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HBO Max’s “Veneno” is the Television Masterpiece Trans Icon Cristina La Veneno Deserves

For me, what makes the show so unique are the moments Valeria spends with Cristina and Paca and all the other trans women around them. It’s watching this cross-generational support among trans women that’s so important for us but so rarely portrayed on screen.

Drew Burnett Gregory December 15, 2020 6 Comments
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TV Reviews

The Derry Girls on Great British Bake Off Is the Only Good Thing to Happen in 2020

“See, in Ireland, we love slime. It’s traditional that we have slime for the New Year. So, please don’t dis the culture of my people.” 

Heather Hogan December 8, 2020 12 Comments
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TV Reviews

“Euphoria” Returns With a Wonderful and Frustrating Zendaya Tour De Force

I ship Zendaya’s Rue and Hunter Schafer’s Jules like some people shipped Brittana.

Drew Burnett Gregory December 4, 2020 4 Comments
Aisha (Alycia Pascual-Pena) in her football jersey in the Bayside High locker room.
TV Reviews

Peacock’s “Saved By The Bell” Reboot Is a Queer and Loving Skewering of the Original Series

“Does this place ever stop being weird?!?”

Heather Hogan December 3, 2020 6 Comments
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TV Reviews

“Adventure Time: Distant Lands — Obsidian” Gives the Gays Everything They Want

Marceline and Pricness Bubblegum return for one more adventure, and we get all the answers to all the questions we asked for eight years.

Heather Hogan November 23, 2020 5 Comments
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TV Reviews

“We Are Who We Are” Doesn’t Do Labels

Are they dating, are they in love, are they having sex, are they best friends? It’s one of We Are Who We Are ‘s queerest pleasures that it’s not about definition.

Kamala Puligandla November 10, 2020 6 Comments
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TV Reviews

Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts’ Final Season is Bursting With Humor and Hope

STANDING ALONG IN MY FIRE, YOU’RE NOT ALONE!

Heather Hogan October 30, 2020 6 Comments
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TV Reviews

Warrior Nun, Donald Trump, and the Misguided Definition of Able-Bodied Strength

Disability tropes are all rooted in the same failure of imagination. Most writers are simply unable to envision a world where people with disabilities live fulfilling, happy lives.

Heather Hogan October 29, 2020 25 Comments
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TV Reviews

HBO Max’s “Equal” Celebrates the Deviants of Pre-Stonewall LGBT Activism

In HBO Max’s LGBTQ documentary “Equal”; Samira Wiley, Jamie Clayton, Isis King, Shannon Purser, Heather Matarazzo, Theo Germaine and more embody key historical figures in the pre-Stonewall fight for LGBTQ rights and visibility.

Riese October 22, 2020 3 Comments
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TV Reviews

“The Boys” Season 2 Gets Meta About Lesbian and Bisexual Representation

Elena pushes back on all this, saying she doesn’t want to change how she dresses and that actually Maeve is bisexual, but they say that the term lesbian is “an easier sell” because it’s “more cut and dry.”

Valerie Anne October 16, 2020 12 Comments
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TV Reviews

“The Haunting of Bly Manor” Isn’t a Ghost Story, It’s a Lesbian Love Story — with Ghosts

Bly Manor is a well-written, beautifully acted, stunningly filmed horror series, with old ghosts and new ghosts and fun lore — and a lesbian love story for the ages

Valerie Anne October 13, 2020 49 Comments
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“Steven Universe: End of an Era” Reveals How Hard Rebecca Sugar Fought for Our Queer Gem Wedding

“But if Steven Universe gets a gay wedding, then every show is going to want a gay wedding!” “‘YES!’ I said. ‘GOOD! WHY NOT???'”

Heather Hogan October 12, 2020 1 Comment
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TV Reviews

“Magical Girl Friendship Squad” Is a Queer Millennial “Sailor Moon” Meets “Broad City”

If that sounds odd, get a load of the premise: two best friends and roommates, Alex (Quinta Brunson) and Daisy (Anna Akana), are chosen by the creator of the universe, a red Panda named Nut (Ana Gasteyer), to protect her because she mistakes them for warriors when she overhears them describing the plot of John Wick.

Heather Hogan October 7, 2020 1 Comment
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TV Reviews

Taylor Schilling and Roberta Colindrez Are Wives In Hulu’s “Monsterland”

If you’re expecting the gay episode of Hulu’s horror anthology to be like the gay episode of Black Mirror, I must assure you: We ain’t in San Junipero anymore.

Valerie Anne October 6, 2020 3 Comments
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TV Reviews

“Perry Mason” Has Lesbians, Tatiana Maslany, and Way Too Many Boring Men

I guess what I’m learning about myself is that I’m not quite cut out for these slow-moving, period piece crime dramas. I like my crime shows to be procedural — if there are eight episodes, I want eight crimes. And I like my women front and center, thank you very much.

Valerie Anne September 29, 2020 7 Comments
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TV Reviews

Legend of Korra: A Flawed Show for A Flawed World

In many ways Legend of Korra is more timely than ever because it forces us to examine our hero worship and the notion that one person will save us from destruction or that the simple removal of one villain will solve all of our problems.

himani September 28, 2020 21 Comments
Sarah Paulson and Cynthia Nixon are 1940s style secret lesbian lovers in Ryan Murphy's new Netflix series "Ratched." Here they are on a date together at the movie theatre.
TV Reviews

“Ratched” Review: Part Murder Mommi Delight, Part Complicated Horror Show

Ratched stabs, cuts, bludgeons, and mutilates what was past. The show is brutal, but provides relief for its queer women. Unfortunately, its characters of color and disabled characters are not granted the same care.

Drew Burnett Gregory September 21, 2020 14 Comments
Punkie Johnson is the first out black lesbian cast member in Saturday Night Live History. Here she is on a street corner in New York looking handsome in a baseball hat.
TV Reviews

Punkie Johnson Is the First Out Black Lesbian to Join Saturday Night Live Cast

With Punkie Johnson, SNL just got 100% more lesbian, with a record breaking two (lol, yes TWO!) out lesbians in the cast at the same time.

Carmen Phillips September 16, 2020 6 Comments
Charly Clive as Marnie in HBO Max's new series "Pure." Marnie is in the background as she longs for two women, both blurry to the camera, in the foreground
TV Reviews

HBO Max’s British Dramedy “Pure” Is the First Time I’ve Seen My OCD On-Screen

By pairing a visceral portrayal with thorough descriptions of OCD, “Pure” becomes a teaching tool as well as a delightful dramedy. It’s also just a really good and gay story about a 20-something trying to figure out how to be a good person.

Drew Burnett Gregory September 14, 2020 10 Comments
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TV Reviews

“Lucifer” Season 5A: Everything Is Gay and Everything Hurts

The first half of Lucifer’s fifth season is heaven and hell for the gays.

Valerie Anne September 4, 2020 6 Comments
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