Gay cowboys, queer heroes & more: celebrate 20 years of incredible queer films
Welcome to Screen Gems, our weekend dive into queer and queer-adjacent titles of the past that deserve a watch or a re-watch.Indie distributor Focus Features celebrates 20 years in showbiz this week, and we want to take a moment to applaud them.
Few distributors have made such a momentous contribution to indie cinema, especially when it comes to movies about LGBTQ characters.As such, we’ve combed the Focus catalog to select some of our most beloved–and most essential–titles in the Focus Queer Canon.
Whether viewed separately or as a multi-title feature, each tells a powerful queer story worth the price of a rental, not to mention your time.What more can we say about the story of Enis & Jack?
Brokeback Mountain has become a latter-day classic thanks to its moving story of gay love, outstanding performances and Oscar-winning direction by Ang Lee.Streams on Netflix, Peacock, Amazon, YouTube & VUDU.Leave it to director Todd Haynes to craft a 1950s-style melodrama all about forbidden love, be it interracial romance or same-sex relationships.
