While gay characters tended, until much too recently, to be one-dimensional, in 2018 Barry Jenkins won a Best Picture Oscar telling the hopeful story of a gay Black man in Moonlight.ĭiversity is the key, and there’s a lot of history to explore. Call Me By Your Name cemented its actors as movie stars. We’ve come a long way in fifty years, from the self-loathing middle-aged men of The Boys In The Band to the peppy teens of Love, Simon.

Over the last two and a half decades though, in the wake of such 90s films as Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, gay films have been released by the bucketload. As time has progressed, so too has people’s acceptance of LGBT and gay characters in mainstream movies and television series and even anime.