The 12 Best LGBTQ+ Movies to Watch This Pride Month, and Beyond

It’s Pride Month, which means we’re queuing up all the movies that celebrate queer love, honor LGBTQ+ history, and accurately represent the queer experience. Films that center around LGBTQ+ people are not nearly as ubiquitous in Hollywood as they should be, which makes it all the more important that we amplify the ones that do and uplift the crucial stories they tell.

Whether you’re looking for a vibrant, star-studded romantic comedy like The Prom, or a stunning, powerful drama such as Moonlight, we’ve compiled a list of some of the best LGBTQ+ movies that you can stream right now. Included in this selection are extremely emotional flicks, like Moonlight and the 1993 film Philadelphia starring Tom Hanks, which takes a judicial lens to one gay man’s personal journey during the AIDS epidemic in the early 1990s — and somewhat lighter-hearted picks including Rocketman, which chronicles the spectacular, and at times turbulent, life of pop legend Elton John.

Representation matters, so settle in and grab your streaming login, and pick one (or all) of these LGBTQ+ movies to watch on Netflix, Amazon Prime, and beyond.