Slant's The 100 Best LGBTQ Movies of All Time
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Cinema isn’t the sole mechanism for making our presence known, but it can be among the most powerful.
Published on June 18, 2020
This list includes all versions of Slant Magazine's LGBTQ movies. View the list history to find the previous versions. All lists are chronological.
V1: "50 Essential LGBT Films" June 27, 2013 (also the same as SanderO's icm list)
V2: "The 75 Greatest LGBT Films of All Time" June 21, 2016
V3: "The 100 Best LGBTQ Movies of All Time" June 7, 2019
V4: "The 100 Best LGBTQ Movies of All Time" June 18, 2020 (current version)
Original Intro:
"You’ve sported a red equal sign on Facebook, watched Nancy Pelosi show Michele Bachmann her politically correct middle finger, and read some of those other lists that have compiled lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) films, hailing usual suspects like High Art and Brokeback Mountain as gay equivalents of Vertigo (oh, don’t Citizen Kane me; we’re talking regime upheaval here). Now, as you continue to celebrate the crushing of DOMA and Prop 8 (and toss some extra confetti for Pride Month while you’re at it), peruse Slant’s own list of LGBT movies you owe it to yourself to see. Curated by co-founder and film editor Ed Gonzalez, this 50-wide roster is a singular trove of queer-themed gems and classics, spanning the past eight decades and reflecting artists as diverse as Kenneth Anger, Derek Jarman, and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. You won’t find The Birdcage among our ranks, but you will find Paul Morrissey’s Trash, Ira Sach’s The Delta, David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive, and Céline Sciamma’s Tomboy. Consider the list a hat tip to what’s shaped up to be a banner LGBT year, particularly on screen, with lesbian romance Blue Is the Warmest Color taking top honors at Cannes, and Xavier Dolan releasing the masterful Laurence Anyways, which also made our cut. R. Kurt Osenlund"
Second Intro:
"Last week, in the aftermath of the attack on Orlando's Pulse nightclub, one call to action rose above the din: “Say their names.” New Yorkers chanted it steps from the Stonewall Inn. The mother of a child gunned down at Sandy Hook penned it in an open letter. The Orlando Sentinel printed the names. Anderson Cooper recited them. A gunman murdered 49 people and wounded 53 others in the wee hours of that awful Sunday, massacring LGBTQ people of color and their allies in the middle of Pride Month, and the commemoration of the dead demanded knowing who they were. “These,” as MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell urged his viewers, “are the names to remember.”
In the midst of mourning, the titles herein seem to me more essential than ever, a globe-spanning, multigenerational testament to our existence in a world where our erasure is no abstraction. From Carl Theodor Dreyer's Michael to Todd Haynes's Carol, naming and seeing emerge, intertwined, as radical acts—acts of becoming (Sally Potter's Orlando) and acts of being (Shirley Clarke's Portrait of Jason), acts of speech (Marlon Riggs's Tongues Untied) and acts of show (Jennie Livingston's Paris Is Burning) that together reaffirm the revolutionary potential of the seventh art. “My name is Harvey Milk,” the San Francisco supervisor, memorialized in Rob Epstein's The Times of Harvey Milk, proclaimed in 1978, less than one year before his assassination. “And I'm here to recruit you!”
The cinema isn't the sole mechanism for making our presence known, but it can, if the films listed below are any indication, be among the most powerful, projecting the complexities of the LGBTQ experience onto the culture's largest, brightest mirror. There's rage here, and also love; isolation, and communal spirit; fear, and the forthright resistance to it. These films are essential because we are essential: The work of ensuring that we aren't erased or forgotten continues apace, and the struggle stretches into a horizon that no screen, no matter its size, can quite capture. But this is surely a place to start. Matt Brennan"
Third & Fourth intros are essentially the same.
Pssst, want to check out the Slant's The 100 Best LGBTQ Movies of All Time list in our new look?
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Michael
1924, in 6 top lists Check -
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Mädchen in Uniform
1931, in 5 top lists Check -
3 -1
Le sang d'un poète
1932 — a.k.a. The Blood of a Poet, in 9 top lists Check -
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La belle et la bête
1946 — a.k.a. Beauty and the Beast, in 26 top lists Check -
5 -1
Fireworks
1947, in 5 top lists Check -
6 -1
Un chant d'amour
1950 — a.k.a. A Song of Love, in 7 top lists Check -
7 -1
Strangers on a Train
1951, in 17 top lists Check -
8 -1
Rebel Without a Cause
1955, in 16 top lists Check -
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Victim
1961, in 7 top lists Check -
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Flaming Creatures
1963, in 9 top lists Check -
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The Servant
1963, in 16 top lists Check -
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Scorpio Rising
1963, in 9 top lists Check -
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My Hustler
1965, in 1 top list Check -
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Portrait of Jason
1967, in 11 top lists Check -
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Bara no sôretsu
1969 — a.k.a. Funeral Parade of Roses, in 7 top lists Check -
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The Boys in the Band
1970, in 1 top list Check -
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Trash
1970, in 3 top lists Check -
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Morte a Venezia
1971 — a.k.a. Death in Venice, in 13 top lists Check -
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Pink Narcissus
1971, in 2 top lists Check -
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Sunday Bloody Sunday
1971, in 9 top lists Check -
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Die bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant
1972 — a.k.a. The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, in 8 top lists Check -
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Pink Flamingos
1972, in 13 top lists Check -
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Female Trouble
1974, in 6 top lists Check -
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Faustrecht der Freiheit
1975 — a.k.a. Fox and His Friends, in 6 top lists Check -
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Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma
1975 — a.k.a. Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, in 14 top lists Check -
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Je tu il elle
1974 — a.k.a. Je Tu Il Elle, in 5 top lists Check -
27 +1
El lugar sin límites
1978 — a.k.a. The Place Without Limits, in 4 top lists Check -
28 +1
In einem Jahr mit 13 Monden
1978 — a.k.a. In a Year with 13 Moons, in 4 top lists Check -
29 +1
Les rendez-vous d'Anna
1978 — a.k.a. The Meetings of Anna, in 6 top lists Check -
30 +1
Nighthawks
1978, in 1 top list Check -
31 +1
Querelle
1982, in 3 top lists Check -
32 +1
The Times of Harvey Milk
1984, in 8 top lists Check -
33 +1
The Angelic Conversation
1985, in 0 top lists Check -
34 +1
Before Stonewall
1984, in 1 top list Check -
35 +1
Desert Hearts
1985, in 3 top lists Check -
36 +1
My Beautiful Laundrette
1985, in 7 top lists Check -
37 +1
Caravaggio
1986, in 5 top lists Check -
38 +1
Mala Noche
1986, in 2 top lists Check -
39 +1
Parting Glances
1986, in 1 top list Check -
40 +1
La ley del deseo
1987 — a.k.a. Law of Desire, in 5 top lists Check -
41 +1
Maurice
1987, in 0 top lists Check -
42 +2
Longtime Companion
1989, in 0 top lists Check -
43 +2
Looking for Langston
1989, in 4 top lists Check -
44 +2
Tongues Untied
1989, in 11 top lists Check -
45 +2
The Garden
1990, in 1 top list Check -
46 +2
Paris Is Burning
1990, in 12 top lists Check -
47 +2
Madonna: Truth or Dare
1991, in 1 top list Check -
48 +2
My Own Private Idaho
1991, in 10 top lists Check -
49 +2
Poison
1991, in 4 top lists Check -
50 +2
The Living End
1992, in 3 top lists Check
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