Spirit Awards Honors Gay Moments in Straight Movies, Mostly Laura Dern

Just because a movie wasn’t overtly gay doesn’t mean it wasn’t basically gay all the same. It’s a truth everyone in the LGBTQ community knows, as we always see the queer waiting to burst out of its heteronormative confines.

And finally! A mainstream event celebrated what we have always known.

The Independent Spirit Awards brought out the Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles to perform an ode to all the gay moments in last year’s films that the heteros probably didn’t realize were gay. Honestly, the people who made them may not even have known they were gay! But they were. Gay. Very gay.

And what started out as an ode to a compilation of gay moments in straight cinema appropriately turned into an ode to one of our forever fave queer icons, Laura Dern.

Doesn’t matter which Laura Dern we’re talking about. Laura Dern in Marriage Story, Laura Dern in Little Women, Laura Dern in Big Little Lies, Laura Dern in that movie with Kristen Stewart no straight people saw, Laura Dern in all the Jurassic Parks… gay, gay, gay, gay, and roaringly gay. Obviously we don’t even need to mention her groundbreaking, career-halting, pantsuit-wearing episode of Ellen, the gayest motherfucker of them all.

And Dern’s shocked and appreciative reaction as the song just kept being about her and never stopped may have been the highlight of the whole night.

Top THAT, Oscars!!! (lol yeah right.)