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We Won — Sex Is Back On-Screen
With films like Drive-Away Dolls, Love Lies Bleeding, and Challengers, the movies are sexy again. But I’m not writing this piece to gloat — I’m writing it to get greedy.
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Twenty Years Later, “The Lion King 1 ½” Is Still the Gayest Disney Movie
The Lion King 1 ½ is a reminder that sometimes subtext is better — especially when it’s this texty.
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In the Symbolic World of the Deeply Gendered Barbieland, Allan Is Nonbinary
Allan’s discomfort creates an identification point for viewers who are also uncomfortable identifying with either the Barbies or the Kens, a third option in an otherwise binary Barbieland.
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The Best Queer Movie Scenes of 2023
Sex scenes, fight scenes, a fanfic-worthy cameo. The best queer movie scenes of 2023 are as varied as the films that contain them.
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“Total Eclipse of the Heart” Is the Queer Film and TV Song of the Year
For some reason, four different works of queer media have used “Total Eclipse of the Heart” this year.
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Seven Years Ago, Zoe Lister-Jones Made the Straightest Movie Ever — Now It Feels Super Gay
Knowing that Lister-Jones will divorce her husband and come out as queer, completely recontextualizes what’s on-screen.
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Bad Movies From the 2000s I Loved Because Two Women Make Out
Here’s the thing about bad movies between 2004 and 2006: A lot of them featured women making out.
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It’s Your Anniversary: My Rage at “Chasing Amy” Helped Me Find My Bisexuality
25 years later I was curious to see if I’d still hate it since I’ve stopped judging my queerness by my distance to gold star lesbian status.
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Watchlist: “The Girls: Sappho Goes to Hollywood” Reveals the Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich Affair
According to Diana McLellan’s seminal book The Girls: Sappho Goes to Hollywood, Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich did a lot more than meet.
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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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“Anyone but You” Was a Hetero Hit — Why Does It Take Place at a Lesbian Wedding?
The whole wedding somehow looks straighter than an Imagine Dragons fan guesting on The Joe Rogan Experience.
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The History and Future of Trans Women in Action Movies
The Matrix blew open the doors for what action movies could accomplish — why hasn’t it led to more trans-focused action cinema?
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It’s Time to Give Harley Quinn a Girlfriend on the Big Screen Already
Not only is fan uproar begging for Big Screen Harley and Ivy, but for the first time, the actual plot in front of us is screaming for it, too. It’s now or never for Harley Quinn to make the leap, and we’re quickly reaching a crescendo in her movie arc where to do anything else would be cowardly.
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Todd Haynes’ Cinema of Sight
May December is a thesis statement of sorts for Haynes’ entire filmography.
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I Still Can’t Believe Marvel’s Never Heard of Bisexuality
Captain Marvel is so gay the writers had to add a line of dialogue to try to convince the audience Maria and Carol slept in different rooms. You know, on account of the house they shared and the daughter they were raising together.
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Slow Takes: “F9: The Fast Saga” and the Danger of Queer Assimilation
I will always believe that homoerotic criminals are far queerer than explicitly gay cops.
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The State of Queer and Trans Film After the 2023 Sundance Film Festival
“In the past few years, we’ve been seeing queer people in film outside of trauma and pain. We’re seeing folks who can be terrible, romantic, sweet, murderous — and who also just happen to be queer.”
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Wonder Woman’s Star-Spangled Butt Has Always Been a Canvas for Feminist Hope and Male Misogyny
Zack Snyder and Joss Whedon were not, of course, the first men to use Wonder Woman’s body — and especially her butt — as a blank page onto which they could project their feelings about Wonder Woman, specifically, and women, generally.
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Sundance 2023: A Queer Festival Recap
Film festivals are one of the primary places that buzz begins. It’s why it’s so important that the first responses to films out of festivals aren’t solely those of cis straight white men working for major publications.
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Revisiting the Trans Metaphors, Fashion, and Horny Action of the Original Matrix Trilogy
Drew and Kayla discuss why they love the sequels, the first times they watched these movies, and the fact that Reloaded is the horniest Matrix installment.