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Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion, Waiting to Exhale and Clueless
Movie Features Quizzes

Love ’90s Movies? Prove It By Identifying 40 of 50 of These 90s Girl Movies

Do you love ’90s movies and for any reason at all tend to prefer 90s movies with women and girls at the center of the story? Prove it!

Riese September 11, 2023 21 Comments
Movie Features Quizzes

Quiz: Which Bottoms Character Are You?

Start a gay fight club, and I’ll tell you which Bottoms character you are.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya September 10, 2023 13 Comments
collage of Hazel in Bottoms
Movie Features Queer Fashion

Style Thief: The Cute Tomboy Grandpa Style of Hazel from “Bottoms”

Do you want to be Hazel or do you want to date Hazel? The only way to find out is to dress exactly like Hazel from “Bottoms” in your everyday life or as a Halloween costume.

Riese September 10, 2023 4 Comments
josie in a rugby shirt, PJ in overalls and a tee, josie in an atari tee, PJ as dutch boy
Movie Features Queer Fashion

Style Thief: Dress Like Josie and PJ From “Bottoms”

It’s your turn to look like our favorite untalented gays and Little Dutch Boys.

Riese September 9, 2023 2 Comments
ruby cruz as hazel in Bottoms, wearing a beige polo with a striped collar and looking confused
Movie Features

Representation Matters but I Didn’t Expect Bottoms To Take It So Far for Me

On discovering a doppelgänger in an unlikely place.

Gabrielle Grace Hogan September 7, 2023 14 Comments
Ayo Edebiri and Rachel Sennot in Bottoms
Comedy Movie Features

I Asked a Top About “Bottoms”

In which Kristen Arnett answers important questions, such as: Who were the biggest bottoms in Bottoms?

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya September 6, 2023 9 Comments
Rachel Sennott and Ayo Edebiri in Bottoms
Comedy Movie Features

Rejected Headlines for My “Bottoms” Review

Bottoms Understands What Teen Lesbians Desire: Being Punched By Girls in the Face

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya September 4, 2023 8 Comments
1. Addy and Beth in their cheerleading uniforms in Dare Me. 2. Brittany and Santana kissing in their cheerleading uniforms in Glee. 3. A cheerleader kissing a goth girl in Zolita's music video. 4. Jennifer Check in her cheerleading uniform in Jennifer's Body. 5. Kaia Gerber dancing in a cheerleading uniform in Bottoms. 6. Cheryl and Toni in their cheerleading uniforms in Riverdale.
Movie Features TV Feature

Stunt Queens: The History and Cultural Significance of the “Queerleader” in Film and Television

In honor of Bottoms, here are top queer cheerleader moments from film/TV.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya September 4, 2023 81 Comments
In Singapore Sling (1990), a woman eyes another woman in black and white; in black and white, a woman holds a white cat; a woman looks up between someone's legs in Mademoiselle (1966); a woman sleeps in a bed in The Corruption of Chris Miller (1973); a woman emerges from water, being watched by another woman; Two women and an alien in a dress
Movie Features

Watchlist: “House of Psychotic Women” Pushed Me Out of My Horror Comfort Zone

Watchlist is a new series where I invite you to sample the hidden treasures of my personal viewing projects.

Drew Burnett Gregory August 29, 2023 5 Comments
Stewart Thorndike is in a blue print dress while smiling on the Outfest red carpet.
Movie Features

Stewart Thorndike on “Bad Things,” Motherhood, and Her Childhood Nightmares

“The world is a frightening, frightening place, so I don’t really understand why every film isn’t a horror film.”

Drew Burnett Gregory August 22, 2023 2 Comments
Faded over a pile of dollar bills and $5 bills are photographs of writers and actors at various SAG-AFTRA/WGA protests, left to right: Aubrey Plaza, Cynthia Nixon, Holland Taylor, Wanda Sykes, Peppermint, and Elliot Page. All of the photographs are a faded green color, like money.
Movie Features TV Feature

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.

Carmen Phillips August 20, 2023 11 Comments
Nina Sayers in Black Swan looks into a mirror and has many reflections looking back
First Person Movie Features

How Many Times Did I See Black Swan in Theaters While Closeted? An Investigation

This task has sent me down a strange spiral of doubling and fractured memory underscored by a homoerotic hum MUCH LIKE THE MOVIE ITSELF.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya August 14, 2023 3 Comments
Ken from Barbie making a heart with his hands, a silver locket, and a set of headphones against a checkered pink background
First Person Movie Features

After We Watched Barbie

Transitioning to a man in a predominately white world makes me resentful. Genders are floating worlds, and I am doing gender somewhere I do not belong.

Ocean Wei August 11, 2023 5 Comments
Allan from Barbie in a colorful striped shirt, waving
Movie Features

In the Symbolic World of the Deeply Gendered Barbieland, Allan Is Nonbinary

Allan’s discomfort creates an identification point for viewers who are also uncomfortable identifying with either the Barbies or the Kens, a third option in an otherwise binary Barbieland.

Olivia Wood August 9, 2023 9 Comments
Ken (Ryan Gosling, in the Barbie movie) wears dark sunglasses and a white fur coat, open with his chest exposed and a silver chain. He looks smugly at Barbie.
Gender Movie Features

Can You Feel the Kenergy?

There’s a specific kind of trans masc quality to the way that Ken dresses and takes up space if I’m being honest. That’s the siren call, the Kenergy,

Nico August 3, 2023 10 Comments
A pink sky with sparkles and zodiac signs, floating in the sky are the following Barbie characters: Margot Robbie as Stereotypical Barbie, America Ferrera as Gloia, Issa Rae as President Barbie, Michael Cena as Allan, Hari Nef as Doctor Barbie, and Kate McKinnon as President Barbie
Astrology, Tarot & Witchcraft Movie Features

Barbie-ology: Your “Barbie” Character, According to Your Zodiac Sign

You’re pretty and pink, you’re staring into the abyss, you’re cognitive dissonance, you’re Barbie!

Nico August 1, 2023 26 Comments
A Queer Marxist Analysis of Barbie is written on top of a bride flag and two Barbie dolls
Geekery Movie Features

Marxist Barbie Discourse and the Weird Wide Web of Queer Video Essays

So what is there to do now that you’ve seen Barbie twice? I will be watching as many long, overly elaborate, documentary-style YouTube video essays about the subject as I possibly can.

Lindsay Eanet July 29, 2023 1 Comment
A collage of queer images that are all Barbie pink, in front of a pink plastic background. Left to Right: Kate McKinnon in the Barbie movie, an image from But I'm a Cheerleader, Cardi B, Laverne Cox holding a Barbie of Laverne Cox, and Janelle Monáe and Tessa Thompson from the Pynk music video.
Movie Features Style

A Queer Syllabus for Barbiecore

Overlapping topics we’re going to discuss include the history of glitter, queer meanings of femme and femme theory, Barbie Capitalism, why gays love Magic Earring Ken, pink vs pynk, and so much more!

Carmen Phillips July 20, 2023 12 Comments
Bessie, Desert Hearts, Saving Face
Movie Features Quizzes

Think You’re a Queer Cinephile? Prove It by Identifying All 50 of These Sapphic Films

Test your Sapphic movie knowledge!

Riese June 28, 2023 41 Comments
sense8's nomi and amanita in bed saying "happy pride" to each other
Movie Features TV Feature

Revisiting Iconic Pride Scenes From Film and Television

It turns out…there aren’t that many? Where is the 200 Cigarettes-style Pride comedy we deserve?!

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya May 27, 2023 15 Comments
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