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BARBIE SAID “GAY RIGHTS!” LONG BEFORE MARGOT ROBBIE OR GRETA GERWIG SHOWED UP
In Brish wrer/director Geia Oakly’s but film, a high school gym teacher named Jean (Rosy McEwen) is livg 1980s England when the Conservative party, led by Margaret Thatcher, announced Sectn 28, which prohibed the “promotn” of homosexualy as a “pretend fay relatnship. Night Shyamalan’s latt thriller starred Ben Aldridge and Jonathan Groff as two gay dads who travel to a b wh their dghter for a ltle rt and relaxatn. After was origally supposed to be a Disney movie, Netflix soped up this stant classic about a gay supervilla and his shaphiftg sikick based on the award-wng graphic novel om ND Stevenson.
Somehow the movie is even gayer (and dare we say, better) than the amazg book, and arriv wh some of the most betiful animatn and one of the most powerful msag about seeg yourself and others for who they are you’ll see. Of an Age is a tenr gay drama set Atralia the summer of 1999.
It’s already sted to bee a gay drama classic. Culled om a longlist of hundreds, movi nsired for the list promently feature gay, lbian, trans, or queer characters; ncern self centrally wh LGBTQ+ them; prent s LGBTQ+ characters a fair and realistic light; and/or be seen as a touchpot the evolutn of queer cema. And we regnize that some of the films the list will re-igne healthy bat that have been fixtur of discsn around LGBTQ+ films — straight actors playg gay characters, cis actors playg trans characters, and the historil domance of whe male perspectiv.