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Lena Waithe’s “Queen & Slim” Left Me Still Hungry for Black Queer Freedom

“For a work touted as blackness for Black people, Queen & Slim ultimately offers not hope or a way forward, but more images of beautiful Black corpses added to the growing canon of Black death for consumption. And I’m simply not able to keep bearing witness.”

By Jehan|December 4, 2019|9 Comments
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“Season of Love” is a Cheesy Queer Holiday Movie of Our Own

Season of Love has the same mistletoe mishaps of any holiday movie, but with 200% more queerness.

By Valerie Anne|December 2, 2019|13 Comments
Film

“Frozen 2” Review: Elsa Gets Mommy Issues Instead of a Girlfriend

If Disney wasn’t ready to explicitly represent a fifth of its young audience, they could’ve at least given Elsa a gal pal. I don’t need to see Elsa make out with the mysterious voice calling her to the next chapter of queer life, but lord did it have to be her mother?

By Drew Gregory|November 25, 2019|21 Comments
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The New “Charlie’s Angels” Delivers Fights, Fashion, and Friendship

The movie pays homage to its predecessors while still charting its own course.

By Kayla|November 21, 2019|10 Comments
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“Portrait of a Lady on Fire” is a Staggering Work of Lesbian Gaze

Portrait of a Lady on Fire pushes against the boundaries of the screen, frantically, lovingly, desperately, erotically.

By Drew Gregory|November 18, 2019|29 Comments
Film

“Let It Snow” Review: I BELIEVE IN LOVE AND I BELIEVE IN CHRISTMAS

A very merry Christmas to us all! Netflix’s new holiday movie has a queer romance!

By Drew Gregory|November 8, 2019|39 Comments
Film

10 Horror Movies and What Type of Crush to Watch Them With

It doesn’t really matter what you watch as long as it has a few good scares. But why not bond with your crush over some very pointed queer horror? Here’s a list of ten films to watch this Halloween based specifically on what type of crush is currently haunting you.

By Drew Gregory|October 31, 2019|6 Comments
Film First Person

Monsters & Mommis: “Good Manners” Is a Tribute to Queer Motherhood

If the idea of having children as queer women is a fraught and complicated topic, Good Manners opens itself up to the mess.

By Drew Gregory|October 29, 2019|12 Comments
Film

New Queer Horror Film “Spiral” Explores the Blind Spots of White Gays

The fearsome thriller exposes the horror of unsupportive white partners.

By Jourdain Searles|October 28, 2019|8 Comments
Film

5 Girl-on-Girl Vampire Relationships That Do More for Me than Willow and Tara’s

Five vampire couples who may not be safe to hang around when they’re hungry, but are pretty good girlfriends

By BJ Colangelo|October 24, 2019|5 Comments
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10 Low-Key Horror Movies to Watch With Your Sensitive Butch Date

It’s officially October, which means it’s time to break out the horror movies. Here are a few suggestions to win over your summer crush that will be gone by spring.

By danijanae|October 23, 2019|16 Comments
Film

Gal Pals Without Benefits: Why Does Kissing Your Bestie Get You Killed in Horror Movies?

Using Barbara Creed’s ‘The Monstrous Feminine’ as a guide, I take you on a journey of exploration and analysis across the lethal lesbian kisses of horror history.

By Raid|October 22, 2019|2 Comments
Film

Monsters & Mommis: “Memento Mori” Asks Us to Remember the Dead

This is a ghost story. This is a horror movie. This is two decades of queer lives free to live.

By Drew Gregory|October 22, 2019|2 Comments
Film

Monsters & Mommis: “The Hunger” Is All About Fuckbois

She lets Miriam bite her arm. She lets Miriam suck her blood. She enjoys it. She wants more. She wants all of it.

By Drew Gregory|October 15, 2019|20 Comments
Film

“Ek Ladki” Is the First Bollywood Lesbian RomCom — but the Lesbians Fall Flat

Why did this movie tank so hard that it was almost immediately out of theaters in America? Why did this not get the coverage or accolades it deserved for being the first mainstream Bollywood movie about a lesbian relationship?
 
Well, long story short, the movie is bad.

By Nirali Sheth|October 15, 2019|10 Comments
Film

Observations on Heaven from Dante’s Paradiso That Also Apply to These Stills of Linda Hamilton

In a literary and historicist sense, Dante’s Divine Comedy was a mulit-volume narrative poem that advanced some notable theological suppositions about the afterlife; in another, more honest sense, though, it’s about what a fucking unreal silver fox Linda Hamilton is.

By Rachel|October 9, 2019|18 Comments
Film

Monsters & Mommis: Three Trips to Hill House

As The Haunting of Hill House has found new life across decades, the queerness has become more explicit yet less important to the overall work.

By Drew Gregory|October 8, 2019|11 Comments
Film

Monsters & Mommis: “Cat People” and “The Seventh Victim” Come Out of the Closet

The real horror is straight people.

By Drew Gregory|October 1, 2019|19 Comments
Film Politics + Activism

“I’m Not a Stripper, but I Play One on TV”: Why Hustlers Won’t Change the Game for Sex Workers

If you can’t handle the titties, get out the strip club, babe. Even if it’s a fictional one.

By Janis Luna|September 24, 2019|8 Comments
Film

“Hustlers” Stole My Heart While Robbing Rich White Men

“Jennifer Lopez’s entrance in Hustlers is better than any of us could have dreamed. But days later, the scene that won’t stop playing in my head happens almost directly afterwards, on the rooftop of the club where Ramona and Destiny work.”

By Carmen Phillips|September 16, 2019|16 Comments
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