what lgbtq+ movies to watch in 2022
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- Опубликовано: 10 июн 2024
- From The Power of the Dog to Potato Dreams of America - these are 2022's biggest queer movies!
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2022 LGBTQ+ TV shows video: • 23 Upcoming LGBTQ+ TV ...
Additional research and scriptwriting by Isabel Moncloa Daly
00:00 - The Novice
2:51 - Catch the Fair One
3:46 - I Wanna Dance With Somebody
4:58 - Dope Queens
5:51 - Queens of the Qing Dynasty
8:18 - Flee
9:27 - The Power of the Dog
10:35 - Lightyear
11:52 - Payin The Bills
14:01 - Benediction
15:54 - Girl Picture
17:23 - The History of Sound
18:38 - Mars One
19:25 - Potato Dreams of America
20:20 - Rustin
22:04 - See You Then
23:15 - To Kill The Beast
24:06 - Bros
26:50 - Fire Island
27:36 - Love in Color/Crush (renamed)
28:58 - What If
30:44 - Whistler Camp
31:53 - The Last Thing Mary Saw
33:22 - Am I Okay?
34:41 - Framing Agnes
35:45 - My Fake Boyfriend
37:15 - My Policeman
38:40 - Firebird
39:41 - Rūrengi
40:58 - Great Freedom
42:33 - Minyan
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a really great lgbt series that just came out is Our Flag Means Death with Taika Waititi and Rhys Darby
Not me coming on to comment the same thing!
I literally clicked on this and immediately went to the comment section to ask her if she's seen "Our Flag Means Death" lmao
@@elliart7432 I made my whole family watch it over spring break I can't stop thinking about this show and crying
Sorry if this is irrelevant, but is there any way to watch it in the UK?
@@CaptainLightner I’m not sure about the UK, I watch it in the US on HBO Max, but if you can’t you can probably find it streaming for free somewhere
Its not a movie but would REALLY recommend Our Flag Means Death. Noticed that it wasn't featured in the TV recommendations and its kinda flying under the radar but is one of my favorite pieces of media ever.
omg yesssss
Yes it's amazing! I watched it yesterday :D
ITS SO GAY I WAS NOT PREPARED
Oh my god yes!! It's soooo good!
the phrase 'jesus christ of dying on the cross fame' FUCKING KILLED ME THATS EVERYTHING
Well you have nothing. You can not understand what true love is. You have a reprobate mind. I'd rather walk with Jesus every single day of my life than walk with you! What have you got to offer yourself?
For those looking for information on "Love In Color", it's been retitled as "Crush".
Would it be possible to get either the name of the movie repeated at the end of the description, timestamps, or a written list at the bottom? The description lets me know if I want to see the movie, but then I have to rewind the segment to catch the name and then go back to watch the next. Great video! I can't wait to see several of these
Keeping the names up in the corner would work great too!
Completely agreed. Video chapters are another option! It might actually be easier because it doesn't require Rowan to edit or script these videos any differently.
Just commented them all with time stamps!
@@user-sm6tm5jg9u I can't find the comment.
I’ve *actually* posted one!
I always appreciate Rowan's hair. The color is VIBRANT and makes me want to be impulsive and dye mine again.
There's nothing wrong with your hair colour. Your actually very beautiful!
Fair warning that See You Then is HEAVY. My housemates and I watched it expecting something cute and light based on the description we saw. Turns out we had NO IDEA what we were getting into and were left shaken by it.
how heavy are we talkin
@@hlnolvrgo_c There's a smattering of transphobia, mention of SA, and a fair amount of discussion about children/lack thereof/abortion toward the end that is A LOT and I imagine could be triggering for some folks.
@@Evalkitti2 i can see why it could upset ppl
Don't watch it then. Turn the garbage off
Hey Rowan, really loved this video!
