Results for: bisexual
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20 Years Later, “Thirteen” (2003) Should Be In the Queer Girl Coming-of-Age Canon
Some movies are so powerful, you don’t even have to see them. It’s enough to steal a furtive glance at two older girls with pierced tongues on a DVD cover at your local Blockbuster.
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‘Appropriate Behavior’ Says F*ck Your Coming Out Arc
Desiree Akhavan’s debut feature is one of the best indie queer movies of the past decade.
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‘Foxfire’ and the Intensity of Queer Teen Friendship
When you’re a teenager and only remember a decade of your life, everything feels new and important. Every feeling, every relationship, every night feels like it’s going to last forever.
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‘All About Eve’ and the Gay Marriage of Careerism
Audiences have long read queerness onto Eve due to her obsession with Margo and a brief moment when she’s seen walking upstairs with her “roommate.” She fits into the trope of the conniving lesbian — a vampire feasting on Margo’s life instead of her blood.
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From Birth, to a Crush, to Death, ‘If These Walls Could Talk 2’ Covers All Stages of Lesbian Life
Who could ever forget the first time they saw Chloë Sevigny’s butch Amy in If These Walls Could Talk 2?
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‘Rent’ (The Film) Is Best Performed Live (By You)
Rent will never be a perfect movie. And it never needs to be. Because Rent is best enjoyed singing it loudly at the top of your lungs, dancing until you break a sweat, and the collapsing exhausted against your couch with your best friends.
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“Mulholland Drive” and the Power That Lurks in the Shadows
David Lynch’s 2001 masterpiece has a thematic core that has been largely ignored.
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Lily Tomlin’s “Grandma” Is as Angry as We Are About Anti-Abortion Assholes
I rewatched Grandma the day after Justice Alito’s leaked draft opinion was published and I marveled, once again, at how prescient Lily Tomlin’s best roles are.
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“The Hours” Welcomed Me Into a Lineage of Sapphic Suffering
I watch The Hours whenever I’m sad.
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“The Truth About Jane” Is Dated as Heck, and That’s a Very Good Thing
The dialogue isn’t exactly elegant — though there is one deeply quotable moment when Jane’s lesbian teacher asks her what’s wrong and Jane says, “I’m gay and everyone hates me!!!!!!”
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Eroticism Isn’t a Distraction in Maryam Keshavarz’s “Circumstance”—It’s Vital
“If you could be anywhere in the world, where would you be?”
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“Saving Face” Made My Lesbian Dance Floor Fantasies Come True
“I don’t know what’s gayer: the outfit itself or the fact that Vivian remembers it in such specific detail 19 years later.”
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Dee Rees’ “Pariah” Will Still Break You Open and Let the Light Shine Through
Alike is a chameleon, disappearing in the light of her surroundings — purple in the club, green on the bus, pink at home — only ever showing you her profile when she’s forced to be less than her authentic self.
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Watching “Personal Best” Was the Main Way to Become a Lesbian in the ’80s and ’90s
Bend It Like Beckham could never.
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“Water Lilies” Is a Memory of Gay Adolescence
It’s impossible to forget a feeling like sitting on the bleachers watching Floriane swim. It’s impossible to forget the drowning.
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“Mommy Is Coming”: Cheryl Dunye’s Self-Reflexive Sex Comedy Dissects and Embraces the Erotic
Sex is weird, and this movie leans into that without pretending to have all the answers.
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“Cracks” Is a Boarding School Monster Movie
It’s a piercing portrayal of abuse. It’s a monster movie, only instead of a creature in the night, its monster is a human woman.
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On “High Art” and Being Young and Gay
Age gap relationships have always been and will likely always be a part of queer culture.
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Yes, “Loving Annabelle” Is Problematic — But it Was a Vital Film in My Own Queer Journey
There’s a reason forbidden romances like this spoke to me as a closeted person!
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Is “Imagine Me & You” Even Good? I Don’t Know, But I Keep Rewatching It
Arranging flowers is gay — you heard it here first.