Finally, A Spanish Lesbian Version of ‘The Birdcage’

Kind of.

Unlike Happiest Season, where the young characters walk on eggshells so as not to disturb their parents’ deep-rooted homophobia (which is never adequately addressed at any point in the movie), So My Grandma’s a Lesbian! (aka Salir del Ropero) is a film where the young people are the homophobic ones and the old ones are desperately begging them to please stop hating themselves and just let them live already.

My biggest problem with Happiest Season was how homophobia was positioned as the norm, something all gay kids need to go through and should be patient during. Just a lil hate-filled bump in the ‘ole gay road. But really homophobia is horrible. It’s like sooo fucked up. It’s disgusting and straight-up weird to dislike or disown a loved one because of who they’re romantically or sexually involved with. And we need to always position it that way. Fortunately, So My Grandma’s a Lesbian! did.

The movie — which kind of feels like it was edited by somebody who’d had a couple of cocktails — opens with Celia and Sofía, the grandmas who fall in love, at their absolutely sick house in the Canary Islands. The highlight of this film is for sure the location. I’ve never thought about going to the Canary Islands but now it’s the only place I ever want to visit. It’s absolutely stunning and it’s…