Just wondering, but would it be possible for you to make a video about LGBTQ+ films in different languages? For example, recently in India a movie called Badhaai Do got released which follows the story of a gay man and a lesbian in a marriage as a societal and familial compromise and it's really well handled. Some really nice shows are out there as well, like from Japan, What did you eat yesterday for gay rep and Koisenu Futari for ace representation. Also, in shows, some of the recent Filipino BL series like Gaya Sa Pelikula and Gameboys are also quite worth mentioning!
As someone who watches a ton of Asian cinema, I was rather disappointed that Rowan's list involved mostly western productions. There is a huge list of great LGBTQ+ shows/movies that have (or are) coming out of places like Japan, Thailand, S. Korea, the Philippines, Taiwan, and even Vietnam. Yet, they seem to get overlooked a lot when it comes to lists like these.
Koisenu Futari is aro representation too, not just ace! I REALLY want to see it so I hope it gets official English subtitles somewhere....
Badhaai Do was sooo good!!! I loved the handling of their respective queer relationships as well as the relationship between them evolving
@@ninil1562 do you have any recommendations or know where to find a list of some? I’m new to Asian media and would love to watch some lgbt* representation beyond the West
Indian bi person here, I loved the lesbian couple in badhai do( although bhumi pednekar does give off a very strong hetero vibe, and i wish the movie hadn't been a generic comedy)
The movie "Wildhood" looks amazing, and features two-spirit identities, played/written by indigenous people!
Disney First Gay Character Olympics is looking hot hot hot this year...
all the comments are already about our flag means death i have no original thoughts😭 fr tho i absolutely LOVE that show and it has such amazing queer rep i Cannot stop thinking about it!!
I’ve just watched “Il filo invisibile” (The invisible thread), an Italian film that came to Netflix this year and it’s about two gay dads and their teenage son who is making a documentary’s about them for his school project. Whilst the story centers on the (straight) son, it is very much about the relationship between the dads as well. It’s a very sweet film, I recommend it!
That is absolutely disgusting!
I am Italian also. I'm glad I had a mother and not two dad's that put their private parts in eachothers rear. I would have been absolutely traumatized beyond any help at all and extremely embarrassed as well. That is absolutely disgusting.
Everyone's already commenting about Our Flag Means Death but I'm just gonna add that, to no one's surprise, I absolutely love it and I bet you would too. :D
i'm sure you've already heard about our flag means death at this point because of COURSE you have, and I just wanted to say I'm looking forward to your eventual video essay on the subject!!! 👀👀
"eventual" you say 👀😏
@@HeyRowanEllis I love how this can only mean either you won't be making a video (which is of course valid by the way) or its gonna drop in like, a matter of hours lol
@@HeyRowanEllis God, I hope this means you’ll have a video coming out soon (and that you loved it). I’m having a really hard time focusing on other things and no one I follow has talked about it.
@@HeyRowanEllis YESSS ROWAN!
There will be a Slovak sapphic film The Chambermaid released this year. It's a historical drama set during WW1 and depicts the fall of Austro-Hungariam empire and a romance between daughter of a rich family and her lady's maid.
are you my personal mind reader??
I can't find it:(
I don't have much optimism when it comes to Lightyear and it's supposed "LGBT representation" They're probably just gonna do the bare minimum (A small, blink and you'll miss it moment that can easily be removed for foreign censors) and pat themselves on the back for being "Champions of representation"
Maybe but they have received a lot of backlash lately
@@privatehere3324 Yeeaaah but they've been receiving that backlash for AT LEAST 5 years now
I'm just waiting for the LGBT rep in lightyear to be a live slug reaction type of representation, if you know what I mean
I remember seeing Great Freedom ("Große Freiheit") in the program of my local cinema last autumn. I wanted to watch it, but for some reason, I didn't. Thank you for reminding me to put it on my watchlist! It's really exciting that an Austrian film is getting international attention.
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe is also coming out this year!! it’s a queer coming-of-age story and its director is trans :) 🏳️⚧️
Please talk about Our flag means Death ! It's really good and managed to put LGBT rep front an center in a Troyan horse style
I caught several movies at Flare this year and would also second the recommendations for The Novice, Girl Picture, and Framing Agnes!
