00 Queer Cinema: The Essentials (by Year, Title, Director)

1985

Rock Hudson dies of AIDS

Before Stonewall (Greta Schiller, Robert Rosenberg), Sun

Kiss of the Spider Woman, Babenko, Cannes Fest

Times of Harvey Milk, The (Rob Epstein), Sun

1986

Parting Glances (Bill Sherwood) (Sundance), Sun

Desert Hearts (Donna Deitch) (Sundance), Sun

Going Down (Haydn Keenan), Sun

1987

Anne Trister (Léa Pool), Sun

Beyond Therapy (Robert Altman), Sun

Waiting for the Moon (Jill Godmilow), Sun

Working Girls (Lizzie Borden), Sun

1988

Chuck Solomon: Coming of Age (Marc Huestis), Sun

Nobody’s Wife (María Luisa Bemberg), Sun

Signed: Lino Brocka (Christian Blackwood), Sun

1989

Apartment Zero (Martin Donovan)

1990

Identity Crisis (Melvin Van Peebles)

Longtime Companion (Norman René)

Metamorphosis: Man into Woman (Lisa Leeman)

1991

Absolutely Positive (Peter Adair)

The Adjuster, Egoyan

City of Hope (John Sayles)

The Enchantment (Nagasaki Shunichi)

Love Lies (Arturo Ripstein)

Paris Is Burning (Jennie Livingston)

Poison (Todd Haynes)

1992

Basic Instinct, Verhoeven, Sharon Stone, Lesbian, GR

Caravaggio (Derek Jarman), Sun

Distant Voices, Still Lives (Terence Davies), Sun

Edward II (Derek Jarman), Sun

The Hours and Times (Christopher Münch), Sun

The Living End (Gregg Araki) Sun

Swoon (Tom Kalin), Sun

Vegas in Space (Phillip R. Ford), Sun

Where Are We? Our Trip through America (Jeffrey Friedman, Rob Epstein), Sun

Young Soul Rebels (Isaac Julien), Sun

1993

And the Band Played On, TV

Farewell My Concubine, Cannes Fest (Oscar nom)

Inside Monkey Zetterland (Jefery Levy), Sun

Naked in New York (Daniel Algrant), Sun

Nitrate Kisses (Barbara Hammer), Sun

Orlando (Sally Potter), Sun

Silverlake Life: The View from Here (Peter Friedman, Tom Joslin), Sun

Three of Hearts (Yurek Bogayevicz), Sun

 

1994

Cancer in Two Voices (Lucy Massie Phenix), Sun

Closing Numbers (Stephen Whittaker), Sun

Coming Out Under Fire (Arthur Dong), Sun

Farinelli, Belgium, Sun

Fast Trip, Long Drop (Gregg Bordowitz), Sun

Go Fish (Rose Troche), Sun

Grief (Richard Glatzer), Sun

Heart of the Matter (Gini Reticker, Amber Hollibaugh), Sun

Totally F***ed Up (Gregg Araki), Sun

1995

Angus,

Awfully Big Adventure

Ballot Measure 9 (Heather MacDonald), Sun

Basketball Diaries, DiCaprio

Black Is… Black Ain’t (Marlon Riggs), Sun

Bloodsisters Leather

Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love, The (Maria Maggenti), Sun

Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde (Michelle Parkerson, Ada Gay Griffin), Sun

Priest (Antonia Bird), Sun

Strawberry and Chocolate (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Juan Carlos Tabio), Sun

Super 8 1/2 (Bruce LaBruce), Sun

Wigstock: The Movie (Barry Shils), Sun

1996

Bird Cage, The, Nichols, Williams, Lan, remake of French

Bound (The Wachowskis), Sun

Celestial Clockwork (Fina Torres)

The Celluloid Closet (Jeffrey Friedman, Rob Epstein)

Cutting Loose (Andrew Young, Susan Todd)

Everything Relative (Sharon Pollack)

Female Perversions (Susan Streitfeld)

Frisk (Todd Verow)

Hollow Reed (Angela Pope)

Hustler White (Bruce LaBruce)

It’s My Party (Randal Kleiser) (Sundance)

Johns (Scott Silver)

Late Bloomers (Julia Dyer, Gretchen Dyer)

Midaq Alley (Jorge Fons)

Stonewall (Nigel Finch)

Tender Fictions (Barbara Hammer)

Trailer Camp (Jenni Olson)

