Pride (2014)
I think this is one of my favourite movies ever. I cry every time I watch it. The movie is based on a true story.
During the 80’s, miners in Britain were on strike. This diverted the police's attention away from harassing the LGBTQ+ community, to harassing the mining community instead. Because of this Mark Ashton, starts collecting money during pride and sets up the “Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners”. At first there is conflict between the two parties, miners who do not want to be represented by a bunch of queers, and the LGBTQ+ community, because of hurtful things the miners have done to them in the past. Over the course of the movie, they slowly grow closer together, and end in a big show of solidarity to one another.
It is heart-warming and funny, and I would recommend this movie to everyone.
5/5 rainbows
Kinky Boots (2005)
I am not 100% sure this movie qualifies, but it feels very queer so I will put it in anyways.
Charlie Price inherits his dads old shoe factory. Sadly, business is bad. Companies no longer want durable shoes. They want shoes that break easily so that people keep coming back to get shoes.
At a loss he wanders the city, but he spots some drunks giving a woman a hard time. He helps her but gets hurt in the process. When he wakes up, he is backstage in a drag show. Here the drag queen gives him some life advice, and voices that their shoes are always too small, because no one sells stripper high heels for men. That gives the dude an idea. Together with the drag queen he designs high heels for drag queens. The workers of the factory slowly but surely warm up to this idea, and with the support of his factory and the drag community behind him, he decides to take the designs to Milan.
4,5/5 rainbows
The Prom (2020)
Catchy music, over the top choreography, and Meryl Streep. What more could you ask for. I mean, except for James Corden to be re-cast (he is in every musical and I just need him to stop!), but you win some you lose some.
“The Prom” is a heart-warming musical about a girl, Emma, who just wants to take her girlfriend to prom, and her homophobic town who is willing to go to extreme lengths to stop it. A few cancelled Broadway stars show up, to help Emma in the hopes of getting some good press, but eventually becoming really invested in the injustice that Emma is going through.
The music is great, “Love Thy Neighbor” is hilarious and an absolute bop, and Meryl Streep is Meryl Streep. All in all, a queer movie to love.
4/5 rainbows
Pariah (2011)
Pariah is a movie about a 17-year-old girl, Alike, figuring herself out as a lesbian. It is one of the only movies featuring a young girl of colour figuring out her sexuality and the coming out process. Her father doesn't really care when she comes out, but her mother explodes. The movie shows that despite it being family, not everyone will support you. Alike doesn't return home after the fight but does agree to reconcile with her mother. It is a beautiful movie. Although at times the movie might feel a bit rushed, I would still recommend it to everyone.
4/5 rainbows
She-Ra
Technically not a movie. Well, not technically. It isn’t a movie. It is a cartoon show that lasts up to 5 seasons. It is delightfully gay. There are several cases of really good LGBTQ+ representation all over the spectrum.
From Bow’s dads being a gay couple, to Spinnerela and Netossa being a healthy lesbian couple who are canonally married and very much in love. It is absolutely adorable.
Oh… and there is a war going on. Where the show starts out very much as a children’s cartoon, it slowly gets a little more serious over the seasons, dealing with abuse, betrayals, and loss.
Perfect to introduce a kid to the concepts of LGBTQ+ as something normal, but also really fun to just binge by your lonesome gay self while you simp over all the buff lesbians.
4.5/5 rainbows
