While the movie does have a bittersweet ending, it still allows these two characters to grow and change as their relationship develops.
Through their unexpected romance, both characters begin to learn more about themselves.
RELATED: 10 LGBTQ+ TV Shows To Look Forward To In 2022 One, Rebecca, is trapped in a marriage that has ceased to give her the emotional fulfillment she needs the other, Paris, is the sex worker employed by Rebecca’s friends to help her explore her sexuality. 10 A Perfect Ending (2012)Ī Perfect Ending is the touching and resonant story of two women who unexpectedly fall in love with each other. Fortunately, the users of Ranker have helpfully compiled a list of just which of these movies available on Netflix deserve to be seen as among the best. However, the last decade has seen great strides in terms of representation, and there are now a number of movies that showcase the broad diversity of the LGBTQ+ experience. That made it tough for the LGBTQ+ community to feel represented properly on screen. Ted Talk done.For a very long time, it was difficult (and sometimes near-impossible) to see LGBTQ+ people or storylines in the movies, and, even once such stories became more commonplace, it was unfortunately common for these tales to end in tragedy or death. She is hysterical, one of the best people to come out of Disney Channel in a while, and was a scene stealer in Hubie Halloween last year. (This is also a complete side tangent unrelated to gay rights, but we as a society are sleeping on China Anne McClain (Lightning). Thunder is kicking ass with her titular father as a meteorological crime-fighting ensemble, and when she’s off duty she’s hanging out with her shapeshifting girlfriend. Enter Nafessa Williams as Anissa Pierce, aka Thunder, the first Black lesbian superhero to make it to screen, because sorry to the Chrises, but not all superheroes are straight white guys. The CW, however, is having none of this in their DC shows, and specifically this Black-lead show helmed by Prison Break’s Cress Williams. So like, just go watch the show, OK?įor the superhero fans out there, while queers with superpowers may splash about on the comic book pages, they rarely make it to screen (just remember how long it took for gays to make it into the MCU and in what a meager role it was). Also Maeve (Emma Mackey, soon to be in Death on the Nile) is not gay but is a badass.
Otis’s friendship with his gay bestie Eric (the LUMINOUS Ncuti Gatwa who should be the lead of at least 15 shows by now) is a beautiful depiction of allyship, and Eric’s relationship with Rahim (Sami Outalbali) in Season 2 is the freaking cutest. The British dramedy centers on Otis (Asa Butterfield, aka the boy in Hugo), a high school student who decides to make some extra cash working as a sex therapist for his fellow classmates, as his mom (played by The Crown’s ibble dibbleing Margaret Thatcher, Gillian Anderson) is an actual sex therapist.īetter than a thousand YouTube tutorials or Cosmo articles, this show dives into all of the nooks and crannies of sex, highlighting homosexuality, bisexuality, pansexuality, asexuality, douching, scissoring, masturbation, fellatio, crossdressing, erotica, roleplay, fetishes, vaginas with teeth, and yes, even heterosexuality (boring, I know). Okay, we’re starting with Sex Education, because it is my favorite show on this list (perhaps currently on TV) and if you get nothing else from this list it should be WATCH SEX EDUCATION.