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So Many LGBTQ+ Films At SIFF 2026!

May 1, 2026• by

As always, the Seattle International Film Festival has many LGBTQ+ films to check out this year, despite the fact the festival has shrunk from its glory days of being 3 weeks long to just 10 days in its present form. The 52nd festival kicks off Thursday, May 7th with the Seattle premiere of Boots Riley’s new film, I Love Boosters and continues through Sunday, May 17th. Get all the skinny at https://www.siff.net/festival.

Use the SIFF Film Finder to find all the films in the festival. Use the drop down box to select LGBTQ+ to find queer film! https://www.siff.net/festival/film-finder-2026

A few of the LGBTQ+ films screening:

The Restoration at Grayson Manor

Director Glenn McQuaid’s The Restoration at Grayson Manor is a campy queer horror-comedy with a Gothic heart.

Boyd Grayson (Chris Colfer) has made an art form of antagonizing his mother. A hedonistic pianist living off family wealth, he delights in parading his one-night stands through the estate, a reminder to Jacqueline (Alice Krige) that she’ll never get the grandchildren she craves. When a freak accident leaves Boyd handless, Jacqueline installs experimental prosthetics wired to his subconscious, on the condition that he finally give her an heir. The hands take on a life of their own, even when detached from Boyd’s body, and the body count at Grayson Manor begins to rise.

Body Blow

Danger and desire go hand-in-hand as a musclebound young cop goes undercover in Sydney’s gay scene, only to fall for an alluring twink fatale, in Dean Francis’ explicit and campy neo-noir that refracts the erotic thriller through an unapologetically queer lens.

https://www.siff.net/festival/body-blow

I Want Your Sex

When fresh-faced Elliot (Cooper Hoffman) lands an exciting job for renowned artist, icon, and provocateur Erika Tracy (Olivia Wilde), his fantasies come true as Erika taps him to become her sexual muse.

https://www.siff.net/festival/i-want-your-sex

Black Burns Fast

At an elite South African boarding school, scholarship student Luthando has mastered the art of invisibility until the arrival of free-spirited Ayanda upends her straight-laced existence.

https://www.siff.net/festival/black-burns-fast

Drunken Noodles

Narrative shifts, flashbacks, folds, and even a dash of magical realism mark this quiet examination of modern queer relationships, presenting three facets of the romantic life of a young New Yorker.

https://www.siff.net/festival/drunken-noodles

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As the Editorial Director/Co-Owner, Michael Strangeways writes, edits and does about a million other jobs for Seattle Gay Scene, Puget Sound's most visited LGBTQ news, arts and entertainment website now celebrating its 14th year as a media outlet. A semi-proud Midwesterner by birth, he's lived in Seattle since 2000. He's also a film producer who would like you to check out the Jinkx Monsoon documentary, "Drag Becomes Him" now available on Amazon.com. In his spare time, he gets slightly obsessive about his love for old movies, challenging theater, "otters", vodka, chocolate, "I,Claudius", Lizzie Borden, real books made out of paper, disaster films, show tunes, Weimar era Germany, flea markets, pop surrealistic art, the sex lives of Hollywood actors both living and dead, kitties, chicken fried steak, haute couture and David Bowie. But, not necessarily in that order.

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