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Brittany, PJ, Josie, and Isabel in the movie Bottoms
Movie Features

Bottoms Characters Ranked by Whether or Not They’d Be Bottoms

The official Bottoms pyramid.

Gabrielle Grace Hogan September 15, 2023 9 Comments
Emma conducts in the movie Days of Happiness
Movie Reviews

TIFF 2023: “Days of Happiness” Is “TÀR” For Bottoms

There are dozens of lesbian vampire movies so why can’t we have two lesbian conductor movies?

Drew Burnett Gregory September 12, 2023 5 Comments
a white woman with brown hair and a red tank sits next to a white blonde man in a blue shirt across the table at a bar from a Black woman with a green crop top. there are beers on the table in front of them.
Movie Reviews

Spoiler Alert: Dutch Threesome Film “Happy Ending” Ended Badly

The movie has great queer sex scenes but falls flat in terms of characters.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya September 11, 2023 2 Comments
Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion, Waiting to Exhale and Clueless
Movie Features Quizzes

Love ’90s Movies? Prove It By Identifying 40 of 50 of These 90s Girl Movies

Do you love ’90s movies and for any reason at all tend to prefer 90s movies with women and girls at the center of the story? Prove it!

Riese September 11, 2023 21 Comments
Movie Features Quizzes

Quiz: Which Bottoms Character Are You?

Start a gay fight club, and I’ll tell you which Bottoms character you are.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya September 10, 2023 13 Comments
collage of Hazel in Bottoms
Movie Features Queer Fashion

Style Thief: The Cute Tomboy Grandpa Style of Hazel from “Bottoms”

Do you want to be Hazel or do you want to date Hazel? The only way to find out is to dress exactly like Hazel from “Bottoms” in your everyday life or as a Halloween costume.

Riese September 10, 2023 4 Comments
josie in a rugby shirt, PJ in overalls and a tee, josie in an atari tee, PJ as dutch boy
Movie Features Queer Fashion

Style Thief: Dress Like Josie and PJ From “Bottoms”

It’s your turn to look like our favorite untalented gays and Little Dutch Boys.

Riese September 9, 2023 2 Comments
a person with a blonde mullet leans against a tree and types on a laptop in Orlando My Political Biography
Movie Reviews

TIFF 2023: “Orlando, My Political Biography” Casts Trans People in the Virginia Woolf Classic

Preciado is bold in his assertion that Woolf herself might consider herself nonbinary if she had that language.

Drew Burnett Gregory September 8, 2023
ruby cruz as hazel in Bottoms, wearing a beige polo with a striped collar and looking confused
Movie Features

Representation Matters but I Didn’t Expect Bottoms To Take It So Far for Me

On discovering a doppelgänger in an unlikely place.

Gabrielle Grace Hogan September 7, 2023 10 Comments
Ayo Edebiri and Rachel Sennot in Bottoms
Comedy Movie Features

I Asked a Top About “Bottoms”

In which Kristen Arnett answers important questions, such as: Who were the biggest bottoms in Bottoms?

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya September 6, 2023 9 Comments
Rachel Sennott and Ayo Edebiri in Bottoms
Comedy Movie Features

Rejected Headlines for My “Bottoms” Review

Bottoms Understands What Teen Lesbians Desire: Being Punched By Girls in the Face

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya September 4, 2023 8 Comments
1. Addy and Beth in their cheerleading uniforms in Dare Me. 2. Brittany and Santana kissing in their cheerleading uniforms in Glee. 3. A cheerleader kissing a goth girl in Zolita's music video. 4. Jennifer Check in her cheerleading uniform in Jennifer's Body. 5. Kaia Gerber dancing in a cheerleading uniform in Bottoms. 6. Cheryl and Toni in their cheerleading uniforms in Riverdale.
Movie Features TV Feature

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.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya September 4, 2023 81 Comments
Rachel Sennot, Ruby Cruz, and Ayo Edebiri in the movie Bottoms, standing in a high school hallway and making faces of disgust
Movie Reviews

“Bottoms” Punched Me in the Face (and I Liked It)

Bottoms is the gory gross gay comedy of my fever dreams.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya September 2, 2023 9 Comments
Collage: The Morning Show, Sex Education, Neighbours, Gen V. Second row: Happy Ending, Top Boy, Wheel of Time, Wilderness, Disenchanted, Special Forces
Movie Lists TV Lists

September 2023: What’s New and Gay To Stream

We’ve got new seasons of Sex Education, Wheel of Time and The Morning Show, a Dutch rom-com centered on a life-changing threesome, a Neighbours reboot, a betrayed wife thriller and so much more!

Riese September 1, 2023 7 Comments
In Singapore Sling (1990), a woman eyes another woman in black and white; in black and white, a woman holds a white cat; a woman looks up between someone's legs in Mademoiselle (1966); a woman sleeps in a bed in The Corruption of Chris Miller (1973); a woman emerges from water, being watched by another woman; Two women and an alien in a dress
Movie Features

Watchlist: “House of Psychotic Women” Pushed Me Out of My Horror Comfort Zone

Watchlist is a new series where I invite you to sample the hidden treasures of my personal viewing projects.

Drew Burnett Gregory August 29, 2023 5 Comments
two characters in Piaffe dancing in an exclusive clip
Movie News & Trailers

Watch an Exclusive Clip From Kinky Trans Horse Movie, “Piaffe”

Ann Oren’s completely original debut feature Piaffe is a unique take on gender and queer siblinghood.

Drew Burnett Gregory August 28, 2023 1 Comment
a red rose emerges from a person's mouth
Movie Reviews

“Piaffe” Is for the Kinky Arthouse Horse Girls — And Not Girls

From Cronenberg to Titane, trans audiences have long responded to work that pushes the boundaries of human bodies in lieu of traditional trans storytelling.

Drew Burnett Gregory August 25, 2023 2 Comments
Stewart Thorndike is in a blue print dress while smiling on the Outfest red carpet.
Movie Features

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.”

Drew Burnett Gregory August 22, 2023 2 Comments
Evan Rachel Wood dances behind Nikki Reed with her hands on Reed's hips in Thirteen.
Movie Reviews

20 Years Later, “Thirteen” (2003) Should Be In the Queer Girl Coming-of-Age Canon

Some movies are so powerful, you don’t even have to see them. It’s enough to steal a furtive glance at two older girls with pierced tongues on a DVD cover at your local Blockbuster.

Drew Burnett Gregory August 21, 2023 16 Comments
Faded over a pile of dollar bills and $5 bills are photographs of writers and actors at various SAG-AFTRA/WGA protests, left to right: Aubrey Plaza, Cynthia Nixon, Holland Taylor, Wanda Sykes, Peppermint, and Elliot Page. All of the photographs are a faded green color, like money.
Movie Features TV Feature

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.

Carmen Phillips August 20, 2023 11 Comments
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