One of my all-time favorite action-adventure tropes is when there’s a very level-headed, stoic, calm and collected lady-hero — who goes absolutely feral when her girlfriend is in danger.
It’s an adaptation of “Sweeney Todd,” centered on a Puerto Rican woman in Washington Heights, that tells a story about the prison industrial complex and gentrification. And it’s deliciously good.
I know, statistically, even if none of my living relatives are queer that there have been queer people in my family’s past — clandestine meetings, grand love stories, one night…
