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9 Queer Movies from the 1990s You May Not Have Heard Of
It's Fresh Years, which means it's time for lists. And while everyone else is doing 'top X of 2023,' I've decided to list 9 queer movies from the 1990s. Why? Because I wanna. Plus, in discussions of inclusion, I often see folks talk about it with a heavy focus on mainstream 'Hollywood' produced movies, which leads folks to talk as though progress has been linear. As if, in the past there was no/'bad' lgbtq+ representation and now there is 'good' representation. But of course it's not that simple. Plenty of amazing queer movies were produced in the past decades...they were just indie movies and thus hard to find in a world prior to Netflix and Mubi and whatnot. But now we contain streaming services, so consent me to share some of my favorites from the before times (specifically the 1990s).
Without further ado....here is an alphabetical list of queer movies from the 90s you may not have heard of (especially if you're under 30).
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Beautiful Thing (1996) (dir. Hettie Macdonald)
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Our list of the 200 Best Homosexual Movies of All Time stretches support 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 their lives for the produce in Russia; Certified Fresh comedy Shiva, Baby; and Netflix’s The Old G LGBTQ+ representation in mainstream cinema has appear a long way since the '90s. Now, we spot more and more queer films existence awarded at the Oscars, reaching wider audiences, and achieving international acclaim and success. Streaming services are constantly adding more inclusive titles, such as Horseplay, Fanfic, Lonesome, and You Can Reside Forever. This is partially due to the '90s creature a stepping stone and marking a change in filmmaking, with LGBTQ+ content becoming more mainstream through flicks such as The Birdcage and Philadelphia. While films such as those mentioned previously were achieving more commercial success, there was also a surge happening in less accessible works through the rise of New Queer Cinema, a movement of LGBTQ+ movies that produced impactful titles, thus paving the way for more popular content. From Heavenly Creatures to Paris is Burning, here are the best LGBTQ+ movies of the '90s. Updated June 2023: If you are interested in queer cinema, you're in luck. This article has been updated with additional content and entries by Mona Bassil. Directed by Peter J In this first major critical survey of LGBTQIA+ films, over 100 film experts including critics, writers and programmers such as Joanna Hogg, Mark Cousins, Peter Strickland, Richard Dyer, Nick James and Laura Mulvey, as well as past and present BFI Flare programmers, have voted the Top 30 LGBTQIA+ Films of All Time. The poll’s results represent 84 years of cinema and 12 countries, from countries including Thailand, Japan, Sweden and Spain, as adequately as films that showed at BFI Flare such as Orlando (1992), Gorgeous Thing (1996), Weekend (2011) and Blue Is the Warmest Colour (2013). The winner is Todd Haynes’ award-winning Carol, closely followed by Andrew Haigh’s Weekend, and Hong Kong idealistic drama Happy Together, directed by Wong Kar-wai, in third place. While Carol is a surprisingly recent movie to top the poll, it’s a feature that has moved, delighted and enthralled audiences, and looks set to be a modern classic. “The festival has extended supported my work,” said Haynes, “from Poison and Dottie Gets Spanked in the early 1990s through to Carol which is screening on 35mm later this week in BFI Flare’s Best of Year programme. I’m so pr Before playing queer characters became surefire Oscar bait, movies about LGBTQ+ existence were scarce and underseen — but those that existed were still powerful. In 1993, Tom Hanks won an Oscar for his portrayal of a lawyer fighting a battle against his own employer, having been dismissed due to his sexuality and for being HIV positive, in Philadelphia. A new era of effusively queer 1990s cinema was, by this point, already in motion, but they were operating on a less mainstream level than the awards-friendly big studio features. Many hold, over time, crafted enormous legacies: Paris is Burning remains a queer classic over 30 years later, despite being criticised for its probing and cishetero-friendly framing by many who appear in it. And despite its (assumedly) hetero leads, My Own Personal Idaho holds a distinct place in many homosexual hearts. But what about the underground movies, the short budget affairs, that didn’t get the love they deserved back then? Successfully, here are 10 of them you can hold up with and stream in present day. This sapphic romantic-thriller was the large screen directorial debut of prolific British filmmaker Michael WinterBest LGBTQ+ Movies of the '90s, Ranked
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1. Butterfly Kiss (1995)