Results for: representation
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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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Queering the Canon: Where Are All The Trans Rom-Coms?
It’s time trans people get to showcase our desires, in all their variety, in all their complexity, in all their possibility.
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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.
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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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Chase Joynt on “Framing Agnes,” Collaboration, and Finding New Ways to Tell Trans Stories
“What an extraordinary middle finger to the whole apparatus! And I include myself in that.”
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Anatomy of a Queer Sex Scene: Drive-Away Dolls Is Suffused With Lesbian Sex Throughout
“Justice for shower sex! It’s so controversial but I’m very pro.”
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Beyond Gender Identity: A History of Trans Actors in Cis Roles
I’m talking about stories where the trans character’s transness isn’t the focus — where they’re allowed to be the worst behaved one or simply hot and getting laid or just really fucking good at their job.
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Long Live Eurosleaze
For all the queer art being made now, for all the films and the television shows and the webseries, I never feel as loved as I feel watching some micro-budget Italian horror film from 1975.
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Tribeca Film Festival 2022 May be It’s Queerest Season Yet
Dani Janae talks to Tribeca Film Festival programmers, Lucy Mukerjee and Shakira Refos, on the importance of investing in queer artists and audiences.
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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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Todd Haynes on “May December,” Queer Community, and Making Art in a Vile World
“My connection with gay women is the through-line of my entire life. But my queer community, as a whole, is not reducible to sexual practice. It’s more attitudinal. It’s the way we look at the world and stand outside certain norms.”
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Theo Germaine on the Queerness of Horror, the Alchemy of Time, and “They/Them”
“A lot of the history of horror is that, you know, those queer coded people who don’t fit in are baddies.”
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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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Having Some Film Festival FOMO? Here Are Six Queer Movies You Can Stream Right Now
My favorite film from last year’s Toronto International Film Festival is now streaming on Hulu! And my second favorite is streaming on Max!
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Stunt Queens: The History and Cultural Significance of the “Queerleader” in Film and Television
In honor of Bottoms, here are top queer cheerleader moments from film/TV.
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In “Past Lives,” It Really Is All on the Page
If you have yet to see Past Lives, you should watch it as soon as possible. But I think you should read the film, too.
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Why Do So Many Queer People Love Godzilla?
To celebrate the release of Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, we look at why classic Godzilla movies have such a big queer fanbase.
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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.”
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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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Every Character From Grease and Grease 2, Ranked by Lesbianism
In honor of this week’s release of “Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies,” we are ranking every character from Grease and Grease 2 by lesbianism.