The LGBTQ+ community’s ties to Hollywood and cinema have been deeply intertwined from the early days of the medium. And yet, the fight for authentic representation of queer people in film continues to be a rarity (especially when it comes to high-profile movies). With the 2026 movie schedule here, we've rounded up what queer films we can look forward to in the new year, and beyond.
Coming Soon
Pillion - February 6, 2026
There’s a romantic comedy on the way starring Alexander Skarsgard as a biker who starts a BDSM relationship with a timid gay man played by Harry Potter’s Harry Melling. The movie is the directorial debut of Harry Lighton (he also wrote the script), who is openly gay himself. Pillion had its premiere at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival to high praise for its highlight performances and the unexpected sweetness of the material.
Jimpa - February 6, 2026
Jimpa, starring Olivia Colman, is about the mother of nonbinary teen Frances, as they travel to Amsterdam together to visit their gay grandfather Jim (known as Jimpa and played by John Lithgow). But, when Frances asks her mom if she can live with Jimpa for a year, Colman’s character is faced with having to reexamine her relationship with her child.
Scream 7 - February 27, 2026
While the Scream movies haven’t always explicitly been LGBTQ+ movies, they’ve pretty much always had a following from the community due to its queer subtext. The original writer of the movie Kevin Williamson is gay himself. While he’s said before was “very hesitant” to present this side of himself in the 1990s, audiences noticed a queer subtext regarding the original Ghostface killers, Matthew Lillard and Skeet Ulrich’s Stu and Billy.
More explicit queer representation has been part of the new Scream movies with the addition of Jasmin Savoy-Brown’s Mindy Meeks-Martin being a LGBTQ+ character, who we’re excited to see return in the seventh movie alongside a mix of new and legacy actors including Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, Matthew Lillard, Scott Foley, Joel McHale, Mason Gooding, Anna Camp, Celeste O’Connor and Mckenna Grace. You can check out the first trailer now.
Forbidden Fruits - March 20, 2026
Based on a play called Of the Women Came the Beginning of Sin, and Through Her We All Die by Lily Houghton, comes one of this year’s upcoming horror movies, Forbidden Fruits. Per Deadline, it’s about a woman aptly named Apple, who secretly runs a witchy cult in the basement of a mall. The sisterhood is challenged when a new recruit questions their dynamics. The movie is set to star a host of out queer actresses, too, like Lili Reinhart, Victoria Pedretti, Alexandra Shipp, along with Lola Tung and Emma Chamberlain also among the cast.
Mother Mary - April 2026
Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel are set to play lovers in A24’s Mother Mary, from The Green Knight filmmaker David Lowery. Hathaway will play a pop star, and Coel will play her iconic fashion designer. The movie will feature original tunes by Charli XCX and Jack Antonoff. We can’t wait to see these two leads mothering in what’s been called an “epic melodrama." You can check out the first dazzling look at the movie on YouTube.
Stop! That! Train! - May 29, 2026
Attention Drag Race fans! RuPaul Charles is set to star in his own action comedy alongside a ton of famed drag queens like Ginger Minj, Jujubee, Marcia Marcia Marcia and Monét X Change in the movie Stop! That! Train! In a synopsis that sounds as camp as can be, two best friends have the opportunity to trade their day jobs as stewardesses on a regular train for the Glamazonian Express. While on the train, the besties must band with their attendees when a “Stormaganza” rolls in. The movie is helmed by Adam Shankman, who has made famed movies like Hairspray and Hocus Pocus 2, and it’s coming to theaters this summer.
Girls Like Girls - June 19, 2026
Queer pop star Hayley Kiyoko wrote her debut novel, Girls Like Girls, in 2023 after her song of the same name. It’s a YA book about a 17-year-old girl named Coley who’s forced to move to a rural town in Oregon after the loss of her mom. In her new town, she meets Sonya, who she’s instantly attracted to, but is afraid to fall for, given she’s never been with a girl before. The movie adaptation was announced in December 2024 (per Deadline) with Kiyoko set to write its screenplay and direct and Focus Features as the production company. Maya da Costa and Myra Molloy are in the starring roles.
Completed Movies With TBD Release Dates
Heartstopper: Forever
After Heartstopper has had us in our feelings for three seasons on Netflix, it has been announced that Nick and Charlie’s romance will get a sendoff via a movie called Heartstopper: The Final Chapter. It’ll be about the couple’s struggles as they deal with the realities of being long-distance when they go to different universities. Joe Locke and Kit Connor will not only star, they are also executive producing. Filming concluded in July 2025, as author Alice Oseman shared on Instagram, and it’s expected to come out in 2026.
