More than a dozen films that centre the queer experience are headed to this year's Toronto International Film Festival, marking what filmmakers and experts say is a step forward in LGBTQ representation.
The selection varies not only in story but in scope: from the Judd Apatow-produced "Bros" to the Canadian indies "This Place" and "Soft," viewers have a chance to see intimate portrayals of sex, romance, childhood, family dynamics and gender.
Festival CEO Cameron Bailey said TIFF programmers set out to include more LGBTQ stories in this year's lineup, but noted they didn't have to go out of their way to find them. It's a departure from other festivals, which tend to show only a handful of queer movies, if that, said director V.T. Nayani, whose film "This Place" premieres Friday.
"It's about how Indigenous communities and immigrant communities come together. It's about two women falling in love. It's about reconciling with family. So it's very much about queer identity, family, diaspora," Nayani said. Harry Styles, the pop star portraying the titular police officer, was a trending topic on Twitter last month after he was quoted in a "Rolling Stone" profile as saying, "So much of gay sex in film is two guys going at it, and it kind of removes the tenderness from it."Online commentators argued that the criticism of gay sex scenes is not that they're too unromantic, it's that they're not portrayed at all.
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