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A gay history of the Muppets Pepe the Prawn, Kermit the Frog, and Gonzo smile at the camera
Movie Features TV Feature

A Queer History of the Muppets

From Kermit’s drag persona Kermeena to nonbinary icon Gonzo, The Muppets have always been queer on-screen and among their fans.

Emma Cieslik July 7, 2025 2 Comments
Every Al Pacino movie is gay: Pacino in The Godfather with the Out the Movies logo on the bottom
AF+ Movie Features

Every Al Pacino Movie Is Gay

The queerness of Pacino’s filmography is a reminder. While the media and your worst uncle claim the newness of queer and trans people, the truth is we have always been here. This cinema belongs to us as much as it does any straight film bro.

Drew Burnett Gregory July 3, 2025 3 Comments
An alligator in water filled with bright green runoff in River of Grass
Movie Features

Saving the Everglades Is a Queer Issue

Queer Floridian Juan Barquin talks to fellow queer Floridian Sasha Wortzel about her new documentary River of Grass and the beauty of the Everglades.

Juan Barquin July 2, 2025 3 Comments
Eva Victor poses at a Sorry, Baby screening dressed in a white turtleneck and white suit jacket.
Movie Features

Eva Victor Didn’t Tell a Woman’s Story

“I understand why people like to speak about Agnes and Lydie’s friendship as female friendship but I think it is more complicated than that and the film is more trans than people want it to be.”

Rendy Jones June 26, 2025
Director Zackary Drucker speaks to Amanda Lear in her documentary Enigma
Movie Features

Zackary Drucker Is a Complicated Woman

“I think people often have a paternalistic protection of trans women that’s actually infantilizing.”

Drew Burnett Gregory June 24, 2025
Dakota Johnson and Pedro Pascal dance in Materialists. The Dykes Discuss logo at the bottom of the frame.
AF+ Movie Features

Dykes Discuss Celine Song’s ‘Materialists’

Two dykes break down the baffling heterosexuality (and plot choices) in Celine Song’s second film, Materialists.

Drew Burnett Gregory and Christina Tucker
June 21, 2025 1 Comment
Fawzia Mirza interview: a close up of Fawzia in a tan sweater with a gold chain and thick black glasses
Movie Features

Fawzia Mirza Is Undeniable

“There’s no way anyone would’ve made this movie in the U.S. They didn’t want to. And now when those same people see it they’re like oh you did it!”

Drew Burnett Gregory June 20, 2025 2 Comments
Agnes Varda and Jane Birkin with the Out the Movies logo at the bottom
AF+ Movie Features

Of Course Agnès Varda Was Bisexual

The reveal that Varda was bisexual should have filled me with the joy of a Gaylor finding a Karli Kloss sex tape. Instead, it felt like information I’d already known.

Drew Burnett Gregory June 19, 2025
A close up of Ayo Edebiri with a bloody lip in the movie Bottoms now on Blu-Ray from Kino Lorber
Movie Features

10 Things We Learned from the ‘Bottoms’ Cast Commentary

Bottoms is now available on Blu-ray through Kino Lorber, and it has a ton of extras that are sure to knock you out.

Rendy Jones June 18, 2025 1 Comment
Pamela Voorhees wears her iconic blue sweater and stares with her mouth open in Friday the 13th
Movie Features

The 13 Gayest Things About the Supposedly Straight Horror Movie ‘Friday the 13th’

HAPPY PRIDE EDITION OF FRIDAY THE 13TH, FREAKS!!!!!

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya June 13, 2025 12 Comments
A triptych of the same image of Sex Change: Shock! Horror! Probe! director Kristiene Clarke getting kissed on the cheek at a film festival
Movie Features

This Trans Woman Has Directed 70 Films Since the ’80s

If you’ve never heard the name Kristiene Clarke, Jaye Hudson aka TGirlsonFilm plans to change that.

Drew Burnett Gregory June 6, 2025 2 Comments
Nicholas Alexander and Bobbi Salvör Menuez stand side by side in the woods in Adam (2019)
Movie Features

An Oral History of ‘Adam’ (2019), the Most Controversial Trans Movie of All Time

Five years after its release, the cast and crew behind ‘Adam’ (2019) look back on the film, the controversy, and the culture that shaped both.

Drew Burnett Gregory June 5, 2025 15 Comments
Helen Hunt looks at Bill Paxton incredulously in Twister with the Out the Movies logo at the bottom
AF+ Movie Features

I Don’t Think You’re Stupid. I Just Think I Know More About Movies

“If I express that opinion, it’s not to say someone who did connect with the new film is wrong. We just had different experiences of a work of art based on our tastes, our personal experiences, and, yes, our knowledgebase.”

Drew Burnett Gregory June 5, 2025 6 Comments
dog in front of a rainbow
Movie Features

Lowkey Queer-Coded ‘Lulu is a Rhinoceros’ Is a Musical Romp For Kids About Self-Acceptance

“It’s a story about acceptance and love,” Alex Newell told me. “Not just about acceptance from other people — your own acceptance of what you want, who you are, and what you wanna be.”

Sa'iyda Shabazz May 30, 2025 2 Comments
Movie Features TV Feature

Nava Mau Is Playing Her Own Game — And Changing the World Along the Way

Watch Emmy nominee Nava Mau’s new film and read about the community work that inspired her film and TV career.

Drew Burnett Gregory May 29, 2025 2 Comments
Justice Smith in I Saw the TV Glow with Thank You for Watching behind him.
Movie Features

These Queers Saw the TV Glow

A year after its release, many trans people credit Jane Schoenbrun’s I Saw the TV Glow for inspiring major changes in their lives.

Juan Barquin May 23, 2025 2 Comments
A screenshot of Shirley MacLaine crying in Sweet Charity with the Out the Movies logo on the bottom
AF+ Movie Features

Why Do I Define Transness By Rejection?

My trans story is no longer one of romantic rejection and yet these films are still where I project connection.

Drew Burnett Gregory May 22, 2025 2 Comments
A still of two women in a bathtub together from All About Love with the Out the Movies logo at the bottom
AF+ Movie Features

Out the Movies: I Tried To Watch Every Lesbian Movie Ever

By the time I’d been out for two years, I’d seen more movies about cis lesbians than any of the cis lesbians I was meeting.

Drew Burnett Gregory May 8, 2025 2 Comments
Aayla Secura looking queer in a revealing outfit right before her death scene in Revenge of the Sith
Movie Features

The Top Five Jedi in ‘Revenge of the Sith’ Ranked by Lesbian Vibes

In honor of May the 4th and Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith returning to theatres, let’s look back on some of the dykiest Jedi.

Lisa Laman May 4, 2025 2 Comments
Jayme Lawson crawls across the stage in a musical number in Sinnrs
Movie Features Music

‘Sinners’ Is a Black Musical

Most Indigenous Black music is rooted in that one thing: a singular shared pulse.

Tima April 24, 2025 5 Comments
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