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The dazzling competition that emerged from that moment is a sparkling reminder that drag has always thrived under pressure. The film will make everyone who did not get to see Newsome’s multimedia production in person regretful yet grateful that this fabulous film exists to show them what they missed.

BEST DOCUMENTARY: There is an abundance of Black queer strength and joy in “Assembly,” a fabulous documentary about artist Rashaad Newsome and his stunning 2022 commission for the Park Avenue Armory.

This tender, slow-burn romance was beautifully made and delicately performed.

The flawed friendship between the nonbinary police officer and queer youth suffering under the wilderness-driven education methods of Evelyn Wade (Toni Collette) was earnest and endearing. Ira Sachs’ film takes script from a real conversation from December 1974 between Linda Rosenkrantz and photographer Peter Hujar, for an unpublished book Rosenkrantz was making about her friends in New York.

Dennis emerges as a fascinatingly complex queer character, a sort of gay incel who’s jealousy at Roman’s romantic relationships and clear lust for his friend threatens to break their precarious friendship. Her latest isn’t just nodding to girlhood cult classics but claiming that place for itself for a new generation of queer and trans film fans.

In a setting defined by cruelty, screenwriter JT Mollner understood that tenderness, especially between boys intended as enemies, can still seem radical on the big screen.

But there’s more to “Heated Rivalry,” an adaptation of a romance novel by author Rachel Reid, that helped propel this low-budget Canadian production into a sleeper hit.

In 2025, identity is treated as a declaration and silence is regarded as assumed erasure.

That’s a personal hangup Vince Gilligan gradually drops into the show, not the entire metaphor the show wraps itself around, but “Pluribus” does investigate the relationship between the individual and the collective in a way that feels decidedly queer.

The 12-episode anime follows Yoshiki, a young and morose teen living in a rural and close-minded Japanese village, as he discovers his best friend Hikaru died six months ago.

Season 17 arrived amid revived political hostility toward trans and gender-nonconforming people. —WC