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    From June 2023 to June 2024 I'll be watching a lgbtqia+ film each week and coming back here with my thoughts, feelings and plenty of hopes we aren't met with the "kill your gays" trope. I call this The 52. I have a lot of feelings and I don’t think I can express them well, or accurately, or… or at all, truly, because the crux of it is that I think this was a good film. But it was also a very, very bad one. Image Credit: Wikipedia Bohemian Rhapsody follows, predominantly, Freddie Mercury’s rise to fame, a difficult story to tell when Freddie himself is not here to weigh in on how it is being told. In death he has absolutely become a figurehead and a legend, but he is a legend who absolutely deserved better than to have his story told for him and for his sickness and death to become the most important facet of this biopic. I certainly didn’t dislike the film, and watched it with far more attention than many of my recent watches, but there is no denying the whole th