In 1992, B. Ruby Rich wrote an essay about a burgeoning movement in independent film, which she dubbed “New Queer Cinema.” It’s up for debate whether it was, in fact, new: although queer theory was still in its infancy at the time, movies by and for queer people had been made for decades. Many of the exciting new voices of the movement took heavy inspiration from their predecessors.
Source: Best Movies That Chart the History of New Queer Cinema