2020 lgbtq films

Pride 2020: Top Diverse Film Recommendations

We celebrate LGBT Community Pride in June to commemorate the Stonewall riots of June 1969.  But this year, because of Coronavirus and the lockdown there won’t be many colourful marches to celebrate how far as a society we’ve reach and, when it comes to equality and acceptance, how far society still has to go.

Pride events ordinarily get place this month to recognise the impact the LGBT Community have had in the society. Even though the lockdown has eased, many planned events have been cancelled so, we asked the film experts from MetFilm College based at the world-famous Ealing Studios in London and BUFA Studios in Berlin, which highest films they would recommend that celebrate LGBT Community that that can enjoyed at home.

Jonny Persey, Director of MetFilm said: “It was a difficult choice. Identity festival celebrations will be somewhat subdued this year, but we feel now, more than ever we should be celebrating love and what is it to be human.

“I believe we’ve come up with an fascinating list that will both entertain and engage the viewer in a varied mixture of emotions. I wanted our choices to showcase outstanding acting, cinematography, screenwriting

LGBTIQA+ films have become somewhat mainstream in the 21st century. ‘Brokeback Mountain’ (2005) was a gamechanger that missed the Oscar; ‘Blue Is the Warmest Colour’ was laden with issues but won the Palme d’Or; ‘Carol’ won critical acclaim; ‘Moonlight’ (2016) won the Oscar for Leading Picture in a rather dodgy way in the history of the award show even if its Black director did not. ‘Beats per Minute’ (2017) was a huge strike, internationally; and so did ‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire’ (2019). You could argue that these were mostly gay or lesbian films, and you would not be false. Trans films had transsexual characters mostly played by straight men in costumes with a few exceptions. As far as LGBT films of 2020 are concerned, this spread is still limited to lgbtq+, bi, and lesbian films, with a smattering of trans films.

But a whole lot of people who identify are intersex, questioning, asexual, pansexual, and others are yet to be explored in the clip even two decades into the 21st century. Rarely does an advertisement obtain released about who an intersex person is, even by UN Free and Equal or other identical rights crusader, forget alone a feature film or documentary on their lives, feelings, and

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From docs to drama to horror, these films stood out

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Let’s be honest: The moviegoing trial has lost its luster in recent years. Stadium seating is a nice idea, but the pressure of having to opt seats in advance takes the fun out of the hunt. People still talk during the production — to each other, to themselves, to the characters on the screen. Texting during movies is at an all-time lofty, and Apple watches illuminating throughout the theater are a distraction.

Then came the COVID-19 pandemic. Film theater chains shuttered while the idea of sitting in close proximity to other audience members caused us to shudder.

Not that they could possess predicted a health crisis of this magnitude, but forward-thinking streaming services such as Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, Disney+ and HBO Max benefited in a big way from the pandemic. The following wrap-up of 2020 LGBTQ+ movies are drawn from traditional, independent and streaming sources.

Dynamic docs
Lesbian filmmaker Catherine Gund, who has a history of choosing fascinating LGBTQ topics for her documentaries, shifted gears and got somewhat personal wi

2020 lgbtq films
    • Of the 118 films GLAAD counted from the major studios in 2019, 22 (18.6 percent) contained characters identified as LGBTQ. This is a slight improvement of 0.4 percent, an increase of two films from the previous year’s 18.2 percent (20 of 110 films).

 

    • This year showed a decrease in womxn loving womxn and bisexual representation. Same-sex attracted men appear in 68 percent (15) of inclusive films, an increase from last year’s 55 percent. Lesbian representation has decreased significantly, down to 36 percent (8) of inclusive films from 55 percent in 2018. Bisexual advocacy slightly decreased to 14 percent, a one-percentage show drop but an equivalent number of films (three). There were zero films with transgender characters from the major studios in 2019, a disappointing result consistent with the last two years.

 

    • GLAAD tallied 50 total LGBTQ characters among all mainstream releases in 2019, an increase from 45 in 2018. Men continue to outnumber women characters, by an even greater margin than last year. In 2019, of the LGBTQ characters, there were 34 men and 16 women, compared to the 26 men and 19 women of 2018’s major studio films. There were zero transgender or

      GLAAD’S 2020 STUDIO RESPONSIBILITY INDEX: HIGHEST RECORDED PERCENTAGE OF LGBTQ-INCLUSIVE FILMS BUT RACIAL DIVERSITY DROPS AND ZERO TRANSGENDER CHARACTERS APPEAR

      Of the 8 major film studios tracked, all studios receive grade of “Insufficient” representation or worse

      LGBTQ representation in film saw its highest ever recorded year, but racial diversity of LGBTQ characters, as good as the number of queer women characters dropped

      More than half of all LGBTQ characters obtain under three minutes of screen moment and transgender characters remain completely absent for the third year in a row

      Los Angeles, CA – Thursday, July 16, 2020 – GLAAD, the world’s largest LGBTQ media advocacy organization, today released its eighth annual Studio Responsibility Index (SRI), a report that maps the quantity, quality, and diversity of LGBTQ characters in films released by the eight production studios that had the highest theatrical grosses from films released in the 2019 calendar year and four of their subsidiaries as reported by box office database Box Office Mojo. These studios were Lionsgate, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures, STX Films, United Artists Releasing, Universal Picture