Results for: queer parenting
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“Your Place or Mine” Fails To Explicitly Acknowledge Bit Butch Lesbian Character
As much as I’d love for Tig Notaro to be in all romantic comedies, I don’t want “butch best friend” to become the latest watered down LGBT character trope.
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Hulu’s “The Drop” Review: Lesbian Destination Wedding Goes Wonderfully Wrong
The movie delightfully mines marital conflicts for humor, but it falters in the writing of its lesbian characters.
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“The Fabulous Ones” and “Asog” Tell Trans Stories with Fact and Faction
What I’ll remember most about these films is the quiet, human moments. The laughter. The grief.
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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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The Mattachine Family Tells The Story Of A Very Specific Type Of Family
This may be an unpopular opinion, but I’d prefer no lesbians in a movie to lesbians who only exist as stereotypes.
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“The Origin of Evil” Is a Twisted and Twisty Queer Thriller
This is the best kind of genre filmmaking: smart but not so obsessed with its own intelligence that it forgets to be entertaining.
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“May December” and Performance as Sacrifice
When May December was first announced, many assumed Portman and Moore would be the titular months in a lesbian romance. While that is not the case, queerness is still important to the film.
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SXSW 2023: The Lives and Loves of Intersex People In “Who I Am Not”
An intimate look at the journey to figuring out where you belong
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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.”
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Egghead & Twinkie Has Everything You Want in a Feel-Good Comedy, It Just Happens To Be About Teenagers
I really love a road trip comedy, especially one with rock solid storytelling.
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“The Five Devils” Is a Time-Traveling Lesbian Romance About Lives Not Lived
It’s simple to mourn the alternate history where I came out as a teenager. It’s more complicated to mourn the alternate history where I came out later or not at all.
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Netflix’s “Anne+” Wonders What Comes After a Queer Happy Ending
The follow-up to the popular Dutch web series follows the titular Anne as all the happy endings from her show come unraveled. Luckily Anne is surrounded by supportive queer community, loving parents, and a new non-binary friend named Lou who introduces her to the world of drag.
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Netflix’s “Nimona” Is The Most Delightfully Queer Animated Movie Ever
Your loss, Disney!
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‘Housekeeping for Beginners’ Forms an Unlikely Queer Family
The found family at its center does not choose each other but are rather brought together by circumstance.
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“Piaffe” Is for the Kinky Arthouse Horse Girls — And Not Girls
From Cronenberg to Titane, trans audiences have long responded to work that pushes the boundaries of human bodies in lieu of traditional trans storytelling.
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‘But I’m a Cheerleader’ Made Internalized Homophobia Fun
Maybe asking Kelly from middle school if she wanted to see But I’m a Cheerleader was an invitation not just to the movie but to what we talked about beforehand.
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“Eldorado: Everything the Nazis Hate” Captures a History of Life and Death
I know, statistically, even if none of my living relatives are queer that there have been queer people in my family’s past — clandestine meetings, grand love stories, one night stands, gender deviance, angst, joy.
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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?”
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“Moving On” Is a Traumatic Farce Elevated By Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda
Watching Fonda and Tomlin perform is like watching an Olympic athlete or a world-renowned ballerina. They are masters of their craft and it’s awe-inspiring to witness.