Gay movies 2014

YEAR IN REVIEW: Film

Sure, we know everybody’s talking about the Emmy nominations right now, but they aren’t the only TV awards in town.

On July 8, GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics announced the winners of its 17th Dorian TV Awards.

With more than critics, journalists, and media icons making up its membership, GALECA is the second largest entertainment journalists&#; group in the world, and they present their Dorian Awards – named in honor of Oscar Wilde, the celebrated queer writer who penned “The Picture of Dorian Gray” and who serves as something like the group’s patron saint – to honor the best in film, television, and theater at separate times during each year. Frequently, many Dorian nominees and winners presage similar honors from the more mainstream awards bodies, reminding the world that the informed LGBTQ perspective on all things entertainment definitely matters; at the same time, however, the Dorians also include several queer-centric categories that are unique to them, providing an opportunity to boost the reach of more unsung and off-the-radar

Let's start with a movie that isn't gay at all: Daniel Patrick Carbone's Hide Your Smiling Faces. This movie is a kind of old-school David Gordon Green picture &#; semi-rural life with kids trying to figure out who they are. The two brothers in the movie are coming to grips with the death of a young partner of theirs, and this movie is gorgeous.It tells its story in abstract, poetic ways, and it doesn't bother with the classic Hollywood narratives that might find the boys figuring out how to heal or finding solace in a new buddy. Instead, it explores the frustration and terror of being a boy, of trying to fit in with other boys, of the impossibility at this age of understanding anything that one's parents verb to say.

I want to say, too, that one of the reasons I love films like Hide Your Smiling Faces&#; and DGG's George Washingtonand Jordan Vogt-Roberts' Kings of Summer from last year and Benh Zeitlin's Beasts of the Southern Wild &#; is that they really areabout childhood (pace Richard Linklater). These films are not movies about the experience of parenthood ma

21 New Gay Movies On Netflix Instant Streaming: November

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Netflix’s LGBT instant streaming queue continues to grow, with this list of 21 new queer-centric flicks to hit the streaming service over the past couple of months. The timing’s just right, too, considering we’re approaching that noun of year when snuggling up on the couch with a bowl of popcorn, a warm body, and a good gay flick is all you wanna do. No matter what your persuasion, you’ll find a handful of things on this list to keep you agreeable and toasty over these next few chilly months.

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Aimee and Jaguar: “Based on Lilly Wust’s memoirs, this drama tells of two women — a Jewish journalist and the wife of a Nazi officer — who fall in love in Berlin.”

East is East: “In s England, the Khan children are caught between their strictly traditional Pakistani father and their more laid-back British mother.”

Edge of Seventeen: “A year-old confronts confusion and heartbreak as he

I posted recently about Pride, Hide Your Smiling Faces, Love Is Strange, and Will You Still Cherish Me Tomorrow?. But I live in cold, frigid New Hampshire, and movies with predominantly gay characters and predominantly gay storylines don't really play in theatres up here. (The Imitation Game is obviously the exception&#; a faux-gay movie without any gay people in it.) Anyway, I am catching up! And there were lots of great gay movies last year.

The Way He Looks (Hoje Eu Quero Voltar Sozinho) is just the sweetest thing.This is a film about a blind boy who is falling in love with a boy he meets and befriends at academy and it couldn't be more cute. It also feels really honest and simple. This is not a complicated story with lots of histrionics or big fights or uncontrolled tears. The Way He Looks isn't a film about coming out, either. The main character, Leo, doesn't struggle with his sexuality or try to fight it. He has bigger, more complicated problems (namely a mother who barely trusts him to be at home by himself).

Instead of a coming-out narrative, Leo's story is a tale of how