Your Favorite Babygirl: Janey💘

“I’m not supposed to like you.” “But?” “I wanna do that again.”

4th man out - On his 24th birthday Adam decides to come out as gay to his three best (and straight) friends, Chris, Nick, and Ortu. The film follows them as they all navigate this new information and do their best to get their bro laid. Pretty funny in the way straight dudes are pretty funny.

Alex Strangelove - This Netflix Original follows Alex Truelove, a highschool senior with a girlfriend eager to take the next step in their relationship. Alex isn’t so confident. After meeting a charming gay kid at a party, Alex starts to question things he’s kept secret for awhile.

Blockers - probably one of the funniest movies on this list, Blockers follows the parents of three teenage girls who have all made a “sex pact” with each other, to lose their virginity on prom night. It’s a refreshing, queer, feminist take on a classic trope. All the parents make it their mission to stop them. One of the girls is a lesbian and her father only comes along to prevent her from being tricked into losing her virginity to “the wrong sex” aka a boy.

But I’m a Cheerleader - a lighthearted take on a very serious subject (especially in the late 90s when this was made) But I’m a Cheerleader is a campy comedy parody of conversion camps. After Megan’s boyfriend suspects her of being a lesbian and informs her parents, she’s shipped off to “True Directions,” a boot camp with the intent to set gay kids straight. While there she meets fellow lesbian Graham and hits it off with her. The entire aesthetic of this movie is very cool.

D.E.B.S - cheesy lesbian spy movie! An elite teenage spy falls for a criminal mastermind. Watching their story play out is like reading fanfiction, and its no cinematic masterpiece but its a cute, lighthearted, easy to watch film.

Edge of Seventeen - Set in 1984 Ohio, this comedy-drama film follows a teenage boy coming out during the same era gender-bending pop stars like Boy George and Annie Lennox were hitting the mainstream.

Handsome Devil - Irish sports comedy about a gay teenage boy who attends a boarding school full of rowdy straights obsessed with rugby. It had some genuinely funny moments and the exploration of homosexuality and the way its treated in Irish culture was very interesting.

Life Partners - A straight lawyer in her late twenties and her lesbian best friend undergo a dramatic shift in dynamic after one enters a serious relationship. This film chronicles love, relationships, and change.

Love, Simon - Based off the novel “Simon vs the homosapiens agenda” this film follows Simon Spier, a closeted gay 17 year old. He begins to fall for another mysterious, anonymous gay classmate he speaks to online.

The 10 year plan - honestly probably one of the most fanfiction-esque trope-y movies I’ve ever watched. It was cute and funny though and my greatest struggle was trying to tell the two leads apart from each other. The premise is that two gay best friends make an agreement to be with each other if they’re both still lonely and single in 10 years.