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Here, Queer, Everywhere

“I JUST LOVE playing lesbians,” says Russian Doll star Rebecca Henderson. Indeed, viewers surfing between Freeform and Netflix these days can easily find the Toronto native repping for queer women. She’s appeared in LGBTQ+ projects as far back as Desiree Akhavan’s 2014 feature Appropriate Behavior. But at 41, she’s hit her career stride, and she’s done it playing the kinds of roles she hopes will make an impact.

“I think in my late 20s, this theater

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