queer film
Gay-themed movie
Queer film is cinema centering LGBTQ+ characters, themes, or perspectives.
The term encompasses work by and about queer people—from art house explorations of identity to mainstream romantic comedies with same-sex couples.
The festival's queer film program featured documentaries, dramas, and experimental shorts.
Some use queer film broadly for any movie with significant LGBTQ+ content; others reserve it for work that challenges heteronormative assumptions rather than simply depicting gay characters.
- LGBTQSexual and gender minorities
- cinemaMotion picture theater
- indieProduced outside majors
- arthouseVenue for noncommercial films
- art house cinemaVenue for noncommercial films
drag · pride · identity · gender identity · desire · coming-out · coming of age · forbidden · subversive · camp · underground · festival · closet · safe space · found family · chosen family · longing · love story
- LGBTQ+gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, nonbinary
- queer mediacommunity news, community newsletters, community media, community radio, advocacy journalism
- film festivalspremieres, screenings, opening night, closing night, TIFF