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Seven Years Ago, Zoe Lister-Jones Made the Straightest Movie Ever — Now It Feels Super Gay
Knowing that Lister-Jones will divorce her husband and come out as queer, completely recontextualizes what’s on-screen.
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Bad Movies From the 2000s I Loved Because Two Women Make Out
Here’s the thing about bad movies between 2004 and 2006: A lot of them featured women making out.
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Fun Facts About Natasha Lyonne and Clea DuVall’s Friendship
But I’m a Cheerleader turns 25 this year, and it has profoundly shaped so many lives, including Natasha Lyonne and Clea DuVall’s.
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It’s Your Anniversary: My Rage at “Chasing Amy” Helped Me Find My Bisexuality
25 years later I was curious to see if I’d still hate it since I’ve stopped judging my queerness by my distance to gold star lesbian status.
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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.
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Homoerotic Friendships, Mosquita Y Mari, and the Things We Never Said
My friendship with her actually ended twice.
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Will “The Color Purple” Get Black Queerness Right This Time?
Celie and Shug Avery’s queerness is just as essential and powerful as the other themes most commonly discussed in the novel.
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The History and Future of Trans Women in Action Movies
The Matrix blew open the doors for what action movies could accomplish — why hasn’t it led to more trans-focused action cinema?
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The Best Queer Movie Scenes of 2023
Sex scenes, fight scenes, a fanfic-worthy cameo. The best queer movie scenes of 2023 are as varied as the films that contain them.
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Beyond Gender Identity: A History of Trans Actors in Cis Roles
I’m talking about stories where the trans character’s transness isn’t the focus — where they’re allowed to be the worst behaved one or simply hot and getting laid or just really fucking good at their job.
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Where Are All the Scream Kings?
When I was in fourth grade, I got in trouble for discussing how fast my body would decompose if I was stabbed.
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From “My Best Friend’s Wedding” to “The Holdovers,” Paul Giamatti Is One of Cinema’s Great Listeners
To understand the magnitude of Paul Giamatti’s warm, yet thorny performance in The Holdovers, you must go further back into his filmography where the seeds of his on-screen persona were sown.
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Oscars 2022: Two Queers Discuss the Actually Kinda Gay 94th Academy Awards
Riese: “Does the driver count as a lesbian character do you think?”
Drew: “How could she not be?? Did you see her blazers??” -
Race and Appropriation at the Academy Awards: A 95 Year History
We’ve got data and timelines and infographics and conversation on topics including: white actors getting Oscars for playing people of color, white savior narratives, actors of color who actually did get nominated or win Oscars for Acting and so much more. Just updated for 2023.
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The Seduction of Aliens
When I saw a UFO, I was 18 and it was the night before prom.
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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.”
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It’s Time to Give Harley Quinn a Girlfriend on the Big Screen Already
Not only is fan uproar begging for Big Screen Harley and Ivy, but for the first time, the actual plot in front of us is screaming for it, too. It’s now or never for Harley Quinn to make the leap, and we’re quickly reaching a crescendo in her movie arc where to do anything else would be cowardly.
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Theo Germaine on the Queerness of Horror, the Alchemy of Time, and “They/Them”
“A lot of the history of horror is that, you know, those queer coded people who don’t fit in are baddies.”
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TIFF 2023: A Queer Festival Recap
This year, I saw 38 features and, once again, most of my favorites were independent or not in English. There’s a vast world of cinema beyond Hollywood’s broken system!
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Bury Your Dogs: 37 Dog Characters Who Died In TV and Film, and How
From Old Yeller to Biscuit, paying tribute to the dogs that were ripped out of our arms by the lords of the teevee and cinema.