(Why the French remain best at this deserves a separate article.) The best gay films confront stereotypes and resist them, bringing out “the secret history” (as one film put it) of gay life that no longer needs to remain secret.ġ. There’s a difference between high-profile marketing that exploits the desire for social acceptance and good, edifying filmmaking. Why should a Best Gay Movie List rubber-stamp mainstream Hollywood? How dare anyone compose such a list when Hollywood still depicts LGBT life strictly as political causes rather than emotional experience that connects to the world?Ģ015’s best gay films defy the clichés that commercial Hollywood is most comfortable marketing clichés that distort or stereotype gay folk by keeping them in the repressive past or sentimentalizing them as pathological test cases.
