Dec 27
Big Gay Movie Roundup: 13 Notable Films from 2024
Kilian Melloy READ TIME: 16 MIN.
Queer
The champion of queer movies in 2024 is, well, "Queer." The film marks prolific out director Luca Guadagnino's second feature in a year, following the bi-curious frisson of "Challengers," but the sex in "Queer" is out-and-out gay (although the character Drew Starkey plays, Eugene Allerton, is depicted as swinging both ways).
Set in Mexico in the early 1950s among a community of gay American expats, the film – based on the William S. Burroughs book of the same name – delves deep into questions of love, attraction, homophobia, and queer culture, as the Burroughs-like William Lee (Daniel Craig) falls for and pursues Allerton, a younger ex-serviceman.
Craig was happy to play gay roles before he was James Bond, and now, in his post-Bond career, he's getting back into it. Between "Queer" and his work as gay detective Benoit Blanc in the "Knives Out" movies, Craig might just be one our best gay-adjacent actors.
"Queer" is currently in theaters. Read the interview with Luca Guadagnino and Daniel Craig.
Kilian Melloy serves as EDGE Media Network's Associate Arts Editor and Staff Contributor. His professional memberships include the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association, the Boston Online Film Critics Association, The Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association, and the Boston Theater Critics Association's Elliot Norton Awards Committee.