Another aspect of Girl Picture which I really liked was that one of the three protagonist's storylines explores asexuality, which is something I've not seen in a teen coming of age movie before so that's also super exciting. And particularly cool for a movie to be unafraid to have multiple LGBTIQA+ storylines existing side by side in different characters - often it feels like pieces of media have the token gay storyline given to one character and it's easy to imagine that being the case for a film like Girl Picture that features three protagonists all going through different things, so I really appreciate that the film was interested in exploring more than just one letter in the LGBTIQA+ acronym!
thanks for the recs kind stranger :D
Genera+ion do have a asexual lesbian :)
You are an absolute legend for putting this together for us - thank you! The ones I'm most excited / intrigued to see are Dope Queens, Girl Picture, To Kill the Beast, Am I OK? and Framing Agnes. Also looking forward to future podcast episode(s) on the Flare festival and any of these films!
Psst is there a chance on you making any kind of content around Our Flag Means Death? I’d love to hear your take on it :D
Thank you for making this video, I'll definitely be adding these to my watchlist! Although, I think I'm going to give The Power of the Dog a pass just because I'm not sure if I have the patience to wait for a surprise twist to the trope of a queer coded character getting bullied for being great at arts and crafts. I didn't realize how desperately I've needed to see queer joy and not just queer adversity on screen until I was listening to Andrew Fuller talk about his lovely life with his husband on Is It Cake and started balling my eyes out.
Fire Island's set up of "two best friends visit fire island" almost makes me think their take on the P&P retelling could be from the perspective of Darcy and Bingly?
YES thank you for telling us about this is going to hurt
it is an amazing series
Omg I don’t think I’ve ever been happier for clicking on a yt recommended video. Subscribed immediately obviously 🤩
Another great video. Thanks for all the recommendations!
I saw Flee early last year at Gothenburg Film Festival. It was amazing, I highly recommend it.
omg now I'm so excited for these movies and the year has just begun!!! Thank you Rowan
Was almost jumping up and down and clapping when I saw Rurangi was on this list lol... I actually saw it at Flare last year (you were right, it was a web series and then they cut it together into a film) and wrote a basically glowing review, it's not perfect but it's still gorgeous!
BTW, if you do end up liking Rurangi you might also like Fragrance of the First Flower - another one that started as a TV series! it's a Taiwanese movie that was at Flare this year, it's about two women who fell in love in high school reconnecting after marriage equality has passed in Taiwan, only one of them's married to a really boring man and she has a son... it's very angsty but with lots of rlly beautiful and wholesome bits as well.
Anyway, loved this video - all of these are going on my watchlist! : )
Dear Rowan (or any charitable soul out there), could you maybe consider making an imdb list with this movies?
I am right now!
@@user-sm6tm5jg9u what's the list link?
- first, i did watch this is going to hurt, and the title did not lie, it did hurt, but it was amazing
- so many movie, so little time, i am very excited
- i do remember the thing with love in color, and i do remember being around when rowan was liking the biphobic tweets, nut i dont remember much, ever since she turned 18, she kind of stepped out of the public light since she wasn't on a big show that was constatnly promoting her, so idk much about her at all, which is smart honestly
The play Not About Heroes (Stephen MacDonald) is a beautiful read/watch about Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon. Genuinely incredible writing.
bit off topic, but your hair in this video is just so pretty and glamourous *swoon* haha
What a great recommendation video! 👏🏽
Ooh, I hadn't heard of Whistler Camp before but now I'm gonna keep an eye out for it.
I'm excited to watch Rūrangi. I've seen a few clips of it and I've loved all of them.
I love how you called out Lightyears LGBTQ representation before it came even out and you were exactly right
I love One Mississippi and am excited for Tig and Stephanie’s new work!
Hope it's not weird to comment on this, but oh my gosh, your hair looks gorgeous and it's the color I always wanted done XD
Your hair and those glasses, you look amazing!
