‘Bend It Like Beckham’ and bending conceptions of my sexuality
While "Bend it Like Beckham" is often mistaken for a coming-of-age story about soccer player best friends, many of us saw our own baby queer desires in Jess and Jules' relationship. Because love is just as much about heartbreak as it is about romance. Read all the stories from our Love Bites series here. Are We All Gay Now Because of Keira Knightley in Bend It Like
In honor of Keira Knightley's 40th birthday, we've compiled stories from LGBTQ+ individuals who consider 'Bend It Like Beckham's Jules to be their gay root. For years, I thought I was alone in my Jules obsession; even though my best friend from high school turned out to be a bisexual adult too, we would have rather died than admit to each other that we were… you know … back then, so we sat side by side rewatching Bend It Like Beckham on successive Saturday nights as though we were just really into soccer-related coming-of-age independent films. LMAO, even! 
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Bend It Like Beckham is a sports comedy-drama film directed by Gurinder Chadha from a screenplay by Chadha, Paul Mayeda Berges, and Guljit Bindra. The film stars Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Anupam Kher, Juliet Stevenson, Shaznay Lewis and Archie Panjabi. [7]. Despite this, the film does explicitly deal with queerness in two subplots with positive representation. This highlights the dichotomy of identities that are expected of diasporic Indians when it comes to queerness.
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The director of “Bend It Like Beckham,” Gurinder Chadha (“Bride & Prejudice”), had originally written Joe as an older coach, never intending for him to be a love interest for Jess, but later changed the script at the recommendation of the production company she was working with. But before I could come to terms with such a concept, I needed to uncover the missing piece of myself that was ardently telling me I was different and could never fit in with the girls around me. This, I would realize, was my unrecognized Queerness. 'Bend it Like Beckham' Is the Gayest Love Story Never Told
Don't forget to turn on notifications! The Bend it Like Beckham revolved around Jess (Parminder Nagra) a young girl who wants to play football professionally. I thought she was Pisces? And since then, my queer friends and I quote these lines at least once a month, while rolling around laughing. 
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The film’s central characters as well as the main plot are not explicitly queer, but “Bend It Like Beckham” is iconic as a queer film because of its heavily sapphic-coded relationship between Jess and Jules. Despite this, the film does explicitly deal with queerness in two subplots with positive representation. .
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Groundbreaking 00s film Bend It Like Beckham made waves with its representation of British Asian culture. But it has an equally important queer subtext, argues Shivani Dave. . 
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Sarah and Sindu discuss the , sports comedy, Bend it Like Beckham. How Gay is it? Did Sarah think arrange marriages were just a Hollywood story line? Jo. .