Metro Weekly's 25 Gay Films Everyone Should See

On February 19, 2009, Metro Weekly published a list of 25 Gay Films Everyone Should See. When I first saw this list, I was visiting some friends in Washington, DC, one of whom worked for the Human Rights Campaign. As a heterosexual, more or less unfamiliar with gay culture, I took this list and made it a point to watch all of the films on it within the next three months.

This is just as a basic list, nothing extravagant, or comprehensive, like Grey Daisies’ New Queer Cinema or Joe Bowman’s Fox and His (Queer) Friends, but I would suggest that this list could very well serve as a backbone to a gay cinema collection or...