Gay characters 2024
The Greatest LGBT Films and TV Shows of 2024
Look over the menagerie of LGBT movies and TV shows released in 2024 carefully enough, and you’ll find as many veiled gems as you will worsening cracks. In others words, there’s good news and bad news — but in the year’s overall impressive lineup, also a glimmer of hope.
On the small screen, the seemingly unending aftermath of the streaming bubble burst from 2022 saw the “Cancel Your Gays” trend push forward as LGBT series ended abruptly, and fewer projects were emerald lit to take their place. Stand-up comedy specials, particularly those at Netflix, continued to platform opposing political voices with hugely disparate views about human rights — which created some bizarre situations, for excellent and for bad.
There possess been reported declines in onscreen queer representation across film too, albeit not as stark as those impacting actors on television. Still, looking back at a year that included several remarkable success stories from throughout queer cinema, the silver screened side of the industry certainly seems more hopeful heading into the new year.
In 2024 LGBT movies, “The People’s
How do I open to describe the experience of crawling through the desert of my broken mind in find of queer characters for this month’s streaming guide, I suppose I could begin by calling it difficult, while also educational! When there’s nothing vast to center the guide around, I am forced to look deeply into every single illustrate in the entire universe in seek of a bit lesbian character and it turns out many of them have been here all along! But often in ways that are thoughtful of ambiguous, not important enough for us to grasp about it until this month’s research… and in most cases, I can’t figure out if they’re gonna perform anything else male lover in the future. One can only pray.
That said, September is a month with some nice stuff coming your way in general, even though that stuff is not centered on gay women, including stuff with gay male characters and stuff starring queer female actors. Normally I wouldn’t even note this stuff but… desperate times! There’s gonna be three (3) Ryan Murphy projects such as horror show Grotesquerie, starring out actors Neicy Nash-Betts and Micaela Diamond, which debuts September 25th on FX. W
In 2024, the unfortunate trend continued: TV is getting less same-sex attracted. But that made the shows we did get — the ends of some faves, the beginnings of others — touch even more special. Since 2016, our TV Team has compiled a list of our favorite TV characters (see: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016) and this year our list shows the huge spectrum of queer stories still on our screens. From complex portraits of everyday queers to Marvel witches to a collection of soap opera gays, this year still had plenty of people we loved to watch.
Sabi, Sort Of
Throughout its three seasons, Sort Of accomplished a uncommon TV miracle with the traits Sabi. They changed so much year by year, episode by episode, and yet stayed consistently the same. They changed the way regular people change. We make huge leaps forward with a consistent inner core pulsing onward. The era of this sort of queer slice-of-life display has come to a seal, but at least it ended with some of its strongest examples. I feel so grateful to have witnessed this little window into this one monumental period of Sabi’s life. As the show ends with Sabi entering their next chapter, it’s clear they will continue to chang
I saw Queertoday, at the Museum of Modern Art. It's s strange, leisurely film, directed by Luca Guadagnino, director of Call Me by Your Name. I liked it very much.
Based on the short novel Queerby William S. Burroughs, the clip features Daniel Craig as Burroughs' modify ego, a queer (at this aim in his life) American man living in Mexico. The film is divided into three chapters: Mexico City, Move Companions, The Botanist in the Jungle, and an Epilogue.
The first chapter might as skillfully be called "Booze, drugs, cruising, and lusting." William Lee (Craig) becomes obsessed with Eugene Allerton, played by Drew Starkey. Lee picks up random men in cafes and bars, but finally settles on Eugene. There's a lovely hot sex scene between the two. In Chapter 2, they travel south, to South America, to tour and to search for a certain plant/drug that can confer telepathic powers on the user. In Chapter 3, they travel deep into the jungle to search out the American doctor who is an professional in the plant. If you're familiar with the actress Lesley Manville (I've see her on stage many times, including just last month), you will still not remember her here. Once the