We love LGBTQ literature, and we also love movies…especially LGBTQ literary movies!
Here are five we’re looking forward to this summer, to stream or see at the theater:
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This critically acclaimed dramatization of the poet Emily Dickinson’s life centers on her much-discussed lesbian relationships.
2. Rafiki
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Inspired by Ugandan Monica Arac de Nyeko’s 2007 Caine Prize-winning short story “Jambula Tree,” this adaptation follows two Kenyan girls in love who must choose between their happiness and safety.
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Based on Fiona Shaw’s 2009 novel of the same name, Tell it to the Bees follows the relationship between two women in 1950s rural Scotland.
4. Pasolini
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This film chronicles the last days of the notorious Italian film director and author Pier Paolo Pasolini.
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Adapted from Eileen Atkins’s 1992 play, Vita and Virginia portrays the affair between Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West in the 1920s that served as the inspiration for Woolf’s novel Orlando.
