Pride Month & Why LGBTQ+ Stories on Screen Matter
Pride Month is a time to celebrate love, identity, and everything that makes the LGBTQ+ community so diverse and vibrant. Over the years, we’ve seen some real progress in how queer stories are told in film, and that visibility means more than just entertainment. It creates understanding, empathy, and lets people in the community know they’re not alone. For a long time, LGBTQ+ characters in movies weren’t given the spotlight. Often, queer people were side characters, comedic relief, or figures who experience tragedy who don’t make it to the end of the movie. But luckily, things are changing for the better. More films are showing queer people as the full, complex humans whose sexual identity and gender identity are just a part of who they are, but not their entire being. Now, we’re seeing more films where queer characters are falling in love, fighting back, cracking jokes, messing up, and growing. And it’s about time. The film Alto , for example, is a super fun LGBTQ+ rom-com with a m...