G.B.F. is one of the movies included | Photo: IMDB/Vertical Entertainment
It is a truth universally acknowledged… that we are always on the hunt for more LGBTQ movies.
Thanks to Amazon Prime Video, soon there will be plenty more to indulge in and watch on repeat.
Coming off the bad PR with their ‘straight pride’ pin, the company is back in good graces with this recent move. They obtained the streaming rights to 64 movies from various Outfest LGBTQ film festivals.
Over the next few weeks, all of these movies will be available to Prime members at no additional cost.
‘These are challenging times for many and reports of violence against LGBTQ citizens are on the rise,’ said Christopher Racster, executive director of Outfest.
However, Racster continued that the ‘power of stories’ can change that narrative.
A bleak reality
Statistics show dismal numbers for LGBTQ representation in film.
GLAAD’s latest annual report of film statistics revealed only 23 out of 125 films released by the major studios in 2016 had LGBTQ characters.
That number is only a one percent increase from 2016 (22 out of 126 films).
Furthermore, most of the representation is limited to gay men (83%). However, 2016 did, at least, see an uptick in the number of lesbian and bisexual characters, even if gay mean still drastically outnumber them. Lesbian representation increased by 12 points to 35%, while bi characters jumped four points to 13%.
Diversity is worsening, though. Only 20% of LGBTQ characters were people of color in 2016, compared to 25.5% in 2015 and 32.1% in 2014.
What are the movies?
Amazon obtained the movies from Outfest, an organization founded by UCLA students in 1982. They work on screening diverse movies worldwide.
Here are all the titles that will be available:
- 52 Tuesdays
- 1 Million Happy Nows
- A Sinner In Mecca
- An Englishman in New York
- Anatomy of a Love Seen
- Ander
- Ava’s Impossible Things
- Baby Steps
- Beautiful Something
- Body Electric
- Bruising for Besos
- Call to Witness
- Crazy Bitches
- Desire Will Set You Free
- Do You Take This Man
- Eating Out
- Eating Out 2: Sloppy Seconds
- Eating Out: All You Can Eat
- Eating Out: Drama Camp
- Ekaj
- Empire State
- Family Values: An American Tragedy
- G.B.F.
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- Geography Club
- Good Mourning Lucille
- Greek Pete
- Grown Up Movie Star
- Hello Again
- Hit So Hard
- Howl
- I Do
- Isle of Lesbos
- Jamie and Jessie Are Not Together
- Jamie Marks is Dead
- Karl Rove, I Love You
- Liberty: 3 Stories about Life & Death
- Loving Annabelle
- Lyle
- Major!
- Morgan
- Nate & Margaret
- Open
- Park
- Political Animals
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- Queens and Cowboys: A Straight Year on the Gay Rodeo
- Retake
- Rift
- S&M Sally
- Sebastian
- Slash
- Something Must Brake
- Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four
- Strange Fits of Passion
- Stuff
- 10 Year Plan
- The Gymnast
- The Pearl
- The People I’ve Slept With
- The Resurrection of a Bastard
- Uncle Howard
- Were The World Mine
- Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell
- Wild Flowers
- Women Who Kill
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