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

Tickets from Art Theater Long Beach

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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

Tickets from American Cinematheque

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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.

Tickets from UCLA Film & TV Archive

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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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But I'm a Cheerleader

Summer of Camp

Mon, Jul 21 @ 7:30 pm

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Jamie Babbit

1999

85 min

For anyone who has ever worried that all lesbian films are too serious, Jamie Babbit signle-handedly proves that queer women can be funny as hell in this now-classic queer comedy.

Megan is an all-American girl. A cheerleader. She has a boyfriend. But Megan doesn’t like kissing her boyfriend very much. And she’s pretty touchy with her cheerleader friends. Her conservative parents worry that she must be a lesbian and send her off to “sexual redirection” school, where she must, with other lesbians and gays learn how to be straight.

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Hellraiser

Wed, Jul 23 @ 7:30 pm

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Culver Theater

Clive Barker

1987

94 min

The first film in gay writer/director Clive Barker's pain-and-pleasure demon horror franchise, which only got queerer in the 2022 reboot.

Hedonist Frank Cotton finds a mysterious puzzle box that summons the Cenobites, who open the doors to a dominion where pain and pleasure are indivisible.

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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...

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.