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.

This is a rental house where Lulu, a show dancer, lives on the first floor, and Miller, an evangelist who reads the Bible on the street, lives on the second floor. The landlord, "Nowhere Man," secretly films their lives. Nowhere Man operates on the philosophy that the act of watching is his sole source of pleasure; even when a woman strips naked and tries to seduce him right before his eyes, he ejaculates without laying a finger on her. However, his philosophy of pleasure begins to crumble as he starts to develop feelings for Lulu.
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.
By depicting 4 different stories, Director Sergio Tovar Velarde keeps the focus on the shared humanity and search for love (both self and romantic) of various gay Mexican men.
YouTube surpasses Netflix but there is more to the story.
Star Wars is better if you believe that Luke Skywalker is gay. You can't change my mind.
In My Octopus Teacher, documentary filmmaker Craig Foster models healthy masculinity by showing us a trusting, gentle, and emotionally fulfilling bond with an octopus.
‘Concerto’ is esoteric at best, meant to satisfy the non-melanted’s sense of nostalgia. It is revisionist at worst, cherry-picking images that defy the true tapestry of the human condition.