Meet Gregor Lopes, the handsome deaf queer Latino performer ... winning film is said to have helped raise the awareness of deaf people in culture, but reports of have shown the 56% of deaf people ...

"This validates the fact that we deaf actors can work just like anybody else," Marlee Matlin said while accepting the award for CODA Benjamin VanHoose is a Staff Editor on the Movies team at PEOPLE.

featuring a full cast of seasoned Deaf actors performing in American Sign Language. The concert, part of the American Songbook series, put Deaf and ASL communities front and center. Check out ...