List of feature films with LGBT characters
The following is a list of feature films with fictional and factual lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender characters. The films were released theatrically, direct-to-video, or on a streaming platform (non-television network).
For queer characters ("Q" in LGBTQ), see lists for asexual, intersex, non-binary, and pansexual characters.
Film franchises
Film franchises share common universes. The following film series collectively feature LGBT characters in a leading or supporting role.
Franchise | Year | Title | Character(s) | Identity | Actor | Notes | Country | Ref(s) |
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Austin Powers | 1997 | Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery | Frau Farbissina | Bisexual | Mindy Sterling | Frau has a girlfriend named Una Brau in the second film who she met on the LPGA tour and fell in love. Later, when Dr. Evil and Past Frau have sex, she comments that she'll never love another man. Dr. Evil remembers her, responding "Yes, that's true". The sex between Dr. Evil and Frau results in their "love child", Scott. | United States | [1] |
1999 | Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me | |||||||
2002 | Austin Powers in Goldmember | |||||||
Bridget Jones | 2001 | Bridget Jones's Diary | Tom | Gay | James Callis | Tom is Bridget's flamboyant 'gay best friend'. | United Kingdom, United States, France | [2] [3][4] [4] |
2004 | Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason | Tom | Gay | James Callis | Rebecca is Mark Darcy's colleague who Bridget thinks is enamoured with him; it turns out her affections lie with Bridget. | United Kingdom, France, Germany, Ireland, United States | ||
Rebecca Gillies | Lesbian | Jacinda Barrett | ||||||
2016 | Bridget Jones's Baby | Tom | Gay | James Callis | The same character from the 2001 and 2004 films. | United Kingdom, United States, France | ||
Child's Play | 1998 | Bride of Chucky | David | Gay | Gordon Michael Woolvett | He has an unnamed ex-boyfriend. | United States | [5][6] [7][8] |
2013 | Curse of Chucky | Jill | Lesbian | Maitland McConnell | The live-in nanny of Alice, she has an affair with Barb, who is Alice's mother, making out with her in the kitchen. | |||
DC Extended Universe | 2020 | Birds of Prey | Harley Quinn | Bisexual | Margot Robbie | In the film's first 10 minutes, it is established that Harley is bisexual, with Harley saying she is unlucky with love, with her first two partners as men and the third one a woman. At the beginning of the film, it shows that one of Harley's failed relationships was with a woman. Renee and Ellen are exes. | United States | [9][10] |
Renee Montoya | Lesbian | Rosie Perez | ||||||
Ellen Yee | Ali Wong | |||||||
Deadpool | 2018 | Deadpool 2 | Negasonic Teenage Warhead | Lesbian | Brianna Hildebrand | Negasonic Teenage Warhead and Yukio are in a relationship. | United States | [11] |
Yukio | Shioli Kutsuna | |||||||
The Hangover | 2009 | The Hangover | Leslie Chow | Bisexual | Ken Jeong | The main antagonist in two films. In The Hangover he mentions his bisexuality. (GLAAD criticized the character as stereotypical.) | United States | [12][13] [14][15][16] [17][18] |
2011 | The Hangover Part II | Leslie Chow | Bisexual | Ken Jeong | ||||
Kimberly "Kimmy" | Trans woman | Yasmin Lee | A beautiful stripper and sex worker who Stu falls for. | |||||
2013 | The Hangover Part III | Leslie Chow | Bisexual | Ken Jeong | Chow escapes from a prison in Thailand and is a major presence with a parade of hookers, as he remains sex-obsessed. | |||
Harry Potter | 2001 | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone | Albus Dumbledore | Gay | Richard Harris | Albus Dumbledore is the headmaster of the wizarding school Hogwarts. Although Dumbledore's sexual orientation is not portrayed or explicitly mentioned in the films and books they are based on, J. K. Rowling (author of the Harry Potter series of fantasy novels) revealed in 2007 that he is gay. | United Kingdom, United States | [19][20] |
2002 | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | |||||||
2004 | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | Michael Gambon | ||||||
2005 | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | |||||||
2007 | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | |||||||
2009 | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | |||||||
2010 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 | |||||||
2011 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 | |||||||
How to Train Your Dragon | 2014 | How to Train Your Dragon 2 | Gobber the Belch | Gay | Craig Ferguson | Voice actor Craig Ferguson ad-libbed a line in the second film in which he mentions that he never got married for an undisclosed reason. (Ferguson and director Dean DeBlois confirmed that this was in reference to the character's homosexuality.) | United States | [21][22] |
2019 | How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World | |||||||
It | 2017 | It | Richie Tozier | Gay | Finn Wolfhard (young) Bill Hader (adult) |
It is revealed that when Richie was younger, he struggled with his sexuality and feelings for his best friend Eddie Kaspbrak, and was bullied for it. When he returns to Derry 27 years later, we find out Richie had been in love with Eddie, who dies, which devastates Richie, but leads him to accept who he is and re-carve his and Eddie's initials on the kissing bridge that he had carved when he was 13. He loved James Ransone as an adult. | United States | [23] |
2019 | It Chapter Two | |||||||
Mannequin | 1987 | Mannequin | Hollywood Montrose | Gay | Meshach Taylor | A flamboyant black man. | United States | [24] [25] |
1991 | Mannequin Two: On the Move | |||||||
Marvel Cinematic Universe | 2017 | Thor: Ragnarok | Valkyrie | Bisexual | Tessa Thompson | The scene confirming the character's bisexuality was deleted from the film and her sexual orientation is instead only alluded to. (The Valkyrie is canonically bisexual in the comics the movie was based on.) | United States | [26][27] [28][29] [30][31] [32] |
2018 | Black Panther | Ayo | Lesbian | Florence Kasumba | Based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name who has a lesbian lover in the Dora Milaje. | |||
2019 | Avengers: Endgame | Valkyrie | Bisexual | Tessa Thompson | The first non-straight superhero in the Marvel cinematic universe. In the film, she is crowned King of Asgard. | |||
2021 | Eternals | Phastos | Gay | Brian Tyree Henry | Phastos is the first superhero to be depicted as gay in an MCU film. Ben is Phastos' husband. | |||
Ben | Haaz Sleiman | |||||||
Pitch Perfect | 2012 | Pitch Perfect | Cynthia Rose Adams | Lesbian | Esther Dean | She reveals to the Barden Bellas that her gambling addiction has been causing problems with her girlfriend (stated in dialog near the end of the first film). | United States | [33] |
2015 | Pitch Perfect 2 | |||||||
2017 | Pitch Perfect 3 | |||||||
The Producers | 1967 | The Producers | Carmen Ghia | Gay | Andreas Voutsinas | Carmen is the companion of Roger De Bris, a flamboyant director who is directing "Springtime for Hitler". | United States | [34][35] [36][37] |
Roger De Bris | Christopher Hewett | |||||||
2005 | The Producers | Carmen Ghia | Gay | Roger Bart | Just as in the 1967 film, Carmen is the confidente of Roger De Bris. | |||
Roger De Bris | Gary Beach | |||||||
Star Trek | 2009 | Star Trek | Hikaru Sulu | Gay | John Cho | The film franchise is based on the television series of the same name, and the changing of the character's original sexual orientation from heterosexual to gay led George Takei to express his disappointment with the decision. | United States | [38] |
2013 | Star Trek Into Darkness | |||||||
2016 | Star Trek Beyond | |||||||
Stand-alone films (20th century)
1900–1959
Year | Title | Character(s) | Identity | Actor | Notes | Country | Ref(s) |
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1919 | Different from the Others | Paul Körner | Gay | Conrad Veidt Karl Giese (young) |
The first film supportive of homosexuality. | Germany | [39][40] |
1924 | Michael | Claude Zoret | Gay | Benjamin Christiensen | Claude is a painter who falls in love with his assistant, Michael. Michael eventually leaves Claude for a woman. | Germany | [41] |
Michael | Bisexual | Walter Slezak | |||||
1929 | Pandora's Box | Countess Augusta Geschwitz | Lesbian | Alice Roberts | The Countess likes to wear a man's jacket, shirt, and tie as informal attire. She is in love with Lulu. At Lulu's wedding party, she looks at her longingly and finds an opportunity to dance with her. She then helps rescue Lulu from being taken to prison. Later, she goes in search of Lulu, who is hiding on a gambling ship, and gives her much-needed money. Lulu tells the Countess that she is being blackmailed by Rodrigo Quast, who threatens to turn her over to the police, and the Countess agrees to help Lulu by tricking Rodrigo into thinking that she is interested in him, luring him to his death. Countess Geschwitz is often cited as cinema's first explicit lesbian character. | Germany | [42][34][43] |
1931 | Mädchen in Uniform | Manuela von Meinhardis | Lesbian | Hertha Thiele | The first film about a lesbian coming out. | Germany | [44][45][46] |
1936 | Dracula's Daughter | Countess Marya Zaleska | Lesbian | Gloria Holden | Dracula's daughter, Countess Marya Zaleska, pursues and seduces women. | United States | [47] |
1940 | Rebecca | Mrs. Danvers | Lesbian | Judith Anderson | United States | [48][49] | |
1941 | The Maltese Falcon | Joel Cairo | Gay | Peter Lorre | In the novel upon which the film is based, Joel Cairo is referred to as "queer" and a "fairy" but, in the film, his sexuality is not directly addressed, likely a decision by filmmakers in order to comply with the Hays Code, which banned the depiction of homosexuality in American films. | United States | [50][51][52] |
1948 | Rope | Phillip Morgan | Gay | Farley Granger | Because of the Hays Code, the word "homosexual" could not be stated outright and was referred to as "it". Adapted from the 1929 British play Rope's End, which is loosely based on the Leopold and Loeb murder case. | United States | [53][54][55] |
Brandon Shaw | John Dall | ||||||
1950 | All About Eve | Addison DeWitt | Gay | George Sanders | Addison is a gossip columnist who engages in loveless relationship predation. (The constraints of the Motion Picture Production Code did not allow homosexuality to be portrayed overtly.) | United States | [56][57] |
1953 | Glen or Glenda | Glenda | Trans woman | Ed Wood | Filmed when it was illegal for a man to crossdress as a woman in public. | United States | [58] |
Anne | Tommy Haynes | ||||||
1955 | Rebel Without a Cause | John "Plato" Crawford | Gay | Sal Mineo | United States | [59][60] | |
1958 | Touch of Evil | Gang leader | Lesbian | Mercedes McCambridge | Butch lesbian leader of a Mexican biker gang. She watches as the bikers terrorize Susan Vargas with gang-rape. | United States | [61][62][63] |
1960–1969
Year | Title | Character(s) | Identity | Actor | Notes | Country | Ref(s) |
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1961 | The Children's Hour | Martha Dobie | Lesbian | Shirley MacLaine | The film is based on the 1934 play of the same name. | United States | [64] |
1961 | A Taste of Honey | Geoffrey Ingham | Gay | Murray Melvin | United Kingdom | [34] | |
1961 | Victim | Melville Farr | Gay | Dirk Bogarde | Melville is a barrister threatened with blackmail. The film is credited for being important in the decriminalization of homosexuality in Britain. It is also the first British film to use the word "homosexual" in the narrative. | United Kingdom | [65][66] |
1962 | Advise & Consent | Senator Brigham "Brig" Anderson | Gay | Don Murray | United States | [34] | |
1962 | The L-Shaped Room | Johnny | Gay | Brock Peters | United Kingdom | [34] | |
1962 | Walk on the Wild Side | Jo Courtney | Lesbian | Barbara Stanwyck | Courtney is the owner and madam of New Orleans brothel the Doll House. She is the first conspicuous lesbian character in a Hollywood feature film. Stanwyck is the first major Hollywood actress to portray an unconcealed lesbian in an American film. | United States | [34][67][68] |
1963 | The Balcony | Madame Irma | Lesbian | Shelley Winters | United States | [34] | |
1963 | From Russia with Love | Rosa Klebb | Lesbian | Lotte Lenya | United Kingdom | [34] | |
1963 | Scorpio Rising | Scorpio | Gay | Bruce Byron | United States | [34] | |
1964 | Goldfinger | Pussy Galore | Lesbian | Honor Blackman | Although the film does not make her sexual orientation explicit, hints are made in the dialogue. When Bond is flirting with her in one scene, she tells him "You can turn off the charm. I'm immune." In another scene he asks her "What would it take for you to see things my way?" and she replies "A lot more than you've got." | United Kingdom, United States | [69][70] |
1964 | The Night of the Iguana | Judith Fellowes | Lesbian | Grayson Hall | United States | [34] | |
1965 | Bus Riley's Back in Town | Spencer | Gay | Crahan Denton | United States | [34] | |
1965 | Darling | Robert Gold | Gay | Dirk Bogarde | United Kingdom | [34] | |
1965 | Inside Daisy Clover | Wade Lewis | Gay | Robert Redford | United States | [71] | |
1965 | King Rat | Steven | Gay | Michael Lees | United States | [34] | |
1965 | The Loved One | Mr. Starker | Gay | Liberace | United States | [34] | |
Mr. Joyboy | Rod Steiger | ||||||
1965 | My Hustler | Paul | Bisexual | Paul America | United States | [34] | |
1965 | The Pawnbroker | Rodriguez | Gay | Brock Peters | United States | [34] | |
1965 | Sylvia | Irma Olanski | Lesbian | Viveca Lindfors | United States | [34] | |
1965 | Who Killed Teddy Bear | Marian Freeman | Lesbian | Elaine Stritch | United States | [34] | |
1966 | 7 Women | Agatha Andrews, Head of Mission | Lesbian | Margaret Leighton | United States | [34] | |
1966 | The Group | Elinor "Lakey" Eastlake | Lesbian | Candice Bergen | United States | [34] | |
1967 | Bedazzled | Envy | Gay | Barry Humphries | United Kingdom | [34] | |
Vanity | Alba | ||||||
1967 | Caprice | Dr Stuart Clancy | Transvestite | Ray Walston | United States | [34] | |
1967 | The Fearless Vampire Killers | Herbert von Krolock | Gay | Iain Quarrier | United States | [34] | |
1967 | The Fox | Jill Banford | Lesbian | Sandy Dennis | United States, Canada | [34] | |
1967 | The Incident | Kenneth Otis | Gay | Robert Fields | United States | [34] | |
1967 | Portrait of Jason | Himself | Gay | Jason Holliday | United States | [34] | |
1967 | Reflections in a Golden Eye | Major Weldon Penderton | Gay | Marlon Brando | United States | [34] | |
1967 | Tony Rome | Nicky | Gay | Lloyd Bochner | United States | [34] | |
Irma | Lesbian | Elisabeth Fraser | |||||
1968 | The Anniversary | Henry Taggart | Gay | James Cossins | United Kingdom | [34] | |
1968 | Barbarella | The Great Tyrant | Lesbian | Anita Pallenberg | United States | [34] | |
1968 | Boom! | The Witch of Capri | Gay | Noël Coward | United Kingdom | [34] | |
1968 | The Boston Strangler | Terence Huntley | Gay | Hurd Hatfield | United States | [34] | |
1968 | The Detective | Teddy Leikman | Gay | James Inman | United States | [34] | |
Colin MacIver | William Windom | ||||||
1968 | Flesh | Geri | Lesbian | Geraldine Smith | United States | [34] | |
Geri's Girlfriend | Patti D'Arbanville | ||||||
1968 | if.... | Wallace | Gay | Richard Warwick | United Kingdom | [34] | |
Bobby Philips | Rupert Webster | ||||||
1968 | Joanna | Lord Peter Sanderson | Gay | Donald Sutherland | United Kingdom | [34] | |
1968 | The Killing of Sister George | June Buckridge | Lesbian | Beryl Reid | United States | [34] | |
1968 | The Legend of Lylah Clare | Rossella | Lesbian | Rossella Falk | United States | [34] | |
1968 | The Lion in Winter | Philip II of France | Gay | Timothy Dalton | United States | [34] | |
Richard the Lionheart | Anthony Hopkins | ||||||
1968 | Lonesome Cowboys | Little Joe | Bisexual | Joe Dallesandro | United States | [34] | |
Eric | Eric Emerson | ||||||
1968 | The Mercenary | Ricciolo (Curly) | Gay | Jack Palance | Italy, Spain, United States | [72][73] | |
1968 | No Way to Treat a Lady | Christopher Gill | Gay | Rod Steiger | United States | [34] | |
1968 | P.J. | Shelton Quell | Gay | Severn Darden | United States | [34] | |
1968 | The Queen | Himself | Gay | Flawless Sabrina | United States | [34] | |
1968 | Rachel, Rachel | Calla Mackie | Lesbian | Estelle Parsons | Calla, an extroverted schoolteacher, has a crush on her best friend Rachel. (Parsons was nominated for the 1969 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.) | United States | [74][34] |
1968 | The Sergeant | Albert Callan | Gay | Rod Steiger | United States | [75][76] | |
1968 | Star! | Noël Coward | Gay | Daniel Massey | Biopic about Gertrude Lawrence who, besides collaborating with him in theater productions, also had a close friendship with Coward off stage. | United States | [77][78][79] |
1968 | Teorema | The Visitor | Bisexual | Terence Stamp | Italy | [34] | |
1968 | Therese and Isabelle | Thérèse | Lesbian | Essy Persson | United States | [34] | |
Isabelle | Anna Gaël | ||||||
1969 | The Gay Deceivers | Malcolm | Gay | Michael Greer | United States | [34] | |
Colonel Dixon | Jack Starrett | ||||||
1969 | Justine | Toto | Gay | Cliff Gorman | United States | [34] | |
1969 | Midnight Cowboy | Joe Buck | Bisexual | Jon Voight | Joe is a gigolo who has sex with men and women in an attempt to make money. The film is based on the 1965 novel of the same name. The character was later parodied in the "Brannigan, Begin Again" episode of Futurama, which also used the film's theme, "Everybody's Talkin'" by Harry Nilsson. | United States | [80] [81][82] |
1969 | Riot | Mary Sheldon | Gay | Clifford David | United States | [34] | |
1969 | Staircase | Harry C. Leeds | Gay | Richard Burton | United Kingdom | [34] | |
Charles Dyer | Rex Harrison | ||||||
1969 | The Damned | Konstantin von Essenbeck | Gay | Reinhard Kolldehoff | Part of a wealthy industrialist family, Konstantin is an SA officer who is part of homosexual orgy in Wiesee. | Italy, West Germany | [83][84][85] |
1969 | Women in Love | Rupert Birkin | Bisexual | Alan Bates | United Kingdom | [34] | |
Loerke | Gay | Vladek Sheybal | |||||
1969 | Z | Vago | Gay | Marcel Bozzuffi | Algeria, France | [34] | |
1970–1979
Year | Title | Character(s) | Identity | Actor | Notes | Country | Ref(s) |
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1970 | Beyond the Valley of the Dolls | Casey Anderson | Lesbian | Cynthia Myers | United States | [34] | |
Ronnie "Z-Man" Barzell | Transgender | John LaZar | |||||
1970 | Bloody Mama | Fred | Bisexual | Robert Walden | United States | [34] | |
1970 | The Boys in the Band | Michael | Gay | Kenneth Nelson | United States | [34] | |
