LGBT cinema in Latin America

Latin American LGBT cinema

Latin American nations have been producing national LGBT+ cinema since at least the 1980s,[1] though homosexual characters have been appearing in their films since at least 1923.[2]:75 The collection of LGBT-themed films from 2000 onwards has been dubbed New Maricón Cinema by Vinodh Venkatesh; the term both includes Latine culture and identity and does not exclude non-queer LGBT+ films like Azul y no tan rosa.[3]:6-7 Latin American cinema is largely non-systemic, which is established as a reason for its wide variety of LGBT-themed films.[4]:142

A "boom" in LGBT+ cinema of the region began at the turn of the century and was reinvigorated in the 2010s, which also notably included output of such films from spaces in Latin America (e.g. Venezuela) with film industries that "have lagged behind" the rest of the region.[3]:6-7, 19, 192

The bisexual-themed Mexican film Y tu mamá también (2001) was nominated for an Oscar,[1] with the Chilean trans+ film A Fantastic Woman (2017) winning one. Azul y no tan rosa (2012) won the Goya Award for Best Spanish Language Foreign Film at the 28th Goya Awards, becoming the first Venezuelan film to do so.[5]

  1. ^ a b "10 great LGBTQ+ films from Latin America". BFI. 5 March 2018. Retrieved 17 July 2019.
  2. ^ V. Lewis (2010). Crossing Sex and Gender in Latin America. Springer. ISBN 9780230109964.
  3. ^ a b Vinodh Venkatesh (2016). New Maricón Cinema: Outing Latin American Film. University of Texas Press. ISBN 9781477310175.
  4. ^ B. Ruby Rich (2013). New Queer Cinema: The Director's Cut. Duke University Press. ISBN 9780822354284.
  5. ^ Goya Awards page for the film Archived 2014-02-23 at the Wayback Machine