This adds to a long line of casting misnomers where otherwise cis-men are cast in films to play trans women—Jared Leto in Dallas Buyers Club, Eddie Redmayne in The Danish Girl, and Matt Bomer in Anything are a few examples that come to mind.
His conservative parents disapprove of his homosexuality and refuse to sign his scholarship application to Columbia University. Danny flees to New York City hoping to make it on his own. When he arrives, he discovers Christopher Street, an LGBTQ wonderland.
While LGBTQ representation in media is (slowly) getting better, it’s important to reminisce on the awful films that came before to remind ourselves what not to do when writing stories about people who exist along the sexual spectrum.