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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Stewart Thorndike on “Bad Things,” Motherhood, and Her Childhood Nightmares
“The world is a frightening, frightening place, so I don’t really understand why every film isn’t a horror film.”
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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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December 2023: What’s New, Gay and Streaming On Netflix, Hulu, Max, Starz, Shudder and Peacock
We’ve got new queer movies, a non-binary warrior in Zac Snyder’s Rebel Moon, Hallmark’s first lesbian-centric Christmas movie, a British sitcom about a depressed queer weirdo, a doc about queers in the midwest and another about the women’s soccer teams
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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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Lily Gladstone Is Gonna Be Gay In ‘The Wedding Banquet,’ Their Third Gay Role Of The Year
Legendary 90s queer rom-com the “The Wedding Banquet” is getting a remake and this one’s gonna be even gayer — with a cast that already includes Lily Gladstone, Bowen Yang and Kelly Marie Tran.
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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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Vuk Lungulov-Klotz on “Mutt,” Working With Trans Crew, and the Value of Sweetness
“You, as a trans person, might watch Mutt and see that it is balanced and sweet. A lot of people who aren’t trans think I’m putting my character through a lot.”
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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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The Queerest Horror Franchise Is and Always Has Been Chucky
Don Mancini has given us over three decades of queerness, from gender swapping and gay couples to killing John Waters and the cast of Bound.
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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!