Summary: Before Brokeback Mountain, Ang Lee directed this film about a gay Asian landlord who agrees to a marriage of convenience with a female tenant in order to satsify his traditional parents. Summary: Father Greg Pilkington ( Linus Roache) struggles with his calling as conservative Catholic priest and his own sexual orientation. Only six titles on our list were released prior to 1990 – and nearly two thirds come from the aughts (2000-2010).īut that’s enough of an intro. The oldest film on our list is The Boys in the Band (1970) at #33, but most films are of fairly recent vintage.
Notīad for a decade old small French TV movie! Meanwhile, TV films had a strong showing, with HBO’s Angels in America at #22, Lifetime’s Prayers for Bobbyat #17, and Just a Question of Love ( Juste un question d’amour) at #18. Ironically, it’s a film about gay representation in film: The Celluloid
We specifically noted that documentaries were eligible for nomination in this movie poll, and yet only one documentary made it into the top 50. (2009) made the strongest impression on readers, landing all the way at #6. Of the new films, Tom Ford’s A Single Man This represents a strong showing for current queer cinema.
Nine new films made their way into the rankings, and five of these are of very recent vintage. For instance, do you know how many different ways our readers can type/abbreviate “ The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert?”īut we’re not complaining, because the list that resulted this year is actually rather interesting. Tabulating this data is actually a bit harder than it sounds. We wanted to see which older gay films have timeless appeal and which recent gay films you judged important enough to register in the rankings.Īfter voting closed we sorted through the nearly 15,000 nominations (representing over 500 individual titles) to identify your top fifty favorite gay films. A few weeks ago we asked readers to submit up to five of their favorite movies in our third annual favorite gay film poll.