LGBT celebrities on their favourite gay films

TV stars and LGBT activists reveal the gay films that most inspired them.

Heather Peace
Videos

During BFI Flare: London LGBT Film Festival, some of our favourite famous folk dropped by to talk about their most loved gay films.

Oscar-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black on My Own Private Idaho (1991)

Drag superstar Bianca Del Rio on Auntie Mame (1958)

Actor Rebecca Root on Breakfast on Pluto (2005)

Journalist Owen Jones on Y Tu Mamá También (2001)

Watch activist Paris Lees discussing her favourite LGBT film, Beautiful Thing (1996) on the BFI’s YouTube channel

Political campaigner Peter Tatchell on Rebel without a Cause (1955)

Coronation Street star Charlie Condou on Beautiful Thing (1996)

Watch actor-musician Heather Peace discussing her favourite LGBT film, If These Walls Could Talk 2 on the BFI’s YouTube channel
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