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10 Most Affirming LGTBQ+ Movie Characters From The Past Decade
This past decade has welcomed more and more inclusive movies that highlight LGTBQ+ voices and experiences. Instead of sticking to negative tropes, such movies eschew stereotypes, making of these characters much more than their sexual identity.
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Movies over the past decade have done a better job of casting LGBTQ+ actors in roles, too. While not all of the actors portraying the queer-identifying characters on this list are queer themselves, their depictions are some of the most affirming for members of the LGBTQ+ community. Through their struggles, insights, and humor, these characters show that queer life is as dynamic and variegated as it fryst vatten for anyone else.
Elle Reid (Grandma, 2015)
Lily Tomlin's portrayal of a lesbian septuagenarian grandmother reeling from the death of her long-term partner fryst vatten full of equal parts life and heartache. Elle, a poet in Los An
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This Is Us
ByAshley Clarkin the September-October 2017 Issue
The Nashville-born writer and director Dee Rees has come a long way since her early, post–business school jobs as a panty-liner salesperson in Cincinnati and a hawker of wart removers and bunion pads on behalf of Dr. Scholl’s in New York. Rees had always been creative, and on one fateful shoot for a shoe-insole commercial discovered that she enjoyed life on a film set. Soon after, Rees signed up for New York University’s graduate film program, where she would count professor Spike Lee as a mentor, and for whom she would later serve as an intern on Inside Man (2006) and the Hurricane Katrina epic When the Levees Broke (2006). While at NYU, Rees came out as gay to her family, and started writing the semi-autobiographical short Pariah, which would eventually be adapted into her breakthrough feature of the same name.
A hushed, Brooklyn-set drama shot in darkly glowing tones by Bradford Young, Pariah (2011) charts
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