Luckily, hope is on the horizon: Although LGBTQ people used to be less visible than Sia’s face in a music video, more LGBTQ-identifying filmmakers, actors, producers, and directors than ever are being given the opportunity to tell their stories. Fans of Me Before You, listen up The latest adaptation of one of Jojo Moyes heart. For marginalized groups, truthful representation in film is imperative, even lifesaving, and in today’s stormy political climate there’s an urgency for straight cisgender people to see LGBTQ characters portrayed accurately and unapologetically - and by people who actually know what LGBTQ life is like because they live it. Starring: Felicity Jones, Shailene Woodley, Callum Turner, Nabhaan Rizwan, Joe Alwyn. Still, from Sacha Baron Cohen’s fashion-obsessed Brüno to a Scream Queens character nicknamed Predatory Lez, we unfortunately continue to see it all. The film follows Sieger, a fifteen-year-old boy who lives with his widowed father and his brother.
LGBTQ people have long been buried under tropes and unsubtle stereotypes in film and television. Jongens (which translates to English as Boys) is a 2014 film from the Netherlands. The absolute zenith of New Hollywoods 1970s-era adventurousness (it was all downhill from here), Roman Polanskis.