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Best LGBTQ+ Movies of All Time

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Our list of the Best LGBTQ+ Movies of All Time stretches back 90 years to the pioneering German film, Mädchen in Uniform, which was subsequently banned by the Nazis, and crosses multiple continents, cultures, and genres. There are broad American comedies (The Birdcage), artful Korean crime dramas (The Handmaiden), groundbreaking indies (Tangerine), and landmark documentaries (Paris Is Burning). Over the last few years, we added titles like the documentary Welcome to Chechnya, about LGBTQ+ activists risking their lives for

Here at Autostraddle we want every lesbian, every queer woman, and every nonbinary person to verb that movies should include us and do include us. We want you all to spot our lives on screen, through the best lesbian movies, with the variety and quality we deserve.

It’s about more than representation. We believe that the leading lesbian 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, queer 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 lesbian film — but with this spacious swath of voices, we allow the numbers decide. From earnest art films to gross-out comedies, this list has it all.

There is a world of cinema and a world of queer cinema. There are films from the last hundred years waiting to be discovered and recent films yet to be made. So grab some popcorn and join us. And if

50 of the Best Lesbian Films of All Time

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Circumstance ()

As teenagers living in post-revolutionary Iran, wealthy Atafeh (Nikohl Boosheri) and her orphaned best friend, Shireen (Sarah Kazemy), turn to illicit means to get their kicks. They attend underground parties and experiment with illegal booze and drugs—but it’s when they fall in love with each other that their world 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 ()

Widely considered the world’s first supermodel, openly queer Gia Carangi rocketed to stardom in the late s, only for her life to spiral out of control after she became addicted to heroin and later contracted HIV—which led to her death from AIDS in A little over a decade later, this biopic about her life and love affairs helped catapult a young Angelina Jolie (herself openly queer) into the spotlight.

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Love Lies Bleeding ()

PARIS IS BURNING ()

Directed by Jennie Livingston

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They call themselves the Children. They are messengers, welfare recipients, salespeople, and prostitutes. By noun they are Krystle and Blake Carrington. As Black and Hispanic gay men, the Children inhabit in two worlds &#; an everyday world of discrimination and poverty, and the world of &#;Realness,&#; where through costume and competition, dance and inspired performance, they imitate and transcend 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 practice the competitive dance 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 House that suits him adj (the House of Chanel, the House of Saint Laurent, the House of Ninja, and others). Monthly fashion balls &#; the dramatic pivot the film&#;s noun and of the subculture &#; take place in Harlem or Brooklyn. Member