With more queer-identifying filmmakers, actors, producers, and directors than ever before given the opportunity to share their stories, we can only expect more fantastic LGBTQ+ films in the future. Dash & Lily (Netflix) Starring: Austin Abrams, Midori Francis, Dante Brown, Troy Iwata, Keana Marie, James Saito, Jodi Long, Glenn McCuen, Michael Park, Gideon Emery, Jennifer Ikeda, Diego Guevara. The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin (2017) 92 Transformer (2017) 100 I Am Michael (2015) 62 The Danish Girl (2015) 66 The Perfection (2018) 71 Edge. While we’re a long way from total inclusivity and gay movies sans stereotypes, the film industry has made recent strides in centering LGBTQ+ characters. For marginalized groups, truthful representation in film is imperative, even lifesaving, and in today’s stormy political climate there’s an urgency for straight cisgender people to see LGBTQ characters portrayed accurately and unapologetically - and by people who actually know what LGBTQ life is like because they live it. Released on Hulu around the same time Heartstopper debuted on Netflix, Crush is another feel-good (and queer) coming-of-age flick. Still, from Sacha Baron Cohen’s fashion-obsessed Brüno to a Scream Queens character nicknamed Predatory Lez, we unfortunately continue to see it all. LGBTQ people have long been buried under tropes and unsubtle stereotypes in film and television. Holding the Man is based on the 1995 memoir of the same name by Timothy Conigrave (who died a year after the memoir’s. LGBTQ movies are a rarity, even more so than accurately portrayed queer characters in film nowadays.