a fantastic 2024, it’s shaping up to be another exciting, eclectic year for queer cinema, featuring everything from indies to massive blockbusters, romances to whodunits, zombie-fighting drag queens to lovestruck pop stars, two different gay weddings, and period pieces looking back on LGBTQ+ life in the ’90s, the ’50s, and even over a full century ago.So, here’s your handy guide to the 20 queer films that are going to help us get through 2025. (Of course, dates are always subject to change, but there’s plenty to mark on your calendars regardless!)After the one-two punch of Challengers & Queer, auteur Luca Guadagnino is one of the most in-demand queer voices in Hollywood, and his next project sounds like a doozy.
Starring America’s Sweetheart Julia Roberts, her heir hair apparent Ayo Edebiri, internet crush Andrew Garfield, and rising trans star Lío Mehiel, After The Hunt is a gripping drama about a professor facing a crisis of conscience when a student makes alarming accusations against one of her colleagues. Release date TBA.In this refreshing gay rom-com from filmmaker Roshan Sethi, Naveen (Karan Soni, the director’s IRL partner) is anxious about introducing his family to his fiancé Jay (Jonathan Groff) to his large, traditional Indian family, but not because he’s gay—it’s because he’s white.