From forgotten underground hits to splashy big-budget spectacles, here are the 38 best queer films of all time
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Perhaps best remembered for a scene in which Alan Bates and Oliver Reed wrestle naked before a roaring fire, Ken Russell’s—adapted by Larry Kramer from the 1920 novel by D. H. Lawrence—is principally about the courtships of two sisters, Ursula and Gudrun . Ursula loves the dashing Rupert , a school inspector, and Gudrun loves Gerald , a local industrialist and Rupert’s close friend.
When it comes to naming the most stylish queer films ever made, few could beat Todd Haynes’s kaleidoscopic ode to the spirit of glam rock,Starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers as the wild-living British musician Brian Slade, loosely based on David Bowie, and Ewan McGregor as his American counterpart Curt Wild, loosely based on Iggy Pop, the story trails Arthur , a gay journalist attempting to track down the now-reclusive Slade for a magazine story, with the heady days of his life at the height of...