#lgbtqia film recs

[captainfairygodmother]

Any LGBTQIA+ show/movie recs? Particularly fantasy/sci-fi but I'd watch pretty much anything

List of LGBTQIA+ Shows/Movies (/Features an LGBTQIA+ Character) I've Watched (Feel Free To Take Recs From This Too!):

-Good Omens

-Dead Boy Detectives

-Our Flag Means Death

-What We Do In the Shadows

-BBC Ghosts

-Interview With the Vampire

-Maurice

-But I'm a Cheerleader

-Renegade Nell

-Shadow & Bone

-Heartstopper

Currently (Slowly) Watching:

-NBC Hannibal

-The Sandman

There's probably some more that I accidentally forgot about but yeah

[fandomhopper23]

Watched Nimona yesterday, and damn, that really is just one big queer metaphor made up of like 50 other queer metaphors isn't it?

It's also my new fav film.

[bi-lemma]

GUYS I DID A BALLISTER X AMBROSIUS ANGST SEARCH ON AO3 AND:

When The Smoke Clears, I Will Be Here

When the last sparks of Nimona's light faded, Ballister collapsed among the ashes. To his rescue comes Ambrosius, who is ready to scoop him up and take him home. Everything hurts in Ballister's world: his heart… His body. He let's himself be vulnerable around the man he once loved, for the sake of all he's just been through.

Angsty angst

I did in fact cry while reading this

Well written

Phantom Aches & Love

Ambrosius wakes up to find Ballister perched on the edge of the bed, hunched over, his left palm braced against his knee.

hurt comfort

short and sweet

more angst

Shapes of Regret

It takes a while to adjust after Nimona's… death. Ballister is still grieving, Ambrosius is trying his best.

At least they have each other again.

Angst but also fluff

This barely counts as angst

domestic fluff

[gloomiedyke]

Two absolute MUST WATCH older movies for genderqueer folks (and really ALL queer folks):

1. To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything, Julie Newmar! (1995)

- Happy ending

This one is an all time favourite of mine. It's funny, sweet, light-hearted, sincere, and has a happy ending.

It was so unbelievably ahead of its time, too. Do you understand what a big deal it was for Patrick Swayze and Wesley Snipes to play these roles? The IDEALS of masculinity, the idols of all the boys in their time, and they starred as Lady Noxeema and Miss Vida?

And they took it SERIOUSLY. Snipe's portrayal of Noxeema's simple, genuine joy in her performance. Swayze's gentle portrayal of Vida's sincere relief in being her true self (god, but the look on her face when she saw herself in the mirror as Vida...). This is a comedy movie, but the queerness itself is not the butt of the joke. These characters are handled so tenderly by all three lead actors.

It's an absolutely lovely story about community, and friendship, and celebration of self.

2. Soldier's Girl (2003)

- Sad ending, but with a hopeful edge

- this one's a true story, and the trans woman it's about is still alive and working as an activist today!

An absolutely, unbelievably sweet, heartbreaking, and VITAL story. As someone who hates sad queer movies: this story DESERVES to be seen, and even though I bawled at the end, I never regretted it for a moment.

It's stunning, and so carefully, honestly told. I don't have the words this movie deserves, but please watch it. Barry Winchell deserves to have the truth of his story told.

And so much of the movie is filled with joy and love, I promise. The grief is there at the end, but there's so much good before it.

As a bonus: Lee Pace, the actor who played our transfemme main character, became friends with the real Calpernia Addams due to this movie! They brought her on to make sure everything was right, and she worked with him to help him nail the role. Their interactions were very cute.

(also Lee Pace makes a STUNNING Calpernia. I was deeply in love with her throughout the movie. Not to be a lesbian but oh my god)

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Anyway, these movies changed my brain chemistry. And I think our younger queers especially need to see some of our first examples of genuinely good queer stories. And ones that aren't Rocky Horror, as much as I adore that one.

(mostly I just need other people to talk about these movies with. Please. Anyone.)

Bonus - some pics of Lee and Calpernia, because I think they're friendship is cute:

[bebop-robyn]

I want to see trans representation that feels like it's made for trans people not cis people.

[mcfiddlestan]

Movie Rec Ask Game

2, 6, 13, 22, 29

2. an indie film.

You know, I'm actually pretty late to the indie film genre. It wasn't until my mom got a Netflix account that I started watching more "indie" films -- mostly just non-major studio movies sometimes with no-name or up-and-coming stars and often LGBTQIA-themed. A couple of my fave indie movies are Weekend -- which is actually the movie that inspired my WinterFrost fic Stay With Me; Boy Meets Girl -- which was one of the first movies I saw with a transgender actor playing a transgender role (and also stars Michael Welch from Twilight); Redwoods -- which was the idea behind my FrostIron fic Empire State of Mind; and ofc, My Big Fat Greek Wedding!

