I would like to see more films with gay and transgender characters without the film being solely about them being gay and transgender. Even at the LGBT Film & Video Festival, while I realize that's the topic, most of the films are only about that instead of being a "regular" film with LGBT characters. I just watched a documentary today, Paris is Burning, about drag queens and trannies performing at Balls, which I suppose would be the older, not quite so obnoxious Drag Shows. Where the contestants dress up as more "normal" people, and you win by convincing the judges that you're straight and are really a business man, or student, or whatever type of person you're trying to dress up as. But while watching the film, the people were so incredibly charming, I don't know why we can't watch everyday things with them in it, why it always has to be about their sexuality and how they dress.
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