Bomb diggity

I want to state off the bat that the title of my post is what I thought of this movie- it was awesome! It was creepy and twisted, and very queer in my opinion. I do not feel that the sexual orientations of the cast and crew detracted from the queerness of the movie because they were acting, as actors do. If I go watch a movie about a serial killer I don't expect the actor playing the serial killer to be a serial killer in his/her real life too, that would be kind of ridiculous. When I watched Julie and Julia, I was aware that the main actors were not highly esteemed chefs off screen, and this did not detract from the film, so why would sexuality be any different? Also, I might be a little bit biased because I have a giant crush on Kate Winslet, but that aside, the sexual identity of the other actors/crew did not detract from the meaning of the film for me either. In addition to this, if the sexual identity of the cast/crew were to detract from the meaning of the film for me, I would feel as though I were being discriminatory and closed minded. Queer actors play straight characters and this doesn't make me think less of them or their cinematic creations.
On the flip side, I can see how this could be a challenging paradox because if we replace sexual identity with racial identity for this question, the answer for me would be totally different. If I saw a white person playing a latina character, I'd be like "WTF?! Not ok, definitely not ok", but for some reason I feel differently about sexuality. Perhaps the movie would have been stronger had they used queer actors for queer roles, and this goes for all films, but I don't think the use of "hetero" actors necessarily detracts from the film. Part of this might also be from my thinking that nobody is really 100% straight and all the way at the hetero end of the Kinsey scale, but maybe that's just me.
In regards to Female Trouble, I don't believe it has a larger fan base. Maybe I'm wrong, but just from my experiences in telling people about the movie, everyone I talked to said "What's that?" and when I mentioned Heavenly Creatures I got a more positive response and most of the people I talked to about it had seen the movie. I think Female Trouble is definitely queer, but I don't think it is as accessible because of its plot. I think that Heavenly Creatures is less queer because of the vagueness of the queer element in the film, but that it is much more accessible, and that for many queer people the queer element in the film is more visible, sort of like in the movie Fried Green Tomatoes - I think most queer folks, especially queer women, picked up pretty quickly on the queer element of that film, whereas straight folks, particularly those uncomfortable with queerness, probably didn't pick up on it because they didn't seek it out.
Lastly, I argue that the film Heavenly Creatures is most definitely queer. After all, the two girls kissed and had sex (in the film at least, maybe not in the real story, but I'm arguing in regards to the film only), and whether that is experimentation or not, it's queer in my book. Whether they were queer or not in reality, I don't think anybody can really say that except the two women themselves, and the queer element in the film was just one person's interpretation of Pauline's Diaries.