Richard hires Vann, a young translator, who helps piece together the tender memories of the man they both loved.” Rotten Tomatoes Score: 81% Jun’s grieving is disrupted by Richard’s visits and his attempts to communicate are first met with distrust. Lilting: “ Lilting features intensely moving performances by Asian cinema’s legend Cheng Pei Pei as Junn, an immigrant mother grieving the untimely death of her only son Kai (Andrew Leung), and Ben Whishaw as her son’s lover, Richard. The following day in Los Angeles, a movement was born.” Rotten Tomatoes Score: 83% (audience score) Inspired: The Voices Against Prop 8: “ In 2008, California voters passed Proposition 8, revoking marriage rights for same-sex couples. In the midst of the crisis, the lives of five strangers become intertwined.” Rotten Tomatoes Score: 65% (audience score)
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This is a movie about the family we are born into and the family we create.” Rotten Tomatoes Score: 100% (audience score)Ĭlapham Junction: “ This drama inspired by true events takes place over 36 hours in the Clapham Common area of London, where residents band together after a series of brutal assaults on gay men. Their love don’t cease to exist, but the circumstances are complicated.Bedrooms and Hallways: “ To get over his failed relationships, gay Leo enters group therapy, where he comes clean about his feelings for a straight member of the group.” Rotten Tomatoes Score: 69%īirthday Cake: “ A feature-length comedy that follows the three days leading up to the first birthday party of a child with two gay parents: television actor Steven James and his screenwriter husband, Daniel Ferguson. He reveals this to Frédérique and she tries to stand by himself to pursue his dream of becoming a woman. Laurence, as a man, loves very much his girlfriend Frédérique but he feels trapped in his body. Laurence Anyways tells the love story between a woman (Frédérique) and a man who wants to transition to become a woman (Laurence).
And then on the micro level, it got all the musical theater details right, so the people it was really about bought into it as well,” the director said. “It had universal themes of feeling like an outsider, finding a community, acceptance, people who are questioning their sexuality, dealing with body issues. Things start to become weird when a straight popular boy joins them.
The group is diversified, from the gay and the overweight, to the nerds and the genderqueer. This teen flick follows the experiences of a group of teenagers at Camp Ovation, a summer theater camp. In the main roles we see Alan Cumming portraying Rudy a drag artist and his boyfriend Paul, a lawyer, portrayed by Garret Dillahunt. When police find out about their situation everything gets complicated and mired in homophobia. The movie follows the romance between two teenagers and the drama that comes in between.Īny Day Now centers on a mismatched gay couple in the ’70s, living together and taking in a boy with Down syndrome abandoned by his junkie mother who lives next to them. Sieger lives with his widowed father and his two brothers. This coming of age drama focuses on Sieger and Marc, two teenagers, both members of the local athletics team. The film is based on the true story of Oliver Mill’s father who comes out at 75, five years before his death.īoys (2014) Meanwhile, his father has two big announcements to make: he has terminal cancer and he has a younger boyfriend. Oliver is a young man making his way through life and trying to build a relationship with a woman. That was something that was more just a narrative device that I thought really encapsulated her struggle,” the director explained. She is a transgender woman of color sex worker with so little opportunity due to discrimination and oppression, but she’s still working her hardest just to get her art out there. “All Alexandra wants to do, her dreams, her aspirations, are just to get out there and be seen and heard. Rella finds out that her boyfriend who is also her pimp is cheating on her and Alexandra sings at a bar where she pays to play.
This is a comedy-drama that follows the stories of two transgender sex workers, Sin-Dee and Alexandra. The documentary/film received positive reviews so it’s a “must-see.” Dan Savage, George Takei, David Sedaris, Tim Gunn, and Margaret Cho are part of the film. This American documentary explores speech patters in gay men. Should be at the top of your ‘to see’ list.” - Indiewire “A playful, heartfelt investigation” - Time “One of Summer 2015’s must-see docs” - Entertainment Weekly The film depicts a day in his life without the man he loved the most. After the tragic loss, Falconer, an English teacher, becomes extremely depressed. It stars Colin Firth who portrays George Falconer, a gay a man whose partner just died. This movie directed by Tom Ford is absolutely fantastic.