Results for: you need help
-
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.
-
From “Bring It On” to “Love Lies Bleeding”: The Best Training Montages of All Time
No matter the point of the movie, the training montage is a moment of unabashed euphoria: Here’s our “hero” (or “heroes”) doing what it takes to attempt to beat the odds.
-
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.
-
“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.
-
I’ll Spend This Entire Weekend Thinking About That One Scene From “The Marvels”
There’s the kind of gay you can see, and the kind of gay you can touch, and then there’s the kind of gay that you just know.
-
Scream VI Review: Why Do Y’all Keep Picking Up The Phone?!
Scream VI is as queer as you were hoping it would be! Jump scares and gay smooching, let’s go!
-
“Fitting In” Is a Queer and Heartfelt Coming-Of-Age Movie About Body Diversity
The movie is explicitly a celebration of our different bodies and the disconnect between certain biological markers and gender. Even some cis women don’t have uteruses. Even some cis women need to dilate.
-
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!
-
A Trans Guy Watches ‘She’s the Man’ for the First Time
I avoided the 2006 teen comedy She’s the Man for almost two decades. Now it was finally time to watch it.
-
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.
-
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.
-
HBO Max Abortion Documentary “The Janes” Reminds Us Revolution Is Possible Wherever We Are
The Janes documents the group of women in 1960s Chicago who came together to provide safe abortion access to women who needed it.
-
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.”
-
‘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.
-
‘Rent’ (The Film) Is Best Performed Live (By You)
Rent will never be a perfect movie. And it never needs to be. Because Rent is best enjoyed singing it loudly at the top of your lungs, dancing until you break a sweat, and the collapsing exhausted against your couch with your best friends.
-
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.
-
“Beyond the Aggressives” Has Arrived Just On Time For Black Trans Masc Representation
Beyond the Aggressives shows us how far we have come in terms of portraying trans masc people, but we still have such a long way to go.
-
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.”
-
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.
-
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.”