Borrow a streaming service password from family– however you define it!–and dive in. There’s a lot of history to explore, and there’s never been a better time to do it. While gay characters tended until much too recently to be one-dimensional, white, and doomed, in 2018 Barry Jenkins won a Best Picture Oscar telling the layered and hopeful story of a gay Black man in Moonlight.
1982’s tentative Making Love derailed the careers of its two lead actors 2017’s Call Me By Your Name cemented its pair as movie stars. The range runs from the shoestring brilliance of The Watermelon Woman to the big-budget glitter-bomb that is Rocketman. We’ve come a ways in fifty years, from the self-loathing middle-aged men of The Boys In The Band to the peppy teens of Love, Simon. The conditions are optimal for you to catch up on your queer cinema. The few bars that have reopened are for the reckless and foolish, and let's be honest: there’s only so much dancing a person can do on Zoom.
7 When Hustler Magazine published an ad parody which implied that Reverend Jerry. Vanity Fair, August 1991: Demi Moore, Pregnant and Nude This cover was shot by celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz and was decried as shameful and disgusting when it was released. Glasgow filed a libel action against the owner. We’re stuck inside unless we’re marching for police reform. This cover was named the most popular magazine cover of the past 40 years by the American Society of Magazine Publishers. This year, the public events of LGBTQ Pride Month-much like sports, school, and life itself-are cancelled. And if you can bear the crowds, you leave a Pride festival with a draft-beer buzz, an application for a rainbow-flag credit card, and a paper fan with Chelsea Handler’s face on it. Your bank, cable company and sandwich shop rush to remind you of their support for the LGBTQ+ community. In this photo taken on Jpublisher of Hustler magazine Larry Flynt poses at his house in Los Angeles. The gay neighborhood thumps with house music. Larry Flynt, founder of Hustler magazine, appears at the opening of his new Hustler Hollywood store in San Jose, California on November 26, 2016. Under normal circumstances, June busts out all over with Pride Month parties and parades. The good news: this year you have time for some movies.