Because queer audiences deserve their own 'When Harry Met Sally'.
I don’t usually tend to get particularly introspective while trying to decide what to watch on Netflix. But as I browsed the platform’s LGBTQ section on Sunday night, I realised just how radical this easily accessible viewing experience would have seemed to my closeted teen self. Back in 2000, I would secretly seek out gay films on the family computer, downloading them for clandestine late night screenings and deleting them before sunrise.
Not only did these gay-friendly rom-coms feed my hunger for gay content, which was scarce enough in the early 2000s, they also provided the kind of representation that I couldn’t find in the standard token gay characters on TV. These films centred same-sex love stories and, just as importantly, they allowed gay characters to have happy endings.
Of course, these films weren’t perfect ... But to a lonely gay boy living in the midlands, they were a source of hope. In many ways, the gay rom-coms I devoured in secret were just like the Meg Ryan vehicles I would watch with my mother; love stories in which two attractive people got off on the wrong foot, then were placed in all kinds of farcical situations before realising their true feelings for each other.
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