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#The Daily Stream: Crush Is The Sapphic Rom-Com Of Your Teen Dreams

“The Daily Stream: Crush Is The Sapphic Rom-Com Of Your Teen Dreams”

Despite the overwhelming belief that teen movies are nothing more than frivolous fluff, I spend a lot of time analyzing, assessing, and tracking the cultural patterns of teen cinema. Until very, very recently, queer stories weren’t reflected in coming-of-age films. The New Queer Cinema movement of the 1990s is held with high regard by queer audiences and film scholars, but the general public has likely no idea who Gregg Araki, Cheryl Dunye, or Isaac Julien are despite their immeasurable contributions. Fortunately, with the growing accessibility of streaming services and the demand for queer representation as LGBTQIA+ visibility increases, producers are finally realizing that queer stories are ones worth telling.

“Crush” is a groundbreaking teen rom-com, because it’s not about being queer, it just is queer. There’s no dramatic coming out storyline, our queer protagonist isn’t pining after a straight person and hoping the power of love will overcome orientation, there’s no uncomfortable age gap, it’s not a period piece, and no one dies. The tropes that exist in “Crush” are not rooted in the queer stories told by straight people for straight audiences, following, instead, the similar beats established in the films of John Hughes, Amy Heckerling, or, Karen McCullah and Kirsten Smith. “Crush” is essential not because it’s some inspirational tale of queer love overcoming the odds in a straight world that will garner Oscar-buzz from well-meaning Academy voters, but because it’s a very cute teen rom-com that allows queer people to see a love that looks like theirs reflected on screen without having to endure all of the traumatic nonsense usually required. Queer people deserve low-stakes, formulaic teenage happy ending movies too, damn it!

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