7 Queer Movies With Happy Endings To Watch This Pride Month

Until the Tenties, mainstream media representation of queer people was generally curated for straight viewers. This meant that filmmakers working with queer stories had to lean into stereotypes for laughs or suffuse queer stories with tragedy in order to gain public sympathy. That’s how we ended up with weepies like Philadelphia, Boys Don’t Cry, and Brokeback Mountain. 

To this day, I believe that these movies were part of a conspiracy to make queer people depressed. After all, if we saw happy endings for ourselves on screen...