I heard the daughter in Everything Everywhere at Once has a girlfriend and is part of the contention of the mom and daughter but I know the movie focuses mainly on the mom and I dunno how much of the daughters queer identity is a focus in that movie.
I would say it's a fair chunk, there might be a scene with the daughter and her girlfriend and the mom that made me cry, and there's *also* some queerness with the mom herself that I'll let viewers find for themselves.
I didn’t know to expect queerness in EEAAO, but now having seen it I can happily say that it’s pretty central to the story
I have been waiting for this❤️
I didn't find the ending to Power of the Dog ambiguous. The voice over from the beginning of the movie is makes it pretty conclusive to me.
I’m so glad you made this! I just got surgery and I’m bored out of my mind
I'm so excited to go see Girl Picture (tytöt tytöt tytöt which translates to girls girls girls) :D as a Finnish girl, it looks amazing and just the queer dream and drama I wished I had/am waiting for lol 😂
how did you know I've been scouring the internet for queer films all week❤🔥
Looking forward to seeing Firebird and Potato Dreams of America. Maybe I'll head to Mezipatra festival this year.
Rurangi is on Hulu as a five episode series, it was quite good 😊
Please please please do more of these LGBTQ+ things to watch. Love to be updated with gay entertainment to watch.
Omg I actually saw Rūrangi at Flare last year (when it was all online) and it was easily the best of the 6 or 7 films I saw. It was so educational about so many things, not just trans issues but also the struggles of Māori people and the erasure of their culture. And it did it all in this fantastic show not tell way, it never held your hand to explain things. You could kinda tell it was a stitched together webseries as some plots were only around for a short time and never fully resolved but the whole thing was so interesting and the ending left me feeling uplifted and inspired. I believe it has made its way on to some streaming services in the US (hulu maybe?) and I would 100% reccomend it if you can find it!
Wow, this 2022 review is really a hidden secret that we didn't deserve... So blessed. Thanks Rowan!!!
I recommend Stranger By The Shore for any anime fans. Very sweet and funny film, with amazing acting! Also, for anyone who prefers dubs, or is visually impaired (I will not accept dub slander), the English dub is very good as well!
Thanks for the recommendations!
great vid c: will def be watching a bunch of those!!
Update: "life in color" has since been rebranded on Hulu as "crush" honestly, this movie is very characteristic of Hulu's quirky, off-beat teen style. It was a cute watch but I'm sorry to see the discourse around it.
OMG I preordered your book from Amazon and don't know if I get the signed bookplate? Ah well either way I'm so excited for it
Also OMG I have been waiting for more queer media recommends
Check the description for how to claim the bookplate (you just need to send my publisher an email!)
@@HeyRowanEllis do you know if the bookplate is available for US customers?
@@arp711 it will be!
Yes yes yes! Thank you for this 💖
"A portrait of a lady on fire" is a great period lesbian romance film I'd recommend
As exciting as all this media is, I'm a bit disappointed that only a small fraction have POC leads.
as a finn, I was so happy to see girl picture included here! at first I didn't recognise it because the finnish name would be directly translated to girls, girls, girls! I haven't seen it myself yet but hoping to watch it soon :)
I watched a film called Three Months recently, and it was an excellent queer movie.
I don't know if you mentioned it, but operation hyacinth was vibey and is on Netflix :)
It is sad though, but like it's a Polish film and it's actually super illegal to fund any Polish film that displays optimism /s
What If sounds super exciting, I am bookmarking this vid for almost all of them tho lol
Firebird movie is also a pretty watch worthy lGbt+ movie✨ It’s based on a real story from 2 male soldiers.
I watched flee and it was beautiful and powerful and very timely with its focus on the realities of being a refugee it also does great on showing the queer experience it’s on Hulu for those who are interested
As a queer rower, The Novice piqued my interest immediately! I'm definitely going to check it out as soon as I can.
Definitely gonna try to watch the more lighthearted movies on this list, that's for sure
bly manor 🤝 fear street 🤝 the perfection
making sure lesbians dont sleep at night
I just watched Potato Dreams of America because of this. It is such a good movie.
