The coronavirus may have forced a lot of people to change their vacation plans this summer, but movies can always whisk you away to fascinating historical landscapes.
Here’s a curated collection of recommendations from the Blade archives that offer some journeys to the LGBT past. “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” unfolds in New York City in the early 1990s.
When literary biographer Lee Israel can’t get a contract for her new book, she turns to a life of crime. With the help of her gay best friend Jack Hock, she becomes a successful forger, until the FBI figures out what’s going on.
Melissa McCarthy and Richard E. Grant are sensational as Lee and Jack and there are great supporting performances by Dolly Wells as Lee’s love interest and Jane Curtin