Cult Films like
Rocky Horror Picture Show:
This is a film from 1975, it was a b-picture movie because it was low budget. It was not well received when it came out but now has formed a cult following. It was one of the main components of the modern novel "Perks of being a Wallflower." The movies is about a Transexual Transylvania who is called Dr. Frankenfurter and his monster Rocky Horror. It's great. The music is fantastic and it'll get stuck in your head. Even though Dr. Frankenfurter is an alien, the movie put a small spotlight on transexuals.
Hedwig and the Angry Inch:
This movie is about a man who is desperate to leave East Germany and when his boyfriend an American decides to bring him back, he agrees. However this means that he has to have a gender reassignment surgery, but the surgery is botched and he is left with an inch of skin between her legs. Hence the title. She is abandoned by her husband as soon as she comes to the states. She forms a rock band and writes songs. I haven't seen the movie but have heard about it everywhere. I predict this to be like the Rocky Horror Picture Show. 
Ru Pauls Drag Race:
When this show came out it was official. We love Drag Queens!
Sailor Moon Crystal :
Sailor Moon was an anime from the early nineties. It was about superhero girl warriors from Space. It's freaking great, but the reason it's relevant to this is because two of the protagonists were lesbians. In the English dub of the show they were portrayed as cousins. However now in the revamped version of the show, they have come out of the anime closet. Uranus and Neptune have a love that rivals the main protagonist.
Orange is the New Black: Laverne Cox:
And last but certainly not least we have the great Laverne Cox. She plays a transgender woman who has been sent to jail. She is the unofficial hairdresser of the prison and she is also one of the kindest in the whole series. For numerous reasons I love her, but number one is because she is always striving to be Flawless!
All of these have one thing in common, they all have leading queer characters. Thanks to the ever increasing change of "norms"
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