1997

All Over Me (Alex Sichel), Sun

As Good As It Gets, James Brooks, Nicholson, Helen Hunt (Oscar)

Bedrooms and Hallways, Rose Troche

Bent, Sean Matthias, McKellen, Cannes Fest

Boogie Nights, P.T. Anderson, Porn, P.S. Hoffman’s character, O

Boys Life 2

Chasing Amy (Kevin Smith), Sun

Finished (William E. Jones), Sun

Hide and Seek (Su Friedrich), Sun

Kiss Me, Guido (Tony Vitale) Sun

Licensed to Kill (Arthur Dong) Docu, Sun

Love! Valour! Compassion! (Joe Mantello), Sun

Out at Work (Tami Gold, Kelly Anderson), Sun

Paul Monette: The Brink of Summer’s End (Monte Bramer), Sun

Querelle (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), Sun

Slaves to the Underground (Kristine Peterson), Sun

Someone Else from Queens Is Queer (Richard Elovich), Sun

When the Cat’s Away (Cedric Klapisch), Sun

1998

Baby, It’s You (Anne Makepeace), Sun

Billy’s Hollywood Screen Kiss (Tommy O’Haver), Sun

Bocage, the Triumph of Love (Djalma Limongi Batista)

Divine Trash (Steve Yaeger)

Gods and Monsters, Bill Condon

The Hanging Garden (Thom Fitzgerald)

High Art (Lisa Cholodenko)

Long Weekend, The, Araki

Martín (Hache) (Adolfo Aristarain)

The Opposite of Sex (Don Roos)

Out of the Past (Jeff Dupre)

Party Monster: The Shockumentary (Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato)

Relax… It’s Just Sex (P. J. Castellaneta)

1999

Aimee and Jaguar, Germany (Jewish)

All About My Mother, Almodovar, Cannes, Oscar

Beefcake (Thom Fitzgerald) 

Edge of Seventeen (David Moreton)

Get Real (Simon Shore)

Happy Texas (Mark Illsley)

Jawbreaker (Darren Stein)

Jaundiced Eye, docu

The Source (Chuck Workman)

Splendor (Gregg Araki)

Trick (Jim Fall)

Yusho-Renaissance (Hiroyuki Oki)

2000

Beau Travail (Claire Denis), Sun

Before Night Falls, biopic, Bardem, O

The Broken Hearts Club (Greg Berlanti), Sun

But I’m a Cheerleader (Jamie Babbit), Sun

Chuck & Buck (Miguel Arteta), Sun

Could Be Worse! (Zachary Stratis), Sun

Eyes of Tammy Faye, The (Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato), Sun

Groove (Greg Harrison)

I.K.U. (Shu Lea Cheang)

Nuyorican Dream (Laurie Collyer)

Oi! Warning (Dominik Reding, Benjamin Reding)

Paragraph 175 (Jeffrey Friedman, Rob Epstein)

Psycho Beach Party (Robert Lee King)

Punks (Patrik-Ian Polk)

A Question of Faith: Blessed Art Thou (Tim Disney)

Songcatcher (Maggie Greenwald)

Things You Can Tell Just By Looking at Her (Rodrigo García)

Urbania (Jon Shear)

What’s Cooking? (Gurinder Chadha)

2001

101 Reykjavík (Baltasar Kormákur)

The Anniversary Party, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Alan Cumming

The Confusion of Genders (Ilan Duran Cohen)

The Deep End (Scott McGehee, David Siegel)

Hedwig and the Angry Inch (John Cameron Mitchell)

Hey, Happy! (Noam Gonick)

History Lessons (Barbara Hammer)

L.I.E. (Michael Cuesta)

Lost and Delirious (Léa Pool)

Our Lady of the Assassins (Barbet Schroeder)

Possible Loves (Sandra Werneck)

Princesa (Henrique Goldman)

Scout’s Honor (Tom Shepard)

Southern Comfort (Kate Davis)

Stranger Inside (Cheryl Dunye)

Together (Lukas Moodysson)

Trembling Before G-d (Sandi Simcha Dubowski)

2002

Britney, Baby, One More Time (Ludi Boeken)

The Business of Fancydancing (Sherman Alexie)

By Hook or by Crook (Harry Dodge, Silas Howard)

Cherish (Finn Taylor)

The Cockettes (David Weissman, Bill Weber)

Daddy & Papa (Johnny Symons)

The Execution of Wanda Jean (Liz Garbus)

Family Fundamentals (Arthur Dong)