Harold | Leonard Frey | ||||||
Emory | Cliff Gorman | ||||||
Hank | Laurence Luckinbill | ||||||
Donald | Frederick Combs | ||||||
1970 | The Christine Jorgensen Story | Christine Jorgensen | Trans woman | John Hansen | A former Army private from the Bronx undergoes surgery and hormone treatments in Denmark in 1952 to transition from male to female. Based on Jorgenson's autobiography. (Jorgensen later unsuccessfully tried to get a restraining order to stop the producer's estate from exploiting the film.) | United States | [34][86][87] |
1970 | Entertaining Mr Sloane | Ed | Gay | Harry Andrews | United Kingdom | [34] | |
1970 | Five Easy Pieces | Terry Grouse | Lesbian | Toni Basil | United States | [34] | |
Palm Apodaca | Helena Kallianiotes | ||||||
1970 | The Kremlin Letter | The Warlock | Gay | George Sanders | United States | [34] | |
1970 | Little Big Man | Little Horse | Gay | Robert Little Star | United States | [34][88] | |
1970 | Loot | Dennis | Gay | Hywel Bennett | United Kingdom | [34] | |
Hal | Roy Holder | ||||||
1970 | Myra Breckinridge | Myra Breckinridge | Trans woman | Raquel Welch | United States | [89][90] | |
Irving "Blaggot" Amadeus | Gay | Calvin Lockhart | |||||
1970 | The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes | Sherlock Holmes | Gay | Robert Stephens | United States, United Kingdom | [34] | |
1970 | Puzzle of a Downfall Child | Pauline Galba | Lesbian | Viveca Lindfors | United States | [34] | |
1970 | Something for Everyone | Konrad Ludwig | Gay | Michael York | United States | [34] | |
Helmuth von Ornstein | Anthony Higgins | ||||||
1970 | Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon | Warren | Gay | Robert Moore | United States | [34] | |
Guiles | Leonard Frey | ||||||
1970 | The Vampire Lovers | Carmilla Karnstein | Lesbian | Ingrid Pitt | She has romantic feelings for Emma who lets her dress her. | United Kingdom | [91][92][93] |
1970 | Where's Poppa? | Sidney Hocheiser | Bisexual | Ron Leibman | United States | [34] | |
1971 | The Anderson Tapes | Haskins | Gay | Martin Balsam | United States | [34] | |
1971 | Daughters of Darkness | Countess Bathory | Lesbian | Delphine Seyrig | Bathory is a countess who has a loyal servant named Ilona and tries to seduce a woman named Valerie. | Belgium | [94][95] |
1971 | Death in Venice | Gustav von Aschenbach | Gay | Dirk Bogarde | France, Italy | [34] | |
1971 | Diamonds Are Forever | Mr. Wint | Gay | Bruce Glover | United Kingdom | [34] | |
Mr. Kidd | Putter Smith | ||||||
1971 | Doctors' Wives | Della Randolph | Bisexual | Rachel Roberts | United States | [34] | |
1971 | Fortune and Men's Eyes | Queenie | Gay | Michael Greer | United States | [34] | |
Mona | Danny Freedman | ||||||
1971 | It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives | Daniel | Gay | Bernd Feuerhelm | West Germany | [34] | |
Clemens | Berryt Bohlen | ||||||
1971 | The Last Picture Show | Coach Popper | Gay | Bill Thurman | Closeted high school basketball coach, married to Ruth. | United States | [96][97] |
1971 | The Music Lovers | Tchaikovsky | Gay | Richard Chamberlain | United Kingdom | [34] | |
1971 | Some of My Best Friends Are... | Scott | Gay | Gil Gerard | United States | [34] | |
Jim | Gary Sandy | ||||||
1971 | Sunday Bloody Sunday | Bob Elkin | Bisexual | Murray Head | United Kingdom | [34] | |
Daniel Hirsh | Gay | Peter Finch | |||||
1971 | Thank You Mask Man | The Lone Ranger | Gay | Lenny Bruce | United States | [34] | |
1971 | Villain | Vic Dakin | Gay | Richard Burton | United Kingdom | [34] | |
1972 | Blacula | Bobby McCoy | Gay | Ted Harris | United States | [34] | |
1972 | Cabaret | Baron Maximilian Von Heune | Bisexual | Helmut Griem | Maximilian is a wealthy playboy who befriends Sally and takes her and Brian to his country estate where he courts both of them. Based on the musical Cabaret. | United States | [98][99] |
Brian Roberts | Michael York | ||||||
1972 | Georgia, Georgia | Herbert Thompson | Gay | Roger Furman | United States | [34] | |
1972 | Heat | Jessica | Lesbian | Andrea Feldman | United States | [34] | |
1972 | I Want What I Want | Roy / Wendy | Transgender | Anne Heywood | United Kingdom | [34] | |
1972 | Pete 'n' Tillie | Jimmy Twitchell | Gay | René Auberjonois | United States | [34] | |
1972 | Play It as It Lays | B.Z. Mendenhall | Gay | Anthony Perkins | United States | [34] | |
1972 | They Only Kill Their Masters | Mrs. Watkins | Lesbian | June Allyson | United States | [34] | |
1972 | Zee and Co. | Zee Blakeley | Bisexual | Elizabeth Taylor | United Kingdom | [34] | |
Stella | Susannah York | ||||||
1973 | A Bigger Splash | Himself | Gay | Peter Schlesinger | United Kingdom | [34] | |
1973 | Cleopatra Jones | Mommy | Lesbian | Shelley Winters | United States | [34] | |
1973 | Day for Night | Alexandre | Gay | Jean-Pierre Aumont | France | [34] | |
1973 | The Day of the Jackal | Bernard | Gay | Anton Rodgers | United Kingdom | [34] | |
1973 | The Last of Sheila | Tom Parkman | Gay | Richard Benjamin | United States | [34] | |
1973 | Ludwig | Ludwig II of Bavaria | Bisexual | Helmut Berger | Italy, France, West Germany | [100][101] | |
1973 | Papillon | André Maturette | Gay | Robert Deman | United States | [34] | |
1973 | Scarecrow | Riley | Gay | Richard Lynch | United States | [34] | |
1973 | Sleeper | Jeb Hrmthmg | Gay | Spencer Milligan | United States | [34] | |
1973 | Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams | Bobby Walden | Gay | Ron Rickards | United States | [34] | |
1973 | The Tenderness of Wolves | Fritz Haarmann | Gay | Kurt Raab | West Germany | [34] | |
1973 | Theatre of Blood | Meredith Merridew | Gay | Robert Morley | United Kingdom | [34] | |
1974 | Butley | Ben Butley | Gay | Alan Bates | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | [34] | |
1974 | Caged Heat | Superintendent McQueen | Lesbian | Barbara Steele | United States | [34] | |
1974 | Freebie and the Bean | (Unnamed) | Transvestite | Christopher Morley | United States | [34] | |
1974 | Lenny | Honey Bruce | Bisexual | Valerie Perrine | United States | [34] | |
1974 | Once Upon a Time in the East | Hélène | Lesbian | Denise Filiatrault | Canada | [34] | |
1974 | Score | Eddie | Bisexual | Casey Donovan | United States | [34] | |
Betsy | Lynn Lowry | ||||||
1974 | The Taking of Pelham One Two Three | Gay subway passenger | Gay | Gary Bolling | United States | [34] | |
1974 | The Tamarind Seed | Fergus Stephenson | Gay | Dan O'Herlihy | United States | [34] | |
1974 | A Very Natural Thing | David | Gay | Robert Joel | David is a public school teacher and former monastic monk. He meets Mark at a disco. After their relationship ends he meets Jason, a photographer who came out after divorcing his wife. The film contains documentary footage of the Christopher Street Liberation Day March in New York City (known today as NYC Pride March). | United States | [102][103] |
Mark | Curt Gareth | ||||||
Jason | Bo White | ||||||
Alan | Jay Pierce | ||||||
1975 | Barry Lyndon | British Soldier | Gay | Anthony Dawes | United States | [34] | |
1975 | Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold | Dragon Lady | Lesbian | Stella Stevens | United States | [34] | |
1975 | The Day of the Locust | Nightclub Entertainer | Transvestite | Paul Jabara | United States | [34] | |
1975 | Dog Day Afternoon | Leon Shermer | Trans woman | Chris Sarandon | Leon is Sonny's partner who tries to use a robbery to pay for her sex reassignment surgery. Sonny, a first-time crook, attempts to rob a bank, but plan goes awry. The robbery was intended to pay for Leon's's sex reassignment surgery. It is also mentioned that Sonny has children with his estranged wife, Angie (this led critic Tim Robey to call Sonny a "bisexual desperado"). | United States | [104][105] |
Sonny Wortzik | Bisexual | Al Pacino | |||||
1975 | The Eiger Sanction | Miles Mellough | Gay | Jack Cassidy | United States | [34] | |
1975 | Farewell, My Lovely | Frances Amthor | Lesbian | Kate Murtagh | United States | [34] | |
1975 | Fox and His Friends | Franz "Fox" Bieberkopf | Gay | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | West Germany | [34] | |
1975 | Funny Lady | Bobby Moore | Gay | Roddy McDowall | United States | [34] | |
1975 | Mahogany | Sean McAvoy | Gay | Anthony Perkins | United States | [34] | |
1975 | Once Is Not Enough | Deidre Milford Granger | Lesbian | Alexis Smith | United States | [34] | |
Karla | Melina Mercouri | ||||||
1975 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Dale Harding | Gay | William Redfield | United States | [34] | |
1975 | The Rocky Horror Picture Show | Brad Majors | Bisexual | Barry Bostwick | Brad cheats on his fiancée, Janet Weiss, with an alien transvestite man named Dr. Frank N Furter. | United Kingdom, United States | [106][88] |
Rocky | Peter Hinwood | ||||||
1975 | The Wild Party | Madeline True | Lesbian | Jennifer Lee | United States | [34] | |
1976 | L'Alpagueur | Gilbert ("L'Epervier") | Gay | Bruno Cremer | A killer and crook who has feelings for a young man he hires to rob a jewelry store. | France | [107] |
1976 | The Best Way to Walk | Marc | Gay | Patrick Dewaere | France | [34] | |
Philippe | Patrick Bouchitey | ||||||
1976 | Car Wash | Lindy | Gay | Antonio Fargas | United States | [34] | |
1976 | Drum | Bernard DeMarigny | Gay | John Colicos | United States | [34] | |
1976 | Face to Face | Dr. Tomas Jacobi | Gay | Erland Josephson | Sweden | [34] | |
1976 | Fellini's Casanova | Giacomo Casanova | Bisexual | Donald Sutherland | Italy | [34] | |
1976 | The Man Who Fell to Earth | Oliver V. Farnsworth | Gay | Buck Henry | United Kingdom | [34] | |
1976 | Next Stop, Greenwich Village | Bernstein | Gay | Antonio Fargas | United States | [34] | |
1976 | Norman... Is That You? | Garson Hobart | Gay | Dennis Dugan | United States | [34] | |
Norman Chambers | Michael Warren | ||||||
1976 | Ode to Billy Joe | Billy Joe McAllister | Gay | Robby Benson | United States | [34] | |
1976 | The Ritz | Chris | Gay | F. Murray Abraham | United States | [34] | |
Claude Perkins | Paul B. Price | ||||||
1976 | Sebastiane | Sebastian | Gay | Leonardo Treviglio | United Kingdom | [34] | |
1976 | Swashbuckler | Lord Durant | Gay | Peter Boyle | Durant is the tyrannical and cruel governor of Jamaica. | United States | [108] |
1977 | The Choirboys | Blaney | Gay | Michael MacKenzie Wills | United States | [34] | |
1977 | Desperate Living | Muffy St. Jacques | Lesbian | Liz Renay | United States | [109][110] | |
Grizelda Brown | Jean Hill | ||||||
Peggy Gravel | Bisexual | Mink Stole | |||||
Mole McHenry | Trans woman | Susan Lowe | |||||
1977 | Hidden Pleasures | Eduardo | Gay | Simón Andreu | Spain | [34] | |
1977 | Looking for Mr. Goodbar | Gary | Gay | Tom Berenger | United States | [34] | |
1977 | Outrageous! | Robin Turner | Gay | Craig Russell | Canada | [34] | |
1977 | The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover | J. Edgar Hoover | Gay | Broderick Crawford | United States | [34] | |
1977 | A Special Day | Gabriele | Gay | Marcello Mastroianni | Italy, Canada | [111][112] | |
1977 | To an Unknown God | José | Gay | Héctor Alterio | Spain | [34] | |
1977 | Valentino | Rudolph Valentino | Bisexual | Rudolf Nureyev | United States | [34] | |
1978 | The Betsy | Loren Hardeman Jr. | Gay | Paul Ryan Rudd | United States | [34] | |
1978 | Bloodbrothers | Paulie | Gay | Bruce French | United States | [34] | |
1978 | California Suite | Sidney Cochran | Gay | Michael Caine | United States | [113] | |
1978 | A Different Story | Albert Walreavens | Gay | Perry King | United States | [34] | |
Stella Cooke | Lesbian | Meg Foster | |||||
1978 | In a Year of 13 Moons | Elvira Weishaupt | Trans woman | Volker Spengler | In the film, Weishaupt faces brutal cruelty on an everyday basis. | West Germany | [114] |
1978 | La Cage aux Folles | Renato Baldi | Gay | Ugo Tognazzi | France | [34] | |
Albin Mougeotte/'Zaza Napoli' | Michel Serrault | ||||||
1978 | Midnight Express | Billy | Bisexual | Brad Davis | United States | [34] | |
Erich | Gay | Norbert Weisser | |||||
1978 | Nighthawks | Jim | Gay | Ken Robertson | United Kingdom | [34] | |
1978 | A Wedding | Rita Billingsley | Lesbian | Geraldine Chaplin | United States | [34] | |
1979 | 10 | Hugh | Gay | Robert Webber | United States | [34] | |
1979 | ...And Justice for All | Ralph Agee | Transgender | Robert Christian | United States | [34] | |
1979 | The Bell Jar | Joan | Lesbian | Donna Mitchell | United States | [34] | |
1979 | Ernesto | Ernesto | Gay | Martin Halm | Italy, Spain, West Germany | [34] | |
The Man / The stableman | Michele Placido | ||||||
1979 | Life of Brian | Loretta | Trans woman | Eric Idle | Loretta tells her comrades Reg, Judith, and Francis that she wants to be a woman, wants to have babies, and that it is "every man's right to have babies if he wants them." Although Reg is skeptical, Judith accedes to Loretta's request that she "can have the right to have babies" which Francis agrees to as symbolic of the struggle against the Romans, while Reg says it is part of Loretta's "struggle against reality". | United Kingdom | [115][116][117] |
1979 | Manhattan | Jill Davis | Bisexual | Meryl Streep | United States | [118][119] | |
1979 | A Perfect Couple | Mary | Lesbian | Heather MacRae | United States | [34] | |
Sydney Ray | Tomi-Lee Bradley | ||||||
1979 | The Rose | Mary Rose "The Rose" Foster | Bisexual | Bette Midler | United States | [34] | |
Sarah Willingham | Lesbian | Sandra McCabe | |||||
1979 | Saint Jack | Senator | Gay | George Lazenby | United States | [34] | |
1979 | The Tempest | Prospero | Bisexual | Heathcote Williams | United Kingdom | [120] | |
Stephano | Christopher Biggins | ||||||
1979 | To Forget Venice | Nicky | Gay | Erland Josephson | Italy | [34] | |
Anna | Lesbian | Mariangela Melato | |||||
1979 | A Woman Like Eve | Eve | Lesbian | Monique van de Ven | Netherlands | [34] | |
Liliane | Maria Schneider | ||||||
1980–1989
Year | Title | Character(s) | Identity | Actor | Notes | Country | Ref(s) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1980 | American Gigolo | Leon James | Gay | Bill Duke | United States | [34] | |
Anne | Lesbian | Nina van Pallandt | |||||
1980 | Cruising | Ted Bailey | Gay | Don Scardino | United States | [34] | |
1980 | Dressed to Kill | Bobbi | Transvestite | Michael Caine | Bobbi is a murderer. During the film's initial release, the activist group Women Against Violence in Pornography and Media distributed a leaflet denouncing the film's misogynistic and transphobic attitudes, arguing that "the distorted image of a psychotic male transvestite [sic] makes all sexual minorities appear sick and dangerous." | United States | [34][88][121] |
1980 | Fame | Montgomery MacNeil | Gay | Paul McCrane | United States | [34] | |
1980 | Happy Birthday, Gemini | Francis Geminiani | Gay | Alan Rosenberg | United States | [34] | |
1980 | La Cage aux Folles II | Renato Baldi | Gay | Ugo Tognazzi | France | [34] | |
Albin Mougeotte/'Zaza Napoli' | Michel Serrault | ||||||
1980 | The Last Married Couple in America | Donald | Gay | Stewart Moss | United States | [34] | |
Reggie | Colby Chester | ||||||
1980 | The Last Metro | Arlette Guillaume | Lesbian | Andréa Ferréol | France | [122] | |
1980 | The Long Good Friday | Colin | Gay | Paul Freeman | United Kingdom | [34] | |
1980 | Nijinsky | Sergei Diaghilev | Gay | Alan Bates | United States | [34] | |
Vaslav Nijinsky | George de la Peña | ||||||
1980 | Richard's Things | Kate Morris | Bisexual | Liv Ullmann | United Kingdom | [123] | |
Josie | Amanda Redman | ||||||
1980 | Serial | Luckman | Gay | Christopher Lee | United States | [34] | |
1980 | Stir Crazy | Rory Schultebrand | Gay | Georg Stanford Brown | A drag-wearing convict who killed his stepfather. (For his drag performance, Brown was nominated for the 1980 Golden Raspberry (Razzie) Award as "Worst Supporting Actress".) | United States | [124][125] |
1980 | Taxi zum Klo | Frank | Gay | Frank Ripploh | West Germany | [34] | |
Bernd | Bernd Broaderup | ||||||
1980 | Times Square | Nicky Marotta | Lesbian | Robin Johnson | United States | [34] | |
1980 | Windows | Andrea Glassen | Lesbian | Elizabeth Ashley | United States | [34] | |
1981 | Chanel Solitaire | Coco Chanel | Bisexual | Marie-France Pisier | United States, United Kingdom, France | [34] | |
1981 | The Fan | Douglas Breen | Gay | Michael Biehn | United States | [34] | |
1981 | Knightriders | Pippin | Gay | Warner Shook | United States | [34] | |
1981 | Mad Max 2 | The Golden Youth | Gay | Jimmy Brown | Australia | [34] | |
1981 | Only When I Laugh | Jimmy Perry | Gay | James Coco | United States | [34] | |
1981 | Pixote | Lilica | Transgender | Jorge Julião | Brazil | [34] | |
1981 | The Woman Next Door | Roland Duguet | Gay | Roger Van Hool | France | [34] | |
1981 | Zorro, the Gay Blade | Bunny Wigglesworth | Gay | George Hamilton | United States | [34] | |
1982 | 48 Hrs. | Sally | Bisexual | Denise Crosby | United States | [34] | |
1982 | Angel | Angelos | Gay | Michalis Maniatis | Greece | [126] | |
1982 | By Design | Helen | Lesbian | Patty Duke | Canada | [34] | |
Angie | Sara Botsford | ||||||
1982 | The Clinic | Dr. Eric Linden | Gay | Chris Haywood | Australia | [34] | |
1982 | Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean | Joanne | Transgender | Karen Black | United States | [34] | |
1982 | Deathtrap | Sidney Bruhl | Gay | Michael Caine | United States | [34] | |
Clifford Anderson | Christopher Reeve | ||||||
1982 | Evil Under the Sun | Rex Brewster | Gay | Roddy McDowall | United Kingdom | [34] | |
1982 | Forbidden Zone | René Henderson | Trans woman | Matthew Bright | United States | [127][128] | |
1982 | Forty Deuce | Ricky | Gay | Kevin Bacon | United States | [34] | |
1982 | Labyrinth of Passion | Riza Niro | Gay | Imanol Arias | Spain | [129] | |
Sadec | Antonio Banderas | ||||||
1982 | Making Love | Zack Elliot | Gay | Michael Ontkean | United States | [34] | |
Bart McGuire | Harry Hamlin | ||||||
1982 | Night Shift | Prisoner | Gay | Charles Fleischer | United States | [34] | |
1982 | Partners | Kerwin | Gay | John Hurt | United States | [34] | |
1982 | Personal Best | Chris Cahill | Lesbian | Mariel Hemingway | United States | [34] | |
Tory Skinner | Patrice Donnelly | ||||||
1982 | Privates on Parade | Capt. Terri Dennis | Gay | Denis Quilley | United Kingdom | [34] | |
1982 | Querelle | Georges Querelle | Bisexual | Brad Davis | George is a thief and murderer who frequents a bar and brothel for sailors run by Madame Lysiane, who is in love with his brother. He becomes Lysiane's lover after he wins a game of dice against her husband. He also has sex with Mario and lets himself be sodomized by Lysiane's husband. | France, West Germany | [130][131] |
1982 | Victor/Victoria | Carroll "Toddy" Todd | Gay | Robert Preston | United Kingdom, United States | [34] | |
'Squash' Bernstein | Alex Karras | ||||||
