On February 27, The HRC Published a story about the incorporation of The Kids Are All Right at the Oscars. They outline the ways that Annette Bening was being included as a Best Actress candidate and how important the role was for the GLBT community.
As I read this article I am reminded of my own feelings of the realization that a movie about a gay family was able to take such big strides and show so many of the facets that a gay lifestyle can have. I like that an organization with as much clout as the HRC is able to remind the gay community how lucky we are to have an inclusion that would have been unheard of a few decades ago. At the same time, I wish that the article would have had a bit more of a push toward how much more inclusion and recognition we still need in order to be truly welcomed into society. A movie is an mazing step, but where is the call to action about how sad it is that this movie was noteworthy BECAUSE of its queerness? Where is the anger that Bening's Oscar nod arguably came, in large part, because of the subject matter of her film? Why aren't we focusing on the beautiful acting job that she blessed us with?
Unfortunately, this article is little more than a happy recognition for what is definitely an important film. However, it makes me nervous that this film is being viewed as an arrival, rather than a stepping stone to a world where a gay family in a movie raises no more eyebrows than a heterosexual family does.
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