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Activists have launched a petition requesting Warner Brothers to officially make the Wonder Woman bisexual in the film’s sequel.
It’s not easy to find a movie with bisexual characters. It’s even harder to find one that offers a positive and authentic depiction of bisexuality. All too often, when a film has bisexual or pansexual characters, they’re often depicted as greedy villains. This is because sexual fluidity is equated to moral fluidity, notes
In honor of #BiWeek, we’re celebrating films that have done a great (or at least reasonably decent) job at depicting bisexuality on the silver screen. Sure, not all of these films have a happy ending—
An iconic musical on its own, the film follows a bunch of performers at a Berlin cabaret club at the height of the Weimar Republic in the 1930s. Known for being avant-garde in its time, the film features bisexuality via the throuple relationship between Brian, Max, and Sally.
Charlize Theron stars as a bisexual 1980s spy on a mission to find a group of double agents the day before the Berlin Wall collapses. While the movie is primarily an action film, it also explores the main character’s romantic side.
Bi representation on screen has significantly increased ever since the noughties and the 2010s. There have been a few recent indie films dealing with bisexuality in a truly refreshing way.
Bisexual Iranian-American director and actor Desiree Akhavan made her directorial debut with this funny, honest film, loosely inspired by her own life.
However, 2019 saw the release of The Favourite which not only proved that bisexual films can be widely successful and critically-acclaimed, but also showed the importance of representation.
Because of this, we’ve compiled a list of bisexual films that walked so that The Favorite could run. How many have you seen?
Desiree Akhavan, who directed, wrote and starred in this playful and dark comedy, plays the character of Shirin who is struggling to blend her three identities of being: the perfect Persian daughter, the politically correct bisexual and the girl trying to make it in a big city. At the beginning of the film, you quickly find out that the protagonist has recently been dumped, is homeless and has lost her job. We love an overachiever. Throughout the film, we follow Shirin as she tries to retake control of her life with a broken heart and the judgement of her parents. Appropriate Behaviour explores the reality of bisexuality in a real-world context.
Old Town Road may have been knocked from the number one spot on the Billboard Hot 100 but nothing says yeehaw like the bisexual duo of Ennis Del Mar, played by Heath Ledger, and Jack Twist, played by Jack Gyllenhaal. Brokeback Mountain tells the tale of the relationship of Del Mar and Twist who meet when they’re both hired by a farmer to herd sheep. Set against the backdrop of the Wyoming mountains in the summer of 1963, Del Mar and Twist develop a sporadic sexual affair that continues long after their initial encounter on Brokeback Mountain. And though the pair both find wives, Del Mar with Alma (played by Michelle Williams) and Twist with Lureen (played by Anne Hathaway) the lovers still rekindle their affair on their annual fishing trip. The film received three Academy Awards and today is still considered a staple of LGBTQ cinema.
