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). There’s been a few queer movies on the 2025 movie schedule so far, from On Swift Horses, to A Nice Indian Boy and The Wedding Banquet, but there are many more LGBTQ+ titles to look forward to. We’ve rounded them up, below.
Coming Soon
Plainclothes - September 19, 2025
Plainclothes is a queer romance inspired by true events about a working-class undercover cop who’s assigned to apprehending gay men who becomes dangerously attracted to one of his targets. It stars Hunger Games actor Tom Blyth as the young police officer and American Horror Story’s Russell Tovey and takes place in 1990s New York City. It was a favorite at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival as an independent film that was picked up by Magnolia Pictures for theatrical release.
After The Hunt - October 10, 2025
One of my favorite queer filmmakers right now is Luca Guadagnino, who always brings an LGBTQ+ flair to his movies whether it's a straight forward queer film like Call Me By Your Name, literally his movie Queer, or through his genre work in Suspiria, Bones And All or last year’s Challengers. His latest film is about a college professor (played by Julia Roberts) who finds herself between a rock and hard place when her star pupil makes a serious allegation against one of her colleagues. Per Deadline, the inciting event leads to a “dark secret from her own past to come to light.” Bisexual actresses Ayo Edebiri and Chloë Sevigny are also in the cast along with Andrew Garfield, with Edebiri playing a gay woman in the movie.
Kiss Of The Spider Woman - October 10, 2025
Jennifer Lopez and Diego Luna star in a new musical adaptation of the 1976 novel, Kiss Of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig, which is considered a classic in queer literature. It’s about the unlikely friendship of two cellmates, one of whom is a gay hairdresser named Molina, in an Argentinian prison strike. Lopez plays a classic movie actress which Tonatiuh’s Molina imagines as “The Spider Woman” whilst Diego Luna plays Molina’s cellmate, Valentin. The movie premiered at Sundance to a standing ovation from audiences and positive reviews.
Fairyland - October 10, 2025
It’s been almost three years since Fairyland premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, but the LGBTQ+ movie is finally getting distribution thanks to Lionsgate. The movie starring Emilia Jones, Scoot McNairy, Geena Davis, Maria Bakalova and Adam Lambert is based on the memoir of the same name by Alysia Abbott about her upbringing in San Francisco in the ‘70s, after she went to live with her father, a gay poet and activist, among a community of queer men. The movie received a 97 percent on Rotten Tomatoes for its powerful storytelling and performances.
Blue Moon - October 24, 2025
Acclaimed filmmaker Richard Linklater, who has done the Before Sunrise movies, School of Rock and Boyhood, has made a musical biopic about American lyricist Lorenz Hart, who struggled throughout his life with shame over his queer identity. Ethan Hawke is playing Lorenz with Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale and Andrew Scott (playing Richard Rodgers) also among the cast. Hart famously wrote songs like “Blue Moon,” “The Lady Is A Tramp,” and “My Funny Valentine,” and worked alongside Richard Rodgers on 28 stage musicals. It also has earned a lot of high praise after premiering at the Berlin Film Festival.
Hedda - October 29, 2025
Writer/director Nia DaCosta is going from her Captain Marvel movie to a play adaptation for Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler from 1890. Starring Tessa Thompson, who is bisexual herself, it’s a queer reimagining of the story about a woman who is trapped in a marriage and a house that she doesn’t want when her husband’s academic rival, Eilert, comes back in the picture and we learn they were former lovers. In this version, the character of Eilert has been replaced with Eileen, which adds a layer as Hedda becomes torn between her past love and current marriage.
Christy - November 7, 2025
Sydney Sweeney is portraying American queer boxer Christy Martin in director David Michôd’s movie Christy. The movie will explore Christy Martin’s identity as a gay woman who grew up in a conservative town in West Virginia in the 1990s. Michôd shared that she used boxing to “express herself and her rage.” She initially married James V. Martin, who attempted to murder her in 2010 before being found guilty of attempted second-degree murder. She later married former ring rival Lisa Holewyne in 2017. The movie premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival (with Martin in attendance) to one critic calling it Sweeney’s “performance of a lifetime,” via Twitter.
