With Ariana DeBose's Oscar win for best supporting actress for her role of Anita in "West Side Story," she became not just the first Afro-Latinx person to win an acting award, but also the first openly queer person to do so. In her speech, she said, "Now you see why Anita says, 'I want to be in America,' because even in this weary world that we live in, dreams come true."