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What’s New and Gay to Stream in February 2024
We’ve got a new polyamorous pansexual dating reality show, Keke Palmer voicing a queer alien doctor, the second season of Vigil starring Surrane Jones as a lesbian and more!
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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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Actresses Born Before My Grandma Ranked by How Badly I Want Them to Top Me
I am a sucker for a mid-atlantic accent and a beauty in black and white.
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“Poor Things” and the Monsters We Know
From the very beginning, Bella’s freedom was dependent on her ability to pay for it and to keep paying for it.
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“Blue Jean” Is a Painful and Hopeful Story of a Queer Teacher
There’s a reason teachers have long been a battleground for queer progress — in fiction and in real life.
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“Moving On” Is a Traumatic Farce Elevated By Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda
Watching Fonda and Tomlin perform is like watching an Olympic athlete or a world-renowned ballerina. They are masters of their craft and it’s awe-inspiring to witness.
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A Queer Syllabus for the Writers and Actors Strike
As Hot Strike Summer rapidly turns into Hot Strike Fall — I’ve become deeply interested in the trend where the forefront of labor movements are vocally and visibly, well, gay as hell.
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From Birth, to a Crush, to Death, ‘If These Walls Could Talk 2’ Covers All Stages of Lesbian Life
Who could ever forget the first time they saw Chloë Sevigny’s butch Amy in If These Walls Could Talk 2?
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November 2023: What’s New and Gay To Stream
We’ve got Lena Hedley topping women in space, Josie Totah playing queer in a delightful period piece, the “Black Cake” adaptation, the lesbian pregnancy thriller on Lifetime, new seasons of Selling Sunset and Rap Sh!t, and more!
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Hulu’s “Bad Hair” Skewers Racist Beauty Standards in a Film That’s Half Horror, Half Satire
Dani and Shelli got together to chat about Justin Simien’s new satirical horror movie, their own relationships with their hair over the years, and being over the compulsion to make space for white audiences in Black films.
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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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What’s New and Gay To Stream in December 2020
December on HBO Max, Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime has everything: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, a Euphoria special, troubled girls stranded on a desert island and so much more.
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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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‘Rent’ (The Film) Is Best Performed Live (By You)
Rent will never be a perfect movie. And it never needs to be. Because Rent is best enjoyed singing it loudly at the top of your lungs, dancing until you break a sweat, and the collapsing exhausted against your couch with your best friends.
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The Best Queer Movies of 2023
It’s an incredible time be a queer cinephile. A list of the best queer movies of 2023 is basically just a list of the best movies period.
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They Should Have Sent A Poet
“I was around the same age as young Ellie when ‘Contact’ came out. The way she so clearly carries her childhood self with her made adulthood legible; it made time seem like less of an unknowable straight line and something more like a circle. Watching it as an adult I have that same feeling.”
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Tribeca 2022: “Petit Mal” Is A Lesbian Throuple’s Real Life Fiction
We are watching these three artists create drama together — which definition of drama is unclear.
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“The Matrix Resurrections” Takes the Franchise Past the Tipping Point
As the film reflects on the progress and lack thereof for trans people, it’s also a reminder of what we have to lose without inventive, intelligent big budget movies.
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From “My Best Friend’s Wedding” to “The Holdovers,” Paul Giamatti Is One of Cinema’s Great Listeners
To understand the magnitude of Paul Giamatti’s warm, yet thorny performance in The Holdovers, you must go further back into his filmography where the seeds of his on-screen persona were sown.
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TIFF 2022: “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery” Isn’t Worthy of Janelle Monáe
Sometimes letting a person be hot and funny and wear great outfits is all the politics you need.