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Harry Styles Is Playing Queer in a Feature Film, and I Need to Lie Down

The "Watermelon Sugar" rocker is traveling back in time to the 1950s.

Harry Styles is giving the girls and gays what we need: him playing queer in a period piece.

The "Lights Up" rocker is reportedly in talks to play the lead role in an onscreen adaptation of My Policeman, Bethan Roberts' critically acclaimed 1950s-set queer love story. Gay writer-producer extraordinaire Greg Berlanti (Love, Simon, Dawson's Creek) has been tapped to produce the adaptation for Amazon Studios, according to Collider.

The project is currently untitled, although it already has the makings of Oscar gold. Tony winner Michael Grandage (Genius) is directing from a script by Ron Nyswaner, who previously scored an Oscar nod for his work on Philadelphia. And actress Lily James (Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again) is slated to star alongside Styles.

My Policeman (2012) transports readers to 1950s Brighton, England, where a schoolteacher named Marion (James) falls for a handsome police officer named Tom (Styles). Tom, however, is drawn to Patrick, a glamorous museum curator. Since it's the '50s and homosexuality is still illegal, Tom takes the safe route and marries Marion while continuing to see Patrick. His two lovers share him until one of them breaks.

Although the love story is set in the '50s, the film will technically take place in the 1990s and use poignant flashbacks to unfold the tale. The drama, y'all!

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK - FEBRUARY 28: Harry Styles performs for SiriusXM and Pandora in New York City at Music Hall of Williamsburg on February 28, 2020. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for SiriusXM)

Styles has said he doesn't feel the need to label his sexual orientation, but the One Direction alum's solo music is ripe with evidence of queerness. He's been known to wave LGBTQ Pride flags at his concerts (see above).

The 26-year-old also guest-starred as an Instagay who loves poppers in the now-infamous "Sara Lee" Saturday Night Live sketch, which lives rent free in my head.

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