Love, Simon: at last Hollywood is sayg ‘I’m gay’ | Love, Simon | The Guardian

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• LOVE, SIMON IS A GROUNDBREAKG GAY MOVIE. BUT DO TODAY'S TEENS ACTUALLY NEED IT?
• HOW ‘FEAR STREET’ BEME QUEER STREET: THE SUPER GAY MOVIE EVOLUTN OF R.L. STE’S FAMED SERI
• LOVE, SIMON: AT LAST HOLLYWOOD IS SAYG ‘I’M GAY’

LOVE, SIMON IS A GROUNDBREAKG GAY MOVIE. BUT DO TODAY'S TEENS ACTUALLY NEED IT?

There’s a precent for stori about gay teens g to themselv.

The new movie Love, Simon reprents somethg new: a look at what ’s like to be a gay teen that’s as slick and mastream as n be, like any other YA romantic edy. As his profile at school evolv, he’s mocked for beg gay by the jocks, but elsewhere his search for a boyiend is met wh a zealo enuragement that saps the movie’s tensn.

Plenty of gay kids are supported by those around them, but how many are appld and rooted on by the school en masse, as Simon is, as they seek love? A tone that feels overdue–the first mastream teen edy foregroundg a gay character–may have been outpaced by real life. Can a love story centered around a gay teen who is very refully built to seem as straight as possible appeal to a generatn that’s boldly reventg genr and sexualy on s own terms?

HOW ‘FEAR STREET’ BEME QUEER STREET: THE SUPER GAY MOVIE EVOLUTN OF R.L. STE’S FAMED SERI

There’s no reason that the first gay romantic edy for young viewers necsarily need to look so much like the pat, flat rom-s wh which today’s teens are barely faiar. The culture, even a ago, was awash anti-gay rhetoric and msagg, om shows like The Office to movi like The 40-Year-Old Virg.

(The former relentlsly teased s lone queer office drone; the latter, a liberal-md edy, psed the actn for a lengthy sequence of mean gay jok. ) Love, Simon is a rrective to that, prentg a universe which beg gay is, fally, O. Love, Simon feels like a film rpondg to an entirely different culture, like one which gay marriage was never legalized.

That cisn both acknowledged that equaly for gays had won the day and opened the door for far more tertg and challengg fights, on the next generatn will lead. Cast & crewUser reviewsTrivia2018PG-131h 50mSimon Spier keeps a huge secret om his fay, his iends and all of his classmat: he's gay. Read allSimon Spier keeps a huge secret om his fay, his iends and all of his classmat: he's gay.

LOVE, SIMON: AT LAST HOLLYWOOD IS SAYG ‘I’M GAY’

When that secret is threatened, Simon mt face everyone and e to terms wh his Spier keeps a huge secret om his fay, his iends and all of his classmat: he's gay. I was gay. Beg gay is HARD enough and kids m suici far too often alg wh and other issu.

The Homo Sapiens Agenda’, is a movie that explor the pths of love.

Enter Simon Spier, a closeted gay high schooler, who has to balance his iends and fay, while also alg wh a blackmailer who threatens to ot his inty. To top all off, he also has to unver the inty of a secret gay pen pal that he has fallen love wh.

Although this seems like a stirrg pot for drama, the ntent has been handled very sensively, and the film is praised for the diversy the st, big-hearted approach, and the revolutnary normalcy wh which treats homosexualy. ‘Love, Simon’ foc on Simon Sprier, a closeted gay high schooler who liv wh a lovg fay and has three bt iends.

Simon gets to know om Leah about the onle nfsns of a closeted gay person their school, who go by the psdonym ‘Blue’. Simon fally cis to bond wh Ethan, an openly gay stunt, and they discs the hurdl of homosexualy. Netflix has an enviable library and the ntent provir mt be ld for givg gay people a safe space on their platform by cludg some spectacular stori about homosexualy, and homosexual relatnships.

It has been a phenomenal sprg for out gay actors popular entertament, and one of the bt thgs about is how much ls remarkable that is now than would’ve been a ago.