The director explains how the queer literary canon and coming of age during ACT UP influenced his depiction of suburban queer lives in the 1950s
Michelle Krasovitski
Michelle Krasovitski is a pop culture writer based in Toronto. Her articles on film and TV have been published in Teen Vogue, Little White Lies, and The Verge.
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