Why I Rewatch ‘The Family Stone’ Every Year
The Family Stone is many queer folks’ first introduction to warm, unconditional familial love.
The Cowardly Lion Has Always Been Queer
Colman Domingo’s casting in Wicked: For Good highlights an often overlooked aspect of the film’s queerness: the character of the Cowardly Lion. In performance, dialogue, and storyline, the Cowardly Lion has always been queer.
‘Christy’ Knocked Me on My Ass
The real Christy Martin isn’t afraid to talk about the psychological toll of her abuse.
I Want To Get in Your Car: Hitchhiking and ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’
I’ve hitchhiked twice, and neither time was with a driver I would describe as particularly normal.
The Real Aunt Gladys Lurking in Suburban Homes
The parasite motif in Weapons is admittedly on the nose, but when you consider how groomers and rightwing influencers alike require a rapt audience of sycophantic followers, Gladys draining the life out of a classroom’s worth of kids suddenly doesn’t seem too far from real life.
“Everyone’s Gay!” Nia DaCosta and Tessa Thompson on Their Queer Period Film ‘Hedda’
“What I feel excited about mostly is that I think this film is a piece of work that defies easy categorization, and that’s how I feel as a person.”
Tina Romero Made the Gay Zombie Apocalypse Film of Your Dreams
Tina Romero is doing zombie cinema her own way: letting drag queens, Katy O’Brian with a crossbow, and Margaret Cho with a blowtorch bash zombie brains.
Frankenstein (2025) and the Queer Pursuit of Being Loved for Your Full Self
Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein directly draws a line between parental abuse and monster-making.
AI Wants Us Dead
There aren’t many things in this world I call “ontologically evil” with a serious disposition, but AI has become one of them over the last three years.
Lesbian Poet Staceyann Chin Will Not Be Silent
In an interview with Autostraddle, Staceyann Chin describes the wild journey of trying to procure sperm in the early aughts to become pregnant as a single lesbian.
I’ve Been Into the Further and Back
In Insidious, both father and eldest son possess the ability to project their consciousness elsewhere. The father does not remember this. Is it a gift if you want to forget it ever existed?
‘Sleepaway Camp’ Was Kinda Heterophobic if You Think About It
Sleepaway Camp depicts heterosexual desire, particularly from men, as being predatory, transactional, cruel, and destructive.
The Real Horror of ‘The Shining’
I stopped taking care of myself because I thought that’s what it meant to be serious about writing.
A Trans Guy Watches ‘Motocrossed’ for the First Time
Motocrossed, a Disney Channel Original Movie that premiered in 2001, is an even more canonically trans film than She’s the Man. I will die on that hill, as if I just crashed off it in a motocross race.
A Trans Guy Watches ‘Blue Crush’ for the First Time
For someone gay whose favorite movie is probably the original Point Break, I can’t believe I had never seen 2002’s Blue Crush.
Jordan Gonzalez Wants To Play Every Role
Jordan Gonzalez makes the jump from TV to film with his role in The Long Walk.
A Trans Guy Watches ‘Cadet Kelly’ for the First Time
This movie isn’t only lesbian. It’s a gateway to an adulthood of kink.
Remember When ‘Brokeback Mountain’ Lost to ‘Crash’ at the Oscars?
When it looked like Brokeback was going to sweep awards season, I couldn’t believe it. Queerness wouldn’t be a joke anymore.
What Makes the Perfect Gender Surgeon? A Freak
I keep thinking about The Assignment, a bizarre and barely remembered action movie from 2016.
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.