Berlin’s Teddys Give Queer Cinema a Boost as LGBTQ+ Rights Erode Around the Globes
variety.comGregg Goldstein This year marks the 39th annual Teddy Award honors, the longest-running LGBTQ+ prizes at any major film festival.
While the Feb. 21 closing ceremony is business as usual for the Berlinale, global events could make this one of the most important years in Teddy history.
U.S. President Trump is implementing numerous anti-transgender policies, withdrawing President Biden’s executive order making federal agencies enforce a 2020 Supreme Court ruling that sex discrimination laws include LGBTQ discrimination, and even declaring that there are only two sexes – seemingly oblivious to children born intersex, a plot point in one of this year’s biggest Oscar contenders.
His appointee Elon Musk regularly makes anti-trans statements and endorsed Germany’s far-right AfD party, which has opposed some gay rights.
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