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 long-awaited full-length project with the participation of the classic Russian aphorists Arkady Davidovich and the star of Russian rock and roll Konstantin Stupin. The plot revolves around two guys from the outskirts who create a new life, following the recipes of the ancient alchemists. We are not aware of their motives, we do not know why and why they decided to do this. It remains only to closely monitor how they methodically, step by step, repeat the mysterious recipe of Paracelsus, extracting each ingredient, conducting with it all the necessary manipulations. Mystical experience surrounded by familiar household scenery turns into a theater of the absurd.
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.
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