Borrow a streaming service password from family– however you define it!–and dive in. There’s a lot of history to explore, and there’s never been a better time to do it. While gay characters tended until much too recently to be one-dimensional, white, and doomed, in 2018 Barry Jenkins won a Best Picture Oscar telling the layered and hopeful story of a gay Black man in Moonlight. The legend of Harvey Milk, the San Francisco activist who became California's first openly gay elected official and who was assassinated in 1978 alongside San Francisco Mayor George.
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1982’s tentative Making Love derailed the careers of its two lead actors 2017’s Call Me By Your Name cemented its pair as movie stars. The range runs from the shoestring brilliance of The Watermelon Woman to the big-budget glitter-bomb that is Rocketman. We’ve come a ways in fifty years, from the self-loathing middle-aged men of The Boys In The Band to the peppy teens of Love, Simon. The conditions are optimal for you to catch up on your queer cinema. The few bars that have reopened are for the reckless and foolish, and let's be honest: there’s only so much dancing a person can do on Zoom. We’re stuck inside unless we’re marching for police reform. This year, the public events of LGBTQ Pride Month-much like sports, school, and life itself-are cancelled. Jane Fonda, the actress daughter of Hollywood royalty Henry Fonda, has won two Oscars. Her death from a drug overdose in 1962 at age 36 is still the stuff of legend. And if you can bear the crowds, you leave a Pride festival with a draft-beer buzz, an application for a rainbow-flag credit card, and a paper fan with Chelsea Handler’s face on it. Shes one of the most famous movie actresses of all time and known as the quintessential sex symbol of the mid-20th century. Your bank, cable company and sandwich shop rush to remind you of their support for the LGBTQ+ community. While our annual Power List ranks the most powerful LGBT people in America at this moment, that influence upon the national and international conversation was. The gay neighborhood thumps with house music. Under normal circumstances, June busts out all over with Pride Month parties and parades. The good news: this year you have time for some movies.