A satisfying blend of heart-fluttering romance and familial woes, Wu’s film is loosely based on her own experiences coming out to her traditional Chinese family. That’s too bad because she comes home one night and accidentally walks in on Tina and the boy right in the middle of a b*****b!

Premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2004, Alice Wu’s buoyantly charming romantic comedy became an instant queer classic, seamlessly balancing cinematic artistry with heartfelt comedy. Tourists from neighbouring Rwanda, Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of Congo can be found enjoying the nightlife in the clubs or the five-star hotel bars. The great AIDS activist and playwright Larry Kramer often says gay people are smarter than other people.

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA Enterprise and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. The following tales of mini skirt-wearing super-spys and longing period-piece lesbians toe a careful line between caricature and camp. Too often, lesbian characters are turned into stereotypes:either unattractive man-haters or bimbos used fortitillation and slasher fodder. That said, after the runaway success of Portrait of a Lady on Fire last year, I started noticing just how much of the women-who-love-women canon is set in a time period other than the present. When she talks to Tina about it, her roommate decides to cheer Kelly up…with a scorching first lesbian sex experience!

Compared to the stand-outs of queer television, the best lesbian movies have relatively little time to convey their perspective on the vast, varied, (sometimes) vaginal lesbian experience. The debut effort from “The Kids Are All Right” director traced a less controversial love story (no switching teams here), and still sparkles with that first-feature charm. Directed byApril Mullen and written by Stephanie Fabrizi, the film co-stars androgynous supermodelErika Linder. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2016, and is currently playing in theaters nationwide. Below Her Mouth” will be released in theaters and on demand April 28, by Gunpowder and Sky Distribution.In her debut, Lynskey is delightfully unhinged as Pauline Parker, an outcast who develops an intense friendship with the lovely and wealthy Juliet Hulme, an equally impressive young Kate Winslet. Portrait of a Lady On Fire (2019): Yes, it’s a white-ladies-in-bonnets movie, but director Céline Sciamma broke the mold when she made this one. As both women make do with the hand life has dealt them, they discover passion in the shared struggle. of Burundi’s 11 million-strong population have access to the internet, and almost all of them are based in Bujumbura.

A charming teen romance laced with incisive commentary on class and race, this queer classic does more than hold up, it ripens with age. Boasting nuanced performances from the two charismatic newcomers, Wanuri Kahiu’s assured debut feature is an important reminder of the struggle many still face to live out and proud.The setting is a damp and nearly empty manor house on an island in Brittany, the part of France that bears the closest resemblance to England. It is through the tangled ties of a frail Queen Anne (Olivia Colman) with two other scheming and ambitious women — her close friend and advisor Lady Sarah (Rachel Weisz), and Sarah’s indigent cousin turned status-seeking chambermaid Abigail (Emma Stone) — that the story plunges into a maelstrom of unscrupulous behavior and unpredictability, that epitomizes the expression “palace intrigue,” as a nation’s fate lies within the relations among women who’ve succumbed to the complications of love. Inverting the conventions of the day, the story follows an affluent Black teenager namedEvie (Nicole Parker) who falls in love with scrappy white tomboy swooningly named Randy Dean (Laurel Holloman). With sweeping visuals and multiple complex female characters, thestaying power of this historic film cannot be denied. Buttoned up and fragile, Vivian is immediately drawn to firecracker Cay Rivvers (Patricia Charbonneau), a young sculptor who is not afraid to go after what she wants.