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By Brett White
@brettwhite
Published
June 17, 2019, 9:00 p.m. ET
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Paris Is Burning
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 100%
This iconic documentary dives deep into the late '80s and early '90s ball scene where queer performers thrived under the spotlight. If you're wondering where Pose and RuPaul's Drag Race came from, it's the club floors of Paris is Burning.
[Stream Paris Is Burning on Netflix]
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 100%
This iconic documentary dives deep into the late '80s and early '90s ball scene where queer performers thrived under the spotlight. If you're wondering where Pose and RuPaul's Drag Race came from, it's the club floors of Paris is Burning.
[Stream Paris Is Burning on Netflix]
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Transformer
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 100%
This illuminating documentary follows former Marine and world record weightlifter Matt Kroczaleski as she comes out as trans and begins living her life authentically as a woman. The acclaimed documentary premiered at the Austin Film Festival and is now available to stream on Netflix.
[Stream Transformer on Netflix]
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 100%
This illuminating documentary follows former Marine and world record weightlifter Matt Kroczaleski as she comes out as trans and begins living her life authentically as a woman. The acclaimed documentary premiered at the Austin Film Festival and is now available to stream on Netflix.
[Stream Transformer on Netflix]
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Susanne Bartsch: On Top
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 100%
The queer history of New York's nightlife scene is explored through this engrossing doc about event producer Susanne Bartsch, who worked with everyone from RuPaul to Leigh Bowery and the notorious Club Kids. The film comes from Drag Race EPs Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey and features insight from Bartsch and RuPaul.
[Stream Susanne Bartsch: On Top on Netflix]
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 100%
The queer history of New York's nightlife scene is explored through this engrossing doc about event producer Susanne Bartsch, who worked with everyone from RuPaul to Leigh Bowery and the notorious Club Kids. The film comes from Drag Race EPs Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey and features insight from Bartsch and RuPaul.
[Stream Susanne Bartsch: On Top on Netflix]
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Growing Up Coy
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 100%
This documentary follows the legal battle one Colorado family went through to help their transgender 6-year-old Coy use the bathroom she identifies with. The ruling, which ruled in favor of Coy, sparked a trend of "bathroom bills" to pop up across the country, including the notorious HB2 in North Carolina.
[Stream Growing Up Coy on Netflix]
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 100%
This documentary follows the legal battle one Colorado family went through to help their transgender 6-year-old Coy use the bathroom she identifies with. The ruling, which ruled in favor of Coy, sparked a trend of "bathroom bills" to pop up across the country, including the notorious HB2 in North Carolina.
[Stream Growing Up Coy on Netflix]
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Teenage Cocktail
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 100%
This thriller stars Nichole Bloom (Superstore) and Fabianne Therese as best friends (and maybe more) who runaway from their small town in search of freedom from their overprotective parents.
[Stream Teenage Cocktail on Netflix]
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 100%
This thriller stars Nichole Bloom (Superstore) and Fabianne Therese as best friends (and maybe more) who runaway from their small town in search of freedom from their overprotective parents.
[Stream Teenage Cocktail on Netflix]
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Moonlight
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 98%
Barry Jenkins' beautiful drama tells the life story of gay man (Trevante Rhodes, Ashton Sanders, and Alex Hibbert) in a not-so-nice part of Miami, and all the hardship and heartache that comes with coming out. The film earned Mahershala Ali an Oscar for his performance as Chiron's father figure and the film won the Academy Award for Best Picture (after the whole La La Land mix-up).
[Stream Moonlight on Netflix]
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 98%
Barry Jenkins' beautiful drama tells the life story of gay man (Trevante Rhodes, Ashton Sanders, and Alex Hibbert) in a not-so-nice part of Miami, and all the hardship and heartache that comes with coming out. The film earned Mahershala Ali an Oscar for his performance as Chiron's father figure and the film won the Academy Award for Best Picture (after the whole La La Land mix-up).
[Stream Moonlight on Netflix]
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God's Own Country
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 97%
What happens when you fall in love with a migrant farmhand in a culture that doesn't understand relationships between two men? This critically-acclaimed drama starring Josh O'Connor and Alec Secareanu gets into this mess of emotions, and also features some pretty steamy sex scenes.
[Stream God's Own Country on Netflix]
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 97%
What happens when you fall in love with a migrant farmhand in a culture that doesn't understand relationships between two men? This critically-acclaimed drama starring Josh O'Connor and Alec Secareanu gets into this mess of emotions, and also features some pretty steamy sex scenes.
[Stream God's Own Country on Netflix]
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The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 96%
This Netflix Original tells the not often told enough true life story of trans activist Marsha P. Johnson. Purportedly the person that threw the first brick at the Stonewall riots in 1969, Johnson spent her life fighting for the disenfranchised queer youth along with other icons like Sylvia Rivera.
[Stream The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson on Netflix]
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 96%
This Netflix Original tells the not often told enough true life story of trans activist Marsha P. Johnson. Purportedly the person that threw the first brick at the Stonewall riots in 1969, Johnson spent her life fighting for the disenfranchised queer youth along with other icons like Sylvia Rivera.
[Stream The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson on Netflix]
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Strike a Pose
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 95%
Madonna's "Vogue" didn't just introduce the world to New York City's underground ball culture, it catapulted a group of street dancers into the spotlight via the Blond Ambition world tour and the film Truth or Dare. This film catches up with those dancers today, chronicling their lives then and their lives since.
