The very nature of it is often inherently dramatic. The experience of coming out is, of course, something every LGBT person faces in one way or another.
And like those movies, Boy Erased and Bohemian Rhapsody are frustratingly stuck in the closet. They are also the latest in a small but significant wave of well-regarded films this year with lesbian, gay, and bi protagonists, including Love, Simon (which opened March 16), Alex Strangelove (which debuted on Netflix June 8), and The Miseducation of Cameron Post (which opened Aug. Last weekend, two high-profile movies opened in theaters that feature queer protagonists: Bohemian Rhapsody, starring Rami Malek as the late Queen frontman Freddie Mercury, and Boy Erased, starring Lucas Hedges as a teenage boy who enters a gay conversion therapy program after he’s outed to his parents.īoth are based on true stories, and both arrive with awards buzz for their powerfully rendered performances.
