Results for: straight people watch
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GLAAD Studio Responsibility Index Reveals Queer Women Basically Don’t Exist In Movies
“Yep, that’s right. Out of 314 major Hollywood film releases, one single film — Melissa McCarthy’s Tammy — passed the Vito Russo test with queer female characters.”
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Movie Review: “Life Partners” is About a Lesbian, Not a Man
I know you probably read the longline (Two codependent best friends — one straight girl, one lesbian — and the man who comes between them.) and wanted to shoot yourself, but this movie isn’t about a man at all AND it’s pretty good.
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Making It Out Alive: Theodora and the Lesbians of Horror
“After a while though we stopped thinking we were just reading this film with a gay lens (like I can’t help but do with Kiki’s Delivery Service) and actually looked it up online — where all the facts come from — and there it was. Theo is a lesbian.”
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“Saving Mr. Banks” Erases P.L. Travers’ Queer Identity, Misses Amazing Opportunity for Representation
In my mind, to fail at LGBT inclusion in fiction is to have a failure of imagination, a lazy lack of understanding concerning the world outside of one’s self. To intentionally choose to tell a story about a real LGBT person and then exclude their queer identity is a failure on an entirely different level.
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“United in Anger” Shares History of ACT UP Through Original Footage
“The birth and life of the AIDS activist movement from the perspective of the people in the trenches.”
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Mumbai’s Queer Film Festival Aims To Transform India’s Queer Landscape
Mumbai’s third annual Queer Film Festival wants to bring India’s vibrant queer life to mainstream culture.
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Can Gay Actors Play Straight Roles, Round 1,246: Luke Evans Edition
In ’02, Luke Evans said “if [being out] means I’m going to be a poor man at 60, then at least I’ve lived a happy, open, gay life and not had to hide it from anybody.” So why’s he being repackaged as a ladylover?
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Why Lesbians & ‘Queer-Radical Types’ Won’t Object to “The Kids Are All Right”
Jezebel investigates Salon’s claim that lesbians and “queer radicals” might not like “The Kids are All Right” and that the movie “isn’t made for us.” But despite the dude-on-lady love hinted at in the trailer, all the queer radicals we know really loved it! (We’re talking about Julie Goldman, basically)