Finding a good gay movie to watch on a Saturday night can be like looking for a needle in a haystack. But they do exist! Many good films are a mirror to ourselves and society. Queer cinema at its best can help us see the world in a totally different way. Also, there are bad films that shed a light on the queer experience.
Shayna Maci Warner writes: "Is there anything funnier than watching an interview of two presumably straight actresses discussing the soul-searchingly difficult but always enlightening work of filming a lesbian love scene? And why is there an assumption that all lesbian-themed films pre-Carol are actually terrible?"
Begrudgingly, we learn from not-so-great movies as well. Read Shayna's article The Terrible Lesbian Movies That Taught Me How to Be Queer.
