![]() Representation has dramatically improved in recent years queers can now identify with a leading character who doesn’t perish in the film’s final moments. (We are funnier than cis-het people, but that’s besides the point.) For a long time (eons, really), stories about queerness often led to death and despair (hence the ‘Bury Your Gays trope) and, if a heterosexual series or movie featured a character of the LGBTQIA+ experience, they’d be the ‘sidekick’ whose sexuality was undefined and sole purpose in the narrative was to bring in the laughs. ‘Dire’ is how we used to describe on-screen representation for people of the rainbow variety.
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