What Hollywood can learn from a trip to 'Saturday Church'
by Tre'vell Anderson, Los Angeles Times
Jan 12, 2018
4 minutes
If Hollywood's 2017 revealed anything, it's that queer cinema is on the rise. From the historic Academy Award win for "Moonlight" early in the year to the releases of "Battle of the Sexes" and "Professor Marston and the Wonder Women" from major studios - not to mention this year's Oscar contenders "Call Me by Your Name, "A Fantastic Woman" and "The Wound' - films by and about LGBTQ people are receiving more attention and delivering more complex story lines.
The trend looks to continue in 2018, and the upcoming Ryan Murphy-created series "Pose" on FX could take things even farther on television with a historic LGBTQ-laden ensemble in a portrait of "ball culture" in '80s New York.
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