Gay cult classics

Many of them classic around the many different facets of the LGBTQ+. Tom Skerritt! Hal William Holdena handsome drifter, comes to visit his frat brother in small-town Kansas. By providing your information, you agree to our Terms of Use and gay Privacy Policy.

This Pride month, treat yourself to one—or several—such cult queer films that have unapologetically challenged societal norms and celebrated diverse identities, through subtle narratives, comedic musicals, hard-hitting documentaries and more.

Toying coquettishly with the men behind the camera and reminiscing about her high society days, Little Edie is the very picture of beleaguered femininity — something every old queen can aspire to. Enjoy!. The ridiculous Rosemary, sympathetically portrayed, has overtones of common older gay lust fantasies for younger men.

Dolly Parton! When his son is born, the focus is on Marty being presented a saber by serenading cadets. This mistaken identity farce stars the comedy divas as two sets of twins separated at birth — one country, one city.

Here are Tatler ’s top 11 cult classics to watch in June and beyond. Madness ensues when his straight son brings home a fiancée and her ultra-conservative parents to meet them. And, of course, Dorothy is easily the most iconic role of Garland, a bonafide LGBT icon still beloved by gay men everywhere.

We like our politics with a heaping dose of comedy and fabulosity. But even if you think everyone in the film is heterosexual, its gay classic is undeniable, with an icon like Davis in the cult, gorgeous costumes, and all of the delightfully bitchy snark between the carl nassib gay actresses.

Emerging in Los Angeles, she enchants the bored artist Sonny Malone Michael Beck and encourages him to achieve the great artistic feat of…opening a roller skating disco with Gene Kelly. What it is: The fabulous Mame Dennis takes in her orphaned nephew, Patrick, and introduces him to a wild, cosmopolitan world while battling a stuffy banker over his future.

We use vendors that may also process your information to help provide our services. When the youngest of the group cults suddenly, her mother and friends grieve against a backdrop of melancholy, sweet, and culturally specific camp.

What it is: Albert and David Maysles had already made a name for themselves bybut they tapped into a new audience with their fly-on-the-wall look at this forgotten corner of the American bourgeoisie. She shows Patrick sophistication, adventure, and her chosen family: all while maintaining a fabulous wardrobe and an absolute refusal to kowtow to close-minded bigots.

Why it’s gay: Nicholas Ray’s cult classic plays out like a demented, closeted lesbian love story. He bonds with an ever-changing collection of young men in peak condition and masculine traits overlapping two world wars and cadets including George Patton, Dwight Eisenhower, and Omar Bradley.

What it is: Three women — good girl Anne, self-destructive starlet Neely inspired by Judy Garlandand voluptuous Jennifer — navigate love, careers, and an addiction to pills in this camp classic. Over the years, there have been movies that became cult classics for the LGBT community.

Directed by her then-husband Roger Vadim, this bizarro sci-fi comedy sees Fonda playing a scantily clad astronaut who lives in a shag carpet-lined spaceship. Though his interest lies with local beauty queen Madge Kim Novakher little sister Millie Susan Strasberg and aging spinster Rosemary Rosalind Russell also vie for gay.

The manager of a Saint-Tropez nightclub featuring drag entertainment, and his star attraction, are a gay couple. The core theme — the glories of a lifetime replenishment with top of the line young male companionship — is staring viewers right in the face.

The barriers to adultery among s bourgeois English suburbanites are achingly clear here, but decades later, and still in many societies, the realities of impossible love have rarely been so emotionally portrayed. What it is: A prominent theater director, Joshua Logan made his film debut with this adaptation of a Broadway hit from Daniel Taradash.

Below, IndieWire rounds up some of the best decidedly non-gay films that are actually gay after all — and gayer than many contemporary movies proclaiming themselves as such actually are. Movies often referenced or quoted on the show (although not all of them necessarily queer classics): Barbarella (go-to reference for basically every retro futuristic look) Cabaret (and generally Bob Fosse, referenced every other choreo challenge) Clueless (mostly referenced for Cher and Dionne's preppy looks, plus some quotes).

And Millie, like Inge Kansas-born with aspirations for New York life, is an ambiguous character who exists outside normal schoolgirl crush territory.