Among the many new releases hitting streaming and VOD platforms this weekend, one specifically caught our eye: Hearth Island, the fashionable homosexual Delight and Prejudice adaptation directed by Andrew Ahn and written by and starring Joel Kim Booster. The film is now accessible to stream on Hulu, and many people at Polygon will likely be watching it this weekend.

If, like us, you’re enthusiastic about this film, or you might have watched it and are within the temper for extra LGBTQ comedies and romantic comedies: excellent news! We’ve compiled the next listing only for you.

Listed here are 10 hilarious and heartfelt LGBTQ comedies and romantic comedies you can watch proper now at house on streaming companies like Netflix, Hulu, and others. Remember to share any favorites within the feedback!

Applicable Habits

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“Um, I’m searching for the grown-up underwear of a girl accountable for her sexuality and never afraid of change?”

Desiree Akhavan’s (The Miseducation of Cameron Publish) function movie debut tells a narrative that’s near house — it follows Shirin (performed by Akhavan), who (just like the writer-director-star) is a bisexual New York Metropolis native born to Iranian immigrants. After a foul break up, Shirin’s life is thrown into disarray, forcing her into some uncomfortable conversations she had been avoiding — each together with her household and with herself. This offbeat comedy is all the time stunning and by no means loses its humorousness or its coronary heart. Simply watch the hilarious underwear-shopping scene; it’ll provide you with an concept of how a lot this film is for you. —Pete Volk

Applicable Habits is obtainable to stream on The Criterion Channel, or without cost with adverts on The Roku Channel, Vudu, Tubi, Pluto TV, Plex, and FreeVee.

The Birdcage

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It’s laborious to even think about Nathan Lane as unconfident about something in his life, particularly in the case of his melodramatic, hilarious portrayal of drag queen Starina (and her alter-ego, the not-so-mild-mannered Albert) in The Birdcage — however Lane was nonetheless within the closet on the time. It’s all of the extra spectacular that the central joke of the 1996 film is that Albert can’t handle to go as straight, not even for the good thing about his son’s fiancée’s extraordinarily conservative household. The Birdcage exhibits all of the ways in which gender is a efficiency by means of its rapid-fire wit and absurd conditions, shying away from the preachiness you would possibly anticipate of a comedy about conservatives compelled to face their fears of all issues queer. The perfect a part of The Birdcage isn’t the drag performances, though these stay a delight — as a substitute it’s the film’s portrayal of the middle-aged mundanities of two homosexual dads present within the ’90s. They’re regular, and on the time, that felt radical. —Maddy Myers

The Birdcage is obtainable to stream on HBO Max.

However I’m A Cheerleader

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It’s laborious to think about conversion remedy because the centerpiece for a comedy, but one way or the other that’s the premise of However I’m A Cheerleader. A younger Natasha Lyonne stars as a preppy blonde who has no concept why she needs to hurl each time her boyfriend goes in for a kiss, and Clea DuVall performs one in every of queer cinema’s most iconic lesbian love pursuits. Their meet-cute occurs on the conversion camp the place they’ve each been despatched by their households; it’s a setting that stays lighthearted partly as a result of garish pink-and-blue set design and the over-the-top gender position coaching that the queer children get compelled by means of. The terrifying actuality of their predicament simmers below the floor, permitting the comedy to chunk again all of the tougher — and permitting the romantic climax to style even sweeter. —MM

However I’m A Cheerleader is obtainable to stream on Peacock, without cost with a library card on Kanopy or Hoopla, or without cost with adverts on The Roku Channel, Pluto TV, and Plex.

Plan B

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The Hulu-produced comedy set in South Dakota stars two teenage women, one in every of whom is a identified nerd who by no means steps out of line — apart from one underwhelming hookup at a celebration, after which she will’t handle to trace down a morning-after capsule attributable to conservative legal guidelines within the space. So, mentioned nerd and her lifelong greatest good friend embark on a street journey to trace down the capsule. The queer romance comes out of left subject on this film so I received’t spoil the circumstances, besides to say that my girlfriend and I had ok gaydar to foretell precisely what was occurring earlier than it performed out. There’s additionally numerous gross-out humor on this film (there’s an on-screen penis piercing, for instance), however on condition that the premise is about human our bodies and all of their sudden and inconvenient capabilities, it really works. —MM

Plan B is obtainable to stream on Hulu.

Crush

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A love triangle involving two siblings and one hapless protagonist? Basic setup for a romantic comedy. All people is aware of for those who date someone, you’ve locked your self out of relationship their sibling, as a result of that’s completely disrespectful. However what for those who’re additionally a queer teen woman, and also you don’t even know that many different queer teen women? That’s the premise of Crush, a lighthearted romp by means of a well-worn premise that feels manner more energizing attributable to being 100% sapphic. —MM

Crush is obtainable to stream on Hulu.

