Cardi Wong and Chris Carson star in out Canadian filmmaker Jason Karman’s 2022 coming-of-age film GOLDEN DELICIOUS. Now streaming.

Out actress Queen Latifah plays the lesbian character Cleo Simms in SET IT OFF (1996).

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?

The 1935 Hollywood Hays Code-era Astaire & Rogers musical TOP HAT features three queer-coded side characters.

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

Steve Zahn is Sammy, the Gay Best Friend, in actor/director Ben Stiller’s 1994 film REALITY BITES.

China Chow is Monica Potter’s gay best friend in director Mark Water’s (MEAN GIRLS, FREAKY FRIDAY) 2001 romantic comedy HEAD OVER HEELS.

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.

The 1939 British romantic comedy OVER THE MOON features two gay characters.

Matt Damon and Jude Law star in Anthony Minghella’s 1999 adaptation of lesbian author Patricia Highsmith’s 1955 novel “The Talented Mr. Ripley.”

Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston star in the 1998 film THE OBJECT OF MY AFFECTION, which was adapted for the screen by Wendy Wasserstein and gay director Nicholas Hynter from gay writer Stephen McCauley’s 1987 novel of the same name.

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).