Results for: meet up
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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.
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Jennifer Reeder’s Girlhoods of Stuff
Her young female characters are not always capable of defining themselves or communicating with others, but they have their stuff. It is through their stuff they are known.
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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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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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Revisiting Iconic Pride Scenes From Film and Television
It turns out…there aren’t that many? Where is the 200 Cigarettes-style Pride comedy we deserve?!
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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.
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Todd Haynes on “May December,” Queer Community, and Making Art in a Vile World
“My connection with gay women is the through-line of my entire life. But my queer community, as a whole, is not reducible to sexual practice. It’s more attitudinal. It’s the way we look at the world and stand outside certain norms.”
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Elm Street Was a Nightmare Before Freddy Made It One
Elm Street was just another part of a society — our society, where people are taught to care very little for each other.
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In the Symbolic World of the Deeply Gendered Barbieland, Allan Is Nonbinary
Allan’s discomfort creates an identification point for viewers who are also uncomfortable identifying with either the Barbies or the Kens, a third option in an otherwise binary Barbieland.
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Stunt Queens: The History and Cultural Significance of the “Queerleader” in Film and Television
In honor of Bottoms, here are top queer cheerleader moments from film/TV.
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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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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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Brigette Lundy-Paine Is Making Their Own Kind of Trans Art
“There’s a movie that I really want to do that’s a girl part and then I’m done. I’m excited to give myself the gift of being an out trans person.”
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Tribeca Film Festival 2022 May be It’s Queerest Season Yet
Dani Janae talks to Tribeca Film Festival programmers, Lucy Mukerjee and Shakira Refos, on the importance of investing in queer artists and audiences.
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“Crush” Screenwriters Kirsten King and Casey Rackham On Astrology, Queer Utopia, and Their Own Crushes
“All of the drama in my queer friends’ lives revolves around who they may or may not fuck. And then we save the talk about our dads for our therapists.”
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Rowan Blanchard on Not Labeling Our Gay Comedies, Impressing Crushes, and Hulu’s “Crush”
“Crush being gay was way less important to me than it being funny.”
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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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Queering the Canon: Where Are All The Trans Rom-Coms?
It’s time trans people get to showcase our desires, in all their variety, in all their complexity, in all their possibility.
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Jane Schoenbrun on “We’re All Going to the World’s Fair” and Making Art Amid Transition
“In the 90s, everyone was telling kids they could be anything they wanted to be. But when people saw who I wanted to be they were like, maybe not that though, maybe that’s a little much.”
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Revisiting the Scary Movie Sleepover
Horror movies are for the depressed and anxious gays.