The Queer film lover&#x27;s guide to Los Angeles.

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Withnail & I

Sun, Jun 29 @ 8:00 pm

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Bruce Robinson

1987

108 min

Depending who you ask, this British cult black comedy is either homophobic, due to its treatment of Withnail's lecherous gay uncle Morty, or a queer-coded romance, with something special lurking underneath the main characters' close-but-complicated friendship.

Two out-of-work actors – the anxious, luckless Marwood and his acerbic, alcoholic friend, Withnail – spend their days drifting between their squalid flat, the unemployment office and the pub. When they take a holiday “by mistake” at the country house of Withnail’s flamboyantly gay uncle, Monty, they encounter the unpleasant side of the English countryside: tedium, terrifying locals and torrential rain.

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Strangers on a Train

HITCH! The Original Cinema Influencer

Mon, Jun 30 @ 1:00 pm

Mon, Jun 30 @ 7:30 pm

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Egyptian Theatre

Alfred Hitchcock

1951

101 min

35mm

Based on the novel by lesbian Patricia Highsmith, starring bi actor Farley Granger (who came out in his 2007 memoir), this Hitchcock thriller is hardly subtle--with its queer-coded villain serving as a doppleganger for everything our meek protagonist wishes he could be.

Having met on a train, a smooth-talking psychotic socialite shares his theory on how two complete strangers can get away with murder to an amateur tennis player — a theory he plans to test out.

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Castration Movie Anthology i. Traps

Mon, Jun 30 @ 7:30 pm

Sun, Feb 16 @ 7:00 pm

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Art Theater Long Beach

Director Louise Weard

Louise Weard

2100

275 min

Part i of Castration Movie follows a trans woman named Michaela "Traps" Sinclair, a sex worker in Vancouver who splits her time between seeing clients and hanging out with her group of trans friends. As the weight of the world piles up on her she decides to pursue her dream of settling down and having a child until her fantasy shatters around her.

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Desert Hearts

Queer, Period: Desire Through The Ages

Mon, Jun 30 @ 7:30 pm

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Academy Museum

Donna Deitch

1985

91 min

DCP

Donna Deitch’s swooning and sensual first film, DESERT HEARTS, was groundbreaking upon its 1986 release: a love story about two women, produced and directed by a woman. In the 1959-set film, an adaptation of a beloved novel by Jane Rule, straitlaced East Coast professor Vivian Bell (Shaver) arrives in Reno to file for divorce, but winds up catching the eye of someone new, the younger free spirit Cay (Charbonneau), touching off a slow seduction that unfolds against the breathtaking desert landscape. With smoldering chemistry between its two leads, an evocative jukebox soundtrack, and vivid cinematography by Robert Elswit, DESERT HEARTS beautifully exudes a sense of tender yearning and emotional candor. NEW DIGITAL RESTORATION

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Rebels of the Neon God

Thu, Jul 03 @ 7:00 pm

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Los Feliz 3

Tsai Ming-Laing

1992

106 min

DCP

This breakout film from out Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-Liang follows three disaffected teenagers, one of whom is heavily implied to be queer.

In Taipei, revenge and love twist the paths of wayward youths.

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Saved!

Thu, Jul 10 @ 7:30 pm

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Academy Museum

Brian Dannelly

2004

92 min

35mm

Mary is a good Christian girl who goes to a good Christian high school where she has good Christian friends and a perfect Christian boyfriend. Her life seems perfect, until the day that she finds out that her boyfriend may be gay — and that she’s pregnant.

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Vegas in Space

Summer of Camp

Fri, Jul 11 @ 7:30 pm

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Filmmaker Phillip R. Ford

Phillip R. Ford

1991

85 min

DCP

This camp classic, distributed by Troma films, is a wacky sci-fi drag story about three soldiers who must take a sex change pill to infiltrate a pleasure planet and fight a galactic villain. Starring drag icons Doris Fish, Miss X, Tippi and more!

Three male soldiers have a sex change so they can go on an undercover mission to an all-woman planet, where they must uncover and foil a plot to disrupt the most important pleasure planet in the universe.

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Moonlight

Fri, Jul 18 @ 7:30 pm

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Hammer Museum

Barry Jenkins

2016

111 min

Double Feature with "Razing Liberty Square," a documentary about the displacement of residents in the historically Black neighborhood where "Moonlight" is set.

The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality.

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Theatrical runs

Now In Theaters

Prefer your movies with popcorn and trailers? Here some the queer films at LA cinemas right now...

Brokeback Mountain: 20th Anniversary

Opened Jun 20, 2025

Opens Jun 20, 2025

Ang Lee

134 min

Rodeo cowboy Jack and ranch hand Ennis are hired as sheepherders in 1963 Wyoming. One night on Brokeback Mountain, they spark a physical relationship. Though Ennis marries his longtime sweetheart and Jack marries a fellow rodeo rider, they keep up their tortured, sporadic love affair for 20 years.

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The Queen of My Dreams

Opened Jun 20, 2025

Opens Jun 20, 2025

Fawzia Mirza

97 min

Pakistani Muslim Mariam and her Canadian-born daughter Azra come of age in two different eras against the backdrop of a shared obsession with Bollywood fantasy.

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The True Story of Tamara de Lempicka and the Art of Survival

Opened Jul 17, 2025

Opens Jul 17, 2025

Julie Rubio

96 min

A visually stunning and sweeping feature documentary that traces the life and survival of the renowned bisexual painter through her powerful paintings – from her rise to international stardom in 1920s Paris, to her move to the United States in 1940, fleeing the rise of fascism, and her revival in the current art market. Tamara de Lempicka was the preeminent Art Deco painter, known for her high-gloss sensual nudes and portraits of high society during the Jazz Age. She was marginalized and gained notoriety for her romantic liaisons with her models and her indulgent, decadent lifestyle, but she was so much more.

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