If you’re in the market for some solid sapphic cinema, let this list of iconic lesbian and bisexual films be your guide. If anything, every new queer film I stumble across brings me even more delight than the last. And though I’m now a fully out adult who can hang out with other queer people in real life instead of just at the movie theater, the excitement of discovering a story I can see myself in hasn’t waned at all over the years. In the decade since, LGBTQ representation in media has only continued to proliferate.
(The “sweet little figs” scene, in case you were wondering-the girls who get it get it.) Even so, it wasn’t until years later, when I first saw Blue Is the Warmest Color, that I actually found a queer story that reminded me of my own. how as a young gay black from Harlem he started going to West 42nd Street from. The first time I ever saw lesbians onscreen was when my high school’s Gay Bisexual Straight Alliance played part of the first scene of the original L Word series. ( The legalization of prostitution in the Netherlands is a good case in.
Perhaps it’s trite to say that “representation matters,” but some things are cliché because they’re true.
