How We Find Queer Joy and Inspiration Amid Anti-LGBTQ+ Attacks
Crush, was a still from the movie featuring its queer stars Auli’i Cravalho and Rowan Blanchard.The room brimmed with joyful young LGBTQ+ people whose gender and sexual identities appeared to fill the spectrum.
They were in glam makeup, killer boots or heels, and sartorial excellence — the expansive choices of suits alone made me wish I were a young queer person again.
The fabulously gay evening featuring a film from an all-LGBTQ+ creative team, writers Kirsten King and Casey Rackham and director Sammi Cohen, was celebratory and unthinkable 35 years ago when I came out.
I was inspired by the unapologetic young audience with their queerness proudly placed front and center. I wished I were them in that moment.Then, after that bliss, I couldn’t reconcile the reality of increased queer visibility with the right wing’s craven attacks on LGBTQ+ people, especially youth.