6. a film released before 1970.

Ok, well, three of my favorite movies of all time were made in 1934, 1939, and 1944. (That's Gone with the Wind, It Happened One Night, and Double Indemnity). I grew up watching my mom's favorite musicals of the 1950s and 60s. My mom liked to show me, especially, all of her favorite films from her childhood.

13. a film whose main genre is drama.

OMG where do i start tho? Drama (next to action) is one of my fave genres. I'm a total nut for an Oscar bait movie and up until a few years ago, I used to watch every single movie nominated in the Big 6 awards (Acting categories, Directing, and Film) and my mom and I used to print out ballots and compete. IDK, google best dramas of all time and I probably have watched and love them all.

22. a film that is a novel/film adaptation.

One of my fave films, like it's in my Top 5 movies, is Atonement. And even though it's not the happiest of films (it's downright tragic, really), what I love the most is how close to the book it stayed. They even pulled dialogue directly from the book (not all adaptations do this). My nerdy ass even did a presentation for my Narrative in Literature and Film on the movie.

29. a film to feel good/uplifted.

uhh,,,,idk cuz my sister and i will literally watch disaster movies when we're in a good mood. lol like we watch the Day After Tomorrow, San Andreas, and 2012 on the regular bc they're out comfort movies.

Thanks for asking!

Movie Rec Ask Game

[therealfltv]

Oh hi!

Yes, this is my first post on this account. I used to be pretty heavy into Tumblr years ago, and then when the great upheaval happened, I shut down my accounts and wandered away (mostly to twitter and TikTok). With the bird app is dying a slow death and rumor that Tumblr has regained it's former glory, I decided to start a new account. What to expect... well, now that I'm unshackled by character count, expect potentially long posts about whatever my brain starts sending to my fingers. Mostly, I'll post about my interests: history of horror movies/tv from a neurodivergent perspective, video games, music, really any sort of media (tv/film outside of horror), and books I'm enjoying. Oh yeah, I'm a writer. I've had two short stories published in a couple of charity anthologies and I have two books coming out through Inked in Gray Press. Both have strong LGBTQIA+ themes. One is a punk sci-fi and the other is a fantasy. I'll definitely be talking more about them as time goes on. Yup, true to form, this is getting long. I'm just going to hit send on this. If you're an artist, horror movie enthusiast, or have a good music rec, hit me up. Also, if you're part of the writing community, I'd love to connect. Cheers, F

[jay-wasstuff]

Heyy all!! Here’s the fandoms & ships Im in + things to know:

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DNI blogs who interact will be blocked. If they haven't and you see 'em, please let me know. Side blog here ⬅️

Fandoms

Films: Hannibal TV • Star Wars (mainly filoniverse) • IWTV • Venom • Wednesday (Addams Family) • The Sandman • Young Royals • Heartbreak High • John Wick • LOTR • Knives out • Deadpool • Heaven's Official Blessing • Spiderverse • Good Omens • Mortal Kombat • DnDHAT • Fionna and Cake • FNAF • Ted Lasso • Smiling Friends • Dead Boy Detectives • Sherlock (RDJ!Films)

Games: DnD • Dragon Age • Call of Duty (MW) • Ace Attorney • Mortal Kombat

Novels/Comics: The Case Files of Jeweller Richard • LOTR • Heaven's Official Blessing • Sherlock Holmes • The Sandman

Ships: gumlee/bubbline • louistat • dinluke • xedgin • wilmon • symbrock • wrightworth • aralas • dreamling • hannigram • bagginshield • spideypool • poolverine • johnlock • mystrade • bowuigi • richardxseigi (reigi) • gomezxmorticia • aziracrow • soapghost • johnxsantino • trackerxmarquis

What I post

I post my memes, thoughts, absolute gibberish and informative things on anything that currently has my attention, mostly films, games and novels. This blog is discourse free, jumpscare free, critical free, any type of negative content FREE!! If I see anything of the sort in my notes I'll block - and if I haven't, please lmk!

My tw/cw tags

I don’t post anything explicit but we all have different views on what is and isn't explicit, so filter out ‘tw suggestive’ and ‘tw swearing’ (i forget them sometimes, I'm sorry just lmk) as I be losing myself real quick and post random thirsty posts about fictional people and various monsters (yes you read that right, filter out ‘monsterfucker’ for that).

Credit and Sources

I always try to give credit and link my sources but sometimes the images I find are from various websites/socials and I'm not sure where or who its from. If you see anything that's yours without due credit/link or you want it taken down, please let me know by the dms.

Direct Messages, Ask Inbox

Open for whatever you want to slide in with, whether it’s to comment about the weather, discuss plot, give me book/film/game recs, ask me questions about my posts, look just whatever really idgaf at all - i love rambling. If you message and you're a blank blog tho? Blocked and reported.

