The Best Straight Movies of the Past 10 Years
A dazzling portrait of a white heterosexual girl’s coming-of-age, Lady Bird gave us a straight character anyone can root for.
HBO Max Abortion Documentary “The Janes” Reminds Us Revolution Is Possible Wherever We Are
The Janes documents the group of women in 1960s Chicago who came together to provide safe abortion access to women who needed it.
Tribeca 2022: “Petit Mal” Is A Lesbian Throuple’s Real Life Fiction
We are watching these three artists create drama together — which definition of drama is unclear.
Tribeca 2022: “Three Headed Beast” Tackles the Complexities of Open Relationships
No one is a villain and no one is wrong. It’s just often the natural progression of these kinds of relationships where people don’t talk things out.
Tribeca Film Festival 2022 May be It’s Queerest Season Yet
Dani Janae talks to Tribeca Film Festival programmers, Lucy Mukerjee and Shakira Refos, on the importance of investing in queer artists and audiences.
“Fire Island” Is a Perfect Summer Reminder of How We Find Our Families
The Bechdel test has always been dangerously limited when implemented carte blanche, especially when talking about people of color.
“Tahara” Is a Queer Teen Comedy with Death and Depth
This is exactly what I want from contemporary low-budget queer filmmaking.
What’s New and Gay To Stream in June 2022
We’ve got a series about lesbian vampires and a series about a queer actress angling to be in “Les Vampires,” a delightfully inclusive Queer as Folk reboot, Selena Gomez getting the girl in Season 2 of The Only Murders in the Building, a new 80s-set movie about a young Black queer singer and (truly) so much more!
Lily Tomlin’s “Grandma” Is as Angry as We Are About Anti-Abortion Assholes
I rewatched Grandma the day after Justice Alito’s leaked draft opinion was published and I marveled, once again, at how prescient Lily Tomlin’s best roles are.
Slow Takes: “F9: The Fast Saga” and the Danger of Queer Assimilation
I will always believe that homoerotic criminals are far queerer than explicitly gay cops.
“Crush” Screenwriters Kirsten King and Casey Rackham On Astrology, Queer Utopia, and Their Own Crushes
“All of the drama in my queer friends’ lives revolves around who they may or may not fuck. And then we save the talk about our dads for our therapists.”
Queering the Canon: Where Are All The Trans Rom-Coms?
It’s time trans people get to showcase our desires, in all their variety, in all their complexity, in all their possibility.
What’s New and Gay To Stream in May 2022
May 2022 is bringing us a new queer-inclusive dating show, Season 4 of the Circle, the return of The Wilds and Girls5Eva and Hacks, “Conversations With Friends,” and more!
Watch An Exclusive Clip From Queer French Rom-Com, “Anaïs In Love”
“Anaïs In Love” comes out today and it has one of the steamiest beach scenes ever.
“Anaïs in Love” Is A Queer Celebration of Chaos
The film is similar to the Old Hollywood screwball comedies. It celebrates a queer woman by embracing her chaos in a world built on structure.
Hulu’s “Crush” Hits All the Teen Rom-Com Beats, But in a Gay Way
I feel pretty excited for a young queer person who might choose to watch this because it’s gay, and find a whole fleshed out (if slightly idyllic) world.
Critics Have Now Seen Uzo Aduba’s “Lightyear” Lesbian Astronaut Kiss With Their Own Eyes
Pixar screened the first half-hour of Lightyear for critics yesterday at CinemaCon and they’ve confirmed Disney has added back in the gay smooch.
Rowan Blanchard on Not Labeling Our Gay Comedies, Impressing Crushes, and Hulu’s “Crush”
“Crush being gay was way less important to me than it being funny.”
Auli’i Cravalho on Coming Out on TikTok, Midnight Heartfelt Queer Convos, and Hulu’s “Crush”
“Laying down next to a pretty girl in moonlight and talking about our feelings, like… it’s just movie magic.”
Happy 4/20! I Got Extremely High and Watched Elena Undone, the Worst Lesbian Movie
“This is starting to feel pretty gay, Elena.”