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Jennifer Reeder: Two images in the 80s Horror Is So Gay video recorder aesthetic. The first images is two hands passing a small cat figurine, one hand has bright blue nail polish. The other is a girl in a school uniform with blood on her face lifting up a tube of lipstick.
Movie Features

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.

Drew Burnett Gregory October 18, 2023 1 Comment
Sandra Hüller in Anatomy of a Fall. She is bundled up in warm clothes, leaning against a car, the snowy alps in the distance behind her.
Movie Reviews

“Anatomy of a Fall” Is an Anti-Legal Drama With a Bisexual Protagonist

Most of us can agree that murder is wrong. More of us should agree the way our societies handle murder — handle all crime — is even worse.

Drew Burnett Gregory October 13, 2023 1 Comment
Monster High 2: Frankie lies in their bed, smiling
Movie Reviews

Nickelodeon’s “Monster High 2” Celebrates Trans Joy With a Nonbinary Frankenstein’s Monster

These little monsters are breaking generational curses and making their own way in the world.

Valerie Anne October 12, 2023 1 Comment
A collage of images from within the article set against a light blue background. Franz Rogowski, Ben Whishaw, and Adèle Exarchopolous in various great outfits.
Movie Features Queer Fashion

How Likely a Dyke Could Ruin My Life in Iconic Outfits From “Passages”

Fashion isn’t what makes this character toxic, but clothes can tell you a lot about a person. The clothes from Passages always tell a story.

Drew Burnett Gregory October 9, 2023 3 Comments
a staticky television with a bloody handprint on it and a stack of VHSs next to it with a blue AS logo
Movie Features TV Feature

Welcome to Horror Is So Gay 2: A Queer Sequel

It took me a while to arrive at my love of horror, but once I did, it felt as much a part of me as my queerness.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya October 8, 2023 6 Comments
1. A young Greta Garbo in a fur coat looks forlorn as another woman grabs onto her arm. 2. Greta Garbo laughs at a dining table. 3. A young Greta Garbo lies down in a glamorous pose as John Barrymore kisses her cheek. 4. An older Marlene Dietrich dressed in black sits across a table from Spencer Tracy. 5. Marlene Dietrich holds a baby as one man has a hand on the carriage and another man holds up a flower. 6. A young Greta Garbo in a fur coat looks forlorn as another woman grabs onto her arm.
Movie Features

Watchlist: “The Girls: Sappho Goes to Hollywood” Reveals the Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich Affair

According to Diana McLellan’s seminal book The Girls: Sappho Goes to Hollywood, Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich did a lot more than meet.

Drew Burnett Gregory October 3, 2023 11 Comments
A collage over a pink sparkle background: Weird Barbie played by Kate McKinnon as both the rebel leader at the end of the Barbie movie and as the Birkenstock guide early in the movie. Then also, left to right: an Asian woman in a pink leather jacket, pink Birkenstocks, a Black woman in a pink dress, pink and orange patterned sweatpants, and black Birkenstocks.
Movie Features Queer Fashion

Style Thief: How to Dress Like Weird Barbie, the Most Lesbian of Barbies

How much pink is too much pink for one outfit, you may ask? Infinity.

Carmen Phillips October 1, 2023 10 Comments
October Streaming Guide collage Column One: Living for the Dead, Twin Flames Universe, Elite Column Two: Our Flag Means Death, Doom Patrol, Monster High 2 Column Three: Fall of the House of Usher, Everything Now
Movie Lists TV Lists

October 2023: What’s New and Gay To Stream

We’ve got a new edgy British queer teen series, a very gay “House of the Fall of Usher,” Kristen Stewart’s gay ghost hunting show, a Twin Flames cult exposé docuseries with a fascinating LGBTQ+ elements and so much more!

Riese October 1, 2023 8 Comments
Chrishell Stause and her co-star hold hands in the upcoming Lifetime movie You're Not Suppose To Be Here.
Movie News & Trailers

Chrishell Stause Will Star As Gay Mommi-To-Be in Lifetime Thriller

Listen, coming out isn’t a competition buuuuut Chrishell might be winning coming out?

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya September 29, 2023
Renatta in the film "Something You Said Last Night" laughs while riding in a car with the windows down
Movie Reviews

“Something You Said Last Night” Is a New, Quietly Subversive Trans Cinema

Something You Said Last Night not only insists we should ask for more from our trans cinema — it insists we should ask for more from our trans lives.

Drew Burnett Gregory September 29, 2023 7 Comments
Still from Vida. A wide shot of Mishel Prada pressing Michelle Badillo down on a table as she fucks her from behind.
Movie Features TV Feature

We Need More Sex Scenes

I want a Hollywood of intimacy coordinators and queerness and open sexuality — not exploitation, abuse, and secrecy.

Drew Burnett Gregory September 28, 2023 20 Comments
Laura Calamy and Suzanne Clément lie in bed together. Clément looks at Calamy as Calamy looks off.
Movie Reviews

“The Origin of Evil” Is a Twisted and Twisty Queer Thriller

This is the best kind of genre filmmaking: smart but not so obsessed with its own intelligence that it forgets to be entertaining.

Drew Burnett Gregory September 22, 2023 7 Comments
A collage of four stills from Dos Estaciones, The Cow Who Sang a Song Into the Future, How to Blow Up a Pipeline, and Nothing Compares.
Movie Features

Having Some Film Festival FOMO? Here Are Six Queer Movies You Can Stream Right Now

My favorite film from last year’s Toronto International Film Festival is now streaming on Hulu! And my second favorite is streaming on Max!

Drew Burnett Gregory September 20, 2023 3 Comments
Maya Hawke as Flannery O'Connor reads a letter by a mailbox wearing a brown coat.; Devery Jacobs stares toward the camera mid push up.; Colman Domingo as Rustin walks in the National Mall with the Washington Monument behind him.;
Movie Features

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!

Drew Burnett Gregory September 18, 2023 4 Comments
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 15 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
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