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Reblog and other posts account: @jay-wasreblogging also I got a discord, you can add me there ⬇️

[sobuildabeautifulcity]

Tag Hunter

Here lies a non-extensive list of my tags. vaguely ordered.

Queer tags: #queer #lgbtqia #lgbtq #lgbt #pride all cover much of the same, pride is mostly the 2014 film. queer is my go to tag these days.

Nerdness #history #america history is obvious, america is half history/current events and half deep sighing at the state of events

Animal Tags #cat #cat! #puppies #dog #monkey two tags for cats & dogs because i am terrible at keeping track. monkey is very out of date but i forgot i had it.

Doctor Who (& adjacent) content #dw #doctor who #cdw #classic who #torchwood #ianto various tags used but those are the most populated. torchwood & ianto are very jam packed.

Queue tags #clearing out my likes into a queue #q self explanatory

Wrangling tags #haha #fave #important #the best #poll self explanatory

TV & Movie tags #8 out of 10 cats #taskmaster #wilty #bfq #nmtb #qi #it crowd #miranda #fleabag #b99 #parks and rec #glee #grace and frankie #criminal minds #elementary #bojack #bobs burgers #phineas and ferb #newsies #hamilton #bring it on #avengers #cmbyn #rwrb avengers tag covers a lot of different marvel things. newsies is the musical. first five tags are britcom stuff.

One Direction etc #1d #harry #louis #taylor swift

Celebs/Comedians #dnp #richard ayoade #noel fielding #sarah millican #romesh #vcm

Pictures #photography #art

Personal bits and bobs. #about #me #chronic illness #mood #eli's nightblogging #mine

[femalegayzepod]

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[valideity]

does ANYONE know ANY films/tv shows (especially films)

where there’s a CANON nonbinary (or under that umbrella) character in there?

like SURELY there’s something out there

~help pls i need representation~

[cdailaincao]

hi! i'm diana (aka cal), and this is in bullet points because i like bullet points okay

i'm 18, indian, feminist, an LGBTQIA+ ally, and in love with stories.

my original online nickname was Diana Black (i was thirteen when i came up with it) but now most of my friends just call me cal. take your pick, i love both names.

some fandoms i'm in: harry potter, riordanverse (i've read it all), brooklyn99, the good place, the bone season, throne of glass, ascendance, cyoa

main ships atm are jily and percabeth, but i also love solangelo and rowaelin and peraltiago and (basically 90% of the canon ships in any media i've consumed. i love love.)

while i post a lot of hp related stuff, i despise jkr with my whole heart. trans people ily and i hate that you have to deal with that bigoted piece of shit.

well written jily fic is my sustenance. some people i'd read ANYTHING from: (ao3) ghostofbambi, apalapucian, cgner, lizardcookie, my friend terrie.

still wishing for an update of tlat, and doing my biannual rereads in the meantime. (what a masterpiece.)

feel free to ask me for fic recs, or send me random asks related to fandom, i'll be nice if you are!

@kailandpumpkins <- this is kail, my best friend and one of the best bits of my life. boop.

@shestrying <- this is dana, she's my actual soulmate and i love her.

@stedewards <- this is terrie, my book buddy and the godparent of all my original characters. they get credit for every bit of writing i have ever done (and will ever do).

i love love love the jily community here on tumblr (and the discord server- @jilymicrofics is the place to ask if you want to join). everyone i've interacted with so far has been so damn sweet, it's unreal. they're half the reason i'm inspired to write jily these days.

english music loves are taylor swift, jax, alec benjamin, alan walker, maisie peters, hozier, sabrina carpenter, and the old barbie animated movie albums.

telugu music loves are (the albums of the films:) hi nanna, majili, oopiri, oh baby, geetha govindam, ala vaikunthapurramulo, maharshi, ninnu kori, 100% love, seetamma vakitlo, bommarillu, mr perfect, mirchi, janatha garage, rrr, nuvvosthaanante nenoddantaana, love story, kshanakshanam, jersey, ready, orange, manmadhudu, happy, magadheera (aight there's way too much more so i'm stopping here)

tamil music loves are (the albums of the films:) alaipaayuthey, paiyaa, vaaranam aayiram, anjaan, kaatru veliyidai, master, padaiyappa, ayan, maattrraan, singam(1&2) , thuppaki, yennai arindhaal, viswasam, roja (1992), thalapathi, dharmathin thalaivan, I, aaru, aadhavan, 96.

hindi music loves are (the albums of the films/shows:) please find attached, aashiqui 2, yeh jawaani hai deewani, bajrangi bhaijaan, badrinaath ki dulhaniya, 3 idiots, thappad, student of the year.

