Even better, it’s funny! Saving Face (2004)Ĭast: Lynn Chen, Michelle Krusiec, Joan Chen, Jin Wang, Guang Lan Koh, Jessica Hecht Sure, there are the usual trials and tribulations teens go through – in addition to a great portrayal of the difficulty that is coming out – but ultimately friendship and love win out. It also feels groundbreaking for being a feel-good queer romance.
Love, Simon became the first film by a major Hollywood studio to focus on a same-sex teen romance when it released in 2018, making history and receiving acclaim from viewers and critics. Love, Simon (2018)Ĭast: Nick Robison, Jennifer Garner, Josh Duhamel, Katherine Langford, Alexandra Shipp, Jorge Lendeborg Jr, Keiynan Lonsdale The film, which was nominated for an Academy Award and a BAFTA, explores the complex relationships between Pakistani and English communities in the Thatcher years, and follows the romantic relationship between Omar (Warnecke) and street punk Johnny (Day-Lewis) as they become joint managers of a family-owned laundrette in London. My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)Ĭast: Gordon Warnecke, Daniel Day-Lewis, Saeed Jaffrey, Roshan Seth, Derrick Brancheīefore there was Call Me By Your Name, Moonlight and Brokeback Mountain, there was My Beautiful Laundrette. It perfectly captures the feeling of first love. It follows Leonardo (Ghilherme Lobo), a blind teenager struggling with independence, as his life turns upside down with the arrival of new student Gabriel (Fabio Audi).
The Way He Looks is an award-winning Brazilian coming-of-age teen rom-com that originally started life as a short film, and was later adapted for the big screen. Enjoy! The Way He Looks (2014)Ĭast: Ghilherme Lobo, Fabio Audi, Tess Amorim, Lúcia Romano We’ve rounded up 13 of our favourites below. They may be hard to find, but there are some LGBTQ films out there with happy endings. But what if we want to see a message of hope instead? That’s great, because it’s important to see realistic representation. Being queer can be tough, and that’s often reflected on screen when our stories are told through the medium of film.
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