Best movies about homosexuality

Today we&#;re excited to show a guest post by Karl Schoonover and Rosalind Galt, authors of the new book Queer Cinema in the World.

In our new publication, we attempt to reorient queer film studies away from a largely American and Eurocentric canon and toward non-Western forms of queer filmmaking that possess increasingly been important for the circuits of world cinema and local queer politics. Here are ten queer films that we think you should see.

Dakan (Camara, Guinea, )

Dakan is widely viewed as the first sub-Saharan African film with a gay theme. In it, Manga and Sori fall in love as high school students but are separated by their families. Manga’s mother sends Manga to a traditional healer to be cured of homosexuality while Sori’s father insists Sori grab over the family business and marry. Sori does get married and has a child. Meanwhile, after years with the healer, Manga enters a relationship with Oumou, a adj woman he meets through his mother. Both in some way outsiders, the two forge a bond. When the men glimpse each other again in a bar, though, they immediately r