Oliver’s sexuality is shown rather than explicitly stated in Saltburn.
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In recent years, TV shows have started to explicitly state a character’s sexuality. But bisexual characters rarely have such moments in film.
Nakhane (front) stars in Inxeba (The Wound), a South African film about gay love at an initiation school.
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Despite harsh laws, a growing number of African countries are representing queer life in their cinema.
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Like other recent queer rom-coms that pitched to the mainstream, Red, White & Royal Blue explains gay contexts to non-queer audiences.
Alfred Molina and John Lithgow in Love is Strange (2014).
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The hard-won legal rights for LGBT+ people have slowly shifted some public perceptions and begun to filter through into the media around us.
Abdellah Taïa in Tangier, Morocco, in 2010.
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His books bring north Africa into conversation with sub-Saharan Africa about lived queer experiences.
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Bros star and creator Billy Eichner blamed the poor box-office showing on “straight people” who “just didn’t show up”.
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New York’s tiny Fire Island, featured in the new rom-com film of the same name, has a long history as a haven for gay people.
Matthias Freihof played lead character Philipp in ‘Coming Out.’
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More than 30 years after the Berlin Wall fell, the re-release of the East German film ‘Coming Out’ reminds us that protecting minority populations’ rights is every society’s responsibility.
Feminist queer filmmaker Lizzie Borden’s 1986 indie hit has been re-released by the Criterion Collection.
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The timely re-release of ‘Working Girls’ by Lizzie Borden brings sex work into the public eye as activists in Canada prepare for another Supreme Court challenge to laws criminalizing commercial sex.