Richard DiNardo | Bisexual | Malcolm Jamieson | |||||
1982 | The World According to Garp | Roberta Muldoon | Trans woman | John Lithgow | A former player for the Philadelphia Eagles who has gender re-assignment surgery. Roberta becomes the bodyguard of Jenny and one of the best friends of Garp. Based on the book of the same name. | United States | [132][133] |
1982 | The Year of Living Dangerously | Wally O'Sullivan | Gay | Noel Ferrier | United States, Australia | [34] | |
1983 | The Dresser | Norman | Gay | Tom Courtenay | United Kingdom | [34] | |
1983 | The Fourth Man | Gerard Revé | Bisexual | Jeroen Krabbé | Netherlands | [34] | |
1983 | The Hunger | Miriam Blaylock | Bisexual | Catherine Deneuve | United States, United Kingdom | [34] | |
Sarah Roberts | Susan Sarandon | ||||||
1983 | Lianna | Lianna | Lesbian | Linda Griffiths | United States | [34] | |
Ruth | Jane Hallaren | ||||||
1983 | The Lonely Lady | Jerilee Randall | Bisexual | Pia Zadora | United States | [34] | |
1983 | Self Defense | Daniel | Gay | Terry-David Després | Canada | [34] | |
1983 | Silkwood | Dolly Pelliker | Lesbian | Cher | United States | [34] | |
1983 | Sleepaway Camp | John Baker | Gay | Dan Tursi | Angela is the killer and main character. (Springsteen took over the role in the two sequels that followed.) | United States | [34][134] |
Lenny | James Paradise | ||||||
Angela | Trans woman | Felissa Rose Pamela Springsteen | |||||
1983 | Staying Alive | Butler | Gay | Charles Ward | United States | [34] | |
1983 | Streamers | Richie | Gay | Mitchell Lichtenstein | United States | [34] | |
1983 | To Be or Not to Be | Sasha | Gay | James Haake | United States | [34] | |
1983 | Without a Trace | Philippe | Gay | Keith McDermott | United States | [34] | |
1984 | Angel | Solly Mosler | Lesbian | Susan Tyrrell | United States | [34] | |
1984 | Another Country | Guy Bennett | Gay | Rupert Everett | United Kingdom | [34] | |
James Harcourt | Cary Elwes | ||||||
1984 | The Bostonians | Olive Chancellor | Lesbian | Vanessa Redgrave | United Kingdom, United States | [135] | |
1984 | Garbo Talks | Bernie Whitlock | Gay | Harvey Fierstein | United States | [34] | |
1984 | Horror Vacui | Frankie | Gay | Folkert Milster | West Germany | [34] | |
Hannes | Tom Vogt | ||||||
1984 | The Hotel New Hampshire | Frank | Gay | Paul McCrane | United States, United Kingdom, Canada | [34] | |
1984 | Irreconcilable Differences | Howard Kay | Gay | Richard Minchenberg | United States | [34] | |
1984 | Mass Appeal | Deacon Mark Dolson | Bisexual | Željko Ivanek | United States | [34] | |
1984 | Meatballs Part II | Lieutenant Felix Foxglove | Gay | John Larroquette | United States | [34] | |
1984 | Mike's Murder | Philip Green | Gay | Paul Winfield | United States | [34] | |
1984 | Protocol | Jerry | Gay | Grainger Hines | United States | [34] | |
Ben | Joel Brooks | ||||||
1984 | Revenge of the Nerds | Lamar Lutrell | Gay | Larry B. Scott | Lamar is an openly gay fraternity member. | United States | [136] |
1985 | After Hours | Mark | Gay | Ron Leibman | United States | [34] | |
1985 | Avenging Angel | Solly Mosler | Lesbian | Susan Tyrrell | United States | [34] | |
1985 | The Boys Next Door | Chris | Gay | Paul C. Dancer | United States | [34] | |
1985 | Buddies | Robert Willow | Gay | Geoff Edholm | United States | [34] | |
Steve | David Rose | ||||||
1985 | A Chorus Line | Paul San Marco | Gay | Cameron English | United States | [34] | |
1985 | Colonel Redl | Colonel Alfred Redl | Gay | Klaus Maria Brandauer | West Germany | [34] | |
1985 | The Color Purple | Celie Harris-Johnson | Bisexual | Whoopi Goldberg | United States | [34] | |
Shug Avery | Margaret Avery | ||||||
1985 | Desert Hearts | Vivian Bell | Lesbian | Helen Shaver | Vivian, a professor from Columbia University, goes to Reno, Nevada to await her divorce. She meets Cay, a free-spirited lesbian who does not hide her sexual orientation. Vivian begins to discover her true nature as she and Cay grow closer. | United States | [137][138] |
Cay Rivers | Patricia Charbonneau | ||||||
1985 | Dona Herlinda and Her Son | Ramón | Gay | Arturo Meza | Mexico | [34] | |
1985 | The Good Father | Cheryl Langford | Lesbian | Frances Viner | United Kingdom | [139] | |
1985 | Kiss of the Spider Woman | Luis Molina | Gay | William Hurt | United States | [34] | |
1985 | La Cage aux Folles 3: The Wedding | Renato Baldi | Gay | Ugo Tognazzi | France | [34] | |
Albin Mougeotte/'Zaza Napoli' | Michel Serrault | ||||||
1985 | My Beautiful Laundrette | Omar Ali | Gay | Gordon Warnecke | United Kingdom | [34] | |
Johnny | Daniel Day-Lewis | ||||||
1985 | A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge | Coach Schneider | Gay | Marshall Bell | United States | [34] | |
1985 | Once Bitten | Sebastian | Gay | Cleavon Little | United States | [34] | |
1985 | St. Elmo's Fire | Ron Dellasandro | Gay | Matthew Laurance | United States | [34] | |
1985 | To Live and Die in L.A. | Serena | Lesbian | Jane Leeves | United States | [34] | |
1985 | Westler | Felix | Gay | Sigurd Rachman | West Germany | [34] | |
Thomas | Rainer Strecker | ||||||
1986 | Anne Trister | Anne | Lesbian | Albane Guilhe | Canada | [140] | |
1986 | Blue Velvet | Frank Booth | Bisexual | Dennis Hopper | United States | [34] | |
1986 | Caravaggio | Caravaggio | Gay | Nigel Terry | United Kingdom | [34] | |
Jerusaleme | Spencer Leigh | ||||||
1986 | Mala Noche | Walt Curtis | Gay | Tim Streeter | United States | [34] | |
1986 | Mona Lisa | Simone | Lesbian | Cathy Tyson | United Kingdom | [34] | |
1986 | The Morning After | Frankie | Gay | James Haake | United States | [34] | |
1986 | Parting Glances | Michael | Gay | Richard Ganoung | United States | [34] | |
Nick | Steve Buscemi | ||||||
Robert | John Bolger | ||||||
1986 | Reform School Girls | Charlie Chambliss | Lesbian | Wendy O. Williams | United States | [34] | |
1986 | She's Gotta Have It | Opal Gilstrap | Lesbian | Raye Dowell | United States | [34] | |
1986 | Tenue de soirée | Bob | Bisexual | Gérard Depardieu | France | [141] | |
1986 | Tough Guys | Bar Patron | Gay | Matthew Faison | United States | [34] | |
1986 | Working Girls | Molly | Lesbian | Louise Smith | United States | [142] | |
1987 | Law of Desire | Pablo Quintero | Gay | Eusebio Poncela | Spain | [143] | |
Antonio Benítez | Antonio Banderas | ||||||
Juan | Miguel Molina | ||||||
Tina Quintero | Transgender | Carmen Maura | |||||
1987 | Less Than Zero | Julian Wells | Bisexual | Robert Downey Jr. | United States | [144][145] | |
1987 | Maurice | Clive Durham | Gay | Hugh Grant | United Kingdom | [34] | |
Maurice Hall | James Wilby | ||||||
Alec Scudder | Rupert Graves | ||||||
1987 | Prick Up Your Ears | Joe Orton | Gay | Gary Oldman | United Kingdom | [34] | |
Kenneth Halliwell | Alfred Molina | ||||||
1987 | Radio Days | Fred | Gay | Robert Joy | United States | [34] | |
1987 | Withnail and I | Monty | Gay | Richard Griffiths | United Kingdom | [146] | |
1988 | The Fruit Machine | Eddie | Gay | Emile Charles | United Kingdom | [147] | |
Michael | Tony Forsyth | ||||||
1988 | Madame Sousatzka | Mr. Cordle | Gay | Geoffrey Bayldon | United Kingdom, Canada | [148] | |
1988 | Salome's Last Dance | Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas | Gay | Douglas Hodge | United Kingdom, United States | [149] | |
1988 | Torch Song Trilogy | Arnold Beckoff | Gay | Harvey Fierstein | United States | [150] | |
Alan Simon | Matthew Broderick | ||||||
David | Eddie Castrodad | ||||||
Ed | Bisexual | Brian Kerwin | |||||
1988 | We Think the World of You | Johnny | Bisexual | Gary Oldman | United Kingdom | [151] | |
1989 | Apartment Zero | Adrian LeDuc | Gay | Colin Firth | United Kingdom | [152] | |
1989 | Coming Out | Philipp Klarmann | Gay | Matthias Freihof | East Germany | [153] | |
Matthias | Dirk Kummer | ||||||
1989 | Fun Down There | Buddy Fields | Gay | Michael Waite | United States | [154] | |
Joseph | Nickolas B. Nagourney | ||||||
1989 | Getting It Right | Harry | Gay | Richard Huw | United Kingdom, United States | [155] | |
Winthrop | Kevin Drinkwater | ||||||
1989 | Last Exit to Brooklyn | Harry Black | Gay | Stephen Lang | West Germany, United States | [156] | |
1989 | Longtime Companion | David | Gay | Bruce Davison | Bruce, a wealthy man, becomes the caregiver of his lover, Sean, a soap opera writer, after he is infected with the HIV virus. The film depicts the increasing effect of HIV/AIDS on a group of gay men during eight-years, between 1981 and 1989. | United States | [157][158] |
Sean | Mark Lamos | ||||||
1989 | The Rainbow | Ursula Brangwen | Bisexual | Sammi Davis | United Kingdom, United States | [159] | |
Winifred Inger | Amanda Donohoe | ||||||
1990–1999
Year | Title | Character(s) | Identity | Actor | Notes | Country | Ref(s) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1990 | The Handmaid's Tale | Moira | Lesbian | Elizabeth McGovern | United States, West Germany | [160] | |
1990 | Miller's Crossing | Bernie Bernbaum | Gay | John Turturro | United States | [161] | |
Eddie Dane | J.E. Freeman | ||||||
Mink Larouie | Steve Buscemi | ||||||
1991 | The Butcher's Wife | Grace | Lesbian | Frances McDormand | United States | [162] | |
1991 | Double Impact | Kara | Lesbian | Corinna Everson | United States | [163] | |
1991 | Edward II | Edward II | Gay | Steven Waddington | United Kingdom | [164] | |
Piers Gaveston | Andrew Tiernan | ||||||
1991 | The Fisher King | Homeless Cabaret Singer | Gay | Michael Jeter | United States | [165] | |
1991 | Frankie and Johnny | Tim | Gay | Nathan Lane | United States | [166] | |
1991 | Fried Green Tomatoes | Idgie Threadgoode | Lesbian | Mary Stuart Masterson | Idgie has always loved Ruth. Ruth had a previous relationship with Buddy Threadgoode, Idgie's brother, before she married and had a child with another man. After Idgie rescues Ruth from her abusive husband, the romantic relationship between the two women begins. Based on the novel Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, where the relationship between Idgie and Ruth is not explicitly identified as a lesbian relationship, but every resident knows about them and accepts their relationship. | United States | [167][168] |
Ruth Jamison | Bisexual | Mary-Louise Parker | |||||
1991 | The Hours and Times | Brian Epstein | Gay | David Angus | United States | [169] | |
1991 | JFK | Willie O'Keefe | Gay | Kevin Bacon | United States | [170][171] | |
Clay Shaw | Tommy Lee Jones | ||||||
1991 | Madonna: Truth or Dare | Herself | Bisexual | Sandra Bernhard | United States | [166] | |
1991 | My Own Private Idaho | Mike Waters | Gay | River Phoenix | United States | [172] | |
1991 | The Prince of Tides | Eddie Detreville | Gay | George Carlin | United States | [166] | |
1991 | Queens Logic | Eliot | Gay | John Malkovich | United States | [173] | |
1991 | The Silence of the Lambs | Jame Gumb / Buffalo Bill | Bisexual trans woman | Ted Levine | Director Jonathan Demme said about the character: "He didn't wish to be another gender...He didn't really have a sexual preference. He loathed himself — he wanted to transform himself so that there was no sense of him in the 'new' him [and] becoming a woman...that was his method of doing it...He wished he was a woman not because he always wanted to be a woman. This was another way to escape." | United States | [174][88] |
1991 | Switch | Sheila Faxton | Lesbian | Lorraine Bracco | A cosmetics magnate. She responds to Amanda Brooks' seduction and takes her to a lesbian nightclub. Sheila was in a 10-year relationship with Kathleen Seymour, a perfumer at Faxton Cosmetics. The cutting of the sex scene between Sheila and Amanda was criticized by Ellen Barkin (Amanda). | United States | [175] [176][177] |
1991 | Young Soul Rebels | Caz | Gay | Mo Sesay | United Kingdom | [178] | |
1992 | Basic Instinct | Catherine Tramell | Bisexual | Sharon Stone | While the Catherine character returns in Basic Instinct 2 (2006), it is noted that she has been straightwashed. | France, United States, United Kingdom | [179][180] |
Dr. Beth Garner | Jeanne Tripplehorn | ||||||
Roxy | Lesbian | Leilani Sarelle | |||||
1992 | Being at Home with Claude | Yves | Gay | Roy Dupuis | Canada | [181] | |
Claude | Jean-François Pichette | ||||||
1992 | The Crying Game | Dil | Trans woman | Jaye Davidson | The plot revolves Dil, a girlfriend of one of the protagonists. | Ireland, Japan, United Kingdom | [182][183] |
1992 | Inside Monkey Zetterland | Grace | Lesbian | Patricia Arquette | United States | [184] | |
Cindy | Sofia Coppola | ||||||
1992 | The Living End | Jon | Gay | Craig Gilmore | Daisy and Fern are serial killers. | United States | [185][186] |
Luke | Mike Dytri | ||||||
Daisy | Lesbian | Mary Woronov | |||||
Fern | Johanna Went | ||||||
1992 | The Long Day Closes | Bud | Gay | Leigh McCormack | United Kingdom | [187] | |
1992 | Naked Killer | Princess | Lesbian | Carrie Ng | Princess and Baby are lovers and assassins hired by the Yakuza. Sister Cindy mentors women to be assassins. | Hong Kong | [188][189] |
Baby | Madoka Sugawara | ||||||
Sister Cindy | Yiu Wai (Kelly Yao) | ||||||
1992 | Orlando | Orlando | Trans Woman | Tilda Swinton | Orlando is a character whose sex changes after two-thirds of the film. | United Kingdom, France, Italy, Netherlands, Russia | [190][191] |
1992 | Passed Away | Boyd Pinter | Gay | Tim Curry | United States | [192] | |
1992 | Peter's Friends | Peter | Gay | Stephen Fry | United Kingdom | [193] | |
1992 | Poison Ivy | Sylvie Cooper | Lesbian | Sara Gilbert | United States | [194] | |
1992 | Single White Female | Graham Knox | Gay | Peter Friedman | United States | [166] | |
1992 | Swoon | Richard Loeb | Gay | Daniel Schlachet | United States | [195] | |
Nathan Leopold Jr. | Craig Chester | ||||||
1992 | When the Party's Over | Banks | Gay | Kris Kamm | United States | [196] | |
1993 | The East Is Red | Dongfang Bubai / Invincible Asia | Trans woman | Brigitte Lin | Bubai is the primary antagonist. ("Invincible Asia" is the name given in the subtitles.) | Hong Kong | [197] |
1993 | Even Cowgirls Get the Blues | The Countess | Gay | John Hurt | United States | [198] | |
Sissy Hankshaw | Lesbian | Uma Thurman | |||||
Bonanza Jellybean | Rain Phoenix | ||||||
1993 | Farewell My Concubine | Cheng Dieyi | Gay | Leslie Cheung | British Hong Kong | [199] | |
1993 | Fight Back to School III | Ching Man Ching | Lesbian | Kathy Chow Hoi-mei | Hong Kong | ||
Judy Tong Wong | Bisexual | Anita Mui | |||||
1993 | Love and Human Remains | David McMillan | Gay | Thomas Gibson | Canada | [200] | |
1993 | M. Butterfly | René Gallimard | Gay | Jeremy Irons | United States | [201] | |
Song Liling | John Lone | ||||||
1993 | Mrs. Doubtfire | Frank | Gay | Harvey Fierstein | United States | [202] | |
Jack | Scott Capurro | ||||||
1993 | Naked in New York | Chris | Bisexual | Ralph Macchio | United States | [203] | |
1993 | Philadelphia | Miguel Alvarez | Gay | Antonio Banderas | United States | [204] | |
Andrew Beckett | Tom Hanks | ||||||
1993 | Six Degrees of Separation | Paul | Gay | Will Smith | United States | [205][206] | |
Rick | Bisexual | Eric Thal | |||||
1993 | This Boy's Life | Arthur Gayle | Gay | Jonah Blechman | United States | [207] | |
1993 | Three of Hearts | Connie Czapski | Lesbian | Kelly Lynch | United States | [208] | |
Ellen Armstrong | Bisexual | Sherilyn Fenn | |||||
1993 | The Wedding Banquet | Wai-Tung Gao | Gay | Winston Chao | Taiwan, United States | [209] | |
1994 | Ace Ventura: Pet Detective | Lt. Lois Einhorn / Ray Finkle | Transgender | Sean Young | United States | [210] | |
1994 | The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert | Bernadette Bassenger | Transgender | Terence Stamp | Bernadette performs a lip sync club act with two drag queens. Near the end of the film, Bernadette is shocked to learn that Anthony/Mitzi was not only once married to a woman but also has a son. | Australia | [211] |
Anthony "Tick" Belrose/Mitzi Del Bra | Gay | Hugo Weaving | |||||
1994 | Double Happiness | Andrew Chau | Gay | Johnny Mah | Canada | [212] | |
1994 | Ed Wood | John "Bunny" Breckinridge | Gay | Bill Murray | Bunny is Ed's drag queen friend. | United States | [213] |
1994 | Four Weddings and a Funeral | Gareth | Gay | Simon Callow | United Kingdom | [214] | |
Matthew | John Hannah | ||||||
1994 | Interview with the Vampire | Louis de Pointe du Lac | Bisexual | Brad Pitt | United States | [215][216] | |
Lestat de Lioncourt | Tom Cruise | ||||||
1994 | A Man of No Importance | Alfred Byrne | Gay | Albert Finney | United Kingdom, Ireland | [217] | |
1994 | Oh! My Three Guys | Ching Yu-hoi | Gay | Lau Ching-wan | British Hong Kong | [218] | |
Fa | Dayo Wong | ||||||
Kau Ku-neung | Eric Kot | ||||||
1994 | Prêt-à-Porter | Cy Bianco | Gay | Forest Whitaker | United States | [219] | |
Cort Romney | Richard E. Grant | ||||||
1994 | Priest | Father Greg Pilkington | Gay | Linus Roache | United Kingdom | [220] | |
Graham | Robert Carlyle | ||||||
1994 | Pulp Fiction | Zed | Gay | Peter Greene | He rapes Marsellus Wallace. | United States | [221][222] |
1994 | Reality Bites | Sammy Gray | Gay | Steve Zahn | United States | [223] | |
1994 | The Sum of Us | Jeff Mitchell | Gay | Russell Crowe | Australia | [224] | |
1994 | Threesome | Eddy | Gay | Josh Charles | United States | [225] | |
1994 | Wagons East | Julian Rogers | Gay | John C. McGinley | United States | [226] | |
1994 | Wild Reeds | François Forestier | Gay | Gaël Morel | France | [227] | |
1995 | Antonia's Line | Danielle | Lesbian | Els Dottermans | When Danielle falls in love with Lara, she has a vision of her as the Venus by Botticelli. | Netherlands | [228][229][230] |
Lara | Elsie de Brauw | ||||||
1995 | The Basketball Diaries | Swifty | Gay | Bruno Kirby | United States | [231] | |
1995 | Billy Madison | Max Anderson | Gay | Josh Mostel | The principal of the elementary school, and a former masked wrestler known as the "Revolting Blob". | United States | [232] |
1995 | Boys on the Side | Jane DeLuca | Lesbian | Whoopi Goldberg | United States | [233] | |
1995 | The Brady Bunch Movie | Noreen | Lesbian | Alanna Ubach | United States | [166] | |
1995 | Braveheart | Prince Edward | Gay | Peter Hanly | United States | [166] | |
1995 | Bugis Street | Lola | Trans woman | Ernest Seah | Lola is one of the prostitutes inhabiting the Sin Sin Hotel on Bugis Street. Meng, the boyfriend of Lola, seduces Lin (a young female chambermaid and desk clerk at the hotel). | British Hong Kong, Singapore | [234][235][236] |
Meng | Bisexual | Michael Lam | |||||
1995 | Carrington | Roger Senhouse | Bisexual | Sebastian Harcombe | Roger becomes Lytton's sadomasochistic lover. Lytton was a founding member of the Bloomsbury Group. His homosexuality, as depicted in the film, was well known. | France, United Kingdom | [237][238] |
Lytton Strachey | Gay | Jonathan Pryce | |||||
