Here are some LGBTQ movies that you must watch this pride month! 🏳️‍🌈

Here are some LGBTQ movies that you must watch this pride month! 🏳️‍🌈
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1. MILK (2008)

Harvey Milk, an American activist, faces several difficulties while fighting for gay rights and becomes California's first openly gay official to be elected to public office.

Starring: Sean Penn, Emile Hirsch, Josh Brolin, Diego Luna 

2. DISCLOSURE (2020)

A look at Hollywood's depiction of transgender people and the impact of this on American culture

Starring: Laverne Cox, Bianca Leigh, Jen Richards, Alexandra Billings 

3. THE QUEEN (1968)

The Queen depicts the experiences of the drag queens organizing and participating in the 1967 Miss All-America Camp Beauty Contest held at New York City's Town Hall.

Starring: Jack Doroshow, Andy Warhol

4. MYSTERIOUS SKIN (2004)

Following two teenage boys as they struggle to cope—in wildly different ways—with a shared childhood trauma, Mysterious Skin features memorable early performances from Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Brady Corbett.

Starring: Brady Corbet, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Elisabeth Shue 

5. EK LADKI KO DEKHA TOH AISA LAGA (2019)

Sweety hides a secret about her true love and decides to marry a writer to please her father, Balbir Chaudhary. However, chaos ensues when she decides to fight her family and society to win her love.

Starring: Anil Kapoor, Sonam Kapoor, Rajkummar Rao, Juhi Chawla 

6. HAPPY TOGETHER (1997)

This is a film about two Hong Kong men who emigrate to Buenos Aires, after the handover of Hong Kong to China put LGBT lives in jeopardy.

Starring: Tony Leung, Leslie Cheung 

7. CALL ME BY YOUR NAME (2017)

What begins as a contentious friendship turns into a full-blown love affair as the two young men spend their idle summer days in the lush Mediterranean locale, bracing themselves for inevitable heartbreak.

Starring: Timothée Chalamet, Armie Hammer 

8. PARIAH (2011)

A Brooklyn teenager who comes to terms with her sexuality and puts the comforts of friends and family at risk as she discovers how to express her identity.

Starring: Adepero Oduye

9. FIRE ISLAND (2022)

It is a loose adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, set at the titular gay paradise, and a look at the class divide through a modern gay lens.

Starring: Bowen Yang, Margaret Cho, Matt Rogers, Conrad Ricamora, and James Scully 

10. MOONLIGHT (2016)

A young man coming of age in Miami (and played by three different actors at various stages of his life) who grapples with his sexual identity amid his troubled relationship with his crack-addicted mother.

Starring: Mahershala Ali, Naomie Harris, Trevante Rhodes

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