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The Greatest LGBT Films and TV Shows of 2024

It was a tough year filled with queer challengers, but at least we still had "Queer" and "Challengers."
Best LGBT TV and Movies of 2024
(Clockwise from bottom left): Under the Bridge, Queer, I Saw the TV Glow, Love Lies Bleeding, and Interview With the Vampire.
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Look over the menagerie of LGBT movies and TV shows released in 2024 carefully enough, and you’ll find as many hidden gems as you will worsening cracks. In others words, there’s good news and bad news — but in the year’s overall impressive lineup, also a glimmer of hope.

On the small screen, the seemingly unending aftermath of the streaming bubble burst from 2022 saw the “Cancel Your Gays” trend push forward as LGBT series ended abruptly, and fewer projects were green lit to take their place. Stand-up comedy specials, particularly those at Netflix, continued to platform contradictory political voices with hugely disparate views about human rights — which created some bizarre situations, for good and for bad.

There have been reported declines in onscreen queer representation across film too, albeit not as stark as those impacting actors on television. Still, looking back at a year that included several remarkable success stories from throughout queer cinema, the silver screened side of the industry certainly seems more hopeful heading into the new year.

In 2024 LGBT movies, “The People’s Joker” filmmaker Vera Drew saw her embattled superhero satire finally get a limited theatrical release before it earned even more recognition and awards. Meanwhile, Luca Guadagnino premiered not one, but two buzzy gay titles with “Queer” and “Challengers” (each addictive enough to demand inclusion on the forthcoming list).

As for documentaries, “Will & Harper” — a portrait of a friendship and the state of transgender acceptance across the U.S. — dazzled out of Sundance alongside several other extraordinary unscripted queer films to come out this year. The less known “Lover of Men: The Untold History of Abraham Lincoln” is similarly remarkable (and also made our curation of the best LGBT movies and TV shows below).

The following collection is an eclectic mix of victories in a year that boasted as many moments of satisfaction as it did shocks and surprises. Films and their directors are listed before TV shows/seasons and their home streaming platform and/or network. Everything is sorted alphabetically by title with no consideration given to comparative quality. We don’t need that right now.

With editorial contributions by Ryan Lattanzio and Erin Strecker. 

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