Texas filmmaker Yen Tan’s black-and-white drama - a huge hit at SXSW - about a man (Cory Michael Smith) who visits his family in Fort Worth during Christmastime, tells its story of coming out, and coming to terms, with painfully acute sensitivity while hardly ever addressing sex or AIDS. So this list is not just of good films with gays in them, but films where the gay content is so well-integrated, so thoughtful, that it becomes essential viewing for the queer community.ġ985. Nor does a film need to wave a rainbow flag to pop with its LGBT content. Just as a movie doesn’t have to be gay to be good, not all good movies, even those with gay content, are “good gay movies.” A film might have a major gay character - say, Night School - but not treat that fact with the kind of sophistication or understanding to make it memorable as a gay film.
