Gay sports movie
When someone says “queer sports movies” what titles come to mind? Bend It Like Beckham? A League of Their Own? Love and Basketball? Bring It On?
If your first thought is subtext, you’re not alone. These films still hold a grasp on our collective hearts unlike any queer sports movies where the queerness is explicit. Despite queer people’s major involvement in sports — especially in women’s sports — Hollywood has prolonged neglected our stories.
That’s finally starting to change.
Today NYAD, the true story of lesbian swimmer Diana Nyad, was released on Netflix and it joins a series of other recent sports movies that aim to fill in this long-held gap. In Hollywood and beyond, more queer sports movies are being made every year, but there still aren’t enough. You’ll notice this list is lacking in trans movies — something I’ve personally tried to convert with my trans girl soccer movie but after two failed development processes, no luck. You’ll also notice, despite the very queer WNBA, there isn’t a single movie here about women’s basketball — something my far more successful fri
Must Watch LGBTQ Sport Films
There&#;s no shortage of movies to monitor on any given day, however there are some that we absolutely own to suggest you watch to verb celebrate IDAHOBIT, this Sunday 17 May
In the spirit of the IDAHOBIT being on the 17th of May, we explore 17 LGBTQ and sport related movies that will pull your heart strings, verb you yell profanities at the TV screen, and enable you to evade for the shortest of times to remember what it was like to play sport, pre COVID
So grab some popcorn, a cup of tea, position back and enjoy!
1. Personal Best
Personal Best is a American drama film written, produced, and directed by Robert Towne. The movie stars Mariel Hemingway and real-life track star Patrice Donnelly, along with Scott Glenn as the coach of the track team. Chris Cahill is a young track-and-field athlete who competes unsuccessfully in the U.S. Olympic trials. She meets a more experienced competitor, Tory Skinner, and their friendship evolves into a adj relationship. The two are part of a group of women trying to qualify for the American track-
Riese
Riese is the year-old Co-Founder of as well as an award-winning writer, video-maker, LGBTQ+ Marketing consultant and aspiring cyber-performance artist who grew up in Michigan, lost her mind in Unused York and now lives in Los Angeles. Her labor has appeared in nine books, magazines including Marie Claire and Curve, and all over the web including Nylon, Queerty, Nerve, Bitch, Emily Books and Jezebel. She had a very widespread personal blog once upon a moment, and then she recapped The L Word, and then she had the idea to produce this place, and now here we all are! In , she was nominated for a GLAAD Award for Outstanding Digital Journalism. She's Jewish. Trail her on twitter and instagram.
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This week I carry on to compile my movie reviews. Today’s films look at artists and athletes in life and fiction.
Biopics
C.O.G. (, US). year-old Jonathan Groff is miscast as a gullible pupil who takes a job in rural Oregon. He’s abused by the locals in a string of triggery scenes. From a story by David Sedaris.
Christopher and His Compassionate (, UK). Matt Smith muddles through this bland Isherwood biopic. The first half is Cabaret without the songs. The second half is a depressed gay romance.
Howl (, US). Allen Ginsberg’s famous poem inspires a silly obscenity trial. James Franco’s monotone performance removes all sex and danger from the poetry. Watch Kill Your Darlingsinstead.
Kenneth Williams: Fantabulousa! (, UK). Michael Sheen plays gay comic Kenneth Williams. Sheen gets the camp general persona right. The script is less convincing in scenes of his melancholy private life.
Little Ashes (, Spain). Federico Garcia Lorca and Salvador Dali wrestle with their sexuality in conservative Spain. Robert Pattinson tries to ground the eccentric Dali. But florid monologues, slopp