Results for: you need help
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You Need Help: Can I Kill Queer Characters As A Queer Writer?
If queer creators are so worried about backlash from the community that we begin to self-censor, then the only interesting queer work will be made by straight people.
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The Age of Toxic Queer Women On-Screen Should Tackle Movie Musicals Next
In the last year a slew of movies have begun to presuppose, “What if queer women were out of their goddamn minds?” And that’s exactly what the musical genre needs.
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“A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors” and the Horror of Generational Trauma
What Dream Warriors does is present us with a very real suggestion for how we can move forward, for how we can heal, and for how we can create a new alliance against the violence we see in our society and in the communities we’re a part of.
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Style Thief: How To Harness the Texan Lesthario Style of Drive-Away Dolls’ Jamie
Invest in a big-buckled belt and get ready to break some hearts!
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Anatomy of a Queer Sex Scene: The Rules of Desire in ‘Y Tu Mamá También’
Y Tu Mamá También relies on ambiguity: Partly, I presume, so that it could reach audiences who might not have watched the film had it been more explicitly gay. I know young me wouldn’t have dared to.
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Anatomy of a Queer Sex Scene: “Desert Hearts” Celebrates Lesbian Patience and Persistence
Sex isn’t the only way to encourage people to be themselves. But, hey, it sure can be convincing.
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Brigette Lundy-Paine Is Making Their Own Kind of Trans Art
“There’s a movie that I really want to do that’s a girl part and then I’m done. I’m excited to give myself the gift of being an out trans person.”
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‘Love Lies Bleeding’ and the History of Female Bodybuilding Reveal Society’s Fear of ‘Monstrous’ Women
In Love Lies Bleeding, the two main female characters exist outside of the dominant cultural ideas of what makes a woman and what makes a man, not just in their bodies and in their actions, but also in their queerness.
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A Queer Syllabus for the Writers and Actors Strike
As Hot Strike Summer rapidly turns into Hot Strike Fall — I’ve become deeply interested in the trend where the forefront of labor movements are vocally and visibly, well, gay as hell.
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Vera Drew and Gabe Dunn Talk ‘The People’s Joker’ and the Delusion of Creating Weird Trans Art
“Most queer art is trauma porn, but not enough talks about how the traumatic relationships we have can actually inform our identity and bring us to that level of who we are.”
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How ‘Booksmart’ Helped Me Come Out as Nonbinary
Although she was swimming, I knew she was soaring. To see her comfortable in her skin and happy with who she was at that moment was so important to me.
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What Makes a Sexy Lesbian Screenshot
“I want to amend my answer and say I prefer the kiss itself if it’s open mouth and the almost kiss if it’s just going to be two chaste actors smashing faces.”
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Anatomy of a Queer Sex Scene: ‘Go Fish’ and When the Best Part of Sex Is Telling Your Friends
The Go Fish sex scene is so hot because it’s a story. It’s an ideal of first connection everyone — friend and lover — can bond over and aspire to manifest.
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Who’s To Blame for the On-Set Conditions of “The Color Purple” (2023)?
They weren’t asking for the moon. They were asking for industry standard.
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Were We Ever So Young: Couples We Used To Ship and Were Extremely Wrong About
Now we are older and wiser! We can look back on our favorite toxic ships with compassion or horror or both.
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The Most Important Relationship in “Anatomy of a Fall” Is Between Mother and Son
The first time I heard people posing the question of whether or not Sandra killed her husband, I thought it was a joke. To me, it was obvious the court drama was just set dressing for something more complicated.
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Meet Tricia Cooke, the Lesbian Activist Married to a Coen Brother and the Brains Behind “Drive-Away Dolls”
“I’ve certainly talked more about my personal life in the last six months than I have in my entire life. But, you know, I was always out as a lesbian to friends and family. I never thought it was of much interest until we made this movie.”
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Peaches Christ and Mink Stole vs. Death
Peaches Christ wants to make sure artists young and old, dead and living, are properly celebrated. That’s true whether she’s mentoring future Drag Race winners or writing a show with her idol turned friend, Mink Stole.
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Where Are All the Scream Kings?
When I was in fourth grade, I got in trouble for discussing how fast my body would decompose if I was stabbed.
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Anatomy of a Queer Sex Scene: Drive-Away Dolls Is Suffused With Lesbian Sex Throughout
“Justice for shower sex! It’s so controversial but I’m very pro.”