first Afro-Latino to be nominated for the award."I’m a strong representation for that now, and there’s many more folks coming up right behind me.”This is simply to point out how rarely queer people get to tell their own stories in acclaimed Hollywood movies.
While the Oscars undoubtedly mimic the system of Hollywood as a whole, it's worth noting that you're 13x more likely to have been nominated for playing an LGBTQ character if you don’t publicly identify yourself as queer in the past 24 years.2022 was especially notable as it was the year that Ariana DeBose became the first openly queer woman of color to win..