Whether I was watching Heath Ledger press his face into Jake Gyllenhaal’s denim shirt at the end of Brokeback Mountain or else listening to the cast of Rent sing a requiem after Angel’s death, I’d grown accustomed to associating my own queer experience with pain and with loss and a lack of joy.
When I was young, I remember sneaking […] The post With so much suffering for queer characters in popular culture, where's the joy?