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At Sundance, Ayo Edebiri, Bowen Yang, Lily Gladstone, Russell Tovey & More Talk Need For LGBTQ Representation Amid Trump 2.0: “We Have To Stay Visible”
Columnist and editor Glenn Garner looks back on this year's Sundance lineup with some optimism for LGBTQ representation when it's needed most.
In Opus, Green’s feature debut, Edebiri plays a young writer who is invited to the remote compound of a legendary pop star (John Malkovich) after he mysteriously disappeared 30 years ago, receiving an intimate front-row seat to his twisted plan as it unfolds. Bowen Yang — who stars in The Wedding Banquet as Chris, one half of two same-sex couples that pull a good old-fashioned hetero switcheroo to please a more traditional loved one — explained that kind of representation “builds these cultural bridges to these otherwise isolated, siloed-off places in the world, and even in this country, where it feels like those things would never cross paths. Whether it’s the grassroots ingenuity of an organization like TransMedium or the grand spectacle of Bill Condon’s Kiss of the Spider Woman movie musical adaptation starring Jennifer Lopez, LGBTQ representation isn’t going away from Sundance anytime soon, despite ongoing attacks against the community, including anti-DEI laws that impact University of Utah students in nearby Salt Lake City, among millions of others across the country.
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