I Wish You All The Best - November 7, 2025
13 Reasons Why’s Tommy Dorfman (who came out as trans in 2021) has made her directorial debut with I Wish You All The Best. The movie based on the book with the same title (from nonbinary author Mason Deaver) is about Ben De Backer (Corey Fogelmanis), who comes out as nonbinary to their parents, only to be thrown out of their home and move in with their estranged sister, Hannah, and her husband, Thomas (played by Alexandra Daddario and Cole Sprouse). The coming-of-age queer film was compared to Heartstopper in tone by The Hollywood Reporter.
Peter Hujar’s Day - November 7, 2025
American portrait photographer Peter Hujar is known for his groundbreaking black and white pictures during his career in the 1970s and 1980s, when he was a figure in the LGBTQ+ community. He used his talents in photography to express himself and be an activist during the gay liberation movement, before he sadly died of AIDS at the age of 53 in 1987. Ben Whishaw is depicting the figure for Peter Hujar’s Day, based on writer, Linda Rosenkrantz’s (who was also Hujar’s friend) book of the same name, with her being played by Rebecca Hall. The film will show Hujar reflect on a day in his life in 1974.
Wicked: For Good - November 21, 2025
The Wizard Of Oz has long been associated with the LGBTQ+ community, and Wicked also connects deeply with queer folks. While the movie itself is centered on a friendship between two women, Cynthia Erivo’s Elphaba and Ariana Grande’s Glinda, the movie is full of queer representation, as well. Queer actors are all over it, with Erivo, Jonathan Bailey, Marissa Bode, Bowen Yang and Bronwyn James having central roles. Additionally, it’s based on Gregory Maguire’s 1995 novel, which the author has shared before has a queer subtext based on his own experiences, along with the book involving a romantic plotline between its main characters.
Wake Up Dead Man - November 26, 2025
Since the 2022 sequel to Knives Out, Glass Onion, confirms that Daniel Craig’s Beniot Blanc is a queer man along with being an incredible detective, the next movie in its series, Wake Up Dead Man, is an LGBTQ+ murder mystery! While we’re not sure how much the upcoming movie will discuss his sexuality, there’s something really marvelous about having a queer character in the center of a big and beloved movie franchise without the center of his identity being about that. The film was recently screened, and people are raving about the “darker” movie.
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 and 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.
Completed Movies With TBD Release Dates
Cactus Pears
The LGBTQ+ community of India is getting even more rare representation after Karan Soni’s and Jonathan Groff’s affecting movie, A Nice Indian Boy. The romantic drama is helmed by first-time filmmaker Rohan Parashuram Kanawade, and is about a man named Anaud who returns to his hometown after a death in his family and sparks fly when he reconnects with a childhood friend, Balya. It already premiered at Sundance Film Festival and won the Grand Jury Prize in the Dramatic category.
Jimpa
Another Sundance LGBTQ+ movie without a release date yet is Jimpa, starring Olivia Colman as the mother of nonbinary teen Frances, who travel to Amsterdam to visit their gay grandfather Jim (known as Jimpa and played by John Lithgow). When Frances asks her mom if she can live with Jimpa for a year, Colman’s character is faced with reexamining her relationship with her child.
The Chronology Of Water
Last summer, Kristen Stewart finally helmed her directorial debut, The Chronology of Water, which is an adaptation of queer author Lida Yuknavitch’s memoir of the same name. Stewart has been talking about making the movie since 2021, but it took her some years to get the financing (and likely, time) to finally make the passion project. It premiered at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival in May and secured distribution rights, but we’ve yet to get an official release date.
Mother Mary
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 Vanity Fair’s Instagram.
In Production
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.
The Light Fantastic
In October 2024, Variety reported that the true story of a 30-something gay firefighter who aspires to be a professional ballroom dancer is set to become a comedy movie starring Rupert Everett, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett and Jeremy Irvine. The movie is currently in pre-production, per Cornerstone Films, with choreography set to be provided by mother-son duo Shirley and Mark Ballas.
Teenage Sex And Death At Camp Miasma
After director Jane Scheonbrun 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 is set to star Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson. It’s going to be filmed this summer!
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.
Red, White And Royal Blue Sequel
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 and the original novel’s author, Casey McQuiston, is co-writing the movie with Matthew López. We cannot wait to learn what’s to come next after the first movie was one of our favorite movies that could be added to the list of best rom-coms in recent years!
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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