How Brokeback Mountain Changed Queer Storytelling w/ Esje Seigfried

Cultural critic Esje Seigfried joins Laura Gommans twenty years after Brokeback Mountain to ask what queer cinema inherited from Ang Lee's devastating film — and what it's still working to move beyond. The genre's history of tragedy as default, of grief as proof of love's seriousness: has queer cinema found its way to other kinds of stories? From Happy Together to Heartstopper, an episode about the right to a wider emotional range — and the persistent question of whether the actors performing queer love need to be queer themselves.

By Laura Gommans

Film Journalist · Celebrating Cinema