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Movie Features

Anatomy of a Queer Sex Scene: “The Handmaiden” Has More Sex Scenes Than You Realize

The horniest parts of The Handmaiden wouldn’t really be called sex scenes by the average viewer and certainly not by the vast majority of straight viewers. But to me, they are sex.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya December 9, 2023 10 Comments
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Christmas Movie Features Quizzes

If You Get 18/29 On This Quiz, You’re a Christmas Movie Expert and Also Probably Gay

If you love a good Christmas movie or even a bad Christmas movie, then it’s time to test your Christmas movie knowledge!

Riese December 6, 2023 12 Comments
A collage with images from The Five Devils, The Fall of the House of Usher, Rotting in the Sun, and Bottoms.
Movie Features TV Feature

“Total Eclipse of the Heart” Is the Queer Film and TV Song of the Year

For some reason, four different works of queer media have used “Total Eclipse of the Heart” this year.

Drew Burnett Gregory December 4, 2023 3 Comments
Side by side images of Saltburn and The Bling Ring. Barry Keoghan rests his chin on one hand and holds a martini in the other wearing a tux. Emma Watson and Taissa Farmiga take a selfie together arms outstretched.
Movie Features

“Saltburn,” “The Bling Ring,” and the Pathetic Desperation of the Upper Middle Class

Upper middle class people are rich. But don’t try to tell them that.

Drew Burnett Gregory November 30, 2023 23 Comments
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Movie Features

Anatomy of a Queer Sex Scene: Disobedience Made Us Horny for Spit

Do I love the Disobedience sex scene because of how I have sex or do I have sex the way I do because of the Disobedience sex scene? Who can say!

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya and Drew Burnett Gregory
November 25, 2023 12 Comments
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Movie Features

Vuk Lungulov-Klotz on “Mutt,” Working With Trans Crew, and the Value of Sweetness

“You, as a trans person, might watch Mutt and see that it is balanced and sweet. A lot of people who aren’t trans think I’m putting my character through a lot.”

Motti November 22, 2023 2 Comments
A desaturated collage against a blue background. Mj Rodriguez, Sandra Caldwell, Morgan Davies, Holly Woodlawn, and Patti Harrison.
Movie Features TV Feature

Beyond Gender Identity: A History of Trans Actors in Cis Roles

I’m talking about stories where the trans character’s transness isn’t the focus — where they’re allowed to be the worst behaved one or simply hot and getting laid or just really fucking good at their job.

Motti November 19, 2023 5 Comments
Close up of Todd Haynes in black rimmed glasses and an open collar black suit. He's smiling.
Movie Features

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.”

Drew Burnett Gregory November 17, 2023 11 Comments
A collage of images from Twenties, Anais in Love, Vida, Saving Face, Cruel Intentions, and A League of Their Own
Movie Features TV Feature

What Makes a Sexy Lesbian Screenshot

“I want to amend my answer and say I prefer the kiss itself if it’s open mouth and the almost kiss if it’s just going to be two chaste actors smashing faces.”

The Editors November 10, 2023 3 Comments
A collage of four images surrounded by the lesbian flag colors. Stills from Tahara, Manji, MURDER and murder, and Olivia.
Movie Features Quizzes

Quiz: Which Obscure Lesbian Movie Should You Watch?

There are so many good obscure lesbian movies! Take this quiz to find out which one you should watch.

Drew Burnett Gregory November 5, 2023 21 Comments
Maryam Keshavarz stands in front of a HFPA and Film Independent backdrop with her arms folded wearing a bright blue sweater.
Movie Features

Maryam Keshavarz on “The Persian Version,” Translating the Iranian American Experience On-Screen, and Cyndi Lauper

“I was always bisexual. Even in college, I dated a man and a woman at the same time, and they knew about each other.”

Caroline Darya Framke November 3, 2023 7 Comments
A still from the movie Atlantics shows a Black woman with glazed over zombie eyes, sitting on the steps (it is repeated three times), in front of this image is the famed Scream mask, overlayed into a collage.
Movie Features

Can Black People Be Zombies?

This part essay, part research project started out as a joke. I wanted to know if one of the unexpected benefits of Black people always dying first in horror movies was that we could never be zombies.

Carmen Phillips October 31, 2023 6 Comments
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Movie Features

The Queerest Horror Franchise Is and Always Has Been Chucky

Don Mancini has given us over three decades of queerness, from gender swapping and gay couples to killing John Waters and the cast of Bound. 

Juan Barquin October 29, 2023 1 Comment
Ali Larter in Final Destination with a fuzzy camcorder filter
Movie Features

“Final Destination” Accidents That Changed My Brain Chemistry

I loved the gory deaths, I loved the twists and the near-miss fakeouts, and I loved Ali Larter’s Clear Rivers in a way my deeply closeted brain couldn’t quite comprehend.

Valerie Anne October 28, 2023 6 Comments
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Halloween Movie Features

Obsessed: How “Nightmare On Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge” Ruined Its Gay Lead’s Life

“Looking back, it was so gay. It was amazing….all I can say was, we were all incredibly naive. Or, all incredibly latently gay. I’m not sure which.”

Riese October 27, 2023 2 Comments
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First Person Movie Features

Where Are All the Scream Kings?

When I was in fourth grade, I got in trouble for discussing how fast my body would decompose if I was stabbed.

Gen October 26, 2023 3 Comments
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Movie Features

“A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors” and the Horror of Generational Trauma

What Dream Warriors does is present us with a very real suggestion for how we can move forward, for how we can heal, and for how we can create a new alliance against the violence we see in our society and in the communities we’re a part of.

Stef Rubino October 23, 2023 4 Comments
A collage with Martin Scorsese in the center and characters from Hugo, Age of Innocence, Mean Streets, and Bringing Out the Dead around him.
Movie Features

Your Film Bro Girlfriend: A Lesbian Introduction to Martin Scorsese

Hi, my name is Drew Burnett Gregory and today I’m going to be your film bro girlfriend. Our topic? The one and only Martin Scorsese.

Drew Burnett Gregory October 21, 2023 8 Comments
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Movie Features TV Feature

Were We Ever So Young: Couples We Used To Ship and Were Extremely Wrong About

Now we are older and wiser! We can look back on our favorite toxic ships with compassion or horror or both.

The TV Team October 19, 2023 42 Comments
Jennifer Reeder: Two images in the 80s Horror Is So Gay video recorder aesthetic. The first images is two hands passing a small cat figurine, one hand has bright blue nail polish. The other is a girl in a school uniform with blood on her face lifting up a tube of lipstick.
Movie Features

Jennifer Reeder’s Girlhoods of Stuff

Her young female characters are not always capable of defining themselves or communicating with others, but they have their stuff. It is through their stuff they are known.

Drew Burnett Gregory October 18, 2023 1 Comment
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