Gay romcoms

From heartfelt gay and lesbian films about love and acceptance to passionate romances with trans leads, this colorful collection of 20 LGBTQ+ rom-coms will make you giggle, swoon, and wipe. Looking to escape into the world of romantic comedies?

These 16 best rom-coms showcase LGBTQ+ love stories with equal parts humor and heart. There is a notable lack of romantic comedies featuring characters from the LGBTQ+ community (no, the gay best friend of the heterosexual lead with no inner life of their own doesn't count). In fact, there have been several over the years, with quite a few coming out in the past few years alone. If you liked Bros, here are some other gay rom-coms you can check out!

RELATED | Meet the. There aren't as many as rom-coms about straight people, but as gay rom-coms are going mainstream, it's a good time to go back and watch how we got here. Joel Kim Booster wrote and starred in. The romcom. Funny dating mishaps. A pessimist won over by love. Family awkwardness, and, ultimately, a happy ending. We all know it by heart. But in recent years, as certain kinds of gay men have become more assimilated into straight society, we've seen them fall subject to this traditionally straight film genre.

There are always going to be problems when forging gay men into a genre that is founded on the highs and lows of heterosexual dynamics. This year has seen the release of two romcoms which prove just that. Netflix's new series, Uncoupled, features Neil Patrick Harris navigating the tragic world of gay dating in his forties after his long-term partner leaves him. I stumbled across the trailer on my homepage the algorithm's caught me and thought it would be worth watching from a young gay man's perspective.

After all, I'll probably be 45 some day. Yet, whilst the series is obviously meant to portray heartbreak, I can't help but feel like its depiction of life as a gay man is depressing. A bleak look into my future as I struggle to find the rom or the com. According to Uncoupled, older gay men only have two paths to go down.

One full of meaningless Grindr hookups and soul-sucking partying. And another which is apparently bland, heteronormative, and destined to fail, as it does. Harris's character is a needy, emotional wreck throughout the entire series. Is there really no in between? Is this the best the Netflix algorithm can offer us? It presents the protagonist's awkward attempt to navigate between gay hookup culture and his hidden desire for a monogamous relationship.

Where's the gay pride? Where's the celebration of gay culture? The love in this film - between two middle-class, cisgender, well-toned white guys - blossoms in spite of the queer community rather than within it. I have a hell of a lot more positive things to say for queer films that fully commit themselves to being queer. Or straight films that fully commit to being straight.

Let's take a look at the teen romcoms Heartstopper and Love, Simon.

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They're cringeworthy and I struggled to finish them, but they did warm my heart. When gay kids are so used to seeing bleak and violent representations of their lives, these films couple the reality of homophobic bullying with an innocent love story. Of course, they conform to heteronormative narrative conventions of two people meeting, falling in love, and living happily ever after. But they are self-aware in doing this.

They're meant to be Wattpad-esque cute high school romances for gay kids. Nothing more nuanced or complex.