When “Love, Simon,” Greg Berlanti’s rom-com about a closeted kid in Atlanta, debuted in 2018, it did so as the first-ever gay teen film from a major studio.
As such, it had roughly 150 years of straight cinema (and centuries of LGBT existence) to measure up to, and many queer viewers found it lacking.
For some, the titular Simon (Nick Robinson) felt like too mainstream a representation of gay life: too white, too middle-class, too mild-mannered.
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