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.

Lee Hurst, star of They Think It's All Over. hits Her Majesty's Theatre in London for evening of stand-up comedy. Hurst has the crowd rolling with priceless bits such as the segment on football hooligans as well as the inimitable question and answer session he engages in with the audience. Topped off with a series of anecdotes about parts of They Think It's All Over that he and the rest of the cast blew, Lee Hurst Live is an enormously entertaining evening of comedy.
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.
While the director didn't set out to make a feminist film, "A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night" reads as a reclamation of female power in a patriarchal society.
Animation as a medium of storytelling can be thought to be open to all ages and as I hope my reading will reveal, 'Nimona' could be interpreted as a transgender story.
Telling a story about the French and Indian Wars from the perspective of the British prioritizes the perspective of the colonizers.
In 1971, when discussions about how to integrate their school system break down, the community of Durham, North Carolina agrees to bring in Bill Riddick(Babou Ceesay) to conduct a series of summits(charrettes) to help them move forward with desegregation.