Sundance 2024: A Queer and Trans Festival Recap
Reporting daily with queer movie reviews from one of the world’s most prestigious film festivals.
Sundance 2024: “Grace” Is a Beautifully Constructed Black Queer Short
The most beautifully shot film at Sundance 2024 isn’t any of the buzzed about features that will sell for millions — it’s Natalie Jasmine Harris’ short film, Grace.
Sundance 2024: “Desire Lines” Is an Experimental Documentary About Transmascs Who F*ck Men
Not much in Desire Lines hasn’t already been said at many trans hangouts. There’s still a value to having these varied experiences captured on-screen.
Oscar Nominations 2024: From “Barbie” to Lily Gladstone, the Full List of Nominees
Attention Awards gays! The nominations for the 96th Academy Awards have arrived!
Sundance 2024: “Sebastian” Fails in Its Self-Critique of a Gay Sex Work Story
Sex work as a topic is not enough to make a story interesting.
Anatomy of a Queer Sex Scene: The Sex in “Bound” Changed Our Lives
Bound was so ahead of its time it would still be ahead of its time if it came out today.
“Poor Things” and the Monsters We Know
From the very beginning, Bella’s freedom was dependent on her ability to pay for it and to keep paying for it.
Every Moment in “Mean Girls” (2024) Gayer Than the Original
Get in losers, we’re listing every moment in Mean Girls (2024) gayer than the original.
“Going to Mars” Is the Queer Black Women’s Triumph That Nikki Giovanni Deserves
Nikki Giovanni so loves Black women that she never waivers that our strength can only be matched by the stars themselves.
“Mean Girls” (2024) Made Us Feel Too Gay To Function
With the power vocals of Auli’i Cravalho and Reneé Rapp and a canonically queer Janis, Mean Girls is back and gayer than ever.
“Stroking an Animal” Is a Sensuous Portrait of Polyamory
Stroking an Animal is an arthouse movie that reflects the messiness of real queer lives.
Hear Me Out: What if Your Silly Horror Movie DIDN’T Have an Elaborate Backstory?
All Fun and Games is exactly that (fun, games) until it’s derailed by exposition.
Anatomy of a Queer Sex Scene: “Multiple Maniacs” Has the Best Lesbian Sex Scene Ever
Queerness should always include a cavalcade of perversions.
Actresses Born Before My Grandma Ranked by How Badly I Want Them to Top Me
I am a sucker for a mid-atlantic accent and a beauty in black and white.
What’s New and Gay To Stream in January 2024
January is coming in hot and gay with new seasons of Hightown and Sort Of, Jodie Foster’s “True Detective: Night Country,” a quirky locked room murder mystery on a luxury ocean liner, an adult animated series starring the princess of hell and so much more!
The Most Important Movie of the Year Is a Documentary From 1976
The Memory of Justice draws parallels between the Holocaust and the more recent horrors of the French occupation of Algeria and the American occupation of Vietnam.
The History of the Color Purple Kiss
In 1982 Alice Walker wrote a Black queer text so ahead of its time, that 40 years later we’re still fighting to catch up.
Hallmark’s “Friends and Family Christmas” Is The Cheesy Holiday Romance Sapphics Deserve
“Friends and Family Christmas is everything that those of us who want an easy, cheesy Christmas romcom could ask for. Low stakes, lots of twinkly lights, and two openly queer actresses playing the romantic leads.”
Anatomy of a Queer Sex Scene: “Carol” Finds the Kink in Age Gaps
“I still love the Carol sex scene even if I’ve never been turned on by it per se.”
My Favorite Queer Christmas Movie Is “How To Blow Up a Pipeline”
Yes, it’s a Christmas movie actually. Let me explain.