Karmen Geï (Joseph Gaï Ramaka)

Lan Yu (Stanley Kwan)

The Laramie Project (Moisés Kaufman)

Love in the Time of Money (Peter Mattei)

Lubov and Other Nightmares (Andrei Nekrasov)

Miss 501 (Jules Karatechamp)

OnLine (Jed Weintrob)

The Slaughter Rule (Alex Smith, Andrew Smith)

Smokers Only (Verónica Chen)

That’s My Face (Thomas Allen Harris)

XX/XY (Austin Chick)

Y Tu Mamá También (Alfonso Cuarón)

2003

AKA (Duncan Roy)

Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin (Nancy Kates, Bennett Singer)

Camp (Todd Graff)

Die, Mommie, Die! (Mark Rucker)

The Education of Gore Vidal (Deborah Dickson)

The Event (Thom Fitzgerald)

Girls Will Be Girls (Richard Day)

Laurel Canyon (Lisa Cholodenko)

Madame Satã (Karim Aïnouz)

The Mudge Boy (Michael Burke)

Party Monster (Fenton Bailey)

Prey for Rock & Roll (Alex Steyermark)

Soldier’s Girl (Frank Pierson)

State of Denial (Elaine Epstein)

Thirteen (Catherine Hardwicke)

2004

Bad Education, Almodovar, Cannes (opening)

Brother to Brother (Rodney Evans), Sun

Carandiru (Hector Babenco), Sun

D.E.B.S. (Angela Robinson), Sun

Easy (Jane Weinstock), Sun

Eulogy (Michael Clancy), Sun

Garden (Ruthie Shatz, Adi Barash), Sun

Freshman Orientation (Ryan Shiraki), Sun

Harry and Max (Christopher Munch), Sun

In the Company of Women (Gini Reticker, Lesli Klainberg), Sun

Kinsey, Condon (Oscar)

Love by Mistake (Gerardo Chijona Valdez)

Love in Thoughts (Achim von Borries)

Raspberry Reich (Bruce LaBruce)

Saved! (Brian Dannelly)

Second Best (Eric Weber)

Tarnation (Jonathan Caouette)

Touch of Pink (Ian Iqbal Rashid)

Until the Violence Stops (Abby Epstein)

2005

Breakfast at Pluto, Jordan, Cillian Murphy

Brokeback Mountain, Ang Lee, Heath Ledger, O

The Dying Gaul (Craig Lucas)

The Education of Shelby Knox (Marion Lipschutz, Rose Rosenblatt)

Forty Shades of Blue (Ira Sachs)

Happy Endings (Don Roos)

Inside Deep Throat (Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato)

The Joy of Life (Jenni Olson)

Lackawanna Blues (George C. Wolfe)

Loggerheads (Tim Kirkman)

Mysterious Skin (Gregg Araki)

Palermo Hollywood (Eduardo Pinto)

Pretty Persuasion (Marcos Siega)

Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story (Dan Klores, Ron Berger)

Saving Face (Alice Wu)

Strangers with Candy (Paul Dinello) [WATCH]

Twist of Faith (Kirby Dick)

Unconscious (Joaquín Oristrell)

2006

All Aboard! Rosie’s Family Cruise (Shari Cookson), Sun

Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros, The (Auraeus Solito)

Beyond Beats and Rhymes (Byron Hurt), Sun

Boy Culture

Forgiving the Franklins (Jay Floyd), Sun

Kinky Boots (Julian Jarrold)

Puccini for Beginners (Maria Maggenti)

Quinceañera (Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland), Sun

small town gay bar (Malcolm Ingram), Sun

Songbirds (Brian Hill), Sun

Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner, Docu (Freida Lee Mock), Sun

2007

For the Bible Tells Me So (Daniel Karslake)

Life Support (Nelson George)

The Nines (John August)

Protagonist (Jessica Yu)

Save Me (Robert Cary)

Smiley Face (Gregg Araki)

Tuli (Auraeus Solito)

A Very British Gangster (Donal MacIntyre)

2008

Be Like Others (Tanaz Eshaghian)

Derek (Isaac Julien)

The Guitar (Amy Redford)

Half-Life (Jennifer Phang)

The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (Rawson Marshall Thurber)

Otto; or, Up with Dead People (Bruce LaBruce)

Pretty Bird (Paul Schneider)

The Recruiter (Edet Belzberg)

Savage Grace (Tom Kalin)

Towelhead (Alan Ball)

2009

Dare (Adam Salky)

