Sundance 2021: A Gay Trans Festival Recap!
R#J is gay because Romeo and Juliet are a canon U-Hauling Cancer for Cancer lesbian couple.
Sundance 2021: Looking Back on New Queer Cinema with Rose Troche, Cheryl Dunye, and More
This afternoon at Sundance, I took a break from binging movies to watch a panel straight out of my queer film nerd dreams.
Home Alone for the Holigays: Watch “Grease 2” with Vanessa
“To be honest, my birthday is December 21 / Winter Solstice, and that’s the most exciting part of the holiday season for me!”
Home Alone for the Holigays: Watch “Oceans 11” with Carolyn
Welcome to Home Alone for the Holigays! Where our writers welcome you to spend the day with them virtually and live-tweet one of their favorite holiday films. Come kick it with Carolyn, watch Oceans 11 and escape into their sleepy Solstice.
Which Happiest Season Character Are You? Quiz
Don’t feel like being yourself today? Well, this quiz will tell you which Happiest Season character you are!
Jamie Babbit on “But I’m a Cheerleader,” Barbie Sex, and Getting Bad Reviews
“That’s my whole junior high experience: No, I don’t want to be friends with you. I actually want to have sex with you.”
Home Alone for the Holigays: Watch “Black Christmas” with Dani Janae
Welcome to Home Alone for the Holigays! Where our writers welcome you to spend the day with them virtually and live-tweet one of their favorite holiday films. Come kick it with Dani, watch Black Christmas and have a mocktail or two.
A Letter to My Ex on the Occasion of The Danish Girl’s 5th Anniversary
“People were always so impressed that you didn’t leave me, but your gift wasn’t staying — it was seeing. Most people don’t get to transition under the pansexual gaze of someone who loves them the way you loved me.”
I Visited the “Happiest Season” Set to Chat With Kristen Stewart and Clea DuVall About Their Holigay Rom-Com
In February, I found myself sitting in a folding chair in a country club just outside of Pittsburgh, directly across from Kristen Stewart and Mackenzie Davis.
Wonder Woman’s Star-Spangled Butt Has Always Been a Canvas for Feminist Hope and Male Misogyny
Zack Snyder and Joss Whedon were not, of course, the first men to use Wonder Woman’s body — and especially her butt — as a blank page onto which they could project their feelings about Wonder Woman, specifically, and women, generally.
Lez Try It: Sword Fighting á la Lost and Delirious
When I got to the sword fighting gym, I immediately felt out of place in the way that being the only lesbian in a room full of men holding swords can make you feel.
“The First Time”: Drew Burnett Gregory Made a Movie in Quarantine and it’s 15 Minutes of Pure Queer Bliss
The First Time is everything I’ve come to love about Drew’s writing over the last several years: smart hilarious, powerful, and deeply generous. And just heckin’ gay and trans.
What’s the Gayest Not-Gay Film Your Parents Rented You From Blockbuster?
“Foxy Brown quickly became my favorite film of the blaxploitation classica. Pam Grier — yes, that Pam Grier, Bette’s big sister (it’ll annoy me forever that that’s how generations of queer women remember Grier) — was just astounding in the titular role… badass and unrelentingly sexy. The other awesome thing about that movie? I think it was the first time I’d seen a lesbian bar on screen.”
Ìfé Writer and Director Uyaiedu Ikpe-Etim on Decolonizing Nigerian Storytelling and Queer Love Stories
“Ìfé is a story that not many queer people have seen come out of Nigeria. I’m really hoping that, apart from everything else that it does – normalizing the queer experience and being a great source of representation – I’m really hoping that it brings joy to the LGBT community.”
Isabel Sandoval on “Lingua Franca,” Sex Scenes, and the Trans Female Gaze
“There’s a certain undeniable assertion of identity and personhood in seeing a woman think.”
Film Historian Jenni Olson on “Mädchen in Uniform,” The First Ever Lesbian Film
“They were like whatever we have dozens of lesbian bars, we have magazines, we have all of this culture, we have Marlene Dietrich, we don’t need this little girl thing.”
GLAAD 2020 Film Report: Mainstream Movies Continue to Ignore Lesbian, Bisexual, Queer and Trans Women
Of 118 major studio releases in 2019, 15 included gay men, eight included lesbian or bisexual women, and zero included trans characters.
Criterion’s “Portrait Of A Lady on Fire” Release Is Incredible — We Still Deserve More
Portrait of a Lady on Fire is only the third film in the Criterion Collection to feature queer women that’s actually directed by a queer woman.
Six Queer Asian Artists on “The Half of It” and the Future of Queer Asian Cinema
Alice Wu’s “The Half of It” has been for out less than a week, and it’s already become a classic. We brought together some of Autostraddle’s queer and trans Asian editors and writers — along with some of our writer friends and Generation Q’s Leo Sheng — to talk about the film, Alice Wu, and the current landscape of queer Asian media.
Alice Wu on “The Half Of It,” Artistic Integrity, and Her High School Crush
“Being a closeted teen who wasn’t even aware meant I just listened to melancholy songs and imbued an unrealistic amount of meaning to them.”