1995 | Clueless | Christian Stovitz | Gay | Justin Walker | United States | [239] | |
1995 | The Doom Generation | Xavier "X" Red | Bisexual | Johnathon Schaech | Xavier, a handsome drifter, is picked-up by teen lovers Jordan and Amy on their way back from a club. After Xavier accidentally kills a store owner, he has sex with Amy, while Jordan becomes sexually attracted to him as well. | United States | [240][241] |
Jordan White | James Duval | ||||||
1995 | Higher Learning | Taryn | Lesbian | Jennifer Connelly | United States | [242] | |
1995 | Home for the Holidays | Tommy Larson | Gay | Robert Downey Jr. | United States | [243] | |
1995 | The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love | Randy Dean | Lesbian | Laurel Holloman | United States | [244][245] | |
Evie Roy | Nicole Ari Parker | ||||||
1995 | Jefferson in Paris | Richard Cosway | Gay | Simon Callow | France, United States | [246] | |
1995 | Jeffrey | Darius | Gay | Bryan Batt | United States | [247] | |
Steve Howard | Michael T. Weiss | ||||||
Jeffrey | Steven Weber | ||||||
Sterling | Patrick Stewart | ||||||
1995 | Party Girl | Derrick | Gay | Anthony DeSando | United States | [248] | |
1995 | Showgirls | Cristal Connors | Bisexual | Gina Gershon | Cristal, who has a boyfriend, wants a relationship with Nomi so she can destroy her. (One reviewer wrote that bisexuality is "a weapon, a plot device and an arena for titillating spectacle" like in Basic Instinct.) | France, United States | [249][250] |
Nomi Malone | Elizabeth Berkley | ||||||
1995 | Stonewall | La Miranda | Gay | Guillermo Díaz | United Kingdom, United States | [251] | |
Matty Dean | Frederick Weller | ||||||
Vinnie | Bruce MacVittie | ||||||
Bostonia | Duane Boutte | ||||||
Ethan | Brendan Corbalis | ||||||
1995 | To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar | Vida Boheme | Gay | Patrick Swayze | Vida and Noxeema are drag queens. Chi-Chi wants to be seen and accepted as a woman by the local men. | United States | [252][253] |
Noxeema Jackson | Wesley Snipes | ||||||
Chi-Chi Rodriguez | Transgender | John Leguizamo | |||||
1995 | Total Eclipse | Arthur Rimbaud | Gay | Leonardo DiCaprio | United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Italy, United States | [254] | |
Paul Verlaine | Bisexual | David Thewlis | |||||
1995 | Waiting to Exhale | David Matthews | Gay | Giancarlo Esposito | United States | [255] | |
1995 | When Night Is Falling | Camille Baker | Lesbian | Pascale Bussières | Canada | [256] | |
Petra Soft | Rachael Crawford | ||||||
1996 | Beautiful Thing | Ste Pearce | Gay | Scott Neal | United Kingdom | [257][258] | |
Jamie Gangel | Glen Berry | ||||||
1996 | The Birdcage | Agador | Gay | Hank Azaria | United States | [259][88] | |
Albert Goldman | Nathan Lane | ||||||
Armand Goldman | Robin Williams | ||||||
1996 | Bound | Corky | Lesbian | Gina Gershon | United States | [260] | |
Violet | Bisexual | Jennifer Tilly | |||||
1996 | Citizen Ruth | Diane Siegler | Lesbian | Swoosie Kurtz | Diane is a pro-choice spy working within the ranks of the "Baby Savers". Rachel is Diane's partner. | United States | [261][262] |
Rachel | Kelly Preston | ||||||
1996 | Different for Girls | Kim Foyle | Transgender | Steven Mackintosh | United Kingdom | [263] | |
1996 | Eye for an Eye | Angel Kosinsky | Lesbian | Charlayne Woodard | United States | [264] | |
1996 | Fire | Sita | Lesbian | Nandita Das | The first mainstream Indian film to feature a lesbian relationship and one of the first to show homosexual love. | India, Canada | [265] |
Radha | Shabana Azmi | ||||||
1996 | The First Wives Club | Christine Paradis | Lesbian | Jennifer Dundas | United States | [266] | |
1996 | Flirting with Disaster | Paul Harmon | Gay | Richard Jenkins | United States | [267] | |
Tony Kent | Josh Brolin | ||||||
1996 | Freeway | Rhonda | Lesbian | Brittany Murphy | United States | [268] | |
1996 | French Twist | Marie-Jo | Lesbian | Josiane Balasko | France | [269] | |
1996 | Get on the Bus | Kyle | Gay | Isaiah Washington | United States | [270] | |
Randall | Harry Lennix | ||||||
1996 | Hollow Reed | Martyn Wyatt | Gay | Martin Donovan | Martyn, a family doctor, married Hannah to hide his homosexuality, and they divorced after he finally came out. Tom is Martyn's lover. | Germany, United Kingdom, Spain | [271][272] |
Tom Dixon | Ian Hart | ||||||
1996 | I Shot Andy Warhol | Candy Darling | Trans woman | Stephen Dorff | United Kingdom, United States | [273] | |
Andy Warhol | Gay | Jared Harris | |||||
1996 | It's My Party | Nick Stark | Gay | Eric Roberts | United States | [274] | |
1996 | Johns | Donner | Gay | Lukas Haas | United States | [275] | |
1996 | Losing Chase | Chase Phillips | Lesbian | Helen Mirren | Chase is in an unhappy marriage. After returning home from treatment for a nervous breakdown, a helper, Elizabeth, is hired to assist her. She initially resists Elizabeth's presence, but as time passes she begins to appreciate her and a friendship grows between them. Chase eventually confesses to Elizabeth that she is in love with her and kisses her, but Elizabeth cannot return the same attraction. Afterwards, Chase leaves her husband. | United States | [276][277] |
1996 | Love and Other Catastrophes | Mia | Lesbian | Frances O'Connor | Australia | [278] | |
Danni | Radha Mitchell | ||||||
1996 | Mrs. Winterbourne | Paco | Gay | Miguel Sandoval | United States | [279] | |
1996 | Mulholland Falls | Jimmy Fields | Gay | Andrew McCarthy | United States | [280] | |
1996 | Set It Off | Cleopatra "Cleo" Sims | Lesbian | Queen Latifah | United States | [281] | |
1996 | Sling Blade | Vaughn Cunningham | Gay | John Ritter | United States | [282][283] | |
1996 | Stealing Beauty | Alex Parrish | Gay | Jeremy Irons | United Kingdom | [284] | |
1996 | The Watermelon Woman | Cheryl | Lesbian | Cheryl Dunye | Cheryl is the film's protagonist. She works at a video rental store. She falls in love with Diana and has sex with her. (Their sex scene was described by a critic as "the hottest dyke sex scene ever recorded on celluloid"). Tamara is a Black lesbian co-worker at the video store. She is critical of Cheryl for having a White girlfriend. Diana flirts with Cheryl in the store. She later enters into a romantic relationship with her. Shirley is a lesbian friend of Cheryl's mother and helps Cheryl with her project about "The Watermelon Woman". Fae is an actress credited as "The Watermelon Woman" in the 1930s film "Plantation Memories" that Cheryl discovers. It is later revealed that she was in a relationship with film director Martha Page. June is the "special friend" of Fae, with whom she had a romantic relationship for over 20 years. | United States | [285][286][287] |
Tamara | Valerie Walker | ||||||
Diana | Guinevere Turner | ||||||
Shirley Hamilton | Ira Jeffries | ||||||
Fae Richards | Lisa Maria Bronson | ||||||
Martha Page | Alexandra Juhasz | ||||||
June Walker | Cheryl Clarke | ||||||
1996 | When the Cat's Away | Michel | Gay | Olivier Py | France | [288][289] | |
1997 | All Over Me | Claude | Lesbian | Alison Folland | United States | [290][291] | |
Lucy | Leisha Hailey | ||||||
Luke | Gay | Pat Briggs | |||||
Jesse | Wilson Cruz | ||||||
1997 | As Good as It Gets | Simon Bishop | Gay | Greg Kinnear | Simon is an artist living in Manhattan. We learn that his parents kicked him out for being homosexual and was abused by his father because of it. Homophobic neighbor Melvin Udall uses derogatory terms when referring to Simon, but after Simon is brutally attacked he becomes the caretaker of Simon's dog, Verdell. | United States | [292] |
1997 | Bent | Max | Gay | Clive Owen | United Kingdom, Japan | [293] | |
Ruby | Brian Webber II | ||||||
1997 | Boogie Nights | Scotty J. | Gay | Philip Seymour Hoffman | United States | [294] | |
1997 | Chasing Amy | Alyssa Jones | Lesbian | Joey Lauren Adams | United States | [295] | |
1997 | The Fifth Element | Baby Ray | Gay | Ian Beckett | United States | [296] | |
1997 | The Full Monty | Lomper | Gay | Steve Huison | United Kingdom | [297] | |
Guy | Hugo Speer | ||||||
1997 | The Hanging Garden | William | Gay | Chris Leavins | United Kingdom, Canada | [298] | |
Fletcher | Joel Keller | ||||||
1997 | Happy Together | Ho Po-Wing | Gay | Leslie Cheung | British Hong Kong | [299] | |
Lai Yiu-Fai | Tony Leung Chiu-wai | ||||||
1997 | In & Out | Howard Brackett | Gay | Kevin Kline | United States | [300] | |
Peter Malloy | Tom Selleck | ||||||
1997 | The Jackal | Douglas | Gay | Stephen Spinella | United States | [301] | |
1997 | Kiss Me, Guido | Warren | Gay | Anthony Barrile | United States | [302] | |
1997 | Love! Valour! Compassion! | Gregory Mitchell | Gay | Stephen Bogardus | United States | [303] | |
James Jeckyll | John Glover | ||||||
Perry Sellars | Stephen Spinella | ||||||
Buzz Hauser | Jason Alexander | ||||||
Ramon Fornos | Randy Becker | ||||||
Arthur Pape | John Benjamin Hickey | ||||||
Bobby Brahms | Justin Kirk | ||||||
1997 | Ma vie en rose | Ludovic "Ludo" Fabre | Trans girl | Georges Du Fresne | Ludo wants to live as a girl. | France, Belgium, United Kingdom | [304] |
1997 | Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil | Jim Williams | Gay | Kevin Spacey | The Lady Chablis, an actress, author, and performer, became a transgender icon and one of the first transgender performers to be received by a wider audience. | United States | [305][306] [307][58] |
Billy Hansford | Bisexual | Jude Law | |||||
Chablis Deveau | Trans woman | The Lady Chablis | |||||
1997 | My Best Friend's Wedding | George Downes | Gay | Rupert Everett | George is Julianne's friend and confidante. He agrees to pose as her fiancé so that she can make Michael, the college friend she thought would marry her, jealous. | United States | [308][309] |
1997 | Swept from the Sea | Dr. James Kennedy | Gay | Ian McKellen | United Kingdom, United States | [310] | |
1997 | 'Til There Was You | Gregory | Gay | Ken Olin | United States | [311] | |
1997 | Waiting for Guffman | Corky St. Clair | Gay | Christopher Guest | United States | [312][313] | |
1997 | Wilde | Oscar Wilde | Gay | Stephen Fry | Oscar loves his wife and children, but is sexually attracted to men. He becomes obsessed with Alfred. Alfred is Wilde's lover. Their relationship becomes a scandal resulting in Oscar's downfall. | United Kingdom | [314][315] |
Lord Alfred "Bosie" Douglas | Jude Law | ||||||
John Gray | Ioan Gruffudd | ||||||
1998 | The Adventures of Sebastian Cole | Henrietta Rossi | Trans Woman | Clark Gregg | Henrietta has gender reassignment surgery, which is protested by her stepson, Sebastian. | United States | [316] |
1998 | Bedrooms and Hallways | Leo | Bisexual | Kevin McKidd | United Kingdom | [317] | |
Darren | Gay | Tom Hollander | |||||
1998 | Edge of Seventeen | Eric Hunter | Gay | Chris Stafford | United States | [318] | |
Angie | Lesbian | Lea DeLaria | |||||
1998 | Get Real | Steven Carter | Gay | Ben Silverstone | United Kingdom | [319] | |
John Dixon | Brad Gorton | ||||||
1998 | Gods and Monsters | George Cukor | Gay | Martin Ferrero | United Kingdom, United States | [320][321][322] | |
David Lewis | David Dukes | ||||||
James Whale | Ian McKellen | ||||||
1998 | Head On | Ari | Gay | Alex Dimitriades | Australia | [323][324] | |
1998 | High Art | Lucy Berliner | Lesbian | Ally Sheedy | Syd, who has been living with longtime boyfriend James, has desires and frustrations that seem typical and manageable until new events unfold, with Lucy Berliner opening the door to an uncharted world for Syd. Lucy, who lives with her heroin-addicted German girlfriend Greta, becomes closer to Syd as the film moves forward. | Canada, United States | [325][326] |
Greta | Patricia Clarkson | ||||||
Syd | Bisexual | Radha Mitchell | |||||
1998 | Hold You Tight | Fung Wai | Bisexual | Sunny Chan | The story of a man living in Hong Kong who is initially drawn to a young woman, but soon finds he is more attracted to her boyfriend. | Hong Kong | [327] |
A-che | Gay | Lawrence Ko | |||||
Tong | Eric Tsang | ||||||
1998 | Illuminata | Umberto Bevalaqua | Gay | Christopher Walken | A flamboyant theater critic. | United States | [328] |
1998 | The Impostors | Mr. Sparks | Gay | Billy Connolly | United States | [329] | |
1998 | The Object of My Affection | George Hanson | Gay | Paul Rudd | United States | [330] | |
1998 | The Opposite of Sex | Bill Truitt | Gay | Martin Donovan | United States | [331] | |
Matt Mateo | Ivan Sergei | ||||||
1998 | Primary Colors | Libby Holden | Lesbian | Kathy Bates | United States | [332] | |
1998 | Show Me Love | Agnes Ahlberg | Lesbian | Rebecka Liljeberg | Sweden | [333] | |
1998 | The Velocity of Gary | Valentino | Gay | Vincent D'Onofrio | United States | [334] | |
Gary | Thomas Jane | ||||||
Kid Joey | Transgender | Chad Lindberg | |||||
1998 | Velvet Goldmine | Brian Slade | Bisexual | Jonathan Rhys Meyers | At the beginning of his career, Slade is married to Mandy. But when he comes to the United States, he seeks out American rock star Curt Wild, and they become involved in each other's lives on a personal and creative level. | United Kingdom, United States | [335][336] |
Arthur Stuart | Christian Bale | ||||||
Curt Wild | Ewan McGregor | ||||||
Mandy Slade | Toni Collette | ||||||
1998 | Woo | Celestrial | Transgender | Girlina | United States | [337] | |
1999 | Aimée & Jaguar | Lilly Wust (Aimée) | Lesbian | Juliane Köhler | Aimée (real name Lilly) is in love with Felice, but married to a Nazi. Felice is Jewish and a member of the underground resistance, known by the name "Jaguar". | Germany | [338] |
Felice Schragenheim (Jaguar) | Maria Schrader | ||||||
1999 | All About My Mother | Agrado | Trans woman | Antonia San Juan | Agrado is a transgender sex worker and friend of the film's protagonist, Manuela. Lola, the father of Manuela, is also a trans woman. Nina is the lover of an actress named Huma, but later runs off. | Spain | [339] |
Lola | Toni Cantó | ||||||
Nina Cruz | Bisexual | Candela Peña | |||||
Huma Rojo | Lesbian | Marisa Paredes | |||||
1999 | American Beauty | Jim Berkley | Gay | Sam Robards | Frank is closeted. | United States | [340][341] |
Jim Olmeyer | Scott Bakula | ||||||
Frank Fitts | Chris Cooper | ||||||
1999 | Being John Malkovich | Lotte Schwartz | Lesbian | Cameron Diaz | Lotte is an unhappily married and confused person, and one of multiple people whose mind temporarily enters the mind of John Malkovich through a portal. Lotte becomes more confident in Malkovitch's body, enjoying how she feels when Maxine seduces Malkovich, and thinks that she's either a lesbian or a trans man. At first Maxine is specifically attracted to Lotte in John's body, and becomes pregnant when she and Lotte (in John's body) have sex. Lotte (not in John's body anymore) and Maxine end together as a couple raising their daughter, Emily. | United States | [342] |
Maxine Lund | Bisexual | Catherine Keener | |||||
1999 | Better Than Chocolate | Judy | Trans woman | Peter Outerbridge | Judy is disinherited because of her gender transition and begins a romantic relationship with Frances. Frances is a lesbian separatist who owns a bookstore. Maggie, the film's protagonist, is in a relationship with Kim. | Canada | [58][343] |
Francis | Lesbian | Ann-Marie MacDonald | |||||
Maggie | Karyn Dwyer | ||||||
Kim | Christina Cox | ||||||
1999 | Big Daddy | Phil D'Amato | Gay | Allen Covert | United States | [344] | |
Tommy Grayton | Peter Dante | ||||||
1999 | The Big Tease | Crawford Mackenzie | Gay | Craig Ferguson | United States | [345] | |
1999 | Blast from the Past | Troy | Gay | Dave Foley | United States | [346] | |
1999 | The Boondock Saints | Paul Smecker | Gay | Willem Dafoe | United States | [347] | |
1999 | Boys Don't Cry | Brandon Teena | Trans man | Hilary Swank | Brandon's life is threatened and becomes the victim of a hate crime. | United States | [348][58][349] |
1999 | But I'm a Cheerleader | Megan Bloomfield | Lesbian | Natasha Lyonne | Megan is the 17-year-old protagonist. Her parents send her to True Directions, a conversion therapy camp that aims to convert its campers to heterosexuality. She eventually meets Graham, another camper at True Directions. Graham starts a relationship with Megan, with both having sex. Sinead and Hilary are campers. In the True Directions orientation video which depicts homosexuality as a problem to be "fixed", Kelly is a girl shown to be a lesbian until "cured" by the organization. The video shows that she eventually marries a man. The lipstick lesbian character makes a brief cameo and is referred to as "Lipstick Lesbian" in the film's credits. Dolph, Clayton, Andre, and Joel are campers. Rock is the son of Mary Brown, the founder of True Directions. Supposedly straight, he is actually closeted. Mike is supposedly an ex-gay who helps with the process of "curing" campers of their homosexuality; however, he is clearly shown to be still attracted to men. Lloyd and Larry are a couple described as "ex, ex-gays". Before the events of the film, they were once campers at True Directions before they defected. They help the campers sneak out and go party at a gay bar, and also give advice about dealing with one's own sexuality. They let ex-camper Dolph live with them when he is expelled from True Directions for having sex at the camp. | United States | [350][351][352] |
Graham Eaton | Clea DuVall | ||||||
Sinead Laren | Katharine Towne | ||||||
Hilary Vandermuller | Melanie Lynskey | ||||||
Kelly | Ione Skye (uncredited) | ||||||
Lipstick Lesbian | Julie Delpy | ||||||
Dolph | Gay | Dante Basco | |||||
Clayton Dunn | Kip Pardue | ||||||
Andre | Douglas Spain | ||||||
Joel Goldberg | Joel Michaely | ||||||
Rock Brown | Eddie Cibrian | ||||||
Mike | RuPaul | ||||||
Lloyd Morgan-Gordon | Wesley Mann | ||||||
Larry Morgan-Gordon | Richard Moll | ||||||
1999 | Cruel Intentions | Kathryn Merteuil | (Ambiguous) | Sarah Michelle Gellar | Kathryn and Cecille Caldwell have an iconic kiss in the film. It is not known whether either Kathryn or Cecille is lesbian, or if their kiss was part of an attempt by Kathryn to get back at her ex-boyfriend, Court Reynolds. | United States | [353][354] |
1999 | The Deep End of the Ocean | Detective Candace "Candy" Bliss | Lesbian | Whoopi Goldberg | United States | [355] | |
1999 | East Is East | Nazir "Nigel" Khan | Gay | Ian Aspinall | United Kingdom | [356] | |
1999 | Election | Tammy Metzler | Lesbian | Jessica Campbell | Tammy is a closeted lesbian. Early in the film she is dumped by her girlfriend, Lisa Flanagan, for her brother. She later runs a nihilistic campaign for class president with the intent to dismantle the student government, and get revenge on her brother. She falsely confesses to ripping down campaign posters, resulting in her expulsion and transfer to a Catholic girls school. Her story ends happily, as she meets her next love, Jennifer, at the school. (Early on in the film, Tammy gives a narration where she says, "it's not like I'm a lesbian or anything, I'm attracted to the person. It's just that all the people I've ever been attracted to happen to be girls.") | United States | [357][358][359] |
