Seek them out.Ĭall Me By Your Name, pictured. So here is a kind of shadow list - the 15 best films of 2017 that spoke to us as gay audiences (sometimes they are listed in a different order than my best-of list, because the gay content is specifically handled better). And some don’t address gay themes even at the margins, or don’t do so especially well. Many of the films on my Top Ten list broadcast their queer cred from the outset, some others approach it more obliquely. And many films that would have been instantly labeled “gay-interest” and assigned to the gay ghetto of video store back walls and arthouse are now considered mainstream. Looking back, there were a lot of stultifying gay romantic comedies in past decades that don’t hold up now. Gay films have a tortured history often, the (non-porn) films we embraced as a subculture spoke to us as LGBT folks, but maybe less so as cinema connoisseurs. This gay-themed Mexican movie became the most watched film of 2017 and the fifth most watched national film in the. A good movie is a good movie no matter what, but when you cover queer culture for a living, you tend to see symbols and excellence in places that others might not notice. Hazlo como hombre (Do it like an hombre).