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Grace short film: two Black queer girls in the 1950s South look at each other in a doorway.
Movie Reviews

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.

Drew Burnett Gregory January 27, 2024 2 Comments
Desire Lines: an image from the film of Theo Germaine touching Aden Hakimi, both of them shirtless. Beige background with Sundance 2024 on the side.
Movie Reviews

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.

Drew Burnett Gregory January 24, 2024 15 Comments
Oscar Nominations 2024: a still from Killers of the Flower Moon, Lily Gladstone looks toward the camera smiling
Movie Features

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!

Drew Burnett Gregory January 23, 2024 7 Comments
Sebastian Sundance: A close up of RUARIDH MOLLICA in Sebastian. Beige background with Sundance 2024 on the side.
Movie Reviews

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.

Drew Burnett Gregory January 22, 2024 1 Comment
Corky biting Violet's finger in a sex scene in Bound
Movie Features

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.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya and Drew Burnett Gregory
January 20, 2024 10 Comments
Bella in Poor Things on the dance floor, snapping her fingers and dancing
Movie Reviews

“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.

Stef Rubino January 18, 2024 23 Comments
Mean Girls 2024 gayer original - the new Mean Girls cast in the Winter Talent Show scene
Movie Features

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.

Rendy Jones January 17, 2024
Nikki Giovanni's face in close up, she appears to be thinking, collaged in front of old, orange-tinted, photos from her past.
Movie Reviews

“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.

Carmen Phillips January 15, 2024 16 Comments
Mean Girls Janis queer: Auli'i Cravalho as Janis from the Mean Girls movie
Movie Reviews

“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.

Valerie Anne and Nic
January 12, 2024 7 Comments
A close up of a blurry woman's face in ecstasy
Movie Reviews

“Stroking an Animal” Is a Sensuous Portrait of Polyamory

Stroking an Animal is an arthouse movie that reflects the messiness of real queer lives.

Drew Burnett Gregory January 9, 2024 6 Comments
Natalia Dyer and Laurel Marsden in All Fun and Games sit on a couch together
Movie Reviews

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.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya January 8, 2024 4 Comments
Mink kisses Divine's back as she fucks her, a background of drawn rosaries in gold over teal.
Movie Features

Anatomy of a Queer Sex Scene: “Multiple Maniacs” Has the Best Lesbian Sex Scene Ever

Queerness should always include a cavalcade of perversions.

Drew Burnett Gregory January 6, 2024 7 Comments
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Movie Lists

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.

Drew Burnett Gregory January 4, 2024 22 Comments
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Movie Lists TV Lists

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!

Riese January 1, 2024 7 Comments
Movie Features Politics + Activism

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.

Drew Burnett Gregory December 29, 2023 2 Comments
In Steven Spielberg's 1985 The Color Purple, Shug leans in to kiss Celie on the lips
LGBT History Movie Features

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.

Carmen Phillips December 27, 2023 21 Comments
Christmas Movie Reviews

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.”

Sa'iyda Shabazz December 24, 2023 7 Comments
Carol sex scene: A red background with yellow Christmas star pattern, in the middle an image from Carol of Cate Blanchett putting her hand on Rooney Mara's body
Movie Features

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.”

Drew Burnett Gregory and Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya
December 23, 2023 3 Comments
Dwayne in How To Blow Up a Pipeline says "Merry Christmas", surrounded by snowflakes
Christmas Movie Features

My Favorite Queer Christmas Movie Is “How To Blow Up a Pipeline”

Yes, it’s a Christmas movie actually. Let me explain.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya December 22, 2023 6 Comments
Shug and Celie embrace during 2023's The Color Purple
Movie Reviews

If Only “The Color Purple” Had Loved All of Us

The Color Purple has never been just about Black women saving each other. It’s about Black women finding beauty and worth in each other, in all aspects of who we are, and on this Alice Walker could not be more clear: that means in our bedrooms, too.

Carmen Phillips December 19, 2023 20 Comments
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