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Love, Simon made history this year by becoming the first gay teen rom-com released by a major studio, 20th Century Fox. This is no small victory for representation. Since its March 16 release, the film has accumulated over $37 million in domestic box office sales and offered a groundbreaking coming-out story that will help a generation of LGBT youth and their parents.

As the old saying goes — when it rains, it pours. Amazingly, another queer teen’s journey of self-discovery has made it to the big screen within weeks of Love, Simon’s debut. (The staffers at GLAAD, the LGBT media organization that routinely reports a near-absence of queer visibility in movie theaters, must be pinching themselves.) It arrives in an unlikely package: Blockers, a Seth Rogen-produced sex comedy about three parents trying to preserve the virginity of their daughters on prom night.

Surprisingly, there are a striking number of similarities between Love, Simon and Blockers. Both recount coming-of-age tales of closeted teens who are unsure how to tell their friends and family members about their identity. Both queer characters fall for a person of a different race. Both stories end in a triumphant kiss.

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