I Want Your Sex
Notable queer filmmaker Gregg Araki hasn’t made a movie in over a decade, but he’s finally back with I Want Your Sex. The movie stars The Long Walk’s Cooper Hoffman as a young man who lands a job with a provocative artist played by Olivia Wilde, and becomes her sexual muse. The movie which also stars Mason Gooding, Chase Sui Wonders, Daveed Diggs, Johnny Knoxville, Margaret Cho and Charli XCX premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.
The Brittney Griner Story
Brittney Griner is an American basketball player who has scored three Olympic gold medals for the U.S. team and become the WNBA All-Star six times. She also famously made headlines for her wrongful detention in Russia during most of 2022. The Brittney Griner Story gives the figure a chance to tell her side of the story alongside her wife, Cherelle, and friends and family. The movie is produced by ESPN and Disney Entertainment and is premiering this week at the Sundance Film Festival.
Give Me The Ball!
Another documentary from a queer sports legend coming out this year is one for Billie Jean King called Give Me The Ball! The account of the world champion tennis player uses archival footage and new interviews to discuss the importance of King on the sport and culture. She was previously highlighted in 2017’s Battle of the Sexes where Emma Stone portrayed her.
Cry To Heaven
Openly gay fashion designer and filmmaker Tom Ford is currently working on his next film, Cry To Heaven, which is an adaptation of the Anne Rice book of the same name. You may be aware of Anne Rice via her supernatural book series like Interview With The Vampire (which has its own TV show starring gay vampires) and Mayfair Witches, but this work of hers is about two men living in 18th century Italy trying to make it in opera. The movie is set to star Nicholas Hoult and Aaron Taylor Johnson in the main roles alongside two queer talents, Hunter Schafer and Lux Pascal (Pedro Pascal’s sister).
Teenage Sex And Death At Camp Miasma
After director Jane Schoenbrun made one of the best LGBTQ+ movies of last year, that even got a shoutout from Martin Scorsese, I Saw The TV Glow, the trans filmmaker has another movie on the way, per Deadline. It’s called Teenage Sex And Death At Camp Miasma, and it’s about a famed slasher franchise called Camp Miasma that’s getting rebooted again, but the director starts to become obsessed with the reclusive actress who originally played the franchise’s “final girl,” the project takes a turn. The movie stars Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson, and was filmed in summer 2025.
In Production
Red, White And Royal Blue Wedding
After Red, White And Royal Blue had us feeling all the feelings with an Amazon Prime subscription, it was announced in May 2024 that a sequel is on the way. From what we know about Red, White And Royal Blue 2, Taylor Zakhar Perez and Nicholas Galitzine will reprise their roles as Alex Claremont-Diaz and Prince Henry alongside Uma Thurman, Sarah Shahi, Rachel Hilson, Ellie Bamber, Clifton Collins Jr, Stephen Fry, Thomas Flynn, Aneesh Shethand, Malcolm Atobrah all returning. Also joining the cast are Lena Headey and Chloe Fineman. The original novel’s author, Casey McQuiston, is co-writing the movie with Matthew López. The movie started filming in January 2026, as announced in this Instagram video.
A Long Winter
In addition to Kit Connor being in the upcoming Heartstopper movie, the actor is also attached to a movie called A Long Winter from queer director Andrew Haigh – who famously wrote and directed 2023’s All Of Us Strangers. In a report from Deadline in October 2025, the movie was announced along with word that D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai and Fred Hechinger will be his costars. The Bear’s Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Outlander’s Caitriona Balfe also joined (per Variety) as production began in Canada. Apparently, the movie’s events will revolve around the search for the missing alcoholic mother of Hechinger’s character that starts to involve the whole neighborhood.
In Development
De Noche
Openly gay filmmaker Todd Haynes is reportedly working on a gay romance called De Noche, with Pedro Pascal and Danny Ramirez as the leads after Joaquin Phoenix previously left the production, and the movie was expected to be dead, per Deadline. It’s about two male lovers who leave Los Angeles for Mexico in the 1930s. .
Burning Rainbow Farm
Sebastian Stan and Leo Woodall are expected to star as a real-life gay couple in rural Michigan who build a “pot-friendly utopia called Rainbow Farm”, per The Hollywood Reporter. However, when their young son is taken from them after local authorities catch wind of them, “one of the largest and most dramatic sieges involving police and the FBI” ensues. The events happened back in 2001 and the story was previously told through a book by Dean Kuipers.
The Seven Husbands Of Evelyn Hugo
One of the best mainstream LGBTQ+ novels in recent years that’s among upcoming book adaptations is a movie version of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. The Taylor Jenkins Reed book is about an iconic movie star from Old Hollywood who recounts the truth of her love life across her career to a reporter. The screenplay is being written by Little Fires Everywhere’s Liz Tigelaar and will be directed by Russian Doll co-creator Leslye Headland.
Will any of these be regarded as some of the best LGBTQ+ movies once they are released? We’ll keep you updated here and look forward to supporting these queer films.
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