1999 | Flawless | Rusty Zimmerman | Transgender | Philip Seymour Hoffman | United States | [360] | |
1999 | Girl, Interrupted | Lisa Rowe | Bisexual | Angelina Jolie | United States | ||
1999 | Go | Adam | Gay | Scott Wolf | United States | [361] | |
Zack | Jay Mohr | ||||||
1999 | Happy, Texas | Sheriff Chappy Dent | Gay | William H. Macy | United States | [362] | |
1999 | The Haunting | Theodora | Bisexual | Catherine Zeta-Jones | Theodora mentions having both a boyfriend and a girlfriend. | United States | [363] |
1999 | Limbo | Frankie | Lesbian | Kathryn Grody | United States | [364] | |
Lou | Rita Taggart | ||||||
1999 | Magnolia | "Quiz Kid" Donnie Smith | Gay | William H. Macy | United States | [365] | |
1999 | Man of the Century | Tim | Gay | Anthony Rapp | United States | [366] | |
1999 | Summer of Sam | Ritchie | Bisexual | Adrien Brody | Ritchie is volatile. He is Vinny's childhood friend who has embraced punk fashion and music, and begins a relationship with Ruby. | United States | [367] |
1999 | The Talented Mr. Ripley | Tom Ripley | Bisexual | Matt Damon | United States | [368] | |
1999 | Tea with Mussolini | Georgina 'Georgie' Rockwell | Lesbian | Lily Tomlin | United Kingdom, Italy | [369] | |
1999 | Three to Tango | Peter Steinberg | Gay | Oliver Platt | Australia, United States | [370] | |
1999 | Trick | Gabriel | Gay | Christian Campbell | United States | [371] | |
Mark Miranda | John Paul Pitoc | ||||||
Stand-alone films (21st century)
2000–2004
Year | Title | Character(s) | Identity | Actor | Notes | Country | Ref(s) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2000 | American Psycho | Luis Carruthers | Gay | Matt Ross | United States | [372] | |
2000 | Before Night Falls | Reinaldo Arenas | Gay | Javier Bardem | Reinaldo is imprisoned in Cuba for his homosexuality and later moves to New York City, where he contracts HIV/AIDS. He begins friendships with two other men, Pepe and Tomas. José is a literature writer. Virgilio is an influential writer. Pepe is in a relationship with Reinaldo before leaving him to pursue a woman. Bon Bon is a flamboyant trans woman who walks through the Cuban prisons, helping to smuggle a manuscript out of the prison. | United States | [373][374][375] |
José Lezama Lima | Manuel González | ||||||
Tomas Diego | Santiago Magill | ||||||
Virgilio Piñera | Héctor Babenco | ||||||
Pepe Malas | Bisexual | Andrea Di Stefano | |||||
Bon Bon | Trans woman | Johnny Depp | |||||
2000 | Best in Show | Christy Cummings | Lesbian | Jane Lynch | United States | [376][377] | |
Sherri Ann Ward Cabot | Jennifer Coolidge | ||||||
Scott Donlan | Gay | John Michael Higgins | |||||
Stefan Vanderhoof | Michael McKean | ||||||
2000 | Billy Elliot | Michael Caffrey | Gay cross-dresser |
Stuart Wells (young Michael) Merryn Owen (adult Michael) |
Michael is a young boy and the best friend of Billy Elliot. At some point, Michael is seen using a dress and makeup. He shows interest in Billy, who does not reciprocate but is supportive of his friend. | United Kingdom | [378] |
2000 | Bring It On | Les | Gay | Huntley Ritter | Les is a member of the Toros cheerleading team. | United States | [379] |
2000 | The Broken Hearts Club | Benji | Gay | Zach Braff | United States | [380] | |
Cole | Dean Cain | ||||||
Dennis | Timothy Olyphant | ||||||
Howie | Matt McGrath | ||||||
Kevin | Andrew Keegan | ||||||
Patrick | Ben Weber | ||||||
Taylor | Billy Porter | ||||||
2000 | Chuck & Buck | Buck O'Brien | Gay | Mike White | United States | [381] | |
2000 | Miss Congeniality | Karen Krantz (Miss New York) | Lesbian | Melissa De Sousa | United States | [382] | |
2000 | Urbania | Charlie | Gay | Dan Futterman | United States | [383] | |
Chris | Matt Keeslar | ||||||
Brett | Alan Cumming | ||||||
2000 | Woman on Top | Monica Jones | Trans woman | Harold Perrineau Jr. | United States | [384][385] | |
2000 | Wonder Boys | Terry "Crabs" Crabtree | Bisexual | Robert Downey Jr. | United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Japan | [386] | |
James Leer | Gay | Tobey Maguire | |||||
2001 | Blow | Derek Foreal | Gay | Paul Reubens | United States | [387] | |
2001 | Blow Dry | Shelley Allen | Bisexual | Natasha Richardson | United States, United Kingdom, Germany | [388] | |
Sandra | Lesbian | Rachel Griffiths | |||||
2001 | Bungee Jumping of Their Own | Seo In-woo | Bisexual | Lee Byung-hun | Seo falls passionately in love with Tae-hee within moments of first meeting her. They begin dating but she is suddenly killed in a car crash. Almost 20 years later he is a high school teacher, married and with a daughter. One day he spots a male student, Im Hyun-bin, who looks almost identical to Tae-hee. He falls in love with Im, even though he feels uncomfortable doing so, and they are soon bullied and taunted by the school's students. Seo realises that Im is the reincarnation of Tae-hee. | South Korea | [389] |
2001 | Gypsy 83 | Clive Webb | Gay | Kett Turton | Clive is a young goth who joins his friend Gypsy on a road trip to see a Stevie Nicks tribute in New York City. | United States | [390] |
2001 | Hedwig and the Angry Inch | Hedwig Robinson/Hansel | Trans woman | John Cameron Mitchell | United States | [391] | |
Luther Robinson | Gay | Maurice Dean Wint | |||||
2001 | Ichi the Killer | Kakihara | Bisexual | Tadanobu Asano | Kakihara is a sadomasochist with an unnatural passion. He prefers mostly males over females for engaging in S&M. He inflicts pain on himself for pleasure and has no interest in sexuality, but is willing to become lovers with anyone who satisfies his pleasure (based on Hideo Yamamoto's manga of the same name). | Japan | [392] |
2001 | Iris | Iris Murdoch | Lesbian | Judi Dench (adult Iris) Kate Winslet (young Iris) |
United Kingdom, United States | [393] | |
2001 | Julie Johnson | Julie Johnson | Bisexual | Lili Taylor | Julie is a housewife who leaves her abusive husband and meets Claire. They live together and begin a romantic relationship. | United States | [394] |
Claire | Courtney Love | ||||||
2001 | Kissing Jessica Stein | Helen Cooper | Bisexual | Heather Juergensen | United States | [395][396] | |
Martin | Gay | Michael Mastro | |||||
Sebastian | Carson Elrod | ||||||
2001 | Lan Yu | Lan Yu | Gay | Liu Ye | The story of an affair between a young man and a middle-aged man. Set in mainland China. | China, Hong Kong | [397] |
Chen Handong | Hu Jun | ||||||
2001 | L.I.E. | Howie Blitzer | Gay | Paul Dano | Howie is discovering his sexual orientation. Gary is a hustler who becomes a friend of Howie. Big John is Gary's client and a pedophile. | United States | [398][399] |
Gary Terrio | Billy Kay | ||||||
Big John Harrigan | Brian Cox | ||||||
2001 | Lost and Delirious | Pauline Oster | Lesbian | Piper Perabo | Canada | [400] | |
Victoria "Tori" Moller | Jessica Paré | ||||||
2001 | The Man Who Wasn't There | Creighton Tolliver | Gay | Jon Polito | United Kingdom, United States | [401] | |
2001 | Mulholland Drive | Betty Elms | Lesbian | Naomi Watts | France, United States | [402][403] | |
Rita | Laura Elena Harring | ||||||
2001 | The Royal Tenenbaums | Margot Tennenbaum | Bisexual | Gwyneth Paltrow | Margot, who had a previous relationship with a woman, follows three siblings who were talented when they were children but "grow up into disappointments." | United States | [404] |
2001 | Shake It All About | Jacob | Gay | Mads Mikkelsen | Denmark | [405] | |
Jørgen | Troels Lyby | ||||||
2001 | Wet Hot American Summer | McKinley | Gay | Michael Ian Black | McKinley and Ben are camp counselors and lovers. | United States | [406][407] |
Ben | Bradley Cooper | ||||||
2002 | Bend It Like Beckham | Tony | Gay | Ameet Chana | United Kingdom | [408] | |
2002 | Dahmer | Jeffrey Dahmer | Gay | Jeremy Renner | The story of the real-life serial killer of the same name. | United States | [409] |
2002 | Far From Heaven | Frank Whitaker | Gay | Dennis Quaid | United States | [410][411] | |
2002 | Frida | Frida Kahlo | Bisexual | Salma Hayek | United States | [412] | |
2002 | Friday After Next | Damon Pearly | Gay | Terry Crews | United States | [413] | |
2002 | The Hours | Richard Brown | Gay | Ed Harris | Clarissa is in a long-term relationship with Sally, which is seemingly threatened when she pines for "a long-lost romance with Richard." | United Kingdom, United States | [414][415][416] |
Sally Lester | Lesbian | Allison Janney | |||||
Clarissa Vaughan | Bisexual | Meryl Streep | |||||
Virginia Woolf | Nicole Kidman | ||||||
2002 | May | May Dove Canady | Bisexual | Angela Bettis | United States | [417] | |
Ambrosia | Lesbian | Nichole Hiltz | |||||
Polly | Anna Faris | ||||||
2002 | The Rules of Attraction | Paul Denton | Bisexual | Ian Somerhalder | Paul is the boyfriend of Laura and he's attracted to Sean. He tries to go out with him, but fails. | Germany, United States | [418] |
2003 | Arisan! | Nino | Gay | Surya Saputra | The first Indonesian film to feature a same-sex kiss. | Indonesia | [419] |
Sakti | Tora Sudiro | ||||||
2003 | Beautiful Boxer | Nong Toom / Parinya Charoenphol | Trans woman | Asanee Suwan | Toom is a kathoey who becomes a champion kickboxer in order to pay for the sex change surgery and transition as Parinya Charoenphol. Charoenphol makes a cameo appearance as a beauty consultant. | Thailand | [420] |
2003 | Bright Young Things | Miles Maitland | Gay | Michael Sheen | United Kingdom | [421] | |
2003 | Latter Days | Christian Markelli | Gay | Wes Ramsey | Christian makes a bet with his friends that he can seduce a neighbor (Aaron) who is a Mormon missionary. | United States | [422] |
Aaron Davis | Steve Sandvoss | ||||||
2003 | A Mighty Wind | Mark Shubb | Trans woman | Harry Shearer | United States | [423] | |
2003 | Monster | Aileen Wuornos | Lesbian | Charlize Theron | United States | [424][425] | |
Tyria Moore | Christina Ricci | ||||||
2003 | Party Monster | Michael Alig | Gay | Macaulay Culkin | United States | [426] | |
James St. James | Seth Green | ||||||
Keoki | Bisexual | Wilmer Valderrama | |||||
Christina | Trans woman | Marilyn Manson | |||||
2003 | SpiderBabe | Patricia Porker | Bisexual | Erin Brown | Patricia is bitten by a spider, develops superhuman powers, and nymphomaniac urges. She has sex with several males and females. | United States | [427] |
2003 | Under the Tuscan Sun | Patti | Lesbian | Sandra Oh | United States | [428] | |
2004 | The 24th Day | Dan | Gay | James Marsden | Tom has been diagnosed with H.I.V. and believes he infected his late wife with the AIDS virus. He had only one sexual encounter with a man, Dan, and thinks that it was he who transmitted the disease to him. Tom kidnaps Dan with the intent to kill him. | United States | [429][430] |
Tom | Bisexual | Scott Speedman | |||||
2004 | Bad Education | Enrique Goded | Gay | Fele Martínez | Spain | [431] | |
Father Manolo | Daniel Giménez Cacho | ||||||
Ignacio Rodriguez | Francisco Boira | ||||||
Zahara | Transgender | Gael García Bernal | |||||
2004 | Brother to Brother | Perry | Gay | Anthony Mackie | United States | [432] | |
2004 | D.E.B.S | Lucy Diamond | Lesbian | Jordana Brewster | United States | [433] | |
Amy Bradshaw | Bisexual | Sara Foster | |||||
2004 | De-Lovely | Cole Porter | Bisexual | Kevin Kline | United States | [434] | |
2004 | Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story | Kate Veatch | Bisexual | Christine Taylor | It's not until the film is ending that Kate mentions she has a girlfriend named Joyce, who has come to watch her play (Kate has not previously been shown as being attracted to women). One teammate then says to the other: "I told you she was a lesbian", to which Kate replies "Hey! I'm not a lesbian! No. I'm bisexual." Then she kisses one of the men. | United States | [435][436] |
2004 | Enter the Phoenix | Georgie Hung Chi Kit | Gay | Daniel Wu | Hong Kong | [437] | |
2004 | Eulogy | Judy Arnolds | Lesbian | Famke Janssen | United States | [438] | |
Lucy Collins | Kelly Preston | ||||||
2004 | Formula 17 | Chou T'ien Tsai | Gay | Tony Yang | Chou is looking for romance as he takes a trip to the capital, Taipei, to visit an online boyfriend in person for the first time. Disappointed to find that his online friend only wants sex and has no interest in forming a romantic bond, he starts to look elsewhere, finding his internet relationship. T'ien's roommate and friends help him look for the man of his dreams. The film was banned in Singapore because it "portrays homosexuality as normal, and a natural progression of society". | Taiwan | [439] |
Bai Tieh Nan/Richard Bai | Duncan Lai | ||||||
Yu | King Chin | ||||||
Jun | Jason Chang | ||||||
C.C. | Dada Ji | ||||||
Alan | James Yun | ||||||
Ray | Jeff Locker | ||||||
Kevin | Ladder Yu | ||||||
2004 | Grande École | Paul | Bisexual | Gregori Baquet | Paul has a girlfriend but sleeps with one of his new male roommates. Mécir, a young Arab manual worker, becomes attracted to Paul. | France | [440] |
Mécir | Salim Kechiouche | ||||||
2004 | A Home at the End of the World | Jonathan Glover | Gay | Harris Allan / Dallas Roberts | United States | [441] | |
2004 | Kinsey | Alfred Kinsey | Bisexual | Liam Neeson | United States | [442] | |
2004 | Leave Me Alone | Yiu Chun Man | Gay | Ekin Cheng | Hong Kong | [443] | |
Man's boyfriend | Jan Lamb | ||||||
2004 | Mean Girls | Damian | Gay | Daniel Franzese | United States | [444] | |
2004 | My Summer of Love | Mona | Bisexual | Natalie Press | United Kingdom | [445] | |
Tamsin | Lesbian | Emily Blunt | |||||
2004 | Mysterious Skin | Neil McCormick | Gay | Joseph Gordon-Levitt | Netherlands, United States | [446] | |
2004 | Saved! | Dean | Gay | Chad Faust | Dean is sent away by his parents to be "degayified". Mitch is Dean's boyfriend. | United States | [447][448] |
Mitch | Kett Turton | ||||||
2004 | Saving Face | Willhelmina "Wil" Pang | Lesbian | Michelle Krusiec | Wil, a closeted hospital surgeon, falls in love with Vivian, but is afraid that her traditional Chinese family will find out her secret. Vivian, a ballet dancer, wants Wil to stop being afraid of what others may think about them. | United States | [449][450] |
Vivian Shing | Lynn Chen | ||||||
2004 | She Hate Me | Fatima Goodrich | Lesbian | Kerry Washington | United States | [451] | |
Alex Guerrero | Dania Ramirez | ||||||
2004 | Stage Beauty | Ned Kynaston | Bisexual | Billy Crudup | Germany, United Kingdom, United States | [452] | |
2004 | Star Appeal | E.T. | Bisexual | Guifeng Wang | E.T., a young man from the planet Mars, arrives on Earth totally naked. He befriends Xiao Bo, who removes his own clothes to make E.T. feel more comfortable, and teaches him languages, science and a range of other subjects. The two become close and eventually fall in love. E.T. later falls in love with Xiao Bo's girlfriend, and they attempt to have a baby. | China | [453] |
Xiao Bo | Yu Bo | ||||||
2004 | White Chicks | Aubrey Allure | Gay | Kevin Blatch | Aubrey is the coordinator of the fashion show runway. | United States | |
2005–2009
Year | Title | Character(s) | Identity | Actor | Notes | Country | Ref(s) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2005 | Be Cool | Elliot Wilhelm | Gay | Dwayne Johnson | United States | [454] | |
2005 | Breakfast on Pluto | Patrick "Kitten" Braden | Trans woman | Cillian Murphy | Ireland, United Kingdom | [455] | |
2005 | Brokeback Mountain | Ennis Del Mar | Bisexual | Heath Ledger | Ennis and Jack are in love with each other, but they also have loving and sexual relations with their wives. | United States | [456][457][458] |
Jack Twist | Jake Gyllenhaal | ||||||
Randall Malone | Gay | David Harbour | |||||
2005 | Capote | Truman Capote | Gay | Philip Seymour Hoffman | United States, Canada | [459] | |
Jack Dunphy | Bruce Greenwood | ||||||
2005 | Cold Showers | Mickael | Bisexual | Johan Libéreau | Teenagers Mickael and Clément are fellow students and team mates. They engage in a ménage à trois with Vanessa, Mickael's girlfriend, resulting in the boys becoming attracted to each other. | France | [460][461] |
Clément | Pierre Perrier | ||||||
2005 | Cursed | Bo | Gay | Milo Ventimiglia | United States | [462][463] | |
2005 | Imagine Me & You | Luce | Lesbian | Lena Headey | Germany, United Kingdom | [464][465] | |
Rachel | Bisexual | Piper Perabo | |||||
2005 | Kinky Boots | Simon / Lola | Gay / Drag Queen | Chiwetel Ejiofor | United Kingdom | [466] | |
2005 | Kiss Kiss Bang Bang | Perry Van Shrike/"Gay Perry" | Gay | Val Kilmer | United States | [467] | |
2005 | My Fair Son | Ray | Gay | Junrui Wang | China | ||
Unnamed student | Guifeng Wang | ||||||
Xiao Bo | Bisexual | Yu Bo | |||||
2005 | Rent | Thomas B. "Tom" Collins | Gay | Jesse L. Martin | United States | [468][469] | |
Angel Dumott Schunard | Wilson Jermaine Heredia | ||||||
Joanne Jefferson | Lesbian | Tracie Thoms | |||||
Maureen Johnson | Bisexual | Idina Menzel | |||||
2005 | Sin City | Lucille | Lesbian | Carla Gugino | Marv's parole officer. | United States | [470] |
2005 | Tides of War | Frank Habley | Gay | Adrian Paul | Cmdr. Frank Habley and Lt. Cmdr. Tim Palatonio (Frank's executive officer) are partners serving on the same submarine. Tom is killed in a battle and Frank must continue to serve on the same vessel. Released in theaters as Phantom Below with the gay theme excluded. The original gay version was broadcast by the Here network. | United States | [471][472][473] |
Tom Palatonio | Mike Doyle | ||||||
2005 | Transamerica | Sabrina "Bree" Osbourne | Trans woman | Felicity Huffman | United States | [474] | |
Toby | Bisexual | Kevin Zegers | |||||
2005 | V for Vendetta | Gordon Deitrich | Gay | Stephen Fry | Germany, United Kingdom, United States | [475] | |
Valerie Page | Lesbian | Natasha Wightman | |||||
2005 | Where the Truth Lies | Vince Collins | Bisexual | Colin Firth | Canada, United Kingdom | [476] | |
2006 | The Architect | Shawn | Gay | Paul James | United States | [477] | |
Martin Waters | Sebastian Stan | ||||||
2006 | Boy Culture | Alex "X" | Gay | Derek Magyar | United States | [478] | |
Andrew | Darryl Stephens | ||||||
Joey | Jonathon Trent | ||||||
Gregory Talbot | Patrick Bauchau | ||||||
2006 | The Bubble | Ashraf | Gay | Yousef 'Joe' Sweid | Israel | [479] | |
Noam | Ohad Knoller | ||||||
Yali | Alon Friedman | ||||||
2006 | Crank | Kaylo | Gay | Efren Ramirez | Kaylo is Chev Chelios' informant. | United States | [480][481] |
