MJ Rodriguez as Blanca Rodriguez in “Pose”Picture: FX
This yr was one for the books, with historic award wins together with film and TV firsts. Right here’s a glance again on the greatest moments in LGBTQ+ popular culture for 2022.
Michaela Jaé Rodriguez received a Golden Globe Award
On January 9, Michaela Jaé Rodriguez grew to become the primary out transgender actress to win a Golden Globe. She took dwelling the award for Finest Actress in a TV Drama for her position as Blanca on FX’s Pose (the primary Golden Globe win for Pose).
Rodriguez wrote on Instagram: “That is the door that’s going to open the door for a lot of extra younger gifted people. They may see that it’s greater than attainable. They may see {that a} younger Black Latina lady from Newark New Jersey who had a dream, to vary the minds others would WITH LOVE. LOVE WINS. To my younger LGBTQAI infants WE ARE HERE the door is now open now attain the celebrities!!!!!”
Amy Schneider’s epic run on Jeopardy! concluded
Trans champion Amy Schneider was lastly crushed in a sport of Jeopardy! on January 26, ending her successful streak of 40 video games with a complete haul of $1,382,800. Her run was the second-longest after Kevin Jennings’ document, making her the winningest girl contestant in Jeopardy! historical past. She was the primary out transgender contestant to make it to the Tournament of Champions and wore a trans pleasure pin on the present.
Schneider’s now residing the dream: she stop her day job, received engaged to her girlfriend, and the couple married in September.
Queer stars like Brandi Carlile and Lil Nas X wowed on the Grammys
Queer artists ruled the 2022 Grammy Awards ceremony in April. Brandi Carlile walked the pink carpet together with her spouse (they kissed!) in a go well with fabricated from crystals after which carried out her tune “Proper on Time” backed by rainbow lights. It was an epic lesbian moment and Carlile had six different nominations that night time, together with Report of the 12 months and two completely different songs for Tune of the 12 months.
Lil Nas X additionally went into the night time with a number of nominations, together with Report of the 12 months and Tune of the 12 months. His medley efficiency of “Useless Proper Now,” “Trade Child” and “Montero (Name Me By Your Identify)” in epic-as-always outfits introduced the home down.
Ariana DeBose made historical past on the Oscars
Ariana DeBose grew to become the primary out queer girl of shade to win an Academy Award for performing when she received Finest Actress in a Supporting Function in March. She performed Anita within the movie West Facet Story and acknowledged the second in her acceptance speech (whereas carrying pants) after saying that she is overtly queer: “To anyone who has ever questioned your id ever, ever, ever, or you end up residing within the grey areas, I promise you this: There may be, certainly, a spot for us.”
Laverne Cox received her personal Barbie
In Could, Mattel launched a Laverne Cox tribute Barbie doll – the first transgender Barbie. In Mattel’s description, the doll is carrying “a triple-threat unique design, that includes a deep pink tulle robe gracefully draped over a stunning, silver metallic bodysuit.”
“I can’t await followers to search out my doll on cabinets and have the chance so as to add a Barbie doll modeled after a transgender particular person to their assortment,” Cox said. “I hope that folks can take a look at this Barbie and dream large like I’ve in my profession. The house of dreaming and manifesting is such a robust supply and leads you to realize greater than what you initially thought was attainable.”
Lightyear had a queer character
Pixar continued its small steps in the direction of LGBTQ+ on-screen illustration with Lightyear, the Toy Story spin-off film launched in June. However it didn’t occur with out controversy.
The queer character, Alisha Hawthorne, Buzz Lightyear’s commanding officer and finest buddy voiced by out actor Uzo Aduba, is a extra important character than previous small roles in Disney/Pixar movies, and she or he is clearly in a relationship with one other girl – in contrast to previous characters that had been maybe ambiguously queer. Earlier than the film’s launch, Pixar employees went public with their anger over their employer cutting Hawthorne’s same-sex kiss. The publicity labored and the kiss was added again in pre-release, a primary for such a wide-release function youngsters’s animated movie.
The movie was censored from being released at all in over a dozen countries, together with Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, due to Hawthorne’s inclusion.
Bros premiered
Bros, starring Billy Eichner and Luke Macfarlane, was a homosexual romantic comedy launched by a serious studio in theatres nationwide in October. It was an enormous second in LGBTQ+ illustration in movie. Whereas the film did have usually positive reviews, it flopped on the field workplace, failing to make up Common Photos’ multi-million greenback funding in it.
Eichner tweeted that “straight individuals, particularly in sure elements of the nation, simply didn’t present up for Bros.” Even with 90 percent audience approval on Rotten Tomatoes, if non-LGBTQ+ individuals don’t purchase tickets to see an LGBTQ+ forged taking part in out LGBTQ+ storylines, we’ll have an extended street forward for film studios shopping for our tales sooner or later.
Molly Kearney joined Saturday Night time Reside
While we lost Kate McKinnon from the SNL cast at the end of this season, 4 recent faces joined the present, together with the first out nonbinary cast member, Molly Kearney. Kearney performed Fern Dannley in Prime Video’s A League of Their Own this yr (a queer popular culture second in its personal proper) and was additionally in Disney+’s The Mighty Geese: Sport Changers. They’ll be part of Bowen Yang (who additionally had a job in Bros) and Punkie Johnson as out LGBTQ+ forged members.