Please, Rowan, we need some fanfic recs 🥺
Große Freiheit is really good! Big recommendation!
I really recommend Power of the dog. Really good film, makes you think after you finished
I've sat on a pair of glasses in the past, so I feel you. 😂
oh firebird, nice i watched it last year
tom prior is very hot in it
also I know some of my friends wanted to watch it in original rus dub but that doesn't exist, which si weird since like 90% of the actors are russians that are dubbed over by eng actors
19 days till the heartstopper series!!!!!!!
YES, I NEEDED SOME FILMS TO WATCH
Can someone please respond to this comment with spoilers for What If? I really wanted to watch this with a friend, but she’s REALLY sensitive to films and won’t watch movies if it doesn’t have a good/happy ending. Please tell me what the original thread said so I can tell her and convince her to watch please! I can’t find it anywhere!!
I’m pretty sure What If was renamed as Anything’s Possible. It’s on Amazon Prime for streaming. I watched it recently and it’s super cute, mostly light in tone, and definitely the trans-rep high school love story I was looking for
ooo gonna go watch the last thing mary saw right now !!!
Rowan, you're awesome, thanks for the list
Thanks for these recommends
great list!
also, please share your thoughts about Love, Simon... don't be shy, most of us probably have similar opinions on it 😉
i made a whole video - i think if you search love simon on my channel it should come up 👀
@@HeyRowanEllis AH I REALLY SHOULD GO ON A BINGE!! i'm a new watcher so i haven't seen that yet, thank you!! :D
I feel that since Harry is such an open man and he doesn’t care what people think about him and his sexuality he is a great role model for anyone, now that he is in a LGBTQ+ film he is making a bigger career in not only acting but being a even bigger role model, but I have been a fan since he was 18, I also wrote this before watching your video, I just saw Harry in the thumbnail 😆 and I LOVE your hair, and videos
Yes, more queer horror! If everyone-the villian, the people who die, and the people who live-is queer, than I don't see the problem. If they set it in a conversion camp and kill off only queer characters while some random straight hero lives, I will not be interested in that. Or have a queer killer killing off a bunch of straight people, but, I doubt the movie would do that. Make all the characters queer and skip any negative tropes! I'd really, really love to see queer men in horror, as their portrayal has been either just hinted at through subtext or very negative in the past, while it seems like there have been a lot of queer women in horror movies. Either way, looking forward to Whistler Camp, as I loved Fear Street too!
I’m from Brazil, and when she talked about mars one I was like: “fictional right wing president”?
Same. *looks disgustingly at our president*
Se eu n me engano, o diretor do filme disse q era baseado no Bolsonaro ent... N tão fictício, infelizmente
I'm struggling to find any more information about the Reddit story. How would the movie end, then? Spoiler warning for the story and movie "What If?".
i want to know too!! the curiosity is ruining me
I wish this video had chapters
you are my favorite!!
Where can we watch these? 🤔
Can anyone please tell me in these comments what the movie with forbidden love between two men in world war two was named? And this was very helpful with finding more movies that I'd love, thank you.
as pride has now come and gone did you actually get to see a few of these at flare in the end?? I'm so envious i wish I'd gone! :(
I just started Our Flag Means Death! I haven't watched the video yet but best believe I'm downing those puppies like Cruella De Vil!
LGBTQIA+ Was muss ich tun um mich zu Bekehren?
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harry styles himself is also queer, having claimed multiple times that while he doesn't want to publicly share what he labels himself as (it being personal and private) close friends and families know.
“Beauty” sounds like a less biographical Whitney Houston story. Just going by the description given.
This is going to hurt was phenomenal!!! And like everyone else i have to recommend Our flag means death
AYYYY YOU KNOW A KIWI MOVIE!! 😮🤩
Rowan: *glancingly mentions "Imagine Me & You"*
Me: YOU'RE A WANKER, NUMBER NIIIIIIIIINE!!!!!
Is there a single place on the internet where one might be able to watch all those movies?