Red, White & Royal Blue: A fairytale queer love story!Prime Video's Red, White & Royal Blue is the stereotype crushing, queer fairytale love story we have all been waiting for.
by Luh Tsele
18-08-2023 13:47
in Entertainment
The stars of the movie Red, White & Royal Blue -Taylor Zakhar Perez and Nicholas Galitzine. Image via Instagram: @rwrbonprime
With its new hit romantic comedy, Amazon Prime gives LGBTIQ youth a fairytale they can see themselves reflected in. Royalty aside, because not everyone is that lucky. Red, White & Royal Blue tells the old, and quite honestly tired story of coming out in a cute and relatable way.
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We have the novel to thank for this Based on the Casey Mcquiston novel of the same name, Red, White & Royal Blue forces one to imagine what it would be like to be powerful beyond ordinary means, and still be denied your heart's desires. As the story goes, a Prince meets the First Son of the United States. The two fall in love but cannot be together because of the pressures of society (because it has always been a pain ), and the crown.
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Henry, the handsome British Prince (played by Nicholas Galitzine), and Alex, the equally gorgeous first son (played by Taylor Zakhar Perez) navigate all these challenges to eventually triumph over all the noise with their epic love.
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Stand out moments in Red, White & Royal Blue Aside from Taylor momentarily stealing all the attention with his perfect butt (that was on full display by the way), there are a few moments that rise above the rest. The scene where Alex comes out to his mom is particularly powerful, because it shows the beauty that can occur when a young queer gets embraced by their parent in lieu of being shunned.
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Another spotlight stealer is the final moment of Red, White & Royal Blue. We get to see how powerful humanity can be, when people come together to assert that love is love. Love does not only live within the walls of heteronormativity, as society would have us believe. It is universal, and has the ability to spread itself across all sexualities, and gender identities.
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Red, White, & Royal Blue Official Trailer | Prime Video Well done Prime Video The world is changing, and it is imperative that the media takes all the opportunities it gets to tell relatable queer stories. Listen, not everyone will see the light but some will, and the way to do that is with consistent LGBTIQ representation. I loved Red, White & Royal Blue, it walked into the room, I turned my head, and said that boy is a 10!
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Red, White & Royal Blue is streaming now, on Prime Video worldwide.
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Red, White & Royal Blue: A fairytale queer love story!Prime Video's Red, White & Royal Blue is the stereotype crushing, queer fairytale love story we have all been waiting for.
