When they’re caught by the camp leader, Megan expects that Graham will leave the camp with her, but Graham is afraid of her father’s threats to cut off all support, so she stays.ĭuring a Christmas party, Harper and Abby are outed. Megan falls in love with fellow camper Graham (Clea DuVall) and the two begin a secret relationship. At the camp, Megan learns “how to be straight” through a parody of heteronormative training sessions. In But I’m a Cheerleader, high school cheerleader Megan (Natasha Lyonne) is sent to conversion therapy camp after her family stages an intervention because they believe she’s a lesbian. Both put a romantic comedy spin on topics such as lack of acceptance from family members, pressure to conform to heteronormativity, and families of choice. With the digital release of the But I’m a Cheerleader director’s cut in late 2020, around the same time Hulu’s gay holiday rom-com Happiest Season was released, I found myself considering the two films in juxtaposition, and what their respective happy endings say about the kinds of stories we tell.īut I’m a Cheerleader (1999) and Happiest Season (2020) are both important entries in the queer cinema canon - But I’m a Cheerleader is a beloved cult classic, and Happiest Season made history as the first holiday rom-com from a major Hollywood studio to center on a same-sex couple.
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