The Autostraddle Encyclopedia of Lesbian Cinema
Welcome to the new AF+ encyclopedia with more than 375 films and features like favorites, wishlist, and organizing by genre.
Welcome to the new AF+ encyclopedia with more than 375 films and features like favorites, wishlist, and organizing by genre.
Most Indigenous Black music is rooted in that one thing: a singular shared pulse.
I’ve been publishing my thoughts on film and television since 2018 and it’s inevitable my perspectives have shifted.
Queens of Drama is a true work of queer art, a campy lesbian musical with songs about fisting.
Miyazaki’s film about a young witch shows exactly what AI art and all that it represents threatens to take from us.
Despite its commitment to the realities of queer Asian American experience, immigrant experience, and lesbian motherhood experience, The Wedding Banquet is less the indie dramedy of the original and more the rare gift of a big queer comedy.
Bruce LaBruce aims to rewrite a classic Pasolini film, but has queer sex lost its bite in this new context?
In her gorgeous new book, Cinema Her Way, writer and film critic Marya E. Gates interviews 19 female filmmakers — including Cheryl Dunye, Karyn Kusama, and Isabel Sandoval — about their work, and their experiences in the film industry.
This April is bringing gay showers with The Last of Us, The Handmaid’s Tale and Hacks; a gaggle of queer-inclusive reality TV, a special evening with Brandi Carlile and so much more.
That monologue from The White Lotus, a Torrey Peters novella, and Louise Weard’s lo-fi epic reveal who gets to be trans.
Shot on a mix of consumer-grade recording devices — iPhone, Zoom, VHS camcorder, and Super-8 film — the documentary is an homage to grassroots AIDS mediamaking across decades and its ability to capture intimate, honest communication about hope and loss.
Two dykes discuss Steven Soderbergh’s latest spy romance Black Bag, Cate Blanchett with dark hair, a new crush on Marisa Abela, the politics of spy movies, why Michael Fassbender shouldn’t get cast anymore, and the beauty of a 90 minute thriller.
From Melanie Lynskey in But I’m a Cheerleader to Nia Sondaya in Heart Shot, here’s more queer media with your Yellowjackets faves.
“It was just so sick to be around so many other queer and trans artists that are wanting to be scrappy and make this independent movie and doing it for us and for each other.”
A bisexual playwright, Nazi Germany, and two actresses who took a stand.
A bi woman who is pretty much only into women and Robert Pattinson? Yeah, I’ve met many of them!!!
Van is a certified lesbian cinephile, so what should she rent from the video store once she’s back in society?
In the outpour of heartbreak that flooded the internet after David Lynch’s passing, some of the most vocal mourners were sex workers.
Wanna watch a Netflix movie with lesbian, bisexual, queer or trans characters? We’ve got your round-up of every Netflix lesbian movie currently streaming, and our recommendations.
Thirty years after Stonewall (1995), there still hasn’t been a film that meaningfully captures this major LGBTQ+ historical event.