Here are the 10 most financially successful LGBTQ films in history

I wouldn't call half of those LGBTQ films.

[quote]I wouldn't call half of those LGBTQ films.

Agreed. Having a gay lead character doesn't make it an LGBT film.

Brokeback, Birdcage, and Philadelphia are the only ones I'd remotely consider LGBT films.

The others simply have someone who is gay-ish in them.

LBG films and TQ films are not the same thing.

Beauty and the Beast made a billion dollars and should be number one.

Because a small secondary character was “gay”?

These films had a main character as gay.

most of these aint gay

They are LGB

Well that’s interesting. It’s insane how much Bohemian Rhapsody made. And for that matter Rocketman. I haven’t gone to a movie in years - so it’s all news to me.

Rocketman made $195 million. That isn’t that much. Lmao

Some of these films--THE HOURS, seriously?--are barely LGBT films at all.

Others are arguably offensive in their representations of LGBT people (BRUNO) or complete whitewashing of historical reality (THE IMITATION GAME, a truly terrible film). Alan Turing deserved a better, more accurate telling of his story.

Thanks, R10

Why that insistence of lumping the "TQ" with "LGB"? They have nothing to do with LGB in first place.

I guess Call Me By Your Name didn't make it.

R13, worldwide B.O. was $42M.

It's great that some of these movies made pots of money. But only a few are centered around a specifically gay story: a doomed romance, like BROKEBACK, or a gay man living with AIDs and discrimination, like PHILADELPHIA. Despite the success of both of these movies, it's not as if we saw other movies like them to follow.

I loved Brüno and absolutely consider it a gay film. It’s hilariously offensive and subversively sympathetic at the same time.

Sasha Baron Cohen closed the film by exposing the hostility toward gay men from a chunk of the public in a frightening way. His intent was quite clear to me.

No, Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker had a lesbian kiss so it should be number one!

We may as well add all of Tom Cruise, John Travolta, and Nicole Kidman's work to the list, as "LGBT by association."

More than half are not lgbt movies

I agree with R16.

Yes I found the mockumentary to be an over-the-top parody, funny and a mockery of A-List gays .

But I also felt it also was a rude awakening to how widespread homophobia is. In my opinion, BRUNO showed me how many cultures, disenfranchised groups and subcultures want respect, love, tolerance and acceptance for themselves but are unwilling to offer respect, love, tolerance and acceptance to other cultures, disenfranchised groups and subcultures.

Did none of the following do well at the box office? I thought they were popular and received mainstream recognition and distribution.

FAR FROM HEAVEN

A SINGLE MAN

THE DEEP END

BOUND

VICTOR / VICTORIA

PRISCILLA

Who could forget the much-anticipated gay character in the latest “Avengers” movie who turned out to be — get ready for it — a single, grieving man whose name was Grieving Man? Or “Bohemian Rhapsody’s” barely there acknowledgment of Freddie Mercury’s sexuality? The “L.G.B.T.Q. representation” that the director J.J. Abrams hyped in the newest “Star Wars” movie turns out to be a kiss between two minor characters at the end of the film.

The bar could not be lower. It’s practically underground.

The entire film BoRhap focused on Freddie being gay. Some of you are delusional

Their criteria begs the question, where's The Wizard of Oz?

How many of these films were directed and/or written by LGBT people?

Damn few, actually.

[quote]R10 Some of these films--THE HOURS, seriously?--are barely LGBT films at all.

Agreed. I do love the scene, tho, where the depressed housewife Laura kisses her neighbor Kitty on the mouth.

She’s just looking for some kind of connection.

Worldwide:

Single Man:m $24mm

Far from Heaven: $29mm

Victor Victoria (but from 1982): $28mm

Disturblingly, In and Out made $63mm

Talented Mr. Ripley: $81mm

The Crying Game: $62mm

R27 none of those made more than the ones listed.

[quote][R27] none of those made more than the ones listed.

Yes, I was responding to r21 who listed half the list and added a couple additional ones that are usually considered "gay-themed" movies.

Being an LGBTQ film does not mean the focus is solely on that. There is a lot more to life and stories than just sexuality. Weirdos.

R30, what about "gender identity"?

R30, anyone who's watched "real" gay films over the years understands the difference. Films like Maurice, Shelter, Latter Days, God's Own Country and My Own Private Idaho are truly gay films. Sure it's sometimes a fine line and it's obviously partly about one's opinion but calling Bruno or Bohemian Rhapsody gay films doesn't seem quite right. You calling us weirdos doesn't seem quite right either.

[quote]Being an LGBTQ film does not mean the focus is solely on that. There is a lot more to life and stories than just sexuality. Weirdos.

Of course. How incredibly reductive to suggest otherwise.

The issue is that the category itself requires a focus on themes unique to the LGBT community, usually told from the POV of a member of that community.

It doesn't have to have gay people having sex. For a movie to be truly part of the category, it needs to address the unique experience of LGBT people - those themes where our loneliness, acceptance, struggles, love, hate, life, death, and everything in between differ from the experience of other people who are NOT LGBT.

R14 Call me your Pedophile was not for everyone.

"The Hours" is so gay! Meryl and Alison Janney are lesbians, Julianne's character was a repressed lesbian, Ed Harris is a gay man with AIDS, Virginia Woolfe was likely gay, Mrs. Dalloway was a lez, it was written by a gay man, and directed by Stephen Daldry who might as well be gay.

Ben Hur !!

spartacus

oysters or snails?

I didn't know " The Imitation Game" did that well.

it was pretty much crap as far as turing's life was concerned. the pbs one with derek jacobi was much better

Who cares about money? "Boys In The Band" is the most important gay film ever made.

Who cares about money? "Boys In The Band" is the most important gay film ever made.

What about Dawson’s 50 load weekend???

The Talented Mr. Ripley, For A Lost Soldier, and The Fourth Man are the only gay cinematic masterpieces.

The Damned, We Were One Man, Velvet Goldmine, and Taxi zum Klo are good though.

I was surprised by Imitation Game too. Who goes to the movies anymore anyway?

WINGS !

edison's experimental film

I always see 'gay' films at the theater so they will make money. I just saw Todd Haynes' "Dark Waters" just because it was directed by a gay guy.

I wish a gay film/tv show where's the sexuality is not the main focus and have lots of gay sex, preferable in a Medieval/Sci-fi setting... Is there's one like that? R47 What's more important? Gay directors or Gay actors in a film?

dong

R48 that wouldn’t make money.

Well, there's always MEN.com's multi-part series "Gay of Thrones."