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.

Alíz and Máté get romantically involved, even though they both have families. But the outbreak of the pandemic, rewrites the rules of their newly formed relationship. They must decide: is it just a flare, or is it real love? And if it is love, do they have the right to sacrifice others happiness for theirs?
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.
A brave Indian woman rises from an oppressive background to become an inspired leader for women and men alike around the globe.
A pop star at Radio City Music Hall gets the opportunity to change herself to save her music career.
One Night in Miami... did not frame the racism and bigotry as something that could be solved by quality time spent between individuals. Instead, it featured four different legends of Black History together in one room disagreeing for about 2/3 of the film.
Barry Jenkins' masterpiece holds up as the story of a lifetime centered on the intersection of Blackness and gay identity.
People are so much deeper and far more extraordinary than what gender they were assigned at birth.