Luca Guadagnino, Gregg Araki, Gus Van Sant, Kimberly Peirce, and Jamie Babbit On How Queer Filmmaking Has Changed

Their films went on to transform not only queer cinema, but American culture itself: expanding who could be visible onscreen and exposing stories that mainstream audiences could only imagine.

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But I’m a Cheerleader follows Megan (Natasha Lyonne), a girly teenage cheerleader whose family and friends send her to a conversion therapy camp because they suspect she’s a lesbian. Instead of being “cured,” she falls in love with another camper (Clea DuVall).

“I really wanted to…