LGBT Movies and films

[Frank Zapatista]

Found this cool list of LGBT movies on tumblr and thought I would share it with my fellow LGBT revlefters. http://projectqueer.tumblr.com/films
Feel free to contribute to the thread with movies not mentioned in this persons list. I plan on watching some of these tonight :D

[A Revolutionary Tool]

I've never seen the movie version but I've been to a theater to see the play Rent and it seems like it should be on that list.

[Ocean Seal]

I think that they missed what's probably the most famous one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_%28film%29

[eyeheartlenin]

"Longtime Companion" (1989) was a very moving film about the AIDS epidemic in the US. The film has its own entry on wikipedia.org if you are interested. As I remember, the film was set in New York.

I recommend it wholeheartedly.

[Islamosocialist]

I only know one good one.

Here is a scene of it:

youtube.com/watch?v=Khx4QGuGGJM

It's by a Muslim director in Bosnia and it is set during the war (1992-1995).

It follows an interfaith gay couple, one Muslim, one Orthodox Christian. They're living together, having the good live, in the cosmopolitan capital, Sarajevo.

And then the war starts, the bombing, the camps, the killings... the Christian man is terrified for his Muslim lover. So they agree: the Muslim boy hides as a female, as a Christian woman. The Christian man takes his new wife back to his rural, Christian village.

The Muslim man, in disguise, has to watch massacres of Muslims, has to listen to talk about how they're scum, has to deal with all of this...

And, in the end... what? You will have to watch the movie to see.

It created a HUGE controversy in Bosnia. All the Muslim religious leaders were saying, "It makes a mockery of our genocide! How would Israel react to such a film?", etc. All the conservative politicians were all, "Gay didn't exist here until after the war, with Western influence. This is all lies!", and on and on.

And Ahmed, the director, gave them hell in the press. He even said, "It hasn't even been released yet. They have not seen it! And on and on they talk!? Part of understanding the war is understanding what it's like to be vulnerable. Telling the story of our war through gay people, who lived it, is not an insult. It's even a better way for general society to reflect on our experience."

And when it finally played... men, women, crying as they walked out of the theatre. The director said he was touched by the open laughing crying cheering etc. as the film played on opening night. And he got faith our society is better than the loudest among us.

I watched the whole movie. I can't ever do it again. It is such a far-fetched story for most of us... but it is told in such an authentic way that every Bosnian who watches this movie thinks... I lost my cousin that way, my sister died in a similar fashion, oh I remember being shot at like that. It's so authentic.

And it really speaks to...

We all grew up together. How could you leave our high school and go join the army and shoot at your old classroom? How could you leave Sarajevo, join the Serbian army, and bomb the city with all your relatives still in it?

It helps answer some of those questions.

It's like... water flows to the lowest point... humans flow to the place easiest to survive.

I recommend very much that you watch the whole film!

[Die Rote Fahne]

Philidelphia and Milk.

Both great films, more specifically Philidelphia. Antonio Banderas and Tom Hanks = yes.

[00000000000]

'Beautful Thing' - 1996, British independant film where two teenage boys on a rough council estate / project in London fall in love. So sweet and tragic and just..fucking heart-breaking

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beautiful_Thing