Whereas The Prom’s downfalls are the result of an inflated budget that led to a lack of bold creative choices, A New York Christmas Wedding is its exact foil. Say thank you, gays!!! (Available on Netflix ) A New York Christmas Wedding (2020) Plus, the music is fun and quirky, and Meryl Streep goes to town on Keegan-Michael Key. Yes, the plot of the movie focuses on WLW struggles, but there is nary a moment where you doubt the inevitable triumph of our young gay heroines. The movie itself suffers from all the classic pitfalls of Broadway film adaptations (convoluted plot, expensive yet creatively lacking musical numbers, J*mes C*rden), but the core of this movie serves its young queer female characters, the aforementioned aspiring prom-goers, surprisingly well.

The Prom is an okay movie based on a great Broadway musical about a group of washed-up Broadway actors who storm a small town to demand it allow a lesbian couple to attend prom. The movie is not required to have a Happy Ending™, but is instead required to maintain Happy Vibes™ throughout the majority of the movie.įair warning: The Prom is not a great movie. The WLW story line must be the main story line or part of the story line of the main character.ģ. For context, to earn a spot on this list, each of these movies had to meet strict criteria:ġ. Well, call me Tony Hawk: Pro Skater, because I’ve cobbled together the best lighthearted lesbian and WLW movies available to stream. It seems that finding a WLW movie that actually celebrates queer joy - not to mention squeezes in a few laughs - is an extreme sport. Still, most of these movies focus on the struggles of queer womanhood and none of them are a breezy watch, to say the least. (WLW stands for “Woman Loving Woman,” for those of you who were not raised by the tag section of Wattpad.)

Queer women themselves will often cite one or more of these movies among their favorites in the WLW genre.

In fact, many of them are critically acclaimed and have gone on to win or be nominated for many high-profile awards. Seriously, most prominent lesbian and queer-women cinema falls into certain, very dismal categories: Lesbians But They Have to Hide Because It’s Also the War of 1812 or Something ( The Favourite, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Ammonite) Lesbian Actually Just Wanted Man This Whole Time, Glad We Figured That Out ( Chasing Amy, The Kids Are All Right) Sad 😞 ( Blue Is the Warmest Color, Disobedience, Pariah). This Pride, we need to have a very serious discussion about an issue facing the LGBTQ+ community: Why are lesbian movies such a bummer? Photo-Illustration: Vulture Photos by Samuel Goldwyn Films, Fox Searchlight Pictures, United Artists Releasing and Lions Gate Films

Lesbiam movies from 2017