Results for: bisexual
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Sundance 2022: “Mija,” “Sirens,” and “Nothing Compares” Find Hope in a Hopeless World
This year at Sundance there are three documentaries about women in music — women who are tasked with navigating the hostile industry and our even more hostile world.
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Halle Berry’s “Bruised” Is a Bloodied Mess (But at Least It’s a Gay Mess)
If you’re anything like me and your main reasons for watching “Bruised” were to see Halle Berry fight and make out with girls, you won’t be disappointed. But you might walk away wishing it had stuck to just those two things.
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“Moonshot” Review: I Wish I Had Just Rewatched Zenon
Sunita Deshpande and Cameron Esposito play a queer couple in space, but this mostly straight rom-com is too terrestrial to stand out.
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“The Truth About Jane” Is Dated as Heck, and That’s a Very Good Thing
The dialogue isn’t exactly elegant — though there is one deeply quotable moment when Jane’s lesbian teacher asks her what’s wrong and Jane says, “I’m gay and everyone hates me!!!!!!”Â
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The Drop: “The United States vs. Billie Holiday” Is Big on Trauma, Slight on Queerness
“I fully understand they have to paint a picture of the times, and deep racial trauma and pain were a part of those times, but I found myself wondering why we need another gut-wrenching Black story on film.”
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Shiva Baby Wasn’t My Queer Story — and That’s Totally Fine
“I know and love many Danielle-esque people — but she is not me. Instead, she is the projection many people have of me solely based on my identity.”
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Eroticism Isn’t a Distraction in Maryam Keshavarz’s “Circumstance”—It’s Vital
“If you could be anywhere in the world, where would you be?”
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“Saving Face” Made My Lesbian Dance Floor Fantasies Come True
“I don’t know what’s gayer: the outfit itself or the fact that Vivian remembers it in such specific detail 19 years later.”
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Dee Rees’ “Pariah” Will Still Break You Open and Let the Light Shine Through
Alike is a chameleon, disappearing in the light of her surroundings — purple in the club, green on the bus, pink at home — only ever showing you her profile when she’s forced to be less than her authentic self.
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Sundance 2021: “Ma Belle, My Beauty” Brings Polyamorous Dyke Drama to the South of France
Look, when a character takes a strap-on out of her backpack in the middle of a sex scene you know you’re in good hands.
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Watching “Personal Best” Was the Main Way to Become a Lesbian in the ’80s and ’90s
Bend It Like Beckham could never.
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“Water Lilies” Is a Memory of Gay Adolescence
It’s impossible to forget a feeling like sitting on the bleachers watching Floriane swim. It’s impossible to forget the drowning.
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“Mommy Is Coming”: Cheryl Dunye’s Self-Reflexive Sex Comedy Dissects and Embraces the Erotic
Sex is weird, and this movie leans into that without pretending to have all the answers.
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“Cracks” Is a Boarding School Monster Movie
It’s a piercing portrayal of abuse. It’s a monster movie, only instead of a creature in the night, its monster is a human woman.
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On “High Art” and Being Young and Gay
Age gap relationships have always been and will likely always be a part of queer culture.
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Yes, “Loving Annabelle” Is Problematic — But it Was a Vital Film in My Own Queer Journey
There’s a reason forbidden romances like this spoke to me as a closeted person!
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Is “Imagine Me & You” Even Good? I Don’t Know, But I Keep Rewatching It
Arranging flowers is gay — you heard it here first.
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Oh That’s Right, “Gia” Is a VERY F*CKING SAD Movie
Things I didn’t know about Gia but learned quickly: this movie is very fucking sad, Mila Kunis plays Young Gia, Adina Porter makes a brief appearance, ELIZABETH MITCHELL plays Gia’s love interest, and Gia’s female love interest was not a brief drug-fueled lesbian fling!
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“Desert Hearts” Remains One Of Cinema’s Greatest Lesbian Love Stories
Donna Deitch’s queer love story is set in the ’50s and was filmed in the ’80s, and is still, in 2020, a radical piece of filmmaking.
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“The Handmaiden” Dares You to Look
This movie is simultaneously sexy and fucked-up, and its paradoxes mesmerize.