“I watched Alien: Covenant and there’s a gay couple in it, and I had no idea,” Spa Night director Andrew Ahn tells Vanity Fair, laughing. Unfortunately, their “coming out” scenes have mostly been lost in translation.
Recent films like Beauty and the Beast and Power Rangers have “broken ground” or “made history”-according to these headlines, anyway-as major Hollywood releases featuring openly queer characters. Hollywood is having an “exclusively gay moment”-a phrase inadvertently coined by director Bill Condon this winter and overblown by media attention.
