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First Person Movie Features

I Want To Get in Your Car: Hitchhiking and ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’

I’ve hitchhiked twice, and neither time was with a driver I would describe as particularly normal.

Wanda Noonan 16 hours ago
Aunt Gladys
Movie Features

The Real Aunt Gladys Lurking in Suburban Homes

The parasite motif in Weapons is admittedly on the nose, but when you consider how groomers and rightwing influencers alike require a rapt audience of sycophantic followers, Gladys draining the life out of a classroom’s worth of kids suddenly doesn’t seem too far from real life.

Nico October 30, 2025 1 Comment
Nia DaCosta and Tessa Thompson
Movie Features

“Everyone’s Gay!” Nia DaCosta and Tessa Thompson on Their Queer Period Film ‘Hedda’

“What I feel excited about mostly is that I think this film is a piece of work that defies easy categorization, and that’s how I feel as a person.”

Sa'iyda Shabazz October 29, 2025
Katy O'Brian and Jack Haven in Queens of the Dead
Movie Features

Tina Romero Made the Gay Zombie Apocalypse Film of Your Dreams

Tina Romero is doing zombie cinema her own way: letting drag queens, Katy O’Brian with a crossbow, and Margaret Cho with a blowtorch bash zombie brains.

Rendy Jones October 28, 2025 2 Comments
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Movie Features

Frankenstein (2025) and the Queer Pursuit of Being Loved for Your Full Self

Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein directly draws a line between parental abuse and monster-making.

Rendy Jones October 28, 2025 2 Comments
Alien
Movie Features

AI Wants Us Dead

There aren’t many things in this world I call “ontologically evil” with a serious disposition, but AI has become one of them over the last three years.

Stef Rubino October 27, 2025 7 Comments
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Movie Features

Lesbian Poet Staceyann Chin Will Not Be Silent

In an interview with Autostraddle, Staceyann Chin describes the wild journey of trying to procure sperm in the early aughts to become pregnant as a single lesbian.

Sa'iyda Shabazz October 17, 2025 3 Comments
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First Person Movie Features

I’ve Been Into the Further and Back

In Insidious, both father and eldest son possess the ability to project their consciousness elsewhere. The father does not remember this. Is it a gift if you want to forget it ever existed?

Autumn Fourkiller October 15, 2025 6 Comments
Angela Baker in Sleepaway Camp
Movie Features

‘Sleepaway Camp’ Was Kinda Heterophobic if You Think About It

Sleepaway Camp depicts heterosexual desire, particularly from men, as being predatory, transactional, cruel, and destructive.

Nic Anstett October 11, 2025 3 Comments
Shelley Duvall in The Shining
Movie Features

The Real Horror of ‘The Shining’

I stopped taking care of myself because I thought that’s what it meant to be serious about writing. 

Gen October 9, 2025 5 Comments
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Astrology, Tarot & Witchcraft Issues Movie Lists

Horrorscopes: What Queer Horror Film Should You Watch This Month, Based on Your Sign

Horoscopes can be a useful way of understanding ourselves and working toward personal growth; HORRORscopes can let us avoid that personal growth by reveling in our own mess and allowing our “evil” sides in. And doesn’t that sound more fun?!

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya October 7, 2025 3 Comments
Issues Movie Lists

60 Queer Horror Movies and Shows To Stream This Month

Gather round stream queens, it’s time to watch queer horror all month long.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya and Drew Burnett Gregory
October 3, 2025 15 Comments
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Movie Lists TV Lists

October 2025: What’s New, Gay and Streaming on Hulu, Prime Video, Netflix, HBO Max, Mubi, Peacock and Britbox

We’ve got the streaming release of the Aubrey Plaza / Margaret Qualley lesbian neo-noir film, Tessa Thompson starring in a newly queered Hedda Gabler adaptation, new seasons of Hazbin Hotel and so much more for your gay October.

Riese October 1, 2025 9 Comments
Motocrossed
Movie Features

A Trans Guy Watches ‘Motocrossed’ for the First Time

Motocrossed, a Disney Channel Original Movie that premiered in 2001, is an even more canonically trans film than She’s the Man. I will die on that hill, as if I just crashed off it in a motocross race. 

Gabe Dunn September 29, 2025 5 Comments
Blue Crush
Movie Features

A Trans Guy Watches ‘Blue Crush’ for the First Time

For someone gay whose favorite movie is probably the original Point Break, I can’t believe I had never seen 2002’s Blue Crush. 

Gabe Dunn September 23, 2025 5 Comments
Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery
Movie Reviews

TIFF 2025: New Documentary Champions the Music Industry Rebellion That Was Lilith Fair

It also displays the cost of this rebellion.

Drew Burnett Gregory September 15, 2025 6 Comments
Jordan Gonzalez in The Long Walk
Movie Features

Jordan Gonzalez Wants To Play Every Role

Jordan Gonzalez makes the jump from TV to film with his role in The Long Walk.

Rendy Jones September 13, 2025 4 Comments
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Movie Lists

44 Films Featuring Transmasc Characters

From 1935 to 2025: Here’s almost a century of evolution in transmasc representation in cinema.

Gabe Dunn September 10, 2025 5 Comments
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Movie Reviews

TIFF 2025: Jodie Foster Speaks French, Impregnates a Woman in ‘A Private Life’

The last few years have brought a renaissance of sorts for Jodie Foster.

Drew Burnett Gregory September 10, 2025 1 Comment
Tessa Thompson in Hedda
Movie Reviews

TIFF 2025: ‘Hedda’ Brings the Dyke Drama to Ibsen

The whole cast is wonderful, but Tessa Thompson and Nina Hoss are the film’s core.

Drew Burnett Gregory September 9, 2025 5 Comments
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