Humpday (Lynn Shelton)

I Love You Phillip Morris (Glenn Ficarra, John Requa)

La Mission (Peter Bratt)

One Day in a Life (Stefano Tummolini)

Sergio (Greg Barker)

Spring Breakdown (Ryan Shiraki)

2010

8: The Mormon Proposition (Reed Cowan, Steven Greenstreet), Sun

Bear Nation, Malcolm Ingmar, Docu, gay subculture

Grown Up Movie Star (Adriana Maggs)

Howl (Jeffrey Friedman, Rob Epstein)

I Am Love (Luca Guadagnino)

Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child (Tamra Davis)

Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work (Ricki Stern, Annie Sundberg)

Kaboom, Araki

Kids Are All Right, The, Lisa Choledenko (Oscar nom)

The Runaways (Floria Sigismondi)

The Taqwacores (Eyad Zahra)

Undertow (Javier Fuentes-León)

Zona Sur (Juan Carlos Valdivia)

2011

!Women Art Revolution (Lynn Hershman Leeson)

Becoming Chaz (Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato)

Beginners, Mike Mills, Plummer, O

Behind the Candelebra, Biopic, TV, Michael Doulas, Damo, Cannes

Circumstance (Maryam Keshavarz)

Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same (Madeleine Olnek)

A Few Days of Respite (Amor Hakkar)

Gun Hill Road (Rashaad Ernesto Green)

Kaboom (Gregg Araki)

The Ledge (Matthew Chapman)

Old Cats (Sebastián Silva, Pedro Peirano)

Our Idiot Brother (Jesse Peretz)

Pariah (Dee Rees)

Red State (Kevin Smith)

Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure (Matthew Bate)

to.get.her (Erica Dunton)

Uncle Kent (Joe Swanberg)

We Were Here (David Weissman, Bill Weber)

2012

Any Day Now, Alan Cumming

About Face: Supermodels Then and Now (Timothy Greenfield-Sanders), Sun

Excision (Richard Bates Jr.), Sun

For a Good Time, Call… (Jamie Travis), Sun

How to Survive a Plague (David France), Sun

The Invisible War (Kirby Dick), Sun

Keep the Lights On (Ira Sachs), Sun

Love Free or Die (Macky Alston), Sun

Me @ the Zoo (Chris Moukarbel, Valerie Veatch), Sun

Mosquita y Mari (Aurora Guerrero), Sun

My Best Day (Erin Greenwell), Sun

My Brother the Devil (Sally El Hosaini), Sun

An Oversimplification of Her Beauty (Terence Nance), Sun

That’s What She Said (Carrie Preston), Sun

Young & Wild (Marialy Rivas), Sun

Your Sister’s Sister (Lynn Shelton), Sun

2013

Blue is the Warmest Color, Kashish, Cannes Fest winner

C.O.G. (Kyle Patrick Alvarez)

Concussion (Stacie Passon)

Fire in the Blood (Dylan Mohan Gray)

God Loves Uganda (Roger Ross Williams)

Interior. Leather Bar. (James Franco, Travis Mathews)

Kill Your Darlings (John Krokidas)

kink (Christina Voros)

Pit Stop (Yen Tan)

Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer (Mike Lerner, Maxim Pozdorovkin)

Stranger by the Lake, Giraudeau, Cannes 

The Truth About Emanuel (Francesca Gregorini)

Valentine Road (Marta Cunningham)

2014

52 Tuesdays (Sophie Hyde)

Appropriate Behavior (Desiree Akhavan)

Blue and Not So Pink, Venezuela

The Case Against 8 (Ben Cotner, Ryan White)

Drunktown’s Finest (Sydney Freeland)

Foxy Merkins, The (Madeleine Olnek)

Jamie Marks Is Dead (Carter Smith)

Lilting (Hong Khaou)

Love Is Strange (Ira Sachs)

My Prairie Home (Chelsea McMullan)

The Overnighters (Jesse Moss)

The Skeleton Twins (Craig Johnson)

Through a Lens Darkly (Allen Harris)

To Be Takei (Jennifer Kroot)

2015

The Amina Profile (Sophie Deraspe) 

Dope (Rick Famuyiwa)

Grandma (Paul Weitz)

I Am Michael (Justin Kelly)

Larry Kramer in Love & Anger (Jean Carlomusto)

The Mask You Live In (Jennifer Siebel Newsom)

Nasty Baby (Sebastian Silva)

The Royal Road (Jenni Olson)

