‘Sheer outrageousness’: writers on their favourite LGBTQ+ movie characters

From gritty criminals to teens coming to terms with their identity, pride month sees Guardian writers on their most beloved queer characters Forget about dimly lit period dramas where miserable women with no access to electricity gently sob in their heaving corsets and accidentally-on-purpose brush hands in the trembling candlelight; overblown, bombastic heist-capers and brooding, butch anti-heroes are far more up my street when it comes to lesbian cinema. What, after all, could be more intensely gay than immediately committing to a life of crime with someone you’ve only just set eyes on? My f

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