Even in this weary world that we live in, dreams do come true — Ariana DeBose, as she accepts her Oscar for winning Best Supporting Actress for the movie, West Side Story. In the same role that Rita Moreno won her Oscar sixty years ago, they both played Anita.
Ariana DeBose is the first Afro-Latin American to win the Academy Award. She is also openly gay.
Gay representation
Moments like this should be celebrated, while we live in 2022, many young gay people can feel lost in a world where many still see them as different.
It is why Hollywood needs to cast roles properly, in the original Westside Story, many of the actors were made to look Puerto Ricans, using makeup. Not in this new version, there is no ‘brown-face’ to cover up the actor’s faces, as it should be.