Girls Like Girls is a queer coming-of-age romance directed by Hayley Kiyoko, expanding her 2015 song and 2023 novel into a feature film. Seventeen-year-old Coley, grieving her mother and displaced after her parents' divorce, meets Sonya during a summer that reshapes how both young women understand themselves and each other. The Progressive label follows naturally from the material. Same-sex teen romance sits at the center, framed with warmth and agency rather than conflict or cautionary weight. Family structures in the story are fractured rather than traditional. The film treats queer identity as a source of connection, which is exactly the cultural stance that earns a leftward read.