The Top 100 LGBT+ films of all time countdown! scoring complete! GET READY!!!

[Kalo]

Hello all happy pride month! 

 

So I have really been feeling my singleness and watching a ton of gay content movies, and realized I have seen nearly 200 now. and seeing as it's June PRIDE month, I thought it was a good time to do this club. to my knowledge this kind of countdown has never been done before so it would make it this first ever of it's kind. I know there are ALOT of LGBT+ people on these boards (myself included). so I think there is enough interests. obviously  anyone can and should participate though. so off to watching you go dance be gay!

 

So what qualifies? this one is a little more tricky than some, I feel like for the most part if the main character of the film is of the L G B T Q +' then it qualifies. having a film there they have a gay friend does not.. but there are exceptions and if you have one you think might qualify but are not sure make an argument for it. I want this countdown to be queer focused you might say so I am learning more towards the story being about their sexuality in some way or another. older films I am a bit more lenient because well there were legals issues with making these kind of films in pre-code era and somehow some still got made even if most didn't out right say the word "Gay" in them.

 

Some I am allowing older not quite super "Gay" but I think should be included.

 

Rebecca (1940)

Rope (1948)

Strangers on a Train (1951)

Rebel Without a Cause (1955)

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) (this one is pretty obviously imo)

Midnight Cowboy (1969)

My best Friends Wedding (1997) (basically my first exposure to a gay person, watching it when I was 6 and somehow already knew I was gay then, I know not that old, but it's pretty gay imo even if the two leads are not)

 

Here are some lists to refresh your memory:

https://letterboxd.com/walypala/list/2023-coming-out-list-queer-gay-bi-les-trans/

https://letterboxd.com/mundof/list/pride-a-chronological-history-of-queer-interest/

 

 

I am saying 50, but if there is enough lists sent in I may do 100.  (it will take longer if I do though so well see)

 

I will be doing a weight list of top 10, 25, 50, 75, and 100, the more longer lists the better.

 

Top 10

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1. 100 2. 85 3. 70 4. 60 5. 50 6. 40 7. 30. 8. 20 9. 10 10. 1

Top 25

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1- 100 2. 90 3. 80 4. 70 5. 60 6-8- 50 9-12- 40 13-16- 30 17-20- 20 21- 15 22- 10 23- 5 24- 3 25- 1

Top 50 

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1- 100 2- 95 3- 90 4- 85 5- 80 6- 75 7- 70 8- 65 9- 60 10- 50 11-15- 45 16-20- 40 21-25- 35 26-30- 30 31-35- 25 36-40- 20 41-43- 15 44-46- 10 47- 8 48- 5 49- 3 50- 1

Top 75 

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1- 100 2- 98 3- 95 4- 93 5- 90 6- 88 7- 86 8- 84 9- 82 10- 80 11- 77 12- 74 13- 71 14- 68 15- 65 16- 62 17- 59 18- 56 19- 53 20- 50 21-25- 46 26-30- 42 31-35- 38 36-40- 34 41-45- 30 46-50- 25 51-55- 20 56-60- 15 61-65- 10 66-68- 8 69-71- 5 72- 4 73- 3 74- 2 75- 1

Top 100

1- 100

2-99

3- 98

...

100- 1

Please be kind and don't insult anyone, their identity sexuality etc in this thread.  (or anywhere tbh)

 

I will have a tentative deadline of August 1st, 2023. 

 

LOVE

 

 

IS

 

LOVE

 

 

 

Edited August 27 by Kalo

[Kalo]

FYC:
Call my By Your Name (2017)

 

God's Own country (2017)

 

The Duke of Burgundy (2014)

 

 

Pain and Glory (2019)

 

Mysterious skin (2004)

 

Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)

 

Hawaii (2013)

 

Querelle (1982)

 

Maurice (1987)

 

Brokeback Mountain (2005)

 

The Strong Ones (2019)

[Krissykins]

1. Brokeback Mountain

2. Love Simon

3. God’s Own Country

4. Bros

5. Call Me By Your Name

6. But I’m A Cheerleader

7.  The Kids are All Right

8. Mysterious Skin

9. Milk

10. Hedwig

11. Priscilla

12. Rocky Horror

13. The Broken Hearts Club

14. The Birdcage

15. Can You Ever Forgive Me?

16. Moonlight

17. To Wong Foo

18. Dallas Buyers Club

19. Boys Don’t Cry

20. Fire Island

21. Stage Mother

22. Rocketman

23. Transamerica

24. The Boys in the Band

25. Paris Is Burning

26. In & Out

 

 

[ringedmortality]

1. Brokeback Mountain

2. Call Me By Your Name

3. Midnight Cowboy

4. Maurice

5. My Own Private Idaho

6. Philadelphia

7. Carol

8. The Birdcage

9. Tangerine

10. The Favourite

[Fanboy]

Some of my FYCs 

Beautiful Thing (1996)


Tangerine (2015)


C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005)


Carol (2015)


Weekend (2011)

[across the Jat verse]

1. Call me by your name

2. Love, Simon

3. Handmaiden

4. The Half of it

5. Portrait of Lady on Fire

6. Badhai Do

 

Edited June 24 by across the Jat verse

[Cap]

On 6/21/2023 at 11:59 PM, Kalo said:

older films I am a bit more lenient

petition to include

- whatever happened to baby jane

- mommy dearest

- wizard of oz

- some like it hot

- the haunting

- pink flamingos (any John waters film)

- Cabaret

- interview with the vampire 

[toutvabien]

1. Happy Together (1997)

2. Moonlight (2016)

3. Raspberry Reich (2004)

4. The Attack of the Giant Moussaka (1999)

5. But I'm a Cheerleader (1999)

6. Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)

7. C.R.A.Z.Y (2005)

8. The Birdcage (1996)

9. Pink Flamingos (1972)

10. Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

Edited June 30 by toutvabien

[baumer]

So would a film like The perks of being a wallflower qualify

[Fanboy]

There's some films I'm not sure whether they qualify because they're not exactly modern or old or lgbt-focused but include lgbt+ content, for example what about stuff like Black Swan, Jennifer's Body, Y tu mamá también , etc. do they all count? 

