#LGBTQ representation in film

[what-if-a-dragon]

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real people being partially closeted or ambiguous about their own sexuality while making Gay Art is not queerbaiting

[onyx-collective]

The most unique Jane Austen adaptation film has ever seen 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[bigbeanbear]

Stephanie Beatriz talking about being very conscious about choosing queer roles to play because she doesn’t want to have bad portrayals of her community out there.

Also, she feels very lucky now people reach her to play queer roles, like Vivienne came to her with the Vaggie role.

@ TwinCitiesCon

[elysiarte]

something, something, something, we win!🤘🏻

[holyblanchett]

I stand by my canceled wife Lydia Tár

[mannyblacque]

New music from Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.

The original score for the new Luca Guadagnino film QUEER is here.

[arachnopoda]

It frustrates be beyond proper comprehension that Emilia Perez is nominated/winning awards for being a 'transformative trans film' when you have another film which releases the SAME YEAR which is one of the bes trans representations I've seen in film thus far

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

one of the funniest things when it comes to the majority of movies and tv shows (or any piece of media) is that 2 characters who are the same gender can have chemistry and sexual tension that are stronger than the strongest avenger and they will always canonically be “just platonic friends”, but a female character and a male character can have 1 quick, boring glance at each other and perhaps a plain conversation and the very next scene will cut to her riding his dick as they declare their love and devotion to each other. like it’s impossible for a man and a woman to be just friends in a piece of media and two characters being gay is just impossible. what are you so afraid of?

[thisqueerlove]

Aromantic Awareness Week

A list of Queer films and Shows with little to no romantic plot lines, or at the very least the main plot focuses on friendship/found family, some may have romantic subplots but I really tried hard to find LGBTQA+ movies where romance wasn’t the main plot. This list does not contain headcanons, those are all valid I just wanted to try to find canon Aro characters for this if I could.

To Wong Fu, Thanks for Everything (1995) (Drag Queens, no romance)

Wendell & Wild (2022) (Trans boy side character, no romance)

Strange World (2022) (Gay main character, no romance, he has a crush that’s barely in the film but this is about family)

Nimona (2023) (Nimona herself is AroAce)

Knives Out (2019) (the detective is a Gay man, no romance)

Pride (2014) (LGBTQ cast of characters, from what I remember there’s no romance)

I Am What I Am (2022) (I’ve seen a lot of praise from both Aro and Ace people about this film)

But I’m a Cheerleader (1999) (subplot but very much about found family)

Because there’s few films here’s some shows with canon Aro characters:

Koisenu Futari (2022) (JDrama about two AroAce people meeting and living together)

Heartstopper (2022) (while yes the main plot is romance Issac Henderson is AroAce)

The Owl House (2020) (some romance later on but Lilith Clawthorne is AroAce)

Cherry Magic (2020) (Fujisaki is AroAce)

Konya Sukiyaki Dayo (2023) (Tomoko is Aromantic)

Raise De Wa Chanto Shimasu (2020) (Takasugi Ume is Aromantic)

Kimi No Hana Ni Naru (2022) (Onodera Takara is Aromantic)

Happy Aromantic Awareness Week! I so hope some day you’ll have all the representation you could ever want! 💚🤍🩶🖤

(If you know of others please leave them in the comments for others to find!)

[blacksapphicguide]

Bodega (short film)

2024 short film. Available on YouTube Drama

Plot points:

Limerence

Crush

Stalking

Crossed paths

Obsession

Dreams

Set in Brooklyn, New York, USA

No-men in the timeline of the sapphic dynamic

Black lesbian couple (main)

Queer in real life actress (Ocean Van Exel)

Black, lesbian writer and film director (Sharik Geneve Atkinson)

Black sapphic characters:

Eve [lesbian] (Ocean Van Exel) Nora [lesbian] (Zoe Lika)

Connections:

Eve x Nora (black diverse lesbian: black mixed x black)

Sex & Nudity - None

Violence & Gore - None

Profanity - None

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking - Mild

Character smoking a cigarette

Frightening & Intense Scenes - Mild

Stalking

Scene showing a 'crazy wall' hidden in a character's closet

[curiositysavesthecat]

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[ye-olde-tardis]

Nimona makes me flail about, screaming, frothing at the mouth, uninterpretable sounds coming from my soul, sobbing, gutted, floored.

Wish just makes me sit there like this: 😐

[geekgirles]

Really? You don't think it has anything to do with the fact that Disney deliberately sabotaged a film of theirs portraying a loving and healthy biracial family with an openly gay teenaged son by giving it no promoting whatsoever? Don't you think it might have something to do with that rather than Disney trying to be "woke"? Okay.

(Full article here)

[via707]

i saw the tv glow - review & favorite frames

one of my goals for 2025 was to watch more movies and since i finally worked up the courage and felt mentally stable enough, i decided to watch I Saw the TV Glow. and it gutted me out from the inside in the best way possible. it is 100% in my top ten all-time favorite movies.

the color palette, soundtrack, cinematography, and writing is absolutely impeccable. i adore how this movie discusses queerness. it truly was some amazing much needed representation, and i really hope to see more projects like it in the future!

here are some of my favorite frames:

(anyways, you guys should totally add me on letterboxd 😌💗)

[cejav13]

At Sundance, Ayo Edebiri, Bowen Yang, Lily Gladstone, Russell Tovey & More Talk Need For LGBTQ Representation Amid Trump 2.0: “We Have To Stay Visible”

[aretheybisexual]

Do you know this (canon) bisexual character?

Propaganda:

Sleeps around with most of New York City and even has a weird relationship with her step brother Sebastian. Manipulates her new friend Cecile and makes out with her.

This clip.