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July Streaming Guide: a collage with images of Sha’Carri Richardson, Melissa Etheridge, and the leads of Love Lies Bleeding
Movie Lists TV Lists

July 2024: What’s New, Gay and Streaming

We’ve got a lesbian mixologist in an A24 series about grief and robots, Netflix’s “wine-soaked sex romp in the Italian countryside,” the streaming release of Love Lies Bleeding, a Melissa Etheridge documentary and more this Olympic July!

Riese July 1, 2024 9 Comments
Lily Gladstone and Isabel Deroy-Olson sit side by side with their arms crossed.
Movie Reviews

Lily Gladstone Is Remarkable as a Butch Lesbian in ‘Fancy Dance’

As Jax, they embody that cool lesbian aunt you always wanted to have who is so chill, dresses in plaid and tanks, and tries to handle everything independently, despite her decisions being impulsive and questionable.

Rendy Jones June 28, 2024 2 Comments
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Movie Features

The Academy of Motion Pictures Has a Trans Problem

Trans people’s stories are being told but trans people aren’t being rewarded.

Drew Burnett Gregory June 26, 2024 4 Comments
the sex scene from Atomic Blonde
Movie Features

Anatomy of a Queer Sex Scene: ‘Atomic Blonde’ Has a Bad Script, Great Sex

Do I have issues with this film? Yes. Do I have issues with the coats? No.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya and Drew Burnett Gregory
June 22, 2024 3 Comments
Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution - a collage of queer comics including Lily Tomlin, Wanda Sykes, and Margaret Cho
Movie Reviews

‘Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution’ Rises Above Netflix’s Hypocrisy To Deliver Delightful Doc About Queer Comics

If this were on any other platform, I would highly recommend it with the utmost enthusiasm.

Rendy Jones June 20, 2024 1 Comment
Chestnut: Natalia Dyer and Rachel Keller lean their heads together and almost kiss in blue club light
Movie Reviews

‘Chestnut’ Is About the Sexless Situationships of Our Twenties

We’ve seen the storyline of “straight girl/maybe closeted girl emotionally terrorizes a queer woman” on-screen many times. But I appreciate how Chestnut complicates that narrative.

Drew Burnett Gregory June 20, 2024 1 Comment
First lesbian kisses in movies: four stills from Muybridge's The Kiss
Movie Features

The First On-Screen Kiss Was Between Two Women

For fifty years, women were allowed to kiss on-screen — here are some of the best examples before censorship ended an era.

Lisa Laman June 19, 2024 2 Comments
Power of the Dream documentary: five WNBA players link arms wearing shirts that say ARREST THE COPS WHO KILLED BREONNA TAYLOR
Movie Reviews Sports

New Documentary ‘Power of the Dream’ Is a Reminder of the WNBA’s Core Values

It’s important for new and old fans of the WNBA to understand that while this league has 144 of the best women and nonbinary basketball players in the world, it’s also about more than basketball. It has to be.

Nic and Natalie
June 18, 2024 2 Comments
The Criterion covers of Querelle, Bound, and Anatomy of a Fall.
Movie Features

With Its Pride Slate, the Criterion Collection Wants Us To Be Gay and (Maybe) Do Crime

To even say, Criterion’s Pride releases is a sign of our changed — and improved — times.

Drew Burnett Gregory June 18, 2024
Bobbi Salvör Menuez interview: a triptych of photos of Bobbi
Movie Features

Bobbi Salvör Menuez Is a Bad Liar

“I’m just so grateful that I got to work on Adam when I did. Literally six months before we started filming, I bought my first binder and went through a breakup with this cis boy I’d been dating.”

Drew Burnett Gregory June 17, 2024 2 Comments
Cora Bora: Meg Stalter stands at a microphone with an acoustic guitar
Movie Reviews

‘Cora Bora’ Stars Meg Stalter as a Messy Grieving Bisexual

I love an indie about a messy bisexual. Throw in good songs and a lovely third act, and I can forgive some imperfections.

Drew Burnett Gregory June 17, 2024
Summer Solstice: A close up of Marianne Rendón looking at Bobbi Salvör Menuez as they look down.
Movie Reviews

‘Summer Solstice’ Is a Relatable Trans Indie About Masc Insecurity and Nightmare Cis Girls

Summer Solstice is a film that dares to grant the quietest dramas of a trans person’s life the importance of the screen.

Drew Burnett Gregory June 14, 2024
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Movie Lists Sex

25 Streaming Movies With Hot Lesbian Sex Scenes

Here are some of the most memorable movies in the canon of “films that have significant lesbian sex in them.”

Riese and Drew Burnett Gregory
June 11, 2024 90 Comments
A collage of images from Get Real, Beautiful Thing, Feel Good, and Billy Elliot
Movie Features TV Feature

8 British Film and TV Characters Who Made Me Gay

From Skins to Feel Good, these eight characters turned out to be life-changing.

Eva Reign June 11, 2024 4 Comments
Rebecca Hall as Elizabeth Holloway Marston and Bella Heathcote as Olive Byrne in Professor Marston and the Wonder Women
Movie Features

Anatomy of a Queer Sex Scene: ‘Professor Marston and the Wonder Women’ Is for the Horny Nerds

In ‘Professor Marston and the Wonder Woman,’ queer sex creates whole new worlds.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya June 9, 2024 3 Comments
Queer Planet documentary: a male lion humps another male lion in tall green grass.
Movie Reviews

I Got High and Watched Gay Nature Documentary ‘Queer Planet’

It’s kind of fascinating how we’ve decided penguins are cute. I think they’re majestic.

Drew Burnett Gregory June 6, 2024 11 Comments
Am I OK?: Dakota Johnson and Sonoya Mizuno lie in bed next to each other.
Movie Reviews

‘Am I OK?’ Is a Coming Out Story That Belongs in the 2010s

Am I OK? has finally been released by Max. But a movie that felt a decade too late in 2022 has been done no favors by this delay.

Drew Burnett Gregory June 6, 2024 81 Comments
Riley in the locker room in Backspot
Movie Reviews

Queerleading Drama ‘Backspot’ Captures Girlhood in All Its Extremes

Cheerleading is a sport full of contradictions and paradoxes, and Backspot explores that well.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya June 3, 2024 2 Comments
collage odf queer shows coming to streaming networks in June 2024
Movie Lists TV Lists

June 2024: What’s New, Gay and Streaming

We’ve got Orphan Black: Echoes, a massive doc about queer comedy and another about the WNBA, Eva Longoria on the lam in Spain with her lesbian daughter, Hannah Einbinder’s stand-up special, the Dakota Johnson rom-com and more!

Riese June 1, 2024 14 Comments
10 Queer Movies to Watch to Turn Your Straight Friends Gay Before Pride
Movie Lists

10 Queer Movies to Turn Your Straight Friends Gay Before Pride

Why let your straight friends miss out on another Pride when they could watch these ten movies that might just jumpstart some self-discovery?

Drew Burnett Gregory May 30, 2024
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