This selection focuses on gay and lesbian DVD movies, with reviews, that appeal to a broad audience and are suitable as gifts for friends and family. Submit your own GLBT movie reviews below...
Brokeback Mountain
This film changes perspectives and attitutes about gays in a profoundway, particularly because it was so popular. It depicts that love isuniversal no matter the sexual orientation.
The film has won multiple awards, including three Oscars and the 2006GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Film in Wide Release, making it themost critically acclaimed gay-themed film of all time.
The Sum of Us
This very entertaining Australian comedy/drama celebrates the strongbond between a widowed father and his openly gay son as they supporteach other equally in all aspects of their lives, including theirromantic relationships.
Starring a young and sexy Russell Crowe as the gay lead in a breakout role.
His Secret Life
This extraordinary Italian drama demonstrates acceptance of bisexuality where one would not expect to find it.
A widow, who is initially disgusted when she discovers her latehusband’s secret life with another man, finally finds happinesssocializing within his circle of friends.
Winner of the 2003 GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Film in Limited Release.
The Wedding Banquet
This remarkable international film, directed by Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), is in English and Chinese with subtitles.
Acommitted gay male couple in New York City stage a phoney marriage toplease others. This forces everyone involved to confront the issues ofcoming out, immigration, and nontraditional families.
Winner of the 1994 GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Independent Film.
Billy Elliot
An astonishing drama (now also a fabulous musical) that teaches thelesson that our children should be allowed to express their naturaltalents even if they do not fit into stereotypical gender roles.
Billy is the boy we admire for being strong, answering his truecalling, and eventually achieving both professional and romanticsuccess.
Winner of the 2001 GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Film in Wide Release.
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
This classic 1967 drama shows the importance of allowing anindividual to marry the person he or she loves, even if the couple isunconventional.
In the 1960’s, interracial marriage was unpopular, and laws existed toforbid it. Today same sex marriage carries the same burden, whichproves that changing hearts and minds is possible.
The Laramie Project
Laramie, Wyoming is a middle-American town whose residents discussthe brutal murder of gay Matt Shepard and eventually come to realizethat full acceptance of homosexuality is necessary to ensure theirpeaceful existence.
This film version of the legendary docudrama play features a veryimpressive star-studded cast. Winner of the 2003 GLAAD Media Award forOutstanding Television Movie.
American Beauty
One of the most critically acclaimed films of all time having wonmultiple awards, including the Best Picture Oscar in 1999, depicts lifein the "perfect" American family.
Since the most stable relationship in the film is that of a gay malecouple, and since a closeted homosexual is the foundation of intensetroubles, viewers see the positive aspects of being openly gay.
Walk on Water
The themes of this intelligent multi-language, multi-cultural thriller involve acceptance of different cultures and sexualities.
Love happens among an unlikely couple. A major secret aboutdiscrimination is exposed. And a shocking ending addresses the issuesof justice and family loyalty. This film has it all, including Israel'shottest male superstar.
Winner of the 2006 GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Film in Limited Release.
Freedom to Marry
This emotional documentary of the same-sex weddings in San Franciscoin February 2004 breams of love and happiness and also shows thatseparate is not equal.
Once broadcast on PBS, it shows the real, everyday impact of the morethan a thousand marriage rights and responsibilities that heterosexualstake for granted but are denied to LGBTQ couples.
[After seeing this film, my religious Republican mother decided to support marriage equality.]
Out of the Past
Review from a Registered Member:
"Produced in partnership with GLSEN, won the Sundance Audience Awardfor best documentary and is the ideal way -- whether straight or gay --to get an overview of our struggle for equality. Running through it isthe modern-day story of the effort to start a Gay Straight Alliance ata Salt Lake City high school. (Rather than allow it, Utah at firstchose to shut down ALL high school clubs.) But punctuating that storyare six historical vignettes, beginning with the Reverend MichaelWigglesworth in 1653, Harvard's first chaplain, whose story is told byHarvard's current (gay, black, Republican) chaplain... and runningthrough Nineteenth Century "Boston Marriages" and the struggles,naturally, of the Twentieth Century. The first time I watched it, Iliked it. By the fifth or the sixth time, it had become mythic."
Trembling Before G-d
Winner of 2003 GLAAD Media Award for Best Documentary
Trembling Before G-d is a documentary that shatters assumptions about faith, sexuality, and religious fundamentalism. Built around intimately-told personal stories of Hasidic and Orthodox Jews who are gay or lesbian, the film portrays a group of people who face a profound dilemma - how to reconcile their passionate love of Judaism and the Divine with the drastic Biblical prohibitions that forbid homosexuality.
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