(indian music artists) special mention to shreya ghoshal, chinmayi, A R rahman, and raghu dixit.

phew. that was a lot on music but like. i'm almost always humming or listening to music so it fits. i've only mentioned artists and albums above, but there's so many more individual songs that own my heart (in all the above languages.) maybe i'll make a list someday. or share a properly organised playlist? (all my current playlists are chaos lol) we'll see. anyway.

don't be mean to my mutuals, or i will come after you with a pitchfork.

i don't have a proper tagging system on my blog. i used to keep wanting to create one, but i know i won't keep up with it, so i've made peace with that now. i usually do tag posts that i make (especially if they contain sensitive information).

i might be delayed in replying to messages, asks, or tags, but i promise it's not personal!!! my People Interaction Energy has a mind of its own, and i often just don't have it in me to answer in the moment. I don't like half hearted replies, so i leave it until i do have the energy to reply and actually enjoy the interaction.

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[1esbrarian]

Nina’s Heavenly Delights

When young Glaswegian cook Nina Shah (Shelley Conn) returns home for her father's funeral after three estranged years in London, England, she begins a romantic relationship with Lisa (Laura Fraser), an old childhood friend who now owns half the late father's Indian restaurant, The New Taj. Together they seek to save the restaurant by winning the national "Best in the West Curry Competition" for a third time. Nina's mother Suman (Veena Sood) and brother Kary (Atta Yaqub), however, want to sell the place to fellow restaurateur Raj (Art Malik), whose chef son Sanjay (Raji James) had been left at the altar by Nina. Lending the young women moral support is Nina's flamboyant gay friend Bobbi (Ronny Jhutti), and Nina's younger sister Priya (Zoe Henretty).

[problemsofabooknerd]

What are your queer movie recommendations? (Especially queer women) Could you do a video on your channel? I just watched Margarita with A Straw and loved it 😍

I LOVE THIS. I definitely want to do a full, new queer media recommendations video on my channel at some point, but here is a list on Letterboxd of all the queer film I’ve seen ranked in terms of how much I like it: https://letterboxd.com/ceciliaewing/list/yo-thats-gay/

I will say my recent faves have been HEARTS BEAT LOUD, which is an excellent indie drama about a father/daughter relationship, but the daughter is queer and has a romance with another girl! They never specify how she identifies, but there’s a scene where her dad asks if she has a girlfriend or a boyfriend, so it’s implied that she’s bi/pan or otherwise multi-gender attracted. Both girls are also women of color! And Toni Collette and Nick Offerman and Ted Danson are in it! 

SAVING FACE is an excellent classic f/f movie about chinese-american women falling in love. It’s wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. 

I recently loved PROFESSOR MARSTON AND THE WONDER WOMEN, which is the true story about the polyamorous thrupple behind the creation of the character wonder woman. It’s a fascinating look at a real life trio of people trying to make their relationship work in the mid-20th century and it’s real difficult at times, but ultimately wonderful.

It’s been about a billion years since I last watched it, but I feel like THE INCREDIBLY TRUE ADVENTURE OF TWO GIRLS IN LOVE doesn’t get enough attention as a f/f movie? It’s from the 90s and can be a little harder to track down, but I watched it in college when I was writing a paper about how lesbians were characterized in film in the 90s and it was by far my favorite one of the group I watched. Very sweet movie about a butch white girl and a femme black girl who fall for each other. But allllll the slapstick drama does ensue. 

OH and I almost forgot THE FEELS, which… if you adore Constance Wu and have ever wanted to see her be a lesbian? This is it. It’s very, very indie in style, about a bachelorette weekend where one of the brides reveals she’s never had an orgasm. Super sex-oriented, but it’s honestly a really great look at how we treat intimacy and sex that I loved lots and lots. But be prepared for drama.

Anyway, those are my recommendations for recent watches, or ones I don’t see mentioned as often. Check out that whole letterboxd list for some of my other favorites! Oh, and I have this full list of queer film to watch which is much longer. Hope this helps!

[axinite25]

HELLO FELLOW RAINBOW MAFIA

I am creating a safe space on TikTok for those apart of the community.

I would like to know what sort of information you wish you had growing up, to support those just begging to figure themselves out!

Such as: different sexualities and gender, Film and TV recommendations, support, or any advice, please DM me or let me know!

Thanks in advance!

[babey-eclectic-witch]

Ahh I love James Somerton's channel. For me it's up there with Philosophy Tube and Contrapoints. If you want similar videos, Lindsay Ellis, Sideways, The Sin Squad, Rowan Ellis, Yhara zayd, and eliquorice are great! They all make videos on lgbt+ film theory either once in while or constantly. Check them out!

u all are always talking about video essays when are u going to show some respect for deep cuts: society and queer horror and it's predecessor monsters in the closet - a history of lgbt representation in horror cinema