Trans and Muxe identity is explored in the 2024 Mexican series THE SECRET OF THE RIVER (El secreto del río) – now streaming on Netflix!

Gay director Joe Mantello’s 1997 film adaptation of gay playwright Terrence McNally’s Tony award winning Broadway play, “Love! Valour! Compassion!” (1994).

Out writer/directors Wesley Taylor and Alex Wyse’s wonderfully gay 2023 horror-comedy SUMMONING SYLVIA.

In the bizarre and wonderfully camp 1994 horror flick TAMMY & THE T-REX, Tammy (Denise Richards) and her gay best friend Byron (Theo Forsett) try to save her T-Rex boyfriend (Paul Walker).

Melissa McCarthy and Richard E. Grant star as two law-breaking gay best friends in the 2018 film CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME?

Otho, played by gay actor Glenn Shadix, is Delia Deetz’s (Catherine O'Hara) gay best friend in Tim Burton’s 1988 film BEETLEJUICE.

Mary-Louise Parker and Mary Stuart Masterson are subtextual sapphics in Director Jon Avnet's 1991 film adaptation of FRIED GREEN TOMATOES.

DeWanda Wise is the gay best friend in writer/director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson’s 2019 romantic comedy SOMEONE GREAT.

Margaret Qualley and Geraldine Viswanathan star in Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke’s 2024 lesbian road movie DRIVE-AWAY DOLLS (aka DRIVE-AWAY DYKES).

Michael Caine is Sandra Bullock’s gay beauty pageant coach in the 2000 comedy MISS CONGENIALITY.

Julia Lester plays Hannah, a lesbian who begins her “coming out” journey, in director Kim O. Nguyen’s 2024 comedy PROM DATES, which features a screenplay by queer comedian D.J. Mausner.

Whoopi Goldberg, Mary-Louise Parker and Drew Barrymore star in the 1995 film BOYS ON THE SIDE, which features a screenplay by out gay writer Don Roos.

The comedy classic THE FIRST WIVES CLUB (1996) was adapted from Olivia Goldsmith’s 1992 novel of the same name by two gay screenwriters, Robert Harling (STEEL MAGNOLIAS) and an uncredited Paul Rudnick (IN & OUT / JEFFREY / SISTER ACT).

Alice (Sherry Cola) is Ben’s (Justin H. Min) gay best friend in director Randall Park’s 2023 film adaptation of Adrian Tomine’s 2007 graphic novel “Shortcomings.”