Straight Actors Playing Queer Characters Is Exhausting
It’s 2021 and what few LGBTQ+ films that are produced by major film studios continue to star cisgender heterosexual actors, rather than actual LGBTQ+ people.

The first two matches are announced and they will be for two of the most important AEW Championships - AEW World Championship and AEW Women's World Championship. In the main event of the evening is one of the most anticipated matches when Hangman Page defends the AEW World title against CM Punk. This will be the fifth defence for Hangman Page since he won it from Kenny Omega at AEW Full Gear 2021. CM Punk is ranked at number 1 singles wrestler in AEW ranking. Who will become the new AEW World Champion?
It’s 2021 and what few LGBTQ+ films that are produced by major film studios continue to star cisgender heterosexual actors, rather than actual LGBTQ+ people.
As this critic continues to look back at some of this Summer's films I have taken in, I would be remiss if I didn't mention one of the most overall unsettling trends in Hollywood over the last several years.....sequels, reboots, and remakes. Look, I am all for seeing more than one film for certain originals that made a splash, ie: "Jurassic Park", "Pirates of the Caribbean", "Transformers", etc.
It is up to the community to decide if this film is a force for enlightenment or not.
"Warrior" is a Bruce Lee written and inspired story that follows a diverse cast of Chinese American characters and does a terrific job of setting the story in 1878 San Francisco - all without pulling their punches with the systemic racism, discrimination, and struggle for power that old and young immigrants that crossed the country at that time had to go through.
The trouble with Yara (2021) is that in its attempt to tell the whole story, it struggles to tell a consistently engaging story.
Why did Māhū, a term once respected in Hawaiian culture, become so controversial?