Welcome to Screen Gems, our weekend dive into queer and queer-adjacent titles of the past that deserve a watch or a re-watch.We fell in love with this indie comedy back in 2019 when we caught it on the festival circuit.
It would seem many of our readers agreed: the film also took home the Queerty Award for Best Indie Film.Straight Up follows Todd, (Writer/director James Sweeney) a 20-something gay man utterly afraid of gay sex and suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder.
His solution? Date a woman. When he meets Rory (Katie Findlay), a lonely, struggling actress, the two take an immediate liking to one another.
They agree to begin a romantic relationship with one strict rule: never have sex. Todd’s friends think his relationship with.