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

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Victor/Victoria

Queer, Period: Desire Through The Ages

Sun, Jun 22 @ 6:30 pm

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Blake Edwards

1982

134 min

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Julie Andrews stars in this musical remake of the 1933 German film about a woman singer who takes a job as a female impersonator.

A struggling female soprano finds work playing a male female impersonator, but it complicates her personal life.

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Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Queer, Period: Desire Through The Ages

Mon, Jun 23 @ 7:30 pm

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Céline Sciamma

2019

121 min

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This smoldering erotic drama from French auteur Céline Sciamma follows the desire that develops between a wealthy young woman and the painter who is charged to accompany her and paint her wedding portrait.

On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.

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Ponyboi

Supporting Pandion Music Foundation

Wed, Jun 25 @ 7:00 pm

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Landmark Sunset

Esteban Arango

2024

103 min

Unfolding over the course of Valentine’s Day in New Jersey, a young intersex sex worker must run from the mob after a drug deal goes sideways, forcing him to confront his past.

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Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!

Thu, Jun 26 @ 7:30 pm

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Vidiots Eagle Theater

Pedro Almodóvar

1989

102 min

Recently released from a mental hospital, Ricky ties up Marina, a film star he once had sex with and keeps her hostage.

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Maurice

Queer, Period: Desire Through The Ages

Fri, Jun 27 @ 7:30 pm

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James Ivory

1987

140 min

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Gay director James Ivory won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1987 for this adaptation of gay author E. M. Forster's posthumously-published novel of the same name, about gay love and social class in Edwardian England (with a happy ending!)

After his lover rejects him, Maurice attempts to come to terms with his sexuality within the restrictiveness of Edwardian society.

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The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

Fri, Jun 27 @ 9:45 pm

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Stephan Elliott

1994

104 min

Two drag queens and a transgender woman contract to perform a drag show at a resort in Alice Springs, a town in the remote Australian desert. As they head west from Sydney aboard their lavender bus, Priscilla, the three friends come to the forefront of a comedy of errors, encountering a number of strange characters, as well as incidents of homophobia, whilst widening comfort zones and finding new horizons.

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Ma Vie En Rose

Sat, Jun 28 @ 4:00 pm

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Author Alonso Duralde

Alain Berliner

1997

88 min

Ludovic is waiting for a miracle. With six-year-old certainty, she believes she was meant to be a little girl – and that the mistake will soon be corrected. But where she expects the miraculous, Ludo finds only rejection, isolation and guilt – as the intense reactions of family, friends, and neighbors strip away every innocent lace and bauble. As suburban prejudices close around them, family loves and loyalties are tested in the ever-escalating dramatic turns of Alain Berliner’s critically acclaimed first feature. Winner of the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film and a favorite at festivals around the world, this unique film experience delivers magic of the rarest sort through a story of difference, rejection, and childlike faith in miracles.

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Looking for Langston

Double Feature with The Sticky Fingers of Time

Queer, Period: Desire Through The Ages

Sat, Jun 28 @ 7:30 pm

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Isaac Julien

1989

45 min

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A hypnotic experimental film that weaves between reality and a fantastic recreation of the Harlem Renaissance of Langston Hughes, exploring the lives and desires of Queer Black writers and artists throughout time.

A black and white, fantasy-like recreation of high-society gay men during the Harlem Renaissance, with archival footage and photographs intercut with a story. A wake is going on, with mourners gathered around a coffin. Downstairs is an elegant bar where tuxedoed men dance and talk. One of them has a dream in which he comes upon Beauty, who seems to reject him, although when he awakes, Beauty is sleeping beside him. His story and his visits to the jazz and dance club are framed by voices reading from the poetry and essays of Hughes and others. The text is rarely explicit, but the freedom of gay Black men in the 1920s in Harlem is suggested and celebrated visually.

Theatrical runs

Now In Theaters

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

On Swift Horses

Opened Apr 25, 2025

Opens Apr 25, 2025

Daniel Minahan

119 min

In the 1950s, a seemingly sensible newlywed and her wayward brother-in-law undertake parallel journeys of risk, romance, and self-discovery.

Perfect Endings

Opened Jun 04, 2025

Opens Jun 04, 2025

Daniel Ribeiro

99 min

Like the perfect ending of a great film - that is the way filmmaker João describes the end of his 10-year relationship with Hugo. Despite breaking up, they remained best friends. However, reentering the dating scene brought a whirlwind of emotions, revealing that reality can’t be controlled like a movie script.

Block Pass

Opened Jun 11, 2025

Opens Jun 11, 2025

Antoine Chevrollier

103 min

Willy spends his time with Jojo, his best friend, at La Pampa, the motocross course where Jojo trains for the French championship. One evening, Willy discovers Jojo’s secret. It’s time to leave childhood behind.

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.