Results for: representation
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Never Have I Ever’s Queer South Asian Representation Is a Cop Out
The writers seem more interested in giving fans the pairing they wanted to see after season two rather than developing Aneesa as a nuanced character in her own right.
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Will ‘Baby Reindeer’ Welcome a New Era of Complex Television?
We cannot fight stigmas around transness, queerness, and surviving abuse by reducing the complexities of life into rules and checklists.
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“Never Have I Ever Season Four” Stepped Right Into the Affirmative Action Debate
As in previous seasons, it’s hard not to feel that a show that’s theoretically about raising the profile of an often-misrepresented racial minority in America, instead completely misrepresents racism as it exists in America.
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Yes, “Griselda” On Netflix Is Bisexual — But Does That Matter?
What’s the line between the raw knuckled ambition of greed and capitalism that are at the root of crime genres, and the slimy, glamorous girlboss-ification of a notorious killer?
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“Dead End: Paranormal Park” and “Heartbreak High” Are for Autistic Queer Girls
Seeing Norma’s and Quinni’s nuanced portrayals of autistic queer teen girls heals the confused, scared, and incredibly lonely autistic queer teen girl I once was. And I’m so damn happy so many others are also feeling the same way.
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“Love on the Spectrum” Fails to Give Its Queer Woman the Dates She Deserves
While I was happy for Journey to be able to date, it felt like she was denied the opportunity to have age and experience-level appropriate encounters.
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Throughout Its Four Seasons, “Sex Education” Showed Us a Better Way
Worse sex education and less adolescent autonomy has consequences — consequences no show can overcome. It’s admirable to watch this one try.
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“Girls5eva” Season Three Is Gay and on a Mission
On the new season of Girls5Eva, Gloria is determined to sleep with every type of girl from “pre-Friends Courtney Cox” to “cigar mommis.”
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May 2024: What’s New, Gay and Streaming on Netflix, Max, Prime Video, Hulu, Paramount+, Apple TV and Peacock
We’ve got a biopic about a queer Italian rock star, a queer high school prom movie, a misanthropic lesbian journalist in a dark crime comedy set in Ireland, new seasons of We Are Lady Parts, Hacks and Acapulco and so much more! (Really!)
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An Autistic Reading of Stranger Things’ Robin Buckley
To have someone so similar to me portrayed as likable and capable in a major show, is thrilling.
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Francesca Farago Only Stayed On “Perfect Match” ‘Cause They Let Her Date a Woman
“I knew who was there, men-wise, and I was like, ‘I don’t know if I can waste anyone’s time by continuing to match with these men that I know I’m not going to get along with.'”
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Netflix’s Latest Teen Drama “Everything Now” Provides Very Queer and Honest Depiction of Anorexia
Everything Now finds an impressive balance: It doesn’t romanticize eating disorders, of course, but it also doesn’t sensationalize them.
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December 2022: What’s New and Gay To Stream
We’ve got the return of several queer-inclusive reality TV shows, movies like Bros and The Almond & The Seahorse, new seasons of Doom Patrol, Sort Of and Gossip Girl, and more!
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“Elite” Season 6 Is a Mess — and Not the Fun Kind
Season six brutally buries a gay, becomes reductive in its trans storytelling, and generally misses the mark.
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March 2023: What’s New and Gay To Stream
Friends it is finally time for Yellowjackets Season Two! Also a queer British comedy horror show set on a cruise ship, the Nan Goldin documentary, 1930s lesbian trysts in “Perry Mason,” a Mae Martin stand-up special and more!
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“Resident Evil” Has a Lesbian CEO to Die For
Evelyn Marcus is a sociopathic CEO first, a lesbian second. And that’s the kind of queer villain we deserve.
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January 2023: What’s New and Gay To Stream
We’ve got new seasons of Vox Machina, Hunters and Ginny & Georgia; a cringe comedy indie film set at a destination lesbian wedding, an action series that strands a lesbian on an oil rig, Alan Cummings’ competition reality show with a non-binary contestant, a new “very queer” Anne Rice adaptation, HBO’s “The Last of Us” and so much more!
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What’s New and Gay To Stream in August 2022
We’ve got the much-anticipated and very gay “League of Their Own” TV rebirth, a horror movie set at a gay conversion camp, the return of Never Have I Ever, the debut of the supernatural “Sandman” series and so much more!
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I Loved “Archive 81” — Then I Found Out Melody Got “Straightwashed”
By erasing Melody’s queerness, Archive 81 gains nothing and loses a lot.
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What’s New and Gay To Stream in September 2022
We’ve got the return of “The Handmaid’s Tale,” a super-queer Australian teen series, Netflix’s campy dark comedy flick “Do Revenge,” Beth Ditto in country music drama “Monarch,” Rachel Bloom starring as a lesbian TV writer in Hulu’s “Reboot” and so much more!