2/9/2024 0 Comments Classic movies in gay cultureWhen we talk about wanting to be seen, a lot of us really mean that what we want is a gay version of our ’90s rom-coms when the genre was at its best. The screenplay’s contours are broadly conventional, but that’s a good thing. The actual breaking of ground is that the cast is top-to-toe gay, gay, gay… and that’s pretty much where it stops. Enter screenwriter/star Billy Eichner and director Nicholas Stoller’s “Bros,” a snarky, fitfully raunchy meet-cute for the age of Grindr (or here, a dating app cheekily called Zellweger). “Bros”Īfter 120 years, give or take, Hollywood finally has a mainstream queer rom-com answer to films like Nora Ephron’s “You’ve Got Mail” and “Sleepless in Seattle.” Hell, it’s taken just as long to make a mainstream LGBTQ movie that isn’t about pain and suffering or trauma or systemic homophobia. With editorial contributions by Siddhant Adlkha, David Ehrlich, Kate Erbland, Eric Kohn, Michael Nordine, Tambay Obenson, Chris O’Falt, and Jamie Righetti. To kickoff IndieWire’s 2023 Pride coverage, here are the 50 best LGBTQ films of the 21st century.
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