Celebrating 25 Years of Queering Cinema

The 21st century has been truly revolutionary in terms of LGBTQ+ representation in film. Here are our a few of our editors’ favorite queer-themed movies from the last 25 years.

Released in the summer of 2000, Jamie Babbit’s satirical and affirming But I’m a Cheerleader heralded a sea change for queer cinema for the first 25 years of the 21st century. A self-reflective comedy and romance that thumbed its nose at compulsory heterosexuality, it was also widely loved. New Queer Cinema began flourishing in art houses and at festivals in the 1990s with films from Todd Haynes, Gregg Araki, and Rose Troche. LGBTQ+ moviegoers saw themselves reflected on the big screen sometimes for the first time, but savvy NQC viewers had to know how to find the indie theaters and cool video stores. But the 2000s marked big productions of queer films that began to gain Academy Awards recognition, like Brokeback Mountain and Milk. By 2015, a cavalcade of prestige…

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