For many years now, there has been LGBTQ+ representation in Hollywood films and TV/web series that the audience has witnessed. Over the years, people celebrated the community on screen and many also broke several grounds, thus pushing cinema as a whole way forward. However, LGBTQ+ films have essentially always been focused on dramas, documentaries, biographies, and comedies in the past.
After a long-overdue exploration of newer genres, many films, and shows in the west are now focusing on those which usually did not have representation of the community, such as action, horror, and thriller films.
Eternals: Marvel is finally featuring its first LGBTQ relationship with an onscreen kiss after over a decade of superhero movies. ‘Eternals’ is an upcoming MCU film, first openly gay superhero in a Marvel movie.
Spiral: It is a one of its kind, a queer-themed Hollywood horror film in which same-sex couples move to a small town to enjoy a better quality of life and raise their daughter with strong social values, but when their neighbors throw a very strange party, nothing is as it seems in their picturesque neighborhood.
Benedetta: It is an upcoming horror film. Set in the 17th century, the film follows a lesbian nun who was prone to visions and displayed the stigmata – supernatural wounds that mimic the injuries inflicted on Jesus during the crucifixion.
The Old Guard: While this Hollywood film could easily be termed as a classic action movie with plenty of guns and blood, there’s a lot more going on inside The Old Guard. One of the biggest key elements to the story is a gay relationship between two members of the immortal “Old Guard”, the characters of Joe and Nicky.
WandaVision: It is a sitcom that gave the Marvel Cinematic Universe is the very first gay character in Wanda Maximoff’s (Elizabeth Olsen) son Billy (Julian Hilliard). Billy aka Wiccan is one half of Marvel’s most prominent gay couple in the comics.
Velvet Buzzsaw: Hollywood actor Jake Gyllenhaal played a queer art critic in Netflix satirical-thriller, in it and this was his first gay role since his 2005 ‘Brokeback Mountain’. Gyllenhaal’s character, Morf Vandewalt, is a conceited and pretentious art critic, who begins the film in a relationship with a man.
Green Lantern Series: HBO Max as per a latest Hollywood Reporter for its series on ‘Green Lantern’ has cast actor Jeremy Irvine. He will play the iconic superhero that was only in 202 revealed to be a gay character and was said to have a boyfriend named Sam Zhao.
Source: We Got This Covered
