INTRODUCTION TO THE LGBTQ COMMUNITY
The LGBTQ is an acronym for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer. These are the sexual orientations or gender identities of people who identify themselves as lesbian, gay, transgender, bisexual, queer and other identities like pansexual, non-binary, questioning and so on.
A lot of movies have finally started giving them the representation they deserve so here are movies that include the LGBTQ community:
1. CALL ME BY YOUR NAME
Selected for three Golden Globes, two BAFTAs and two Academy Awards (one being Best Picture and the other Best Actor, Call Me by Your Name is the film that made TimothéeChalamet the worldwide sensation he is today.
In view of André Aciman’s tale, Chalamet is Elio, a young person living in Italy while Armie Mallet plays Oliver, a more seasoned understudy who stays with Elio’s family while filling in as the high schooler’s temporary assistant.
Which begins as a cold companionship between the men before long blooms into a sun-drenched relationship. Be that as it may, with an inescapable termination date approaching, Elio’s apprehension and disarray as he deals with his recently discovered sexuality and afterwards bidding farewell to Oliver is a relatable survey for anybody.
2. LOVE, SIMON
Many movies have been given negative reviews and criticized for using start actors to represent queer experiences, but Love, Simon- the first same-sex teen romance by a big studio- transcends these criticisms.
The supporting actor, Keiyan Lonsdale, one of Simon’s love interests is queer and Greg Berlanti, the director is openly gay too! The beautiful coming-of-age movies are based on the novel, Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli.
The book is based on Simon, a teen who is deciding whether to tell his friends and family if he is gay or not. This movie depicts how with the help of support, love and courage, coming out of the closet will never be a challenge for you and Love, Simon portrays this ideology brilliantly.
3. CAROL
Todd Haynes’ story about lesbian love in the 1950s is a gorgeous film from start to finish: from the directions to the awards-worthy performances (Rooney Mara as the gawky, vulnerable Therese and Cate Blanchett as the alluring, perfectly coiffed Carol).
No matter which way you swing, Carol is one of the most tender cinematic depictions ever of what it feels like to be in love—how the quality of light changes, how time slows, how every fleeting gesture takes on the deliberateness of sign language—and why two people would be willing to go against everything society expects of them in order to hold on to it.
4. THE HALF OF IT
“This isn’t a love story,” the main actor of The Half Of It says at the start of the film. It’s something or other teenagers will in general say, however, it’s difficult to accept, particularly given that the film is gushing on Netflix, which has gotten referred to lately as a youngster romantic comedy factory where puppy love and lust rules.
Yet, Alice Wu’s The Half of It is genuinely not a romantic tale, which improves it all the more. Before the finish of the film, nobody has “gotten the young lady” and there’s no coupling up. Every one of the three primary characters heads out in a different direction. It is anything but a disturbing end, yet it doesn’t coddle its crowd a classic happy ending, settling on something more realistic.
5. I AM NOT OKAY WITH THIS
Try not to be mistaken: this arrangement may highlight kids (Sophia Lillis, Wyatt Oleff) from the IT pictures and come from showrunner of both Stranger Things and The End of the F****** World. However, I Am Not Okay With This, is in reality none of those things.
The dramedy is another variation of one of TEOTFW creator Charles Forsman’s realistic books, however, about a teenaged young lady named Syd who, on top of managing the recent loss of her dad and battling with her sexuality, some way or another begins to encounter superpowers.
It gets the nostalgic music prompts and irritability that made TEOTFW work, however all alone is an eccentric, delicate tale about how sadness and outrage can show in teen young ladies. Supernaturally giving bully bleeding noses and obliterating grocery stores to the side, it’s the sort of relatable anxiety that you could be okay with.
6. MOONLIGHT
Chronicling the childhood years, high school stretch, and muted grown-up existence of Chiron, a dark gay man making it in Miami, this movie is without a moment’s delay hyper-explicit and vastly all-inclusive.
Director Barry Jenkins establishes every second in the last; Chiron’s longing for a lost lover can’t consume in a café stall over a glass of wine without his beachside character identity crisis years earlier, obscured and brutal, or experiences from deeper in the past, when he looks at his mom’s chronic drug use, or the mentoring demands of her crack provider, felt like mysteries conveyed in code. Moonlight’s Academy Award win was truly best deserved.
By Suhaani Hardikar