Edited June 24 by Fanboy

[Kalo]

4 hours ago, Cap said:

petition to include

- whatever happened to baby jane

- mommy dearest

- wizard of oz

- some like it hot

- the haunting

- pink flamingos (any John waters film)

- Cabaret

- interview with the vampire 

I think Interview with Vampire qualifies.  I don't Really Considered Wizard of Oz to be LGBT. I understand that a lot of metaphors for being gay are in their but we're the intentional at the time? But I also think it's over rated. But If you wanted to include it go ahead. I haven't seen the rest so I couldn't really say. 

[Kalo]

2 hours ago, Fanboy said:

There's some films I'm not sure whether they qualify because they're not exactly modern or old or lgbt-focused but include lgbt+ content, for example what about stuff like Black Swan, Jennifer's Body, Y tu mamá también , etc. do they all count? 

Yu Tu totally does they have gay sex in the end lol. I probably am not including Black Swan on my list. You can. Was the gay stuff a dream sequence. I can't remember?  I just don't want the list to include a ton of not really "GAY" films when there are a ton of really good ones that are. I will probably include Rebecca on mine though. I would say as long as your list is 80+ percent explicitly LGBT then you can add other "sort of" LGBT films to it. everything Everywhere  all at once technically qualifies as well. And I love that movie. But it's not really the main focus on the movie so I am unsure about including it on my list. 

[Kalo]

2 hours ago, baumer said:

So would a film like The perks of being a wallflower qualify

Yes. The gay kid is the co-lead and his sexuality is a large part of the movie so i would say so. 

[Kalo]

I'm Tempted to say Frozen and The Little Mermaid qualify... Thoughts?  

[cookie]

2 minutes ago, Kalo said:

I'm Tempted to say Frozen and The Little Mermaid qualify... Thoughts?  

I think including allegories (intentional or not) would broaden the definition too much. You could potentially fill a whole list with just those.

[Cap]

1 hour ago, Kalo said:

I think Interview with Vampire qualifies.  I don't Really Considered Wizard of Oz to be LGBT. I understand that a lot of metaphors for being gay are in there but we're the intentional at the time? But I also think it's over rated. But If you wanted to include it go ahead. I haven't seen the rest so I couldn't really say. 

It doesn’t matter if you think it is overrated, cause it’s a community list! Also the rainbow flag is literally a reference to the Wizard of Oz!!

 

So yay! Gonna include it!

[Spidey Freak]

Well, this is a coincidence. I was actually watching Die Mitte der Welt (Eng: Center of My World) in the morning, starring Louis Hoffman from Netflix's Dark. Will recommend it if I find it strong enough after getting back to it and finishing it in the night.

 

2 hours ago, Kalo said:

I'm Tempted to say Frozen and The Little Mermaid qualify... Thoughts?  

 

Not Frozen for sure. Not until Disney gets the balls and says the word

 

I'm a bit torn on TLM as an LGBT artist was so instrumental in creating it and made the allegory (that was already present in the original tale) more apparent. But if TLM counts, so should BatB. Personally, I feel including allegory films would push out actual representation from the list so I'll vote NO to all of them.

[TalismanRing]

For now my top 30 (order will also probably change)

 

1. Happy Together (1997)
2. Pain and Glory (2019)
3. Call Me by Your Name (2017)
4. Maurice (1987)
5. Victim (1961)
6. Cabaret (1972)
7. God's Own Country (2017)
8. Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
9. Philadelphia (1993)
10. Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985)
11. The Favourite (2018)
12. My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)
13. Juste Une Question D'amour (2000)
14. Moonlight (2016)
15. The Children's Hour (1961)
16. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
17. Rocketman (2019)
18. La Cage aux Folles (1978)
19. Pride (2014)
20. Longtime Companion (1989)
21. Tangerine (2015)
22. The Boys in the Band (1970)
23. The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert (1994)
24. The Crying Game (1992)
25. Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)
26. The Wedding Banquet (1993)
27. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
28. Orlando (1992)
29. Velvet Goldmine (1998)
30. The Color Purple (1985)

 

[Krissykins]

7 hours ago, Fanboy said:

There's some films I'm not sure whether they qualify because they're not exactly modern or old or lgbt-focused but include lgbt+ content, for example what about stuff like Black Swan, Jennifer's Body, Y tu mamá también , etc. do they all count? 

Jennifer’s Body sadly wouldn’t count here. It’s not overtly about gayness and none of the leads are actually gay. 
 

Love that film though. 

[Cap]

6 hours ago, Spidey Freak said:

Personally, I feel including allegory films would push out actual representation from the list so I'll vote NO to all of them.

My friends in IRL were talking about the list today cause I mentioned it. All three of us are queer. We were talking about how a lot of the “iconic” queer/gay movies aren’t implicit, but have been adopted by the community for one reason or another. So it can be a blurry line, I feel at times. 
 

As someone who has run several lists, I tend to say let everything in. And let the chips fall where they lay.