2006 | Eternal Summer | Jonathan | Gay | Bryant Chang | Jonathan, a studious schoolboy, is asked by his teacher to look after another boy, Shane, who is rebellious and dislikes learning. Ten years on, they have developed a good friendship despite their divergent lives: Jonathan on course to go to university and Shane to become a basketball player. Jonathan is also attracted to Shane, but the attraction is not reciprocated. However, the young men's fates change when a girl, Carrie, has a secret affair with Shane (who is determined to keep it secret in order to protect Jonathan's feelings) and also does her best to persuade Shane to abandon basketball and instead work hard to try to enter university. | Taiwan | [482] |
2006 | Gray Matters | Gray Baldwin | Lesbian | Heather Graham | United States | [483] | |
2006 | The History Boys | Stuart Dakin | Bisexual | Dominic Cooper | Based on the play of the same name. | United Kingdom | [484] |
Douglas Hector | Gay | Richard Griffiths | |||||
Tom Irwin | Stephen Campbell Moore | ||||||
David Posner | Samuel Barnett | ||||||
2006 | In Her Line of Fire | Lynn Delaney | Lesbian | Mariel Hemingway | Sergeant Major Delaney is an openly lesbian Secret Service agent guarding the VP of the United States. She's an ex-Marine and friend of the VP, and served with him during Operation Desert Storm. Lynn and Sharon fall for each other. Air Force Two, the alternate version of the film distributed outside of the United States, deleted all references to Delaney's lesbianism including the two kiss scenes between her and Sharon. | United States | [485][486][487] |
Sharon Serrano | Jill Bennett | ||||||
2006 | Infamous | Truman Capote | Gay | Toby Jones | The time of author Capote's life during which he researched and wrote In Cold Blood. | United States | [488] |
2006 | Let's Go to Prison | Barry | Gay | Chi McBride | United States | [489] | |
Nelson Biederman IV | Will Arnett | ||||||
2006 | Little Miss Sunshine | Frank Ginsberg | Gay | Steve Carell | United States | [490] | |
2006 | Loving Annabelle | Annabelle Tillman | Lesbian | Erin Kelly | Anabelle in an emotionally mature student that transfers to a strict Catholic boarding school in her senior high school year after being expelled from two previous schools. She falls in love with her poetry teacher, Simone. Simone is a closeted teacher who resists Annabelle's flirtations and advances, but falls in love with her. After the suicide of her lover, Amanda, she repressed her sexual orientation; and instead of dealing with the pain and loss, she uses a male teacher from another school as a beard. | United States | [491] |
Simone Bradley | Diane Gaidry | ||||||
2006 | The Night Listener | Gabriel Noone | Gay | Robin Williams | United States | [492] | |
2006 | No Regret | Lee Su-min | Gay | Lee Yeong-hoon | South Korea | ||
Song Jae-min | Kim Nam-gil | ||||||
2006 | Notes on a Scandal | Barbara Covett | Lesbian | Judi Dench | Barbara is a closeted teacher. | United Kingdom | [493][494] |
2006 | Running with Scissors | Neil Bookman | Gay | Joseph Fiennes | Augusten and Neil begin an erratic sexual relationship. | United States | [495] |
Augusten Burroughs | Joseph Cross | ||||||
2006 | Shortbus | James | Gay | Paul Dawson | James and Jamie are a couple. James wants to introduce other men into their relationship for sex. | Canada | [496][497] |
Jamie | PJ DeBoy | ||||||
2006 | Smokin' Aces | Sharice Watters | Lesbian | Taraji P. Henson | Sharice and Georgia are partners and contract killers who work together on assignments. | United States, United Kingdom, France | [498][499] |
Georgia Sykes | Alicia Keys | ||||||
2007 | 88 Minutes | Shelly Barnes | Lesbian | Amy Brenneman | Shelly is the assistant of forensic psychiatrist Jack Gramm. | United States, Canada, Germany | [500][501] |
2007 | Across the Universe | Prudence | Lesbian | T.V. Carpio | United Kingdom, United States | [502] | |
2007 | After Sex | Kat | Lesbian | Zoe Saldaña | A college student. She admits to her roommate Nikki that she's a lesbian but hides it from her parents. Nikki has oral sex with Kat because it feels better than when males do it. | United States | [503] |
Nikki | Bisexual | Mila Kunis | |||||
2007 | Breakfast with Scot | Eric McNally | Gay | Tom Cavanagh | Canada | ||
Sam | Ben Shenkman | ||||||
Scot | Noah Bernett | ||||||
2007 | I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry | Fred Duncan | Gay | Ving Rhames | United States | [504] | |
2007 | Love Songs | Ismaël Benoliel | Bisexual | Louis Garrel | Ismaël, Julie, and Alice are in a ménage-à-trois. After a tragedy strikes and breaks them apart, the characters learn to deal with loss and mourning. Ismaël unexpectedly finds love again with a young man named Erwann. | France | [505] |
Julie Pommeraye | Ludivigne Sagnier | ||||||
Alice | Clotilde Hesme | ||||||
Erwann | Gay | Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet | |||||
2007 | Planet Terror | Dakota Block | Bisexual | Marley Shelton | United States | [506] | |
Tammy Visan | Lesbian | Fergie (as Stacy Ferguson) | |||||
2007 | Pleasure Factory | Jonathan | Bisexual | Loo Zihan | The film is set in Singapore's red-light district. Jonathan has sexual relationships with both men and women. | Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand | [507] |
2007 | Reign Over Me | Charlie Fineman | Bisexual | Adam Sandler | United States | ||
2007 | Shelter | Shaun | Gay | Brad Rowe | United States | ||
Zach | Bisexual | Trevor Wright | |||||
2007 | Stardust | Captain Shakespeare | Gay | Robert De Niro | United States, United Kingdom | [508] | |
2007 | Steam | Elizabeth | Lesbian | Kate Siegel | Elizabeth is a first-year college student who is beginning to understand her sexual orientation. She spends a night with her classmate Niala. | United States | [509] |
Niala | Bisexual | Reshma Shetty | |||||
2007 | Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story | Dewey Cox | Bisexual | John C. Reilly | United States | ||
2007 | The Walker | Carter Page III | Gay | Woody Harrelson | United States, United Kingdom | [510] | |
2008 | City Without Baseball | Ronnie | Bisexual | Ron Heung | In a story set in the 1990s, Ronnie, a pitcher with Hong Kong's National Baseball Team, has a steady girlfriend and appears well settled-in. But over time, he becomes increasingly attracted to one of his colleagues, and summons up the courage to kiss him in the men's changing rooms. The actors, including the protagonist, were real-life members of the National Baseball Team at the time of filming. Based on a real story, the film is the first feature produced by the award-winning Chinese LGBT filmmaker known as 'Scud'. | Hong Kong | |
2008 | Dream Boy | Nathan Davies | Gay | Stephan Bender | United States | ||
Roy | Maximillian Roeg | ||||||
2008 | Hamlet 2 | Rand Posin | Gay | Skylar Astin | A drama student in love with his drama teacher. | United States | [511] |
2008 | Little Ashes | Salvador Dalí | Gay | Robert Pattinson | An unconsummated sexual attraction between Dali and Lorca (whose homosexuality was known). | United Kingdom, Spain | [512][513][514] |
Federico García Lorca | Javier Beltrán | ||||||
2008 | Mamma Mia! | Harry Bright | Gay | Colin Firth | Harry tells Donna: “You were the first woman I ever loved, and also the last.” | Germany, United Kingdom, United States | [515][516] |
2008 | Milk | Harvey Milk | Gay | Sean Penn | United States | [517][518][519] [520] | |
Cleve Jones | Emile Hirsch | ||||||
Jack Lira | Diego Luna | ||||||
Scott Smith | James Franco | ||||||
Anne Kronenberg | Lesbian | Alison Pill | |||||
2008 | RocknRolla | Handsome Bob | Gay | Tom Hardy | Bob is a gangster. | United States, United Kingdom, France | [521][522] |
2008 | Sunshine Cleaning | Lynn | Lesbian | Mary Lynn Rajskub | United States | [523][524] | |
2008 | Vicky Cristina Barcelona | María Elena | Bisexual | Penélope Cruz | Spain, United States | [525] | |
2008 | The Women | Alex Fisher | Lesbian | Jada Pinkett Smith | United States | [526] | |
Natasha | Natasha Alam | ||||||
2009 | 44 Inch Chest | Meredith | Gay | Ian McShane | United Kingdom | [527] | |
2009 | Brüno | Brüno Gehard | Gay | Sacha Baron Cohen | United States, United Kingdom | [528] | |
2009 | Chloe | Chloe Sweeney | Bisexual | Amanda Seyfried | Canada, France, United States | [529][530] | |
2009 | Everybody's Fine | Rosie Goode | Bisexual | Drew Barrymore | United States | [531] | |
2009 | I Love You Phillip Morris | Phillip Morris | Gay | Ewan McGregor | France, United States | [532] | |
Steven Russell | Jim Carrey | ||||||
2009 | Jennifer's Body | Jennifer Check | Bisexual | Megan Fox | United States | [533][534] | |
Anita "Needy" Lesnicki | Amanda Seyfried | ||||||
2009 | Mundane History | Ake | Gay | Phakpoom Surapongsanuruk | The film tells the story of a young Thai man, Ake, who is bed-ridden and paralyzed from the waist down. He gradually becomes sexually attracted by his male nurse, Pun, during washing and changing. | Thailand | |
2009 | Permanent Residence | Ivan | Gay | Sean Li | Ivan seeks a long-term relationship with a straight friend. Befriending another young man, Windson, at a public sports club, the two build up a friendly rapport. However, Windson becomes aware of his inclination, and while happy to remain his friend, is initially very reluctant to become emotionally involved with him. This is the first feature film directed by award-winning Chinese LGBT filmmaker known as 'Scud'. | Hong Kong | |
Windson | Bisexual | Osman Hung | |||||
2009 | Precious | Ms. Blu Rain | Lesbian | Paula Patton | United States | [535] | |
2009 | Shank | Cal | Gay | Wayne Virgo | United Kingdom | ||
Olivier | Marc Laurent | ||||||
Scott | Garry Summers | ||||||
Jonno | Bisexual | Tom Bott | |||||
2009 | A Single Man | George Falconer | Gay | Colin Firth | United States | [536] | |
2009 | Soundless Wind Chime | Ricky | Gay | Lu Yulai | An interracial love story, told through a linear narrative and a series of complex, interlocking flashbacks. Ricky, who has arrived in Hong Kong from mainland China, works as a delivery boy. He is robbed by a Swiss thief, Pascal, who admits his crime and returns the stolen item. The two eventually embark on a love affair, but through several flashbacks, it eventually becomes clear that Pascal has subsequently been killed in a road accident near their flat, which Ricky had witnessed. Some years later, Ricky visits Pascal's former home in Switzerland to find it abandoned. During his time there, he meets Pascal's doppelganger in a man called Ueli, who nevertheless has a very different personality. They, too, fall in love and the contentment that Ricky finds enables him to reflect on the relationship he had with Pascal. | Hong Kong, Switzerland, China | [537] |
Pascal | Bernhard Bulling | ||||||
Ueli | Bernhard Bulling | ||||||
2009 | Undertow | Miguel | Bisexual | Cristian Mercado | Peru, Colombia, France, Germany | [538] | |
Santiago | Gay | Manolo Cardona | |||||
2010–2014
Year | Title | Character(s) | Identity | Actor | Notes | Country | Ref(s) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2010 | All About Love | Anita | Lesbian | Vivian Chow | Hong Kong | [539] | |
Macy | Sandra Ng | ||||||
2010 | Amphetamine | Daniel | Gay | Thomas Price | Daniel, an openly-gay wealthy Chinese-Australian investment banker working in Hong Kong meets and befriends Kafka, a young swimming instructor from a poor local family, who has strong religious beliefs. Kafka was sexually assaulted as a teenager by a male gang after successfully defending a young woman from being raped, and as a result, he has become impotent and a habitual user of recreational drugs. Although initially uncomfortable with Daniel's obvious sexual attraction to him, he soon sees Daniel as offering him new hope in life, and he falls deeply in love with him. But Kafka's life begins to fall apart again when his mother dies suddenly, and he attempts to end his life. | Hong Kong | |
Kafka | Bisexual | Byron Pang | |||||
2010 | Beginners | Hal | Gay | Christopher Plummer | United States | [540] | |
2010 | Black Swan | Lily / Black Swan / Odile | Lesbian | Mila Kunis | United States | [541][542] | |
Nina Sayers / White Swan / Odette | Bisexual | Natalie Portman | |||||
2010 | Burlesque | Sean | Gay | Stanley Tucci | A wisecracking man who works in a strip club. | United States | [543] |
2010 | Death at a Funeral | Frank Lovett | Gay | Peter Dinklage | A dwarf in love with the late father of the protagonist. | United States, United Kingdom | [544] |
2010 | Howl | Allen Ginsberg | Gay | James Franco | United States | [545] | |
Peter Orlovsky | Aaron Tveit | ||||||
Neal Cassady | Bisexual | Jon Prescott | |||||
2010 | Kaboom | Hunter | Bisexual | Jason Olive | United States | [546] | |
Rex | Andy Fischer-Price | ||||||
Smith | Thomas Dekker | ||||||
Lorelei | Lesbian | Roxane Mesquida | |||||
Stella | Haley Bennett | ||||||
Oliver | Gay | Brennan Mejia | |||||
2010 | The Kids Are All Right | Nicole 'Nic' Allgood | Lesbian | Annette Bening | Nic and Jules are spouses and they each used the same sperm donor to conceive a child. Their teenager son wants to find out about his biological father and his older sister helps him find the contact information, which leads to an unexpected turn of events in their marriage when Jules meets the father. | United States | [547] |
Jules Allgood | Bisexual | Julianne Moore | |||||
2010 | Scott Pilgrim vs. the World | Ramona Flowers | Bisexual | Mary Elizabeth Winstead | Ramona describes her relationship with Roxy Richter as her being "bi-curious". Besides her lesbian ex-girlfriend, Ramona has six ex-boyfriends. Ben is Wallace's gay best friend. Wallace is Scott's gay roommate. | United Kingdom, United States, Japan | [548][404][549] |
Jimmy | Kjartan Hewitt | ||||||
Roxanne "Roxy" Richter | Lesbian | Mae Whitman | |||||
Scott aka "Other Scott" | Gay | Ben Lewis | |||||
Stephen Stills | Mark Webber | ||||||
Wallace Wells | Kieran Culkin | ||||||
2010 | Sex and the City 2 | Erin | Lesbian | Alice Eve | Erin is the Irish nanny for Charlotte's child. They nicknamed her "Erin Go Braless". | United States | [550][551] |
2010 | Valentine's Day | Sean Jackson | Gay | Eric Dane | United States | [552] | |
Holden Wilson | Bradley Cooper | ||||||
2010 | Yes or No | Kim | Lesbian | Suppanad Jittaleela | Kim is the first butch character in a lesbian-related Thai film. Pie comes out after meeting Kim and getting to know her. | Thailand | [553][554] |
Pie | Sushar Manaying | ||||||
2011 | Albert Nobbs | Albert Nobbs | Trans man | Glenn Close | United Kingdom, Ireland | [555][556] | |
Hubert Page | Janet McTeer | ||||||
2011 | Austin Unbound: A Deaf Journey of Transgender Heroism | Austin Richey | Trans man | Austin Richey | United States | ||
2011 | The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel | Graham Dashwood | Gay | Tom Wilkinson | United Kingdom | [557] | |
2011 | The Broken Tower | Hart Crane | Gay | James Franco | Biopic about the American poet. | United States | [558][559][560] |
Emile Opffer | Michael Shannon | ||||||
2011 | Cloudburst | Stella | Lesbian | Olympia Dukakis | Stella and Dot are an elderly couple in Maine who have been together for decades. Dot is in poor health and Stella has been taking care of her. The only one who is clueless that they are lesbians in a relationship is Dot's granddaughter. After she convinces the frail Dot to sign a power-of-attorney and relocate to an assisted living facility, Stella breaks into the home and she and Dot flee to Nova Scotia where same-sex marriage is legal. | Canada, United States | [561] |
Dot | Brenda Fricker | ||||||
2011 | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | Lisbeth Salander | Bisexual | Rooney Mara | United States, Sweden, United Kingdom | [562] | |
Miriam "Mimi" Wu | Elodie Yung | ||||||
2011 | Just Go With It | Ian Maxtone-Jones | Gay | Dave Matthews | United States | ||
2011 | Love Actually... Sucks! | Bridegroom | Bisexual | Jackie Chow | Inspired by real-life events, the film tells a series of interconnected stories, several with LGBT relationships. The opening wedding banquet reveals a sex affair between the bridegroom and a bridesman. Other stories include a married painter who falls in love with his young male life model, a dance school teacher who becomes involved with his senior student, and a role-playing lesbian couple. | Hong Kong | [563][564] |
Bridesman | Gay | Ryo van Kooten | |||||
Model | Tang Wei | ||||||
Painter | John Tai | ||||||
Policewoman | Lesbian | Lareine Xu | |||||
Policewoman's girl | Lesbian | Celia Chang | |||||
2011 | North Sea Texas | Pim | Gay | Jelle Florizoone | Belgium | [565] | |
Gino | Bisexual | Mathias Vergels | |||||
2011 | Pariah | Alike | Lesbian | Adepero Oduye | United States | [566] | |
2011 | The Perfect Family | Shannon Cleary | Lesbian | Emily Deschanel | Shannon marries her girlfriend Angela, but her Catholic mother refuses to accept her. | United States | [567] |
Angela Rayes | Angelique Cabral | ||||||
2011 | The Skin I Live In | Cristina | Lesbian | Bárbara Lennie | Cristina is a salesgirl in the dress shop. Her co-worker, Vicente, was infatuated with her. | Spain | [568] |
2012 | 3, 2, 1... Frankie Go Boom | Phyllis | Trans woman | Ron Perlman | United States | [569] | |
2012 | Cloud Atlas | Robert Frobisher | Bisexual | Ben Whishaw | Robert, living in 1930s Britain, is a budding composer, and apprentice of musical genius Vyvyan Ayrs. Rufus is Robert's lover. | Germany, United States | [570] |
Rufus Sixsmith | Gay | James D'Arcy | |||||
2012 | Jack & Diane | Diane | Lesbian | Juno Temple | United States | [571] | |
Jack | Riley Keough | ||||||
2012 | Laurence Anyways | Laurence Alia | Trans woman | Melvil Poupaud | Canada | [572] | |
2012 | Love Is Not Perfect | Elena | Bisexual | Anna Foglietta | Being with Adriana is the first romantic relationship Elena has had with a woman. Adriana is realizing her sexual orientation and preference with Elena. | Italy | [573] |
Adriana | Lesbian | Lorena Cacciatore | |||||
2012 | The Paperboy | Ward Jansen | Gay | Matthew McConaughey | United States | [574] | |
2012 | The Perks of Being a Wallflower | Brad | Gay | Johnny Simmons | United States | [575] | |
Patrick | Ezra Miller | ||||||
2012 | Speechless | Luke | Gay | Pierre-Matthieu Vital | Hong Kong, China | ||
Han Dong | Bisexual | Jian Jiang | |||||
2013 | Blue Is the Warmest Colour | Adèle | Bisexual | Adèle Exarchopoulos | Adèle meets Emma in a lesbian bar. They begin a romantic relationship and live together. After she cheats with Antoine, a male colleague, the relationship with Emma ends. After Adèle, Emma enters into a relationship with Lise. | France | [576] |
Emma | Lesbian | Léa Seydoux | |||||
Lise | Mona Walravens | ||||||
2013 | Dallas Buyers Club | Rayon | Trans woman | Jared Leto | United States | [577] | |
2013 | Free Fall | Marc Borgmann | Bisexual | Hanno Koffler | Germany | ||
Kay Engel | Gay | Max Riemelt | |||||
2013 | G.B.F. | Tanner Daniels | Gay | Michael J. Willett | United States | [578] | |
Brent Van Camp | Paul Iacono | ||||||
2013 | Horns | Eric Hannity | Gay | Michael Adamthwaite | Canada, United States | ||
