Even the more acclaimed youth-driven gay films - Beautiful Thing and Edge of Seventeen in the 1990s, and more recent examples such as 2013’s Blue Is the Warmest Color or 2016’s Viva - were made outside of Hollywood and garnered limited releases. While there have been notable films that chronicled gay characters, from Longtime Companion (1990) to Brokeback Mountain (2005), TV has historically been the more progressive medium for telling the stories of being a homosexual teenager, from Dawson’s Creek (which Berlanti executive-produced) to Glee.
