01 A documentary look inside New York's 1980s Black and Latino ballroom scene.
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LGBTQ+ cinema has produced some of the most quietly devastating romances of the last three decades, and this list spans coming-of-age comedy, historical drama, and a few genuinely great love stories that just happen to have been overlooked for too long.
01 A documentary look inside New York's 1980s Black and Latino ballroom scene.
02 A narcoleptic hustler searches for his mother alongside a friend from a wealthier world.
03 A grieving professor plans his own final day after losing his partner in a car accident.
04 Two ranch hands' summer affair turns into a decades-long, mostly hidden relationship.
05 A lawyer fired for having AIDS sues his old firm with the help of a reluctant, homophobic attorney.
06 Harvey Milk's rise as America's first openly gay elected official, and the assassination that ended it.
07 A trans man's new life and relationships in a small Nebraska town end in real, brutal violence.
08 A transgender woman fights to grieve her partner while his family tries to erase her.
09 A summer romance between a teenager and his father's research assistant reshapes how he sees himself.
10 A quiet, three-part coming-of-age story told with real restraint.
11 A Black teenager quietly navigates her sexuality while hiding it from her strict mother.
12 A painter commissioned to secretly capture a reluctant bride-to-be falls for her instead.
13 A teenager's first serious relationship shapes years of her adult identity.
14 Two women's forbidden romance begins over a chance holiday-season department store encounter.
15 An erotic con-artist thriller told in three perspectives, each recontextualizing the last.
16 Two teenage neighbors on a London council estate fall for each other despite their circumstances.
17 A one-night stand between two men unexpectedly stretches into an intense, honest weekend.
18 A blind teenager's growing independence collides with his feelings for a new classmate.
19 A group of London gay activists fund striking miners, forging an unlikely alliance.
20 A closeted teenager's anonymous online correspondence puts his secret at risk of exposure.
21 Two teenagers track down the sperm donor behind their two moms' family.
22 A teenager sent to gay-conversion camp instead falls for a fellow camper.