Pride is a time in which everyone under the LGBTQ umbrella is encouraged to come out and wave their flag in spectacular parades.
Oh, and your ex-girlfriend, who's been a total flake lately, is there too. After a 2018 Broadway revival, Netflix took a stab at another adaptation and mostly succeeded.
— A.F. — O.W.
How to watch:I Saw the TV Glow is streaming on HBO Max.
3. Their courtship is sweet and exuberantly sexy, but it’s complicated by the secrets they both keep from one another and their respective families.
Stream on Hulu.
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This queer reimagining of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice was an instant rom-com classic for a reason.
Simon's recently restored doc is so many things at once: an archival treasure of early drag performances, an intimate look at the lives of queer men and trans women offstage, and, most famously, a record of one infamous incident that would later give way to the birth of house culture and the ballroom scene: Crystal LaBeija's scorching tirade to the camera after losing to a white queen.
How to watch:The Queen is available to stream for free on Kanopy or for rent or purchase on Kino Now and Prime Video.
11. Set in a futuristic New York City after a socialist revolution, the film imagines America living under democratic socialism, but where the promises of that society are proving unfulfilled.
In classic U-Haul style, the two immediately hit it off, fall in love, and move in together, but soon their blissful romance becomes interrupted by Lou's violent family. While Schoenbrun's characters aren't explicitly trans, it's not hard to see the parallels to an experience of being an egg, dysphoria, and feeling trapped and afraid to transition to one's truer self.
It’s an emotional and stunningly beautiful watch.
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Sometimes we just need a bit of good old-fashioned horsing around, and that’s exactly what this very silly movie delivers. After Drew's aspiring comic starts an underground anti-comedy club that becomes a hangout for Batman villains, she falls for Mr.
J, a transmasc Joker who helps her come out and transition — from Joker to Harlequin, as she says. Tomboy (2011)
Another installment from writer-director Céline Sciamma. It'salso got Bowen Yang as God, and a finale number that is as joyous as it is absolutely iconoclastic. — O.W.
How to watch:L'immensità is streaming on Prime Video, Kanopy, Hoopla, and Darkroom.
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It's a film for anyone longing to spend some time in a world where trans bodies exist openly and freely, outside the constraints of cis-centric gender norms.