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This is probably as gay as you can get with anime without it being yaoi or yuri, so it deserves to be on the list. Ouran Host Club is a perfect anime and is about the struggles of cross dressing, being a women, and overall just existing in high school. The main character is Haruhi, a young girl who accidentally breaks a vase the club owns on mistake. Since she is not rich she has to pay it back by helping the guys of this group make money. How does she do this? She dresses up as a guy and joins their host club. How does this go on? Do those kids even know that Haruhi is a women? I'm not telling you, you'll have to watch it for yourself.
Have you ever had a emo phase? If so this is for you! Hazbin Hotel is a bit more of a grown up show rated 17+ but regardless it still deserves to be on this list for the great characters it shows. It starts off with the bisexual main character Charlie who is the princess of hell trying to rehabilitate sinners. With the help of her girlfriend Vaggie, gay friend Angle Dust, and silly little stranger Alastor she tries to make her dream a reality. But little does she know there is a lot more going on in the background than she knows, both in heaven and hell. What will she find out? Only time will tell.
Its gay, it's trans, its also sad. Heartstopper is a show about a gay friend group going through the struggle of being gay in high school. The main characters Nick and Charlie, who eventually confess their feelings for one another and become a couple. But do to this they now have to face the bullying together which doesn't affect Nick but it does affect Charlie. But with the help of Charlies friends Elle, Tao, Tara, Darcy, and supportive family they are able to battle the issues other kids bring them one step at a time.
If you are looking for a queer cartoon to heal your inner child I'd recommend the Owl House. It's a story of a young girl named Luz who is being sent to a camp to learn to be a normal person by her well-meaning mother. But instead of going to camp she ends up going to a whole other dimension after she chases an owl stealing her trash through a portal. After seeing this new world around her and meeting a new friend named Eda, Luz decides to stay in this new world instead of going to summer camp. In this new world she meets a variety of people, even a special someone, as well as change the fate of that world as they all know it.
In this musical, set at the dawn of the 1990s, a group of New Yorkers struggle with their careers, love lives and the effects of the AIDS epidemic on their community. Mark (Anthony Rapp), an aspiring filmmaker, and Roger (Adam Pascal), an HIV-positive musician, scramble for money to pay rent to their landlord and former roommate, Benny (Taye Diggs). Meanwhile, their friend Tom (Jesse L. Martin), a professor, has fallen for Angel (Wilson Jermaine Heredia), who is slowly dying of AIDS.
Not only is this movie a classic, but it also provides a glimpse into the HIV/AIDS crisis of the 80s -- a time that, although it had a huge impact on LGBT+ people in America, isn't talked about as much as it should be. Rent examines the impact of this epidemic through the multiple overlapping stories it follows.
Elite Manhattan drag queens Vida Boheme (Patrick Swayze) and Noxeema Jackson (Wesley Snipes) impress regional judges in competition, securing berths in the Nationals in Los Angeles. When the two meet pathetic drag novice Chi-Chi Rodriguez (John Leguizamo) -- one of the losers that evening -- the charmed Vida and Noxeema agree to take the hopeless youngster under their joined wing. Soon the three set off on a madcap road trip across America and struggle to make it to Los Angeles in time.
To Wong Foo is a hilarious, heartwarming, yet underrated movie. It's main focus is being kind to everyone and accepting them for who they are, which is something we emphasize at GSA.