Euphoria, for which she won an Emmy. In this year’s Netflix smash hit The Queen’s Gambit, Taylor-Joy plays a young chess master who sleeps with a French woman in one episode.While some queer women where excited at the prospect, others pointed out that lesbian media is rife with pairings exactly like this — thin, femme, and played by straight actors.
Others noted that whenever there’s a mixed-race couple in media, one always has to be white, another trope that was old before it started.Some are also getting tired of the slow-burning period romances that seemed to make up the bulk of lesbian films and TV series in recent years.