The best queer movies of 2023: All our favorite performances, romances & more
Queerty is eschewing a traditional ranking and handing out superlatives for some of the most notable queer (and queer-adjacent) features, highlighting the best, brightest, funniest, sexiest, and most surprising movies of 2023.
So read on, because these are the performances, movies, and moments we’ll still be talking about for years to come.Subscribe to our daily newsletter for a refreshing cocktail (or mocktail) of LGBTQ+ entertainment and pop culture, served up with a side of eye-candy.Monica is a film that’s been years in the making, and even after it premiered at the prestigious Venice Film Festival—where it received a rapturous 11-minute standing ovation—star Trace Lysette has had to fight for it to be seen, for it to be considered as not only a trans story, but also one speaking to truths that are universally human.
And it’s not hard to see why: Lysette pours every ounce of her soul into this story of a trans woman coming home to care for her estranged—and dying—mother.
Quietly devastating with a subtle expressiveness that speaks volumes, the actress delivers a performance so vulnerable and affecting that the final shot of her wary-yet-hopeful face lingers in your mind long after. Available on AMC+ via Prime Video & The Roku Channel.2023 isn’t the year Colman Domingo became a “star”—he’s always been one.
