Gay women movies
PARIS IS BURNING (1990)
Directed by Jennie Livingston
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They summon themselves the Children. They are messengers, welfare recipients, salespeople, and prostitutes. By night they are Krystle and Blake Carrington. As Jet and Hispanic male lover men, the Children inhabit in two worlds – an everyday world of discrimination and poverty, and the nature of “Realness,” where through costume and competition, dance and inspired performance, they imitate and go beyond the powerful fantasy media that excludes them. PARIS IS BURNING follows a number of the Children as they meet along the piers, where they exchange news and sex and exercise the competitive sway called voguing, which combines the acrobatic character of break-dancing with moves based on fashion model’s poses. Each of the Children belongs to the Dwelling that suits him best (the Residence of Chanel, the House of Saint Laurent, the Property of Ninja, and others). Monthly fashion balls – the dramatic pivot the film’s action and of the subculture – take place in Harlem or Brooklyn. Members of rival Houses challenge for trophies and cash prizes in categories
25 Best Lesbian Movies to Watch
The Watermelon Woman (1996)
A lesbian classic, this film centers on Cheryl, an aspiring Black filmmaker who is making a film about Black lesbians in film. It takes on a mockumentary format as she explores her have life, identity and representation. Part romantic comedy, part look at Black queer women in Hollywood, it has something for everyone.
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Booksmart (2019)
Amy and Molly are best friends and academic successes, but as they prepare to graduate, they realize they own missed out on the optimal parts of being a teenager. This duo decides to inhabit it all up while they can, with intriguing results.
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Bottoms (2024)
Campy and outspoken, this motion picture stars two gay girls who start a fight club in their high school in an attempt at impressing the cheerleaders. Hilariously, the plan works a little too well. Soon, the girls are faced with the ramifications of their lies in this powerful film about bonding, coming of age, truth and belonging.
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Better Than Chocolate (1999)
Wanting a nostalgic lesbian film? Better Than Chocolate was an early 2000
Here at Autostraddle we wish every lesbian, every gender non-conforming woman, and every nonbinary person to know that movies should include us and do include us. We want you all to see our lives on screen, through the best lesbian movies, with the variety and quality we deserve.
It’s about more than representation. We feel that the best sapphic movies rank among the very best movies, period. Our stories matter and have too long been ignored. This list, created based on ballots submitted by over 75 current and former Autostraddle writers, other critics and programmers, other queer writers, lgbtq+ filmmakers, and queer performers, aims to create a canon of the very best lesbian movies of all time. Past lists, we’ve made rules about what constitutes a homosexual woman film — but with this wide swath of voices, we let the numbers decide. From stern art films to gross-out comedies, this list has it all.
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50 of the Optimal Lesbian Films of All Time
Circumstance (2011)
As teenagers living in post-revolutionary Iran, wealthy Atafeh (Nikohl Boosheri) and her orphaned best friend, Shireen (Sarah Kazemy), spin to illicit means to get their kicks. They appear underground parties and experiment with illegal booze and drugs—but it’s when they fall in like with each other that their nature begins to unravel. Homosexuality is strictly illegal in Iran, and as Atafeh’s increasingly religious brother develops an obsession with Shireen, the girls are forced to make a painful choice.
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Gia (1998)
Widely considered the world’s first supermodel, openly queer Gia Carangi rocketed to stardom in the late 1970s, only for her being to spiral out of control after she became addicted to heroin and later contracted HIV—which led to her death from AIDS in 1986. A little over a decade later, this biopic about her life and adore affairs helped catapult a young Angelina Jolie (herself openly queer) into the spotlight.
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Love Lies Bleeding (2024)
This romantic thriller—starring Kristen Stewart and Katy O’Brian—has all