2013 | Kick-Ass 2 | Insect-Man | Gay | Robert Emms | Insect-Man is an insect-themed superhero and a member of the Justice Forever team. He was bullied, inspiring him to become a superhero to stand up for the defenseless. He does not wear a mask because hiding his identity would feel like going back into the closet. | United Kingdom, United States | [579] |
2013 | Kill Your Darlings | Lucien Carr | Gay | Dane DeHaan | United Kingdom | [580] | |
Allen Ginsberg | Bisexual | Daniel Radcliffe | |||||
2013 | The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones | Alec Lightwood | Gay | Kevin Zegers | Magnus is a warlock. | Canada, Germany | |
Magnus Bane | Bisexual | Godfrey Gao | |||||
2013 | Tom at the Farm | Tom Podowski | Gay | Xavier Dolan | Tom travels to an isolated farm for his lover's funeral where he's quickly drawn into a twisted, sexually charged game by his lover's aggressive brother, Francis. | Canada | [581] |
Francis Longchamp | Bisexual | Pierre-Yves Cardinal | |||||
2013 | Voyage | Ryo | Gay | Ryo van Kooten | Filmed across Asia and Europe, the story follows the journey of Ryo, a young Hong Kong psychiatrist, who is accompanied by his male lover as he visits former patients in neighbouring countries of South East Asia. Several of his clients are themselves in LGBT relationships. (The film features frequent full-frontal male nudity.) | Hong Kong | [582] |
Jip | Gay | Jason Poon | |||||
2014 | Girltrash: All Night Long | Misty Monroe | Lesbian | Mandy Musgrave | The film prequel to the Girltrash! web series. | United States | [583] |
Daisy Robson | Lisa Rieffel | ||||||
Colby Robson | Gabrielle Christian | ||||||
Sid | Kate French | ||||||
2014 | The Grand Budapest Hotel | Monsieur Gustave H. | Bisexual | Ralph Fiennes | United States, Germany | [584][585] | |
2014 | The Imitation Game | Alan Turing | Gay | Benedict Cumberbatch (adult) Alex Lawther (young) |
Biopic about the life of Turing, who deciphered the code of the Enigma machine, a device used by Nazi Germany during World War II. After the end of the war, he is convicted of indecency because of his homosexuality, undergoes chemical castration, and later commits suicide. The young Turing was close to his classmate Christopher Morcom, and they passed written encoded notes to each other. Their friendship ends when Christopher dies from bovine tuberculosis. Turing names the Enigma-breaking machine "Christopher" after him. | United States | [586] |
Christopher Morcom | Jack Bannon | ||||||
2014 | Life Partners | Sasha Weiss | Lesbian | Leighton Meester | Sasha is a struggling musician with a string of bad dates. | United States | [587] |
2014 | Lilting | Kai | Gay | Andrew Leung | United Kingdom | [588] | |
Richard | Ben Whishaw | ||||||
2014 | Love Is Strange | George Garea | Gay | Alfred Molina | United States, France | [589] | |
Ben Hull | John Lithgow | ||||||
2014 | Predestination | Jane/John | Transgender | Sarah Snook | Australia | [590] | |
2014 | Pride | Mark Ashton | Gay | Ben Schnetzer | United Kingdom | [591][592][593] | |
Mike Jackson | Joe Gilgun | ||||||
Jonathan Blake | Dominic West | ||||||
Gethin Roberts | Andrew Scott | ||||||
Jeff Cole | Freddie Fox | ||||||
Reggie | Chris Overton | ||||||
Ray | Joshua Hill | ||||||
Joe "Bromley" Cooper | George Mackay | ||||||
Cliff Barry | Bill Nighy | ||||||
Tim | Russel Tovey | ||||||
Steph Chambers | Lesbian | Faye Marsay | |||||
Stella | Karina Fernandez | ||||||
Zoe | Jessie Cave | ||||||
2014 | The Skeleton Twins | Milo Dean | Gay | Bill Hader | United States | [594] | |
Rich Levitt | Bisexual | Ty Burrell | |||||
2014 | The Taking of Deborah Logan | Sarah Logan | Lesbian | Anne Ramsay | Sarah becomes the caregiver for her ailing mother and tries to protect her from a demonic possession. | United States | [595][596] |
2014 | Tammy | Lenore | Lesbian | Kathy Bates | United States | [597] | |
Susanne | Sandra Oh | ||||||
2014 | The Way He Looks | Leonardo | Gay | Ghilherme Lobo | Leonardo is a blind high school student who falls in love with the new kid, Gabriel. Gabriel falls in love with Leo. He was once aroused when he saw Leo naked in the showers. | Brazil | [598] |
Gabriel | Fabio Audi | ||||||
2015–2019
Year | Title | Character(s) | Identity | Actor | Notes | Country | Ref(s) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2015 | 3 Generations | Ray | Trans man | Elle Fanning | United States | [599] | |
Maggie | Lesbian | Susan Sarandon | |||||
2015 | 4th Man Out | Adam | Gay | Evan Todd | United States | [600] | |
2015 | Burnt | Tony Balerdi | Gay | Daniel Brühl | United States | [601] | |
2015 | Carol | Carol Aird | Lesbian | Cate Blanchett | Carol was always attracted to females, but married as was expected of her social status and the post-World War II era. While in divorce proceedings, she meets Therese and comes out publicly after her love affair with her is exposed. Therese realizes she is gay after she meets Carol and falls in love with her. (The film is based on The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith.) | United Kingdom, United States | [602][603] |
Therese Belivet | Rooney Mara | ||||||
2015 | The Danish Girl | Lili Elbe | Transgender | Eddie Redmayne | United Kingdom, United States | [604] | |
2015 | Dope | Cassandra "Diggy" Andrews | Lesbian | Kiersey Clemons | Diggy can be seen in male clothing. | United States | [605] |
2015 | Freeheld | Stacie Andree | Lesbian | Elliot Page [lower-alpha 1] | United States | [606] | |
Laurel Hester | Julianne Moore | ||||||
2015 | Grandma | Elle Reid | Lesbian | Lily Tomlin | United States | [607][608] | |
Olivia | Judy Greer | ||||||
Deathy | Transgender | Laverne Cox | |||||
2015 | The Heroes of Evil | Aritz | Gay | Jorge Clemente | Spain | ||
2015 | Holy Mess | Oscar | Gay | Anton Lundqvist | Sweden | ||
Simon | Anastasios Soulis | ||||||
2015 | Legend | Lord Boothby | Bisexual | John Sessions | France, United Kingdom | [609] | |
Ronnie Kray | Gay | Tom Hardy | |||||
Teddy Smith | Taron Egerton | ||||||
2015 | Tangerine | Alexandra | Trans woman | Mya Taylor | United States | ||
Sin-Dee Rella | Kitana Kiki Rodriguez | ||||||
2015 | Those People | Charlie | Gay | Jonathan Gordon | Charlie has always been in love with his best friend Sebastian. Both of them are gay and too afraid to admit their love for each other. But after some life changing events happen in both of their lives, they try to figure out what their relationship really is. | United States | |
Sebastian | Jason Ralph | ||||||
2015 | Utopians | Hins Gao | Bisexual | Adonis He Fei | Hins Gao is in a relationship with his female classmate Joy, but gradually becomes attracted to his professor, Antonio Ming. | Hong Kong | [610] |
Antonio Ming | Gay | Jackie Chow | |||||
2015 | While You Weren't Looking | Dez | Lesbian | Sandi Schultz | Dez is a real estate developer. Terri takes care of their household. The mixed-race couple have been together for twenty years and live in suburban Cape Town with their adopted teenage daughter. | South Africa | [611][612] |
Terri | Camilla Waldman | ||||||
2016 | Being 17 | Damien Delille | Gay | Kacey Mottet Klein | The movie follows the romantic and sexual awakening of Damien and Thomas as their initial animosity, expressed in violence, morphs into love. | France | [613] |
Thomas Chardoul | Corentin Fila | ||||||
2016 | Catfight | Lisa | Lesbian | Alicia Silverstone | United States | [614] | |
Ashley Miller | Anne Heche | ||||||
2016 | Center of My World | Phil | Gay | Louis Hofmann | Germany | [615] | |
Nicholas | Jannik Schümann | ||||||
Pascal | Lesbian | Nina Proll | |||||
Tereza | Inka Friedrich | ||||||
2016 | The Handmaiden | Lady / Izumi Hideko | Lesbian | Kim Min-hee | South Korea | [616] | |
Maid / Nam Sook-hee | Kim Tae-ri | ||||||
2016 | Handsome Devil | Conor Masters | Gay | Nicholas Galitzine | Ireland | [617] | |
Dan Sherry | Andrew Scott | ||||||
2016 | Heartstone | Kristján | Gay | Blær Hinriksson | Iceland | [618] | |
2016 | I, Olga Hepnarová | Olga Hepnarová | Lesbian | Michalina Olszańska | Czech Republic | [619] | |
2016 | It's Only the End of the World | Louis | Gay | Gaspard Ulliel | Canada, France | [620] | |
2016 | King Cobra | Brent Corrigan | Gay | Garrett Clayton | United States | [621] | |
Harlow Cuadra | Keegan Allen | ||||||
Joe Kerekes | James Franco | ||||||
Bryan Kocis | Christian Slater | ||||||
Mikey | Spencer Lofranco | ||||||
2016 | Moonlight | Chiron Harris ("Little"/"Black") | Gay | Trevante Rhodes, Ashton Sanders, Alex Hibbert | United States | [622] | |
Kevin Jones | Bisexual | André Holland, Jharrel Jerome, Jaden Piner | |||||
2016 | Mother's Day | Gabi | Lesbian | Sarah Chalke | Gabi and Max are married, but Gabi has not come out to her parents because they're homophobic. | United States | [623][624] |
Max | Cameron Esposito | ||||||
2016 | Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising | Pete Regazolli | Gay | Dave Franco | United States | [625] | |
2016 | The Neon Demon | Ruby | Lesbian | Jena Malone | Denmark, France, United States | [626][627] | |
2016 | Other People | David Mulcahey | Gay | Jesse Plemons | United States | [628] | |
Paul | Zach Woods | ||||||
2016 | Spidarlings | Eden | Lesbian | Sophia Disgrace | Eden and Matila are a couple trying to get by. | United Kingdom | [629] |
Matilda | Rahel Kapsaski | ||||||
The Diva | Trans woman | Jeff Kristian | |||||
2016 | Their Finest | Phyl Moore | Lesbian | Rachael Stirling | Phyl is the Ministry of Information liaison keeping an eye on the screenwriters and coordinating the development of the film script. She wears button-down shirt and tie, jacket and tailored pants. She says to Catrin Cole, "I've never much seen the point in men"; and when one of the screenwriters asks who else the girls in the story are going to fall in love with she responds, "each other?" | United Kingdom | [630][631] |
2017 | Alien: Covenant | Carl Lope | Gay | Demián Bichir | United Kingdom, United States | [632] | |
Hallett | Nathaniel Dean | ||||||
2017 | Atomic Blonde | Lorraine Broughton | Bisexual | Charlize Theron | Lorraine, a secret agent for MI6, does not fall in love with her male counterpart, but has sex with another female spy, Delphine, which becomes a romantic relationship. The emotionally intimate post-sex scene between Lorraine and Delphine was deleted in the final cut but included in the DVD/Blu-ray bonus features under the title "Not Afraid of Love". (Some reviewers noted that the lesbian romance is not in the graphic novel the film is based on.) | United States | [633][634][635] |
Delphine Lasalle | Lesbian | Sofia Boutella | |||||
2017 | Battle of the Sexes | Billie Jean King | Lesbian | Emma Stone | Based on the real-life champion tennis player of the same name. | United Kingdom, United States | [636][637][638] |
Marilyn Bennett | Andrea Riseborough | ||||||
Ted Tinling | Gay | Alan Cumming | |||||
2017 | Beach Rats | Frankie | Gay | Harris Dickinson | United States | [639] | |
2017 | Call Me by Your Name | Oliver | Bisexual | Armie Hammer | Brazil, France, Italy, United States | [640] | |
Elio Perlman | Timothée Chalamet | ||||||
2017 | The Carmilla Movie | Carmilla Karnstein | Lesbian | Natasha Negovanlis | Carmilla and Laura are romantic partners. Based on the web series of the same name, the movie takes place five years after 330 year-old vampire Carmilla became human. | Canada | [641][642] |
Laura Hollis | Elise Bauman | ||||||
Elle Sheridan | Dominique Provost-Chalkley | ||||||
Danny Lawrence | Sharon Belle | ||||||
2017 | Disobedience | Ronit Krushka | Bisexual | Rachel Weisz | Ronit is the daughter of a rabbi and community authority; she had a forbidden romance with Esti when they were teenagers and was sent away by her father after he discovered their relationship. When Ronit left the community, Esti married due to Orthodox religious expectations and obligations, but always remained sexually attracted to females. Years later, when Ronit returns after her father's death, Esti comes to terms with her sexual orientation and separates from her husband. | United States, Ireland, United Kingdom | [643] |
Esti Kuperman | Lesbian | Rachel McAdams | |||||
2017 | A Fantastic Woman | Marina Vidal | Trans woman | Daniela Vega | Chile | [644] | |
2017 | God's Own Country | Gheorghe Ionescu | Gay | Alec Secareanu | United Kingdom | [645] | |
Johnny Saxby | Josh O'Connor | ||||||
2017 | Lady Bird | Danny O'Neill | Gay | Lucas Hedges | United States | [646] | |
2017 | My Days of Mercy | Mercy Bromage | Bisexual | Kate Mara | United States, United Kingdom | [647] | |
Lucy Moro | Lesbian | Elliot Page [lower-alpha 2] | |||||
2017 | The Party | Martha | Lesbian | Cherry Jones | Martha and Jinny are a couple. | United Kingdom | [648][649] |
Jinny | Emily Mortimer | ||||||
2017 | Power Rangers | Trini Kwan/Yellow Ranger | Lesbian | Becky G | The first LGBT superhero in a high-budget film. | United States | [650] |
2017 | Princess Cyd | Cyd | Bisexual | Jessie Pinnick | United States | ||
Katie | Lesbian | Malic White | |||||
2017 | Rough Night | Frankie | Lesbian | Ilana Glazer | Frankie is an activist and organizer of political protests. Blair is a real estate agent and Frankie's ex-lover. | United States | [651][652] |
Blair | Bisexual | Zoë Kravitz | |||||
2017 | The Shape of Water | Giles | Gay | Richard Jenkins | Elisa's next door neighbor is closeted and fearful, but bravely helps her and the Amphibian Man. | United States | [653] |
2017 | Song to Song | Faye | Bisexual | Rooney Mara | Faye has a relationship with Zoey, a French artist living in the US. | United States | [654][655] |
Zoey | Lesbian | Bérénice Marlohe | |||||
2017 | Thelma | Anja | Lesbian | Kaya Wilkins | Norway | [656] | |
Thelma | Eili Harboe | ||||||
2017 | Tom of Finland | Touko Laaksonen | Gay | Pekka Strang | Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, United States | [657][658] | |
2018 | Alex Strangelove | Alex Truelove | Gay | Daniel Doheny | United States | [659] | |
Elliott | Antonio Marziale | ||||||
2018 | To All the Boys I've Loved Before | Lucas Krapf | Gay | Trezzo Mahoro | Lucas was one of Lara Jean Covey's crushes who she wrote a letter to. He told Lara Jean he was gay after receiving the letters, sent by Lara Jean's younger sister Kitty. | United States | [660] |
2018 | Blockers | Angelica | Lesbian | Ramona Young | Sam comes out to her father and friends. She then kisses Angelica at their senior prom. | United States | [661] |
Sam Lockwood | Gideon Adlon | ||||||
2018 | Bohemian Rhapsody | Freddie Mercury | Bisexual | Rami Malek | United Kingdom, United States | [662][663] | |
Jim Hutton | Gay | Aaron McCusker | |||||
Paul Prenter | Allen Leech | ||||||
John Reid | Aidan Gillen | ||||||
2018 | Boy Erased | Jared Eamons | Gay | Lucas Hedges | United States | [664] | |
2018 | Can You Ever Forgive Me? | Lee Israel | Lesbian | Melissa McCarthy | United States | [665] | |
Jack Hock | Gay | Richard E. Grant | |||||
2018 | Colette | Gabrielle Colette | Bisexual | Keira Knightley | United States, United Kingdom, Hungary | [666] | |
2018 | The Death & Life of John F. Donovan | John F. Donovan | Gay | Kit Harington | Canada | [667] | |
2018 | Diamantino | Aisha Brito | Bisexual | Cleo Tavares | Aisha is a Secret Service agent working undercover as a refugee orphan teenage boy. Lucia is a Secret Service agent disguised as a nun, and the girlfriend of Aisha. | Portugal, France, Brazil | [668][669] |
Lucia | Lesbian | Maria Leite | |||||
2018 | Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot | Donnie | Gay | Jonah Hill | United States | [670] | |
Martingale | Ronnie Adrian | ||||||
2018 | Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald | Albus Dumbledore | Gay | Jude Law (adult Albus) Toby Regbo (young Albus) |
United Kingdom | [671] | |
2018 | The Favourite | Anne, Queen of Great Britain | Lesbian | Olivia Colman | United Kingdom, Ireland, United States | [672] | |
Abigail Masham | Emma Stone | ||||||
Sarah Churchill | Bisexual | Rachel Weisz | |||||
2018 | Giant Little Ones | Ray Winter | Gay | Kyle MacLachlan | Canada | [673] | |
2018 | Green Book | Don Shirley | Gay | Mahershala Ali | United States | [674] | |
2018 | Hearts Beat Loud | Samantha Lee "Sam" Fisher | Lesbian | Kiersey Clemons | United States | [675] | |
Rose | Sasha Lane | ||||||
2018 | Love, Simon | Simon Spier | Gay | Nick Robinson | United States | [676][677][678] | |
Bram Greenfeld | Keiynan Lonsdale | ||||||
Cal Price | Bisexual | Miles Heizer | |||||
2018 | Mary Queen of Scots | Lord Darnley | Gay | Jack Lowden | United Kingdom, United States | [679] | |
David Rizzio | Ismael Cruz Córdova | ||||||
2018 | The Miseducation of Cameron Post | Cameron Post | Lesbian | Chloë Grace Moretz | United Kingdom, United States | [680] | |
2018 | Rafiki | Kena | Lesbian | Samantha Mugatsia | Kenya | [681] | |
Ziki | Sheila Munyiva | ||||||
2018 | Ready Player One | Helen "H" Harris | Lesbian | Lena Waithe | United States | [682] | |
2018 | School's out | Pierre Hoffman | Gay | Laurent Lafitte | Pierre is a substitute teacher who becomes obsessed with his students' strange behavior. He is in love with his male best friend who just had a child. He also has a crush on one of his male colleagues who appears to be straight. | France | [683] |
2018 | Tracey | "Travis Tung" / "Tracey" | Trans woman | Philip Keung | Hong Kong | [684] | |
2018 | Vice | Mary Cheney | Lesbian | Alison Pill | United States | [685] | |
2018 | Vita & Virginia | Vita Sackville-West | Bisexual | Gemma Arterton | United Kingdom, Ireland | [686][687] | |
Virginia Woolf | Elizabeth Debicki | ||||||
2018 | Wild Nights with Emily | Emily Dickinson | Lesbian | Molly Shannon | United States | [688] | |
2019 | Anna | Anna Poliatova | Bisexual | Sasha Luss | A double agent assassin. She is in a relationship with fellow fashion model Maude as a cover. She has sex with Alexander Tchenkov, her KGB handler, and Leonard Miller, her CIA handler. Maude is in love with Anna. | France, United States | [689][690] |
Maude | Lesbian | Lera Abova | |||||
2019 | Bombshell | Jess Carr | Lesbian | Kate McKinnon | Jess is a closeted lesbian and Hillary Clinton supporter. Kayla has a sexual relationship with Jess, but says she's not a lesbian. | United States, Canada | [691][692][693] |
Kayla Pospisil | Bisexual | Margot Robbie | |||||
2019 | Booksmart | Amy Antsler | Lesbian | Kaitlyn Dever | Amy has a crush on a girl named Ryan, and later has her first lesbian sexual encounter with Hope, who has a reputation for not being nice. George and Alan are theater obsessed classmates of Amy and her best friend Molly. | United States | [694][695][696] |
Hope | Diana Silvers | ||||||
George | Gay | Noah Galvin | |||||
Alan | Austin Crute | ||||||
2019 | Carmilla | Lara | Lesbian | Hannah Rae | United Kingdom | [697][698] | |
Carmilla | Devrim Lingnau | ||||||
