Black gay movies

Explore our list of 30 must-watch Black LGBTQ+ movies featuring queer characters in leading or supporting roles.

The film directly addresses sexism and homophobia within the Black community, with snippets of misogynistic and anti-gay slurs from popular hip-hop songs juxtaposed with interviews with Black intellectuals and political theorists, including Cornel West, bell hooks and Angela Davis. The conference brought together an array of dynamic scholars, activists and cultural workers including Essex Hemphill, Kobena Mercer, Barbara Smith, Urvashi Vaid and Jacqui Alexander to interrogate the economic, political and social situations of diasporic lesbians, gay men, bisexual and transgendered peoples. The video brings together the highlights of the conference and draws connections between popular culture and contemporary Black gay media production.

From documentaries and biopics, to romantic comedies and dramas, this unranked list of films are a testament to the beauty and complexity of the Black LGBTQ+ experience, all of which we consider.

Black lgbt movies and TV shows. The list contains the best, new and most relevant black lgbt movies ordered by relevance. View all.

Explore our list of 30 must-watch Black LGBTQ+ movies featuring queer characters in leading or supporting roles.

Black lgbt movies and TV shows. The list contains the best, new and most relevant black lgbt movies ordered by relevance. View all.

Throughout the film, Holliday sounds off on being a Black, gay man during the Civil Rights era, all while casually enjoying drinks, weed, and cigarettes on camera.

A drama that looks back on the Harlem Renaissance from the perspective of an elderly, Black writer who meets a gay Black teenager in a New York homeless shelter. The story of two young Bahamian men who fall in love with each other while fighting the homophobia of the Bahamian society. After losing his closeted lover, a drag queen takes in a year-old girl and her drug-addicted mother.