The yawning boringness of these movies seems to confirm that what seemed radical 10 or 20 years ago (see: the New Queer Cinema movement, which dovetailed the political possibilities of queerness with the aesthetic possibilities of queer filmmaking) has become normalized, steamrolled into the style and saleability of Hollywood just as it has been increasingly welcomed in society at large. Just look at this year's TIFF's lineup, which is full of prestige-baiting dramas about gay couples ( Freeheld) and transexual people ( About Ray, The Danish Girl). If that last sentence looked weird, it's because you're probably not accustomed to seeing straight people referred to as 'openly heterosexual.' Why? Well, because for millennia, heterosexuality was synonymous with sexuality, while anything else–homosexuality, bisexuality, asexuality, pansexuality, you name it–was considered a deviation from that.īut it's 2015. He also plays Ronnie Kray's openly heterosexual twin brother, Reggie Kray. There was a bit of a dust-up at TIFF on Sunday during the press conference for Legend, in which Tom Hardy plays openly bisexual British gangster Ronnie Kray.
