“Erin’s Guide to Kissing Girls” Is Lesbian Lizzie McGuire on a Budget
I want to crawl inside sweet stories and build a blanket fort there. Lucky for me, writer and director Julianna Notten has met me right where I am.
“Your Place or Mine” Fails To Explicitly Acknowledge Bit Butch Lesbian Character
As much as I’d love for Tig Notaro to be in all romantic comedies, I don’t want “butch best friend” to become the latest watered down LGBT character trope.
Horror Romance “Attachment” Has Mommy Issues, Jewish Folklore, and Hot Lesbian Sex
These two lovers bond over their shared mommy issues — and their shared interest in each other’s bodies.
“Knock at the Cabin” Understands the Limits of Queer Assimilation
Knock is equally about this one, queer family as it is about our relationships to everyone else, the connections we have through the fact of biology and culture, the fact of our shared humanity.
February 2023: What’s New and Gay To Stream
We’ve got some very bisexual reality television, the return of Harlem, Bel-Air and Star Trek: Picard; a Harley Quinn Valentine’s Day special and so much more!
The State of Queer and Trans Film After the 2023 Sundance Film Festival
“In the past few years, we’ve been seeing queer people in film outside of trauma and pain. We’re seeing folks who can be terrible, romantic, sweet, murderous — and who also just happen to be queer.”
Sundance 2023: A Queer Festival Recap
Film festivals are one of the primary places that buzz begins. It’s why it’s so important that the first responses to films out of festivals aren’t solely those of cis straight white men working for major publications.
Sundance 2023: “Shortcomings” Tries To Explore Desirability Politics But Falls Short
This movie feels too scared to say what it really wants to say.
Sundance 2023: “Joyland” and “Slow” Center Their Cis and Allosexual Characters With Surprising Success
Every story can be told, if it’s told right.
Sundance 2023: “Rye Lane” Is a Flawless Story About a Blossoming Black Love
It’ll make you believe that love can be just a stroll away.
Sundance 2023: “The Persian Version” Tells a Brilliant Queer Story Through Art & Family Secrets
This film also asks why we make our children pay for things they knew nothing about.
Sundance 2023: “L’immensità” Is a Trans Coming-of-Age Marvel From 1970s Italy
I have seen several trans coming-of-age films — few with this amount of specificity, nuance, and imagination.
Sundance 2023: Anne Hathaway’s New Movie Isn’t Nearly As Queer as It Wants To Be
A thigh touch and a smile does not make a queer film!
Dykes, Camera, Action: We’re Going to Sundance!
Over the past few years, Autostraddle has had a presence at some of the biggest film festivals in the world. We’ve gone to TIFF, Tribeca, The Black Femme Supremecy Film Festival, and of course Sundance. This year we’re returning to Sundance — with not one, but two writers!
Hulu’s “The Drop” Review: Lesbian Destination Wedding Goes Wonderfully Wrong
The movie delightfully mines marital conflicts for humor, but it falters in the writing of its lesbian characters.
“M3gan” Invites Us to Hang Out for a While, or Forever, NBD
What we’ve got to remember is that girls from about age ten to about eighteen are simply the most terrifying beings to walk the planet.
“Mars One” is Part Family Drama, Part Lesbian Romance, Entirely Wonderful
This is a film filled with struggle that never feels maudlin, hope that never feels forced.
January 2023: What’s New and Gay To Stream
We’ve got new seasons of Vox Machina, Hunters and Ginny & Georgia; a cringe comedy indie film set at a destination lesbian wedding, an action series that strands a lesbian on an oil rig, Alan Cummings’ competition reality show with a non-binary contestant, a new “very queer” Anne Rice adaptation, HBO’s “The Last of Us” and so much more!
“I Wanna Dance With Somebody” Settled for Being Superficial, Instead of Exploring Whitney and Robyn’s Depth
Instead of revealing Houston’s deeper emotionality, experiences, and relationships, the movie often feels like merely watching characters walk through a summary of her major live events.
“Call Me Miss Cleo” and the Queer Legacy of TV’s Most (In)Famous Psychic
When the PRN lawsuits were settled, Cleo essentially went into hiding. But she soon found a queer coffee shop in Florida that felt like home.