![]() ![]() Plus, Greg Berlanti’s new teen movie Love, Simon is a valuable entry into the queer coming-of-age canon, a crowd-pleasing big studio flick that portrays hope and friendship as powerful tools in the face of adversity. Recent award season favorites Moonlight and Call Me By Your Name mix realistic periods of sadness with soaring romantic highs, while the positive representation of incidentally LGBTQ characters on television appears to be skyrocketing year to year. Acclaimed movies like My Own Private Idaho, Philadelphia, Boys Don’t Cry, and Brokeback Mountain did a great job breaking our hearts, but eventually, we had to ask the question: are there any happy endings for queer characters? Until recently, the LGBTQ stories that got the most screen time were all about abuse, death, and disappointment. Let’s face it we’ve had enough depressing gay movies.
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