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.

Roz, an eccentric rideshare driver, accepts one last late-night trip without imagining it will mark the beginning of an impossible experience. After picking up a mysterious passenger (Raúl Muñoz/888) in the middle of a silent city, reality begins to distort: signals fail, the electricity collapses, and an unknown presence seems to be watching her from the sky. As fear and paranoia consume her mind, Roz must confront something we may never be able to fully understand.
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.
Animation as a medium of storytelling can be thought to be open to all ages and as I hope my readings will reveal, they could be interpreted as transgender stories.
The short documentary and second place winner of the Incluvie Short Film Festival, Gender Outlaw: A Bodysurfing Story, challenges any simplistic understanding of trans people.
For many people, Disney+’s debut show, The Mandalorian, was a breath of fresh air for the Star Wars universe. The Disney Gallery shows audiences how that show came to be.
Written and directed by Rian Johnson (Looper, Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi), Knives Out was one of the most clever and intricately crafted films of 2019.
A boy named Max experiences adventure within his own house while staying home alone.