9 Most Powerful LGBT+ Movie Scenes Ever

9. Pride - Cliff Comes Out

It’s an incredibly simple and understated scene in which Cliff makes the life-altering decision to come out for what we know as the first time. Sitting aside his friend and fellow strike supporter, Hefina, Cliff prepares sandwiches in silence.

After being corrected on his cutting style he pauses for a moment before saying, quietly and very measured, “I’m gay,” before continuing to cut his bread diagonally - eyes fixed downward.

The shot is fixed, still, staring at the two friends as Hefina then pauses. She takes a moment to think, her face barely betraying her feelings, before a warmth takes her voice and she looks to him to simply say, “I know.”

The interaction that follows is so full of acceptance and respect that it doesn’t need anything bombastic to make it memorable. Cliff’s shocked face, Hefina’s slight reassuring smile pulling at the corners of her mouth - it’s a special moment between two friends in which Cliff is for the first time able to feel completely safe in his true identity.

Thanks to the coming together of two wildly different communities, he is given the freedom to accept and express who he is - and it is natural as anything. It may be brief and minimal, but it’s a scene that surely has caused many a viewer to shed a tear.