in a comment on to notes on a scandal post, grace stirs it up by asking, “Could you say that Steve Carell’s character in Little Miss Sunshine breaks the mold? Of course he’s a lonely, angsty bloke, but it’s never as a direct result of his queerdom, and his sexuality is never really touched on. His lover’s left him for someone else, he’s tried to kill himself… but the character of the lover would have been equally effective regardless of which genitals he possessed.” and this made me think that mynon-fandom of its unrealisticness made me miss an important aspect of the film that to-date, i haven’t seen written about: how normal the gay character was. read the little miss sunshine post read grace’s…