Results for: queer parenting
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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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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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Homoerotic Friendships, Mosquita Y Mari, and the Things We Never Said
My friendship with her actually ended twice.
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Sundance 2024: A Queer and Trans Festival Recap
Reporting daily with queer movie reviews from one of the world’s most prestigious film festivals.
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Elm Street Was a Nightmare Before Freddy Made It One
Elm Street was just another part of a society — our society, where people are taught to care very little for each other.
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How Likely a Dyke Could Ruin My Life in Iconic Outfits From “Passages”
Fashion isn’t what makes this character toxic, but clothes can tell you a lot about a person. The clothes from Passages always tell a story.
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“Final Destination” Accidents That Changed My Brain Chemistry
I loved the gory deaths, I loved the twists and the near-miss fakeouts, and I loved Ali Larter’s Clear Rivers in a way my deeply closeted brain couldn’t quite comprehend.
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Slow Takes: We Come to This Place for Magic
A movie theatre was the first reason I left my apartment after the 2016 election.
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Your Film Bro Girlfriend: A Lesbian Introduction to Martin Scorsese
Hi, my name is Drew Burnett Gregory and today I’m going to be your film bro girlfriend. Our topic? The one and only Martin Scorsese.
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Representation Matters but I Didn’t Expect Bottoms To Take It So Far for Me
On discovering a doppelgänger in an unlikely place.
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Revisiting Iconic Pride Scenes From Film and Television
It turns out…there aren’t that many? Where is the 200 Cigarettes-style Pride comedy we deserve?!
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The 13 Gayest Things About the Supposedly Straight Horror Movie “Friday the 13th”
Happy Friday the 13th! I revisited one of my favorite slasher films of all time and came to this important conclusion: Mrs. Voorhees is mommi.
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Anatomy of a Queer Sex Scene: The Sex in “Bound” Changed Our Lives
Bound was so ahead of its time it would still be ahead of its time if it came out today.
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Can You Feel the Kenergy?
There’s a specific kind of trans masc quality to the way that Ken dresses and takes up space if I’m being honest. That’s the siren call, the Kenergy,
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Who’s To Blame for the On-Set Conditions of “The Color Purple” (2023)?
They weren’t asking for the moon. They were asking for industry standard.
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TIFF 2022: A Queer and Trans Festival Recap
Over the past couple weeks, I’ve watched forty features and the first two episodes of a TV show. Yes, forty. Consider this list a reference, a collection of short reviews for the rest of the year’s buzzed about films and films that should be buzzed about.
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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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Auli’i Cravalho on Coming Out on TikTok, Midnight Heartfelt Queer Convos, and Hulu’s “Crush”
“Laying down next to a pretty girl in moonlight and talking about our feelings, like… it’s just movie magic.”