LGBT movies, series and books you need to know

To get in the mood of Pride Month, check out a list of the best works and audiovisual books with the LGBTQIA+ theme

You can celebrate LGBT+ Pride Month in different ways, such as attending the LGBT+ Pride Parade in São Paulo on June 11, participating in many community-oriented activities, watching movies and series, or catching up on reading.

That’s why we split up for more than special jobs to make you navigate the LGBTQIAPN+ universe in different ways. Watch:

What is the best LGBT movie to watch?

Carol (First Video)

During the holiday season, elegant Carol meets Therese at a department store. Their friendship turns into an intense bond of love. In the Sapphic world, seeing Carol at least once a year is a must!

Alex Strangelove (Netflix)

Alex Truelove has only one goal: to lose his virginity to his girlfriend before graduating from high school, but his plans change when he meets Elliot, a gay boy who guides Alex on a path of self-discovery.

My name is Ray (Prime Video)

Ray was born female, but does not identify with gender and is preparing to undergo reassignment surgery. Meanwhile, her mother Maggie tries to find the best way to deal with the situation, but her grandmother, a homosexual woman, does not accept her decision and creates a conflict in the family.

You Can’t Even Imagine (Netflix)

Ellie Chu is a shy girl who helps her school jock get a girl through love letters. However, she did not imagine that they would become friends and that she too would fall in love with the girl.

My Cop (Prime Video)

In the 1950s, a police officer falls in love with a teacher, but soon begins having an affair with a museum curator, even though homosexuality is illegal in his country.

What are the best LGBT series?

Decoupled (Netflix)

After a sudden breakup with his longtime boyfriend, Michael is faced with life as a single gay man in his forties.

Dickinson (Apple TV)

Based on the story of poet Emily Dickinson, the series explores her struggle with societal impositions on gender and family, and the young woman’s relationship with her sister-in-law, Susan Gilbert.

The L Word: Generation Q (Prime Video)

Ten years after the end of The L Word, the series portrays friends Shane, Bette and Alice in new stages of life and introduces audiences to characters with new stories.

Heartstopper (Netflix)

Charlie is a shy gay boy who gets close to the popular and jock Nick. They soon realize that the friendship has turned into something more.

Royal Teens (Netflix)

A prince is sent to boarding school after a scandal, but ends up falling in love with one of his classmates.

What are the best LGBT books?

Love, Simon by Becky Albertalli

Young Simon Spier is 16 and gay, but he doesn’t tell anyone about it. He doesn’t see any problems with his sexuality, but he doesn’t like the idea of ​​having to explain himself to people – after all, why should only gays come out to the world?

Delilah Green Doesn’t Care, by Ashley Herring Blake

Chloe Brown Delilah Green has vowed never to return to Bright Falls, the town where she grew up. In New York she has a budding career as a photographer and a different woman in her bed every night. But when her stepmother uses emotional blackmail and a check to force her to photograph her wedding, Delilah finally agrees to return. When she meets Claire Sutherland again, she realizes that maybe there’s something fun to do in Bright Falls. In the midst of all the unresolved issues of the past, the desire that arises between the two becomes more and more evident.

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

About to turn 80, a legendary Hollywood star, Evelyn Hugo, decides to tell her own story – or her “true story” -, but on one condition: that Monique Grant, a novice and hitherto unknown journalist , and the interviewer. Embarking on this mysterious journey, the young reporter begins to realize that nothing is by chance and that their trajectories can be deeply and irreversibly linked.

Star Manhattan by Silviano Santiago

Eduardo da Costa e Silva is an employee of the Brazilian consulate in the United States who uses his other identity, Stella Manhttan, to chronicle a series of political intrigues and sex scandals in 1970s New York.

Red, White and Blue Blood by Casey McQuiston

When his mother was elected president of the United States, Alex Claremont-Diaz became the new darling of the American media. When her family is invited to the royal wedding of British Prince Philip, Alex is faced with his first diplomatic challenge: dealing with Henry, Philip’s younger brother whom he can’t stand. The meeting between the two goes worse than expected and to avoid a diplomatic disaster they spend a weekend posing as friends, but their relationship evolves into something neither of them could have imagined.

Source: Terra

Rose

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