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A History of Gay Films Being Snubbed by the Oscars Up Through Moonlight’s Stunning, Historic Upset

Including Rebel Without A Cause, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Paris Is Burning, Happy Together, Brokeback Mountain, Milk, Pariah, The Imitation Game, Carol, and finally Moonlight.

Don’t forget La La Land’s whitewashing and straightwashing, Emma Stone’s and Ryan Goslings’ contact with whitewashing, the erasure of the gay history behind Rebel Without A Cause. Also remember films like Blue Is the Warmest Color, Tangerine, The Handmaiden, and countless others that have fallen through the cracks, though some have won, and finally, how Moonlight beat a movie that was always going to look like this.

Bonus: Straight/cis actors who made bank and rep off LGBT roles: