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Movie Features Pets & Animals

Bury Your Dogs: 37 Dog Characters Who Died In TV and Film, and How

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Carol April 1, 2022 19 Comments
Movie Features

Oscars 2022: Two Queers Discuss the Actually Kinda Gay 94th Academy Awards

Riese: “Does the driver count as a lesbian character do you think?”
Drew: “How could she not be?? Did you see her blazers??”

Drew Burnett Gregory and Riese
March 27, 2022 11 Comments
Badhaai Do review: In this still fromBadhaai Do, Two women in a dressing room, one leans in to kiss her neck and the other looks in the mirror
Movie Reviews

“Badhaai Do” Let Me Dream Of A Gay Indian Future

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Anamika Gopalan March 25, 2022 14 Comments
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Book Lists Movie Lists TV Lists

22 Fictional Books From Movies and TV Shows We Would Really Like to Actually Read

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Riese March 23, 2022 18 Comments
Movie Reviews

The 30 Gayest Things About the Supposedly Straight Rom-Com “13 Going On 30”

The Six Chicks? The mere premise of wanting to skip from 13 to 30? There’s a reason this iconic film connected with me so deeply when I was a closeted preteen.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya March 13, 2022 14 Comments
Movie Reviews

“Fresh” Has Cannibals, a Bisexual Character, and Humor but Could Use a Little More Meat

Have stories that feature queers and also cannibals become my brand?

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya March 9, 2022 2 Comments
Kate McKinnon as Carole Baskin in a pink leopard print shirt, waving
Movie Reviews

Kate McKinnon Is Masterfully Bananapants in the Wild and Queer “Joe vs. Carole”

It’s a nesting doll of magnificent weirdness watching someone as over the top as Kate McKinnon try to add substance and subtlety to someone as over the top as Carole Baskin.

Heather Hogan March 8, 2022 4 Comments
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Movie Lists TV Lists

What’s New and Gay To Stream in March 2022

Charmed and Star Trek Picard are coming back, a trans lesbian on The Dropout, Lizzo’s got a reality show and Evan Rachel Wood’s got a documentary, Kate McKinnon is Carole Baskin and more queer situations to anticipate on your teevee this month!

Riese March 1, 2022 13 Comments
Charlie and Parker in the stairwell
Movie Reviews

“Marry Me” Is a J-Lo Rom-Com About a Lesbian Who Does All The Work, Gets None of the Credit

“Marry Me” is a charming enough romantic comedy about a superstar who marries a common man, and the whole damn story is enabled by a lesbian who finds love for EVERYBODY but herself.

Riese February 15, 2022 8 Comments
Jenna Ortega and Maddie Ziegler in a pool in a still from The Fallout
Movie Reviews

“The Fallout” Review: Jenna Ortega and Maddie Ziegler Explore Queerness and Trauma Together

Vada, the lead of The Fallout, is just a normal high schooler. And it’s all a normal day in a normal life, until it’s not.

Analyssa February 9, 2022 7 Comments
photo collage featuring Kristen Stewart (NEW YORK, NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 29: Kristen Stewart attends the 2021 Gotham Awards at Cipriani Wall Street on November 29, 2021 in New York City. (Photo by Taylor Hill/FilmMagic) and Ariana Debose (LONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 03: Ariana DeBose visits Magic FM, Bauer Radio on February 3, 2022 in London, England. (Photo by Nicky J Sims/Getty Images for Bauer Media)
Movie News & Trailers

Kristen Stewart and Ariana DeBose Are Making 2022 Oscars So Gay, Dude

There’s a lot of LGBTQ+ material to celebrate in this year’s Oscars, including Kristen Stewart and Ariana DeBose making queer history with their nominations for “Spencer” and “West Side Story.”

Riese February 8, 2022 21 Comments
Celie and Shug, both Black brown skinned women, sit on a bed and look lovingly into each others eyes.
Movie Features

Will “The Color Purple” Get Black Queerness Right This Time?

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Amari Gaiter February 7, 2022 11 Comments
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Movie Features

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February 2022 Streaming Guide images
Movie Lists TV Lists

What’s New and Gay To Stream in February 2022

February is bringing many LGBTQ+ tidings including the last seasons of Killing Eve and Better Things, Shay Mitchell playing gay again, celesbian-studded game shows, an Anne+ movie, Abbi Jacobson as an animated queer princess and more!

Riese February 1, 2022 14 Comments
A still of Jennifer Lawrence and Leonardo DiCaprio from "Don't Look Up"
Movie Reviews

“Don’t Look Up” Exposes How Capitalism Won’t Save Us

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Amari Gaiter January 31, 2022 6 Comments
A three-photo collage of movies from Sundance
Movie Features

Sundance 2022: A Gay Trans Festival Recap

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Drew Burnett Gregory January 28, 2022 5 Comments
A close up of Aamu Milonoff and Linnea Leino staring at each other on the dance floor.
Movie Reviews

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Drew Burnett Gregory January 26, 2022 10 Comments
Close-up of Doris Muñoz's face in dark blue lighting. She is looking up with her mouth open as she dances.
Movie Reviews

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Drew Burnett Gregory January 24, 2022 1 Comment
A close up of Zackary Drucker as Agnes wearing sunglasses and a scarf around her head.
Movie Reviews

Sundance 2022: “Framing Agnes” Is a Complicated Tribute to Trans Invisibility

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Drew Burnett Gregory January 22, 2022 3 Comments
Carrie-Anne Moss and Keanu Reeves in the first Matrix movie
Movie Features

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Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya and Drew Burnett Gregory
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