The Summer of Sangaile (Alante Kavaite)

Take Me to the River (Matt Sobel)

Tangerine (Sean Baker)

Ten Thousand Saints (Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini)

Tig (Ashley York, Kristina Goolsby)

2016

As You Are (Miles Joris-Peyrafitte)

Author: The JT LeRoy Story (Jeff Feuerzeig)

Film Hawk (JJ Garvine, Tai Parquet)

First Girl I Loved (Kerem Sanga)

The Intervention (Clea Duvall)

Kiki (Sara Jordenö)

Lovesong (So Yong Kim)

Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures (Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato)

Other People (Chris Kelly)

Plaza de la Soledad (Maya Goded)

Spa Night (Andrew Ahn)

Suited (Jason Benjamin)

Tickled (David Farrier, Dylan Reeve)

Uncle Howard (Aaron Brookner)

Viva (Paddy Breathnach)

2017

Assassination of Gianni Versache, 2017, Ryan Murphy, TV series

Axolotl Overkill (Helene Hegemann), Sun

Beach Rats (Eliza Hittman), Sun

Being 17, French, Techine

Boys for Sale?

B.P.M. 120, French docu, Cannes

Call Me by Your Name (Luca Guadagnino), Sun, O

God’s Own Country (Francis Lee), Sun

The Little Hours (Jeff Baena), Sun

This Is Everything: Gigi Gorgeous (Barbara Kopple), Sun

The Wound (John Trengove), Sun

2018

And Breathe Normally (Ísold Uggadóttir) 

Assassination Nation (Sam Levinson)

Believer (Don Argott)

Bisbee ’17 (Robert Greene)

The Catcher Was a Spy (Ben Lewin)

Colette (Wash Westmoreland)

Dark Money (Kimberly Reed)

Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot (Gus Van Sant)

The Happy Prince (Rupert Everett)

Hearts Beat Loud (Brett Haley)

A Kid Like Jake (Silas Howard)

Lizzie (Craig William Macneill)

The Miseducation of Cameron Post (Desiree Akhavan)

Seeing Allred (Roberta Grossman, Sophie Sartain)

Skate Kitchen (Crystal Moselle)

Studio 54 (Matt Tyrnauer)

Tyrel (Sebastian Silva)

We the Animals (Jeremiah Zagar)

White Rabbit (Daryl Wein)

2019

Adam (Rhys Ernst), Sun

Alex Strangelove

The Art of Being (JB Ghuman Jr.), Sun

Ask Dr. Ruth (Ryan White), Sun

Beach Rats, Eliza,

Before You Know It (Hannah Pearl Utt), Sun

Bohemian Rhapsody, biopic, The Queen, O

Brittany Runs a Marathon (Paul Downs Colaizzo), Sun

Halston (Frédéric Tcheng), Sun

Jawline (Liza Mandelup), Sun

This Is Not Berlin (Hari Sama), Sun

To the Stars (Martha Stephens), Sun

Velvet Buzzsaw (Dan Gilroy), Sun

Where’s My Roy Cohn? (Matt Tyrnauer), Sun

2020

And Then We Danced (Levan Akin), Sun

(Boys in the Band, The, Mantello, TV series, 2020)

Boys State (Amanda McBaine, Jesse Moss), Sun

Disclosure: Trans Lives on Screen (Sam Feder), Sun

Ema (Pablo Larraín)

Falling (Viggo Mortensen)

The Fight (Elyse Steinberg, Josh Kriegman, Eli Despres)

The Go-Go’s (Alison Ellwood)

I Carry You With Me (Heidi Ewing)

Jumbo (Zoé Wittock)

Kajillionaire (Miranda July)

La Leyenda Negra (Patricia Vidal Delgado)

Mucho Mucho Amor (Cristina Costantini, Kareem Tabsch)

Nowhere Inn (Bill Benz)

Shirley (Josephine Decker)

Uncle Frank (Alan Ball)

Welcome to Chechnya (David France)

Whirlybird (Matt Yoka)

2021

Am I OK? (Tig Notaro, Stephanie Allynne)

The Cow Who Sang a Song Into the Future (Francisca Alegria)

Framing Agnes (Chase Joynt)

Girl Picture (Alli Haapasalo)

Marte Um (Mars One) (Gabriel Martins)

My Trip to Spain (Theda Hammel)

Sirens (John Duigan)

Something in the Dirt (Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead)

We Met in Virtual Reality (Joe Hunting)

2023

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