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Bend It Like Beckham

Emma Specter is the Culture Writer at Voguewhere she covers film, TV, books, politics, news, and almost anything queer. 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.

She looked like me except she was cool and confident. But deeper down, it was the mis-reading of their platonic intimacy that I found most intoxicating. Save Story Save this story. I soon decided I needed to own the DVD. It became the comfort movie I kept rewatching, partly because it looked like our friendships—playful, multi-racial, intimate, devoted, with men very peripheral just sub out soccer team for ultimate Frisbee.

Search Search. More Great Culture Stories from Vogue. Sign In. Contact Us. About Vogue. 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.

The Vogue Runway app has expanded! The film stars Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Anupam Kher, Juliet Stevenson, Shaznay Lewis and Archie Panjabi. LMAO, even! 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.

I was a tomboy weirdo with a very traditionally girly straight dbz gay sister and a history of intense, obsessive female friendships, so I think I just really related to Jess.

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. At 15, to have our girl-crush romances mis read as true lesbianism was what I most feared and most wanted.

It felt like she was supposed to be hot for me. Update to the latest version to see all Vogue content, as well as new features like our Runway Genius quiz, Group Chats, and posts from Vogue contributors. Her first book, More Please: On Read More.

A young Emily. The baby tees, the leather jacket and bandana, her jersey loosely draped over her boyish frame, the way her hair was too short to put in a ponytail; she was so hot-coded, but in a different way than I had really considered before.

[7]. It was a classic young queer confusion—did I want to grow up and become her, or did I want to grow up and have a girlfriend just like her? Come on! She was like if Jonathan Taylor Thomas was tall and smelled good and had a British accent, and she was good at sports and had a temper?!

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