Venezuelan LGBT+ cinema

In Venezuelan cinema, national LGBT-themed films, largely those that deal with homosexuality and homophobia in society, have become the industry's main drivers in the 2010s.

[2]:293 The movement of Venezuelan cinema to being LGBT-related has occurred at the same time as an "unprecedented" AIDS crisis, with the nation being short of basic medicines and the government removing anti-retroviral drugs from circulation.

[1] José González Vargas wrote on the growth of LGBT+ Venezuelan films, including personal appreciation that "around 2010, something changed"; as he grew up, gay characters in film were either comic, tragic, or upper-class white Americans.

This is also why he criticises the film Azul y no tan rosa, because it shows a middle class and easily accepted gay man, which he still deems alien and unrealistic; for the opposite reasons, Pelo malo resonated with him.

[4] José Manuel Simons, a Venezuelan LGBT+ rights lawyer, suggested that the film coverage of the topic is a sign that the people of the country are more accepting and want to watch them.