2019 | Despite Everything | Sofía | Lesbian | Amaia Salamanca | Sofía and Marta are a couple, but Sofía has commitment issues. | Spain | [699] |
Marta | Ariana Martinez | ||||||
2019 | Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga | Sweety Chaudhary | Lesbian | Sonam Kapoor Ahuja | Sweety is a closeted lesbian who comes out to her traditional Punjabi father and family. Kuhu is Sweety's love interest. They are in a relationship that is kept secret. | India | [700] |
Kuhu | Regina Cassandra | ||||||
2019 | Elisa & Marcela | Elisa | Lesbian | Natalia de Molina | True story of two Spanish women who posed as a heterosexual couple in 1901 so that they could marry, with Marcela assuming the identity of "Mario Sánchez". | Spain | [701] |
Marcela | Greta Fernández | ||||||
2019 | The Gentlemen | Fletcher | Gay | Hugh Grant | United Kingdom | [702] | |
2019 | The Good Liar | Steven | Gay | Russell Tovey | Steven does research on Hans, who raped Lili, confirming his identity in a DNA test using a lock of Hans' hair. It is revealed at the end of the film that Michael is Lili's grandson and Steven's boyfriend. | United Kingdom, United States | [703][704][705] |
Michael | Tunji Kasim | ||||||
2019 | Jojo Rabbit | Captain Klenzendorf | Gay | Sam Rockwell | Set in 1945 in Nazi Germany, Klenzendorf and Freddy are in a secret relationship. | United States | [706][707] |
Freddy Finkel | Alfie Allen | ||||||
2019 | Let It Snow | Dorrie | Lesbian | Liv Hewson | United States | [708] | |
Kerry | Anna Akana | ||||||
2019 | Matthias & Maxime | Maxime | Bisexual | Xavier Dolan | Matthias and Maxime are lifelong friends who discover they might have romantic feelings for each other. | Canada | [709] |
Matthias | Gabriel D'Almeida | ||||||
2019 | Pain and Glory | Salvador Mallo | Gay | Antonio Banderas | Spain | [710] | |
2019 | Portrait of a Lady on Fire | Héloïse | Lesbian | Noémie Merlant | Set in the 18th century, Héloïse is a painter commissioned to unobtrusively do the portrait of Marianne, who has been reluctant to pose for one because the painting was meant to be presented to her prospective husband, but Marianne did not want to marry. Héloïse and Marianne fall in love. | France | [711] |
Marianne | Adèle Haenel | ||||||
2019 | Rialto | Colm | Gay | Tom Vaughan-Lawlor | Colm is a closeted homosexual married to a woman. Jay is a hustler. They enter into an intimate relationship. | Ireland, United Kingdom | [712][713] |
Jay | Tom Glynn-Carney | ||||||
2019 | Riot Girls | Nat | Lesbian | Madison Iseman | Nat and Scratch, the main characters, are a couple. | Canada | [714][715] |
Scratch | Paloma Kwiatkowski | ||||||
2019 | Rocketman | Elton John | Gay | Taron Egerton | Biopic about the singer-musician's journey dealing with drug addiction and accepting his homosexuality. | United Kingdom, United States | [716] |
John Reid | Richard Madden | ||||||
2019 | Suk Suk | Hoi | Gay | Ben Yuen | Hong Kong | [717] | |
Pak | Tai Bo | ||||||
2019 | Velvet Buzzsaw | Morf Vandewalt | Bisexual | Jake Gyllenhaal | United States | [718] | |
2020
Year | Title | Character(s) | Identity | Actor | Notes | Country | Ref(s) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2020 | Ammonite | Mary Anning | Lesbian | Kate Winslet | Mary is a fossil collector and paleontologist who falls in love with Charlotte. Charlottte is married to a geologist who hires Mary to care for her and keep her company while he's away on an expedition. While sharing time and days with Mary she becomes romantically attracted to her. | United Kingdom, Australia | [719][720] |
Charlotte Murchison | Bisexual | Saoirse Ronan | |||||
2020 | The Boys in the Band | Michael | Gay | Jim Parsons | United States | [721] | |
Harold | Zachary Quinto | ||||||
Donald | Matt Bomer | ||||||
Larry | Andrew Rannells | ||||||
Cowboy | Charlie Carver | ||||||
Emory | Robin de Jesús | ||||||
Bernard | Michael Benjamin Washington | ||||||
Hank | Tuc Watkins | ||||||
2020 | Bruised | Bobbi 'Buddhakan' Berroa | Lesbian | Sheila Atim | United States, United Kingdom | [722][723] | |
Jackie "Pretty Bull" Justice | Bisexual | Halle Berry | |||||
2020 | Falling | John Peterson | Gay | Viggo Mortensen | John lives with his husband Eric in California. | United States | [724][725] |
Eric Peterson | Terry Chen | ||||||
2020 | Friend of the World | Diane | Lesbian | Alexandra Slade | Diane is an experimental filmmaker whose sexual orientation isn't the only difference between her and General Gore. Eva is Diane's lover. | United States | [726][727][728] |
Eva | Kathryn Schott | ||||||
2020 | Friendsgiving | Abby | Lesbian | Kat Dennings | Abby came out at 29 years old and was dumped by her first girlfriend. The quiet Thanksgiving she planned with her best friend Molly turns into a large party after several friends and acquaintances, including lesbian friends who want to find a new girlfriend for Abby, start to show up for the holiday dinner. | United States | [729][730] |
2020 | The Half of It | Ellie Chu | Lesbian | Leah Lewis | A shy, introverted, straight-A student who earns money on the side by writing papers for fellow students, accepts being the ghostwriter of heartfelt correspondence from a football player pupil to the girl he wants to date. In the process, Ellie falls in love with her. The film is a spin on the play Cyrano de Bergerac. | United States | [731] |
2020 | Happiest Season | Abby | Lesbian | Kristen Stewart | Abby and Harper are in a romantic relationship. Riley is Harper's ex-girlfriend. John is Abby's best friend. | United States | [732] |
Harper | Mackenzie Davis | ||||||
Riley Johnson | Audrey Plaza | ||||||
John | Gay | Dan Levy | |||||
2020 | I Care a Lot | Marla Grayson | Lesbian | Rosamund Pike | Marla and Fran are romantic and business partners. | United States | [733] |
Fran | Eiza González | ||||||
2020 | Jump, Darling | Russell | Gay | Thomas Duplessie | A rookie drag queen reeling from a break-up. | Canada | [734] |
2020 | Kajillionaire | Old Dolio Dyne | Lesbian | Evan Rachel Wood | Dyne is an emotionally stunted 26-year-old woman in a manipulative relationship with her con artist parents. She later begins a relationship with Melanie, a friendly young woman. | United States | [735] |
Melanie Whitacre | Gina Rodriguez | ||||||
2020 | Ma Rainey's Black Bottom | Ma Rainey | Bisexual | Viola Davis | Rainey has a young girlfriend named Dussie Mae that all her bandmates know about. The story is based on the life of the famous blues singer. | United States | [736] |
2020 | The New Mutants | Danielle Moonstar / Mirage | Lesbian | Blu Hunt | Mirage is a Native American mutant who can create illusions based on the fears and desires of other people. She is in love with Wolfsbane. | United States | [737][738] |
Rahne Sinclair / Wolfsbane | Maisie Williams | ||||||
2020 | The Old Guard | Yusuf Al-Kaysani / Joe | Gay | Marwan Kenzari | Yusuf is a Saracen who fought against the Crusaders and Niccolò is a Genovese knight who fought in the Crusades. They are in a romantic relationship. | United States | [739] |
Niccolò di Genova / Nicky | Luca Marinelli | ||||||
2020 | The Prom | Emma Nolan | Lesbian | Jo Ellen Pellman | Emma, a 17-year-old girl, wants to bring her girlfriend Alyssa to the high school prom. Alyssa is a cheerleader and closeted. Barry is a narcissistic Broadway actor. | United States | [740][741] |
Alyssa Greene | Ariana DeBose | ||||||
Barry Glickman | Gay | James Corden | |||||
2020 | Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan | Kartik Singh | Gay | Ayushmann Khurrana | Kartik is an out young man in love with Aman, who is closeted. It is the first Bollywood feature film to show two men kissing passionately. | India | [742] |
Aman Tripathi | Jitendra Kumar | ||||||
2020 | Summer of 85 | Alexis Robin | Gay | Félix Lefebvre | The intense friendship and romance of teenagers Alexis and David during a summer in Normandy in 1985. | France | [743] |
David Gorman | Bisexual | Benjamin Voisin | |||||
2020 | Summer of Mesa | Mesa | Lesbian | Andrea Granera | Mesa is a confident and beautiful teenage girl who Molly falls in love with. Molly reconciles her feelings for Mesa and a boy named John. | United States | [744] |
Molly Miles | Bisexual | Lily Peony | |||||
2020 | Supernova | Sam | Gay | Colin Firth | Sam and Tusker are partners for 20 years and amateur astronomers. | United Kingdom | [745][746] |
Tusker | Stanley Tucci | ||||||
2020 | The Thing About Harry | Sam Baselli | Gay | Jake Borelli | Sam connects with his high school bully Harry, who reveals to him that he is pansexual. Sam begins a romantic relationship with Harry, and they later marry. | United States | [747] |
2020 | Uncle Frank | Frank Bledsoe | Gay | Paul Bettany | A college professor who has been living with a man named Walid (“Wally”) for over ten years and tries to come out to his family. | United States | [748][749] |
2020 | The World to Come | Abigail | Lesbian | Katherine Waterston | Set in the 19th century, Abigail is in a marriage of convenience to a farmer. She meets Tallie, who moves into a farm nearby and is married to an abusive husband. A deep friendship develops between them, becoming a secret romantic relationship. | United States | [750][751] |
Tallie | Vanessa Kirby | ||||||
2020 | Your Name Engraved Herein | Chang Jia-han | Gay | Edward Chen Hao-Sen | Chang Jia-han and Wang Po Tea are students who fall in love with each other. | Taiwan | [752][753] |
Wang Po Te | Jing-Hua Tseng | ||||||
2021
Year | Title | Character(s) | Identity | Actor | Notes | Country | Ref(s) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2021 | After Blue | Roxy | Lesbian | Paula Luna | France | [754][755][756] | |
Zora | Elina Löwensohn | ||||||
Sternberg | Bisexual | Vimala Pons | |||||
2021 | Benedetta | Benedetta Carlini | Lesbian | Virginie Efira | Benedetta, a novitiate in a 17th-century Italian convent, begins a love affair with another nun. | France | [757][758] |
2021 | Candyman | Troy Cartwright | Gay | Nathan Stewart-Jarrett | United States, Canada | [759] | |
Grady Greenberg | Kyle Kaminsky | ||||||
2021 | Cruella | Artie | Gay | John McCrea | Artie is the first openly gay character in a live-action Disney film. | United States | [760][761] |
2021 | Everybody's Talking About Jamie | Jamie New / Mimi Me | Gay | Max Harwood | United Kingdom, United States | [762] | |
2021 | The Fallout | Vada Cavell | Bisexual | Jenna Ortega | United States | [763] | |
Mia Reed | Lesbian | Maddie Ziegler | |||||
2021 | Fear Street Part One: 1994 | Deena Johnson | Lesbian | Kiana Madeira | Denna and Samantha are a young couple. | United States | [764] |
Samantha Fraser | Olivia Scott Welch | ||||||
2021 | The First Girl I Loved | Sylvia Lee Sum Yuet | Bisexual | Renci Yeung | Hong Kong | [765] | |
Lee Wing Nam | Lesbian | Hedwig Tam | |||||
2021 | The French Dispatch | Roebuck Wright | Gay | Jeffrey Wright | United States | [766] | |
2021 | The Green Knight | Lord | Bisexual | Joel Edgerton | United States, Canada | [767] | |
2021 | Jungle Cruise | McGregor Houghton | Gay | Jack Whitehall | McGregor is the heroine's brother and reluctant assistant. He turned down three engagements with women because of his sexual orientation. | United States | [768] |
2021 | Moneyboys | Liang Fei | Gay | Kai Ko | Taiwan, Austria, France, Belgium | [769] | |
2021 | No Time to Die | Q | Gay | Ben Whishaw | When James Bond and Moneypenny arrived at Q's house, Q was setting up a date for himself and another man. | United Kingdom, United States | [770] |
2021 | Parallel Mothers | Janis Martínez Moreno | Bisexual | Penélope Cruz | Spain | [771][772] | |
2021 | The Power of the Dog | Phil Burbank | Gay | Benedict Cumberbatch | Phil Burbank is a repressed gay man, and a charismatic rancher who likes to torment his brother's wife and step-son. | United Kingdom, Australia, United States, Canada, New Zealand | [773] |
2021 | The Retreat | Renee | Lesbian | Tommie-Amber Pirie | Canada | [774][775] | |
Valerie | Sarah Allen | ||||||
2021 | Ride or Die | Rei Nagasawa | Lesbian | Kiko Mizuhara | Japan | [776][777] | |
Nanae Shinoda | Bisexual | Honami Sato | |||||
2021 | Sentinelle | Klara | Lesbian | Olga Kurylenko | The first hint that Klara is lesbian is her observing the nude body of a female soldier in their locker room. Later, she dances with a woman in a nightclub and has a one-night stand with her. | France | [778] |
2021 | Silent Night | Alex | Lesbian | Kirby Howell-Baptiste | United Kingdom, United States | [779] | |
Bella | Lucy Punch | ||||||
2021 | Single All the Way | Peter | Gay | Michael Urie | Peter asks his best friend Nick to pose as his boyfriend, and they develop feelings for each other. James is the blind date that Peter's mother sets him up with. |
United States | [780][781] |
Nick | Philemon Chambers | ||||||
James | Luke Macfarlane | ||||||
2021 | Stillwater | Allison Baker | Lesbian | Abigail Breslin | United States | [782][783] | |
2021 | The United States vs. Billie Holiday | Billie Holiday | Bisexual | Andra Day | Billie is first married to Jimmy Monroe. She later begins a relationship with Joe Guy, and FBI agent Jimmy Fletcher. Later in her life, she enters into an abusive marriage with Louis McKay. Tallulah and Billie were involved romantically. Tallulah and Billie kiss in the film's trailer, but not in the film. | United States | [784][785] |
Tallulah Bankhead | Natasha Lyonne | ||||||
2021 | West Side Story | Anybodys | Trans man | iris menas | United States | [786] | |
2022
Year | Title | Character(s) | Identity | Actor | Notes | Country | Ref(s) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2022 | Am I Ok? | Lucy | Lesbian | Dakota Johnson | United States | [787][788] | |
2022 | Badhaai Do | Shardul Thakur | Gay | Rajkummar Rao | Shardul and Suman enter into a lavender marriage to escape the pressure from their families. Rimjhim is Suman's girlfriend. | India | [789][790][791] |
Suman Singh | Lesbian | Bhumi Pednekar | |||||
Rimjhim Jongkey | Chum Darang | ||||||
2022 | Everything Everywhere All at Once | Joy Wang / Jobu Tupaki | Lesbian | Stephanie Hsu | United States | [792] | |
Becky | Tallie Medel | ||||||
2022 | Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore | Albus Dumbledore | Gay | Jude Law | Dumbledore and Grindelwald are confirmed to have been in a past romantic relationship with each other. | United States | [793] |
Gellert Grindelwald | Mads Mikkelsen | ||||||
2022 | Marry Me | Parker Debbs | Lesbian | Sarah Silverman | Parker is a huge fan of Kat Valdez and a friend of Charlie. She takes him and his daughter to a concert by Valdez, carrying a sign that says "Marry Me!". Parker asks Charlie to hold the sign while she shoots a video of Valdez performing a song. Valdez sees the sign and picks Charlie to marry her. Parker encourages Charlie to go along with it. | United States | [794] |
2022 | Master | Gail Bishop | Lesbian | Regina Hall | United States | [795] | |
2022 | Scream | Mindy Meeks-Martin | Lesbian | Jasmin Savoy Brown | During Amber's party, Mindy wants to get with another girl and the next scene shows Mindy making out with her. | United States | |
Tara Carpenter | Jenna Ortega | ||||||
Amber Freeman | Bisexual | Mikey Madison | |||||
Non-merged films
1990–1999 (non-merged)
Year | Title | Character(s) | Identity | Actor | Notes | Country | Ref(s) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1991 | Soapdish | Montana Moorehead | Trans woman | Cathy Moriarty | |||
1992 | Single White Female | Graham Knox | Gay | Peter Friedman | United States | [796] | |
1996 | Camping Cosmos | Harry / Arno | Gay | Arno Hintjens | |||
1996 | Don't Be a Menace... | Loc Dog | Bisexual | Marlon Wayans | |||
1998 | Dark Harbor | David Weinberg | Bisexual | Alan Rickman | United States | [797] | |
Young Man | Gay | Norman Reedus | |||||
2000–2009 (non-merged)
Year | Title | Character(s) | Identity | Actor | Notes | Country | Ref(s) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2001 | Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back | Brodie Bruce/Banky Edwards | Gay | Jason Lee | |||
2004 | The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou | Alistair Hennessey | Bisexual | Jeff Goldblum | |||
2005 | C.R.A.Z.Y. | Zachary Beaulieu | Bisexual | Marc-André Grondin | Canada | ||
2006 | Another Gay Movie | Jarod | Gay | Jonathan Chase | |||
2009 | I Love You, Beth Cooper | Rich Munsch | Bisexual | Jack Carpenter | |||
2009 | The Joneses | Mick Jones | Gay | Benjamin Hollingsworth | |||
2010–2019 (non-merged)
Year | Title | Character(s) | Identity | Actor | Notes | Country | Ref(s) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2010 | Easy A | Brandon | Gay | Dan Byrd | United States | ||
2010 | The Last Exorcism | Logan | Gay | Logan Craig Reid | United States | ||
2011 | Dear Santa | Pete Kennedy | Gay | Patrick Creery | His sexuality is not stated in the film; however, he is depicted as stereotypically gay. | Canada | |
2011 | J. Edgar | J. Edgar Hoover | Gay | Leonardo DiCaprio | United States | ||
2012 | Foodfight! | Vlad Chocul | Gay | Larry Miller | United States | ||
2013 | The Bling Ring | Marc Hall | Gay | Israel Broussard | United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Japan | ||
2013 | Geography Club | Russell Middlebrook | Gay | Cameron Deane Stewart | United States | ||
2013 | Starred Up | Neville Love | Gay | Ben Mendelsohn | United Kingdom | [798] | |
2014 | Dear White People | Lionel Higgins | Gay | Tyler James Williams | United States | ||
2014 | Jongens | Marc | Gay | Ko Zandvliet | Netherlands | ||
Sieger | Gijs Blom | ||||||
2014 | Obvious Child | Joey | Gay | Gabe Liedman | United States | ||
2015 | Most Likely to Die | Jade | Lesbian | Tess Christiansen | United States | ||
2017 | F the Prom | TJ | Gay | Luke Bilyk | United States | ||
Notes
- First name changed after film release.
- First name changed after film release.
See also
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Further reading
- Bourne, Stephen (1996). Brief Encounters: Lesbians and Gays in British Cinema 1930-1971 (1st ed.). Cassell. ISBN 0304332836.
- Bryant, Wayne M. (1997). Bisexual Characters in Film: From Ana's to Zee (1st ed.). Binghamton, New York: Haworth Press. ISBN 078900142X. LCCN 96025868.
- Cook, Carson (May 2018). A content analysis of LGBT representation on broadcast and streaming television (Honors). University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
- Hadleigh, Boze (1993). The Lavender Screen: The Gay and Lesbian Films: Their Stars, Makers, Characters,and Critics. New York: Citadel Press. ISBN 0806513411.
- Morris, Gary (2002). "Film Noir" (PDF). glbtq.com.
- Russo, Vito (25 June 1979). "The Closet Syndrome: Gays in Hollywood". The Village Voice. (2019 reprint)
- White, Patricia (1999). UnInvited: Classical Hollywood Cinema and Lesbian Representability (1st ed.). Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. ISBN 0253336414.
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