies about gay women
Best LGBTQ+ Movies About Women, Ranked
The LGBTQ+ community has struggled since the 18th Century and has come a long way — from any queer behavior previously being considered a crime globally to now having the release to express themselves in most places, including in the media. Over the past two decades, LGBTQ+ representation in the media has skyrocketed, with plenty of categories and awards being birthed to cater to the blossoming genre of film. In reality, a recent GLAAD study showed a record-high number of Queer characters on television.
Update September 4, This list has been updated by Soniya Hinduja to add even more great titles.
Most Diverse films have a specific center in mind. For example, Moonlight focuses on toxic masculinity within the Black community, while Tangerine examines the struggles that trans people face, even by those with whom they share relationships. LGBTQ+ communities tend to cater to every audience imaginable, and thanks to the same-sex relations examined within LGBTQ+ media, films about women are about more than just queerness, but
PARIS IS BURNING ()
Directed by Jennie Livingston
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They ring themselves the Children. They are messengers, welfare recipients, salespeople, and prostitutes. By night they are Krystle and Blake Carrington. As Black and Hispanic lgbtq+ men, the Children inhabit in two worlds an everyday world of discrimination and poverty, and the world of Realness, where through costume and competition, dance and inspired performance, they imitate and transcend the powerful fantasy media that excludes them. PARIS IS BURNING follows a number of the Children as they join along the piers, where they exchange news and sex and practice the competitive dance called voguing, which combines the acrobatic character of break-dancing with moves based on fashion models poses. Each of the Children belongs to the House that suits him best (the Home of Chanel, the Home of Saint Laurent, the House of Ninja, and others). Monthly fashion balls the dramatic pivot the films action and of the subculture take place in Harlem or Brooklyn. Member
What movies with queer woman , bisexual, queer, and trans women and/or trans men and/or non-binary people in them can a person find streaming on Max? This is a scrutinize you might contain, and good news, we are here to answer it. While HBO highlights many lesbian films in its Pride section, that section misses so many other titles that are categorized elsewhere.
Historically, HBO has been pretty good to the LGBTQ society, producing a lot of inclusive first content, but much of it is for gay men and only a limited number of these titles are currently available on Max. Their library isnt as robust as it once was, but its still a amazing streaming destination for really high-quality queer woman cinema.
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Circumstance ()
As teenagers living in post-revolutionary Iran, wealthy Atafeh (Nikohl Boosheri) and her orphaned best friend, Shireen (Sarah Kazemy), turn to illicit means to earn their kicks. They join underground parties and experiment with illegal booze and drugs—but it’s when they fall in love with each other that their world begins to unravel. Homosexuality is strictly illegal in Iran, and as Atafeh’s increasingly religious brother develops an obsession with Shireen, the girls are forced to make a painful choice.
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Gia ()
Widely considered the world’s first supermodel, openly queer Gia Carangi rocketed to stardom in the late s, only for her experience to spiral out of control after she became addicted to heroin and later contracted HIV—which led to her death from AIDS in A minute over a decade later, this biopic about her life and love affairs helped catapult a juvenile Angelina Jolie (herself openly queer) into the spotlight.
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