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Lesbian Movies for Every Valentine’s Day Vibe

Whether you’re single, recently dumped, in love, or somewhere in between, we’ve got Valentine’s Day lesbian movie recs for you!

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya February 11, 2025 4 Comments
HOLIGAYS The Family Stone
Christmas Movie Features

Why I Rewatch ‘The Family Stone’ Every Year

The Family Stone is many queer folks’ first introduction to warm, unconditional familial love.

Motti December 24, 2024 3 Comments
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Christmas Movie Features

In Search of a Queer Christmas Horror Classic

If one quality ties the Christmas horror subgenre together, it’s an oddball, camp sensibility that almost always feels at least a little bit queer.

Payton McCarty-Simas December 19, 2024
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Christmas Movie Lists

45 Christmas Movies With Lesbian, Bisexual, Queer or Trans Characters

In a world once lacking Christmas movies with lesbian, bisexual, queer women and non-binary characters, the tides of the North Pole are shifting, and we’ve got a great list of LGBTQ+ Christmas movies for you!

Riese and The TV Team
December 18, 2024 34 Comments
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Christmas Movie Reviews

‘A Nonsense Christmas with Sabrina Carpenter’ Makes the Yuletide Gay and Horny

Sabrina Carpenter gives the gays everything they want this Christmas.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya December 9, 2024 2 Comments
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Holigays Movie Features Shopping

The Top 10 Queer Home Video Releases of 2024

Physical media is back! Or, for some of us, it never left. Here are the best queer Blu-Ray and DVD releases of 2024.

Drew Burnett Gregory November 29, 2024 1 Comment
Christmas Movie Reviews

Hallmark’s “Friends and Family Christmas” Is The Cheesy Holiday Romance Sapphics Deserve

“Friends and Family Christmas is everything that those of us who want an easy, cheesy Christmas romcom could ask for. Low stakes, lots of twinkly lights, and two openly queer actresses playing the romantic leads.”

Sa'iyda Shabazz December 24, 2023 7 Comments
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Christmas Movie Features

My Favorite Queer Christmas Movie Is “How To Blow Up a Pipeline”

Yes, it’s a Christmas movie actually. Let me explain.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya December 22, 2023 6 Comments
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Jewish Holidays Movie Reviews

We Got High and Watched Hallmark Hanukkah Movie “Round and Round,” and Yes of Course the Sister Is a Lesbian

“Do you think we think everyone is gay because they are or because we are or because we are high or because of Jewish?”

Drew Burnett Gregory and Riese
December 13, 2023 7 Comments
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Christmas Movie Features Quizzes

If You Get 18/29 On This Quiz, You’re a Christmas Movie Expert and Also Probably Gay

If you love a good Christmas movie or even a bad Christmas movie, then it’s time to test your Christmas movie knowledge!

Riese December 6, 2023 12 Comments
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Health Movie Reviews

“Periodical” Is a Valuable, Inclusive Documentary About Menstruation

I am fully ready to admit that, yes, indeed, we needed an informational documentary about periods and I am glad this one exists. 

Nico December 1, 2023 2 Comments
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Christmas Movie Reviews

I Got High and Watched Tello’s Latest Lesbian Christmas Movie, “A Holiday I Do”

Wow Rivkah Reyes really said I will be stealing hearts like the Grinch stole Christmas.

Drew Burnett Gregory November 11, 2023 16 Comments
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Halloween Movie Features

Obsessed: How “Nightmare On Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge” Ruined Its Gay Lead’s Life

“Looking back, it was so gay. It was amazing….all I can say was, we were all incredibly naive. Or, all incredibly latently gay. I’m not sure which.”

Riese October 27, 2023 2 Comments
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Christmas Movie Lists

Actually, These Are Christmas Movies, Too!

Think of these movies more as a cozy fireplace with stockings hung on them, rather than a Christmas tree lit up in the center of the room.

Analyssa December 23, 2022 28 Comments
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Christmas Movie Reviews

10 Cute Couple Things I Imagined Javicia Leslie and Jojo Gibbs Doing in “Something From Tiffany’s”

Sapphic wives in a new Christmas movie? Yes! Now make them the main characters!

Nic December 16, 2022 4 Comments
DVDs of Manji, Therese and Isabelle, Make a Wish, and Memento Mori.
Holigays Movie Lists

Holigay Gift Guide: 10 Rare Lesbian Movies To Buy for the Queer Cinephile Who Has Seen Everything

In the age of streaming, it may seem like physical media is the way of the past. But streaming options are very limited.

Drew Burnett Gregory November 29, 2022 8 Comments
A collage of movie stills from the movies featured in the article
Christmas Movie Lists

The Gay Nightmare Before Christmas: A Holiday Fanfic of Disturbing Lesbian Movies

Consider this your break from happy endings and an opportunity for some gay yuletide catharsis.

Drew Burnett Gregory December 15, 2021 7 Comments
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Christmas Movie Reviews

“Everybody’s Fine” Is a Pretty Good Christmasy Movie With Three Minutes of Shane

This overlooked kinda-Christmas movie from 2009 features Drew Barrymore as the bisexual daughter of a telephone wire enthusiast who never takes his jacket off and also Kate Moennig is in it!

Riese December 11, 2021 1 Comment
A collage of five images from the list: Brandy's Cinderella, A Wrinkle in Time, Anastasia, Coco, and Practical Magic
Holigays Movie Lists

9 Witchy Alternatives to Traditional Holiday Movies

Any movie in which sisters reunite to kill bad boyfriends feels like Christmas to me, okay?

Jeanna December 9, 2021 10 Comments
Christmas Movie Reviews

Tello’s “Christmas at the Ranch” Is a Welcome Horse Girl Holigay Rom-Com

Bonus: Literal patriarchal destruction! My grown-up Christmas wish!

Heather Hogan December 4, 2021 15 Comments
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