Jenifer Lewis says the gays 'made her career' & 'paid her mortgage'
The iconic actress is thanking the LGBTQ+ community for playing a huge part of her success.
May 01 2024 12:19 PM
For years, the only time you could see LGBT people in film was either in broad comedy or melodramatic tragedies. Our repository of queer images trended toward the foppish best friend or the disease-stricken pariah. But with major LGBT films raking in awards in recent years--Brokeback Mountain, Moonlight, Call Me by Your Name--America has finally begun to recognize that the queer experience is just as rich a basis for cinematic experience as any other. Finally, we are in the golden age of queer film representation!