Wil (Michelle Krusiec) and Vivian (Lynn Chen) dance in Saving Face; Min (Han Gi-chan) and Chris (Bowen Yang) embrace in The Wedding Banquet (2025). Representation matters, and for queer ...

Indies that pushed the boundaries of cinema itself and comedies that gave us a much needed giggle are among the best LGBTQ+ ...

Queer love stories have stood the test of time as filmmakers strive to tell authentic narratives, despite LGBTQ+ representation in films facing challenges throughout history. Films showcasing love in ...

Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender cinema is becoming the new norm, according to Denver Film Society programmer Matthew Campbell: Festivals such as Sundance now feature films about LGBT characters ...

Welcome back to our queer film retrospective, “A Gay Old Time.” In this week’s column, let’s revisit 1956’s Giant, an American epic starring—who we now understand as—two queer actors and one of our ...

Bay Area filmmaker and lecturer Irwin Swirnoff will host a program on June 30 at the Echo Park Film Center showcasing five decades of queer films from northern California. Still from Marlon Riggs’s ...

Welcome back to our queer film retrospective, “A Gay Old Time.” In this week’s column, let’s revisit 1965’s dark thriller Who ...

Queer indie films, a local-history doc and new thrillers are showing on screens large and small this week. The SF Queer Film Festival, a showcase for LGBTQ+ filmmakers and independently produced queer ...

In the 1930s, the infamous Hays Code came to Hollywood, a conservative set of motion picture guidelines that outlawed American films from featuring anything deemed lewd, crude, explicit, or—of ...