[Stream Strike a Pose on Netflix]
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 95%
Madonna's "Vogue" didn't just introduce the world to New York City's underground ball culture, it catapulted a group of street dancers into the spotlight via the Blond Ambition world tour and the film Truth or Dare. This film catches up with those dancers today, chronicling their lives then and their lives since.
[Stream Strike a Pose on Netflix]
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Carol
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 94%
This drama set in the 1950s chronicles the forbidden love between an unhappy wife (Cate Blanchett) and a young photographer named Therese (Rooney Mara). The film's all-star cast also includes Sarah Paulson and Kyle Chandler andit went on to be a sleeper holiday season hit, especially for a patient, mature audiences film about a same-sex romance.
[Stream Carol on Netflix]
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 94%
This drama set in the 1950s chronicles the forbidden love between an unhappy wife (Cate Blanchett) and a young photographer named Therese (Rooney Mara). The film's all-star cast also includes Sarah Paulson and Kyle Chandler andit went on to be a sleeper holiday season hit, especially for a patient, mature audiences film about a same-sex romance.
[Stream Carol on Netflix]
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Princess Cyd
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 94%
Tired of living with her mess of a father, high schooler Cyd Loughlin (Jessie Pinnick) spends a summer in Chicago with her artistic aunt and finds something she didn't expect: love. The film, which tells a teenage love story between Cyd and a girl in her neighborhood over one summer, was loved by critics.
[Stream Princess Cyd on Netflix]
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 94%
Tired of living with her mess of a father, high schooler Cyd Loughlin (Jessie Pinnick) spends a summer in Chicago with her artistic aunt and finds something she didn't expect: love. The film, which tells a teenage love story between Cyd and a girl in her neighborhood over one summer, was loved by critics.
[Stream Princess Cyd on Netflix]
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The Freedom to Marry
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 94%
The fight for marriage equality over the past forty years is recounted in this up-close and personal documentary. Evan Wolfson and Mary Bonauto, the lawyers that helped lead the charge to the Supreme Court, get the spotlight treatment in this lauded film.
[Stream The Freedom to Marry on Netflix]
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 94%
The fight for marriage equality over the past forty years is recounted in this up-close and personal documentary. Evan Wolfson and Mary Bonauto, the lawyers that helped lead the charge to the Supreme Court, get the spotlight treatment in this lauded film.
[Stream The Freedom to Marry on Netflix]
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Milk
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 93%
This 2008 biopic about gay politician Harvey Milk was groundbreaking in its time, as it was a major motion picture starring big name actors (Sean Penn as Milk, Josh Brolin as his Milk's killer Dan White, Victor Garber as San Francisco Mayor George Moscone). Penn won an Oscar for his performance as the first openly gay man elected to public office.
[Stream Milk on Netflix]
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 93%
This 2008 biopic about gay politician Harvey Milk was groundbreaking in its time, as it was a major motion picture starring big name actors (Sean Penn as Milk, Josh Brolin as his Milk's killer Dan White, Victor Garber as San Francisco Mayor George Moscone). Penn won an Oscar for his performance as the first openly gay man elected to public office.
[Stream Milk on Netflix]
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The Pass
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 93%
Kind of the Brokeback Mountain with British footballers instead of cowboys, The Pass is a rumination on what happens when two men get closer to each other than they ever imagined. One kiss changes everything in the lives of these two men, played by Russell Tovey and Arinze Kene.
[Stream The Pass on Netflix]
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 93%
Kind of the Brokeback Mountain with British footballers instead of cowboys, The Pass is a rumination on what happens when two men get closer to each other than they ever imagined. One kiss changes everything in the lives of these two men, played by Russell Tovey and Arinze Kene.
[Stream The Pass on Netflix]
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The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 91%
If you've binged all of Tales of the City on Netflix, then this documentary about the beloved LGBTQ franchise's creator is the perfect chaser. This film shines a light on Maupin, whose journey took him from rural North Carolina to the gay haven that was San Francisco in the '70s.
[Stream The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin on Netflix]
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 91%
If you've binged all of Tales of the City on Netflix, then this documentary about the beloved LGBTQ franchise's creator is the perfect chaser. This film shines a light on Maupin, whose journey took him from rural North Carolina to the gay haven that was San Francisco in the '70s.
[Stream The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin on Netflix]
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The Wound
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 90%
This South African drama goes inside the culture of the Xhosa people, specifically the super secret circumcision ritual that men of the community undergo to transition into manhood. The Wound details what happens to gay men undergoing the Ulwaluko ceremony, as tensions rise and secrets are threatened to be exposed.
[Stream The Wound on Netflix]
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 90%
This South African drama goes inside the culture of the Xhosa people, specifically the super secret circumcision ritual that men of the community undergo to transition into manhood. The Wound details what happens to gay men undergoing the Ulwaluko ceremony, as tensions rise and secrets are threatened to be exposed.
[Stream The Wound on Netflix]
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Blue is the Warmest Color
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 89%
This X-rated French romance may have made censors blush but it made critics cheer. Lea Seydoux and Adele Exarchopoulos star as a free-spirited young woman and a high school student, two halves of a star-crossed whole who spend their lives in each others' orbit.
[Stream Blue is the Warmest Color on Netflix]
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 89%
This X-rated French romance may have made censors blush but it made critics cheer. Lea Seydoux and Adele Exarchopoulos star as a free-spirited young woman and a high school student, two halves of a star-crossed whole who spend their lives in each others' orbit.
[Stream Blue is the Warmest Color on Netflix]
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