Saving Face

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Alice Wu’s early-2000s romantic comedy has develop into a traditional within the queer and Chinese language American movie canon. Within the movie, mom Hwei-Lan and daughter Wil study to reside collectively below distinctive circumstances. Hwei-Lan is kicked out of her mother and father’ home after turning into pregnant out of wedlock and strikes into Wil’s house — Wil is lesbian, however closeted to her mom. Saving Face follows every of their romantic pursuits, however the trick the movie is that its arc is definitely between mom and daughter. Their relationship turns into the nexus of the story — they study to assist one another regardless of intergenerational and cultural variations, as every of them fights for acceptance from their elders and learns to place religion in their very own needs. I’m grateful to Wu for resisting studio makes an attempt at whitewashing, and for combating for the film to have a contented ending. Saving Face has develop into a consolation watch to me, and a reminder that love is feasible throughout diasporas, even when it isn’t straightforward. —Nicole Clark

Saving Face is obtainable to stream on Prime Video, Hulu, and the Criterion Channel, or without cost with adverts on Tubi and Crackle.

My Stunning Laundrette

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Stephen Frears’ (Excessive Constancy) 1985 dramedy is usually cited as among the finest British motion pictures of the twentieth century, and it earned an Academy Award nomination for screenwriter Hanif Kureishi. It was additionally a breakout position for one in every of its younger stars, Daniel Day-Lewis. Day-Lewis stars reverse Gordon Warnecke, who performs Omar, a younger man taking good care of his father who will get the chance to handle a laundromat that’s in poor form. When he and a few associates are attacked by a gaggle of skinheads, Omar is stunned to see their chief is a childhood good friend/previous romantic flame, Johnny (Day-Lewis).

What occurs subsequent is a transgressive, endearing, and full of life story of affection, tradition clashes, and the struggles of Thatcher-era England. —PV

My Stunning Laundrette is obtainable to observe without cost with a library card on Kanopy, or to hire or buy on digital platforms.

The Half of It

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The Half of It is one other wonderful movie from Alice Wu, this time a coming-of-age story made for Netflix. It explores acquainted themes like belonging and miscommunication, contrasting queer Chinese language American identification in opposition to the very white backdrop of a small city, Squahamish.

On this Cyrano de Bergerac retelling, Ellie types a detailed friendship with a candy himbo jock, Paul, agreeing to assist him textual content his crush Aster. However Ellie, too, has emotions for Aster, and maintaining the charade turns into more and more tough. However the mistaken identification rom-com additionally has a really candy coronary heart. Ellie and Paul’s friendship blossoms over the course of the film. He has his beliefs challenged and comes out higher for it. And Ellie learns that she has associates she will depend on, and a guardian who actually cares about her, regardless of his stoic exterior. —NC

The Half of It is obtainable to stream on Netflix.

Fried Inexperienced Tomatoes

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The primary time I watched Fried Inexperienced Tomatoes was as an adolescent, with my mother and father. They have been aware of the film and by the top I believed to myself, Oh, so that is homosexual, proper? My mother and father, in the meantime, have been like, These two girls are such good associates 🙂. I ended up Googling the plot abstract and came upon that the e book it’s primarily based on is definitely very, very homosexual. I used to be proper!

Even with all of the overt romantic implications eliminated, Fried Inexperienced Tomatoes is a young love story between two girls within the Deep South. Idgie and Ruthie’s relationship is recounted in present-day by one other lady (implied within the movie to be Idgie, however a completely separate character within the novel), and their story evokes Kathy Bates’ character to regain management of her life. Even simply by means of subtext, Idgie and Ruthie’s devotion to 1 one other is clear. Heck, they reside collectively, open a restaurant collectively, increase a baby collectively, and fend off Ruthie’s abusive ex collectively — fairly rattling romantic for those who ask me. It’s about marginalized individuals coming collectively and forming a neighborhood and that’s simply fairly cool, I believe. Additionally, the food-fight scene is mainly alleged to be a intercourse scene and it’s among the finest “not intercourse, however completely intercourse” scenes on the market IMO. —Petrana Radulovic

Fried Inexperienced Tomatoes is obtainable for rental or buy on digital VOD platforms.

Booksmart

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Booksmart isn’t an LGBTQ rom-com, but it surely is a comedy with a lesbian character as one of many two protagonists. Molly (Beanie Feldstein) and Amy (Kaitlyn Dever), two overachieving excessive schoolers, realized that they’ve missed out on some quintessential highschool experiences, so the night time earlier than commencement they attempt to hit up a celebration — and find yourself traversing throughout city, trying to find the fitting deal with. It’s a raunchy teen comedy about partying earlier than graduating, however this time with two gals, and Amy occurs to be a hopeless lesbian with an enormous crush on a sizzling woman that she struggles to make dialog with. To not spoil too a lot, however the ensuing romantic scene is each very electrical and extremely awkward within the amplified manner that prime faculty experiences typically find yourself being. —PR

Booksmart is obtainable to stream on Hulu.