“Titane” Is a Boundary-Pushing, Binary-Breaking Work of Queer Body Horror
Flesh is just another binary.
For Non-Binary Climber Lor Sabourin, Being Outdoors Is Finding Your Body in a Uniquely Liberating Way
“I had to learn to feel safe enough in my body that I was able to go rock climbing. And then climbing made my body feel like a safer place, and kind of taught me to take care of it.”
October 2021: What’s New and Gay To Stream
Cozy up for a gay October with secret lesbian relationships amid an alien invasion, a way-more-gay I Know What You Did Last Summer reboot, new seasons of The Baby-Sitter’s Club and Love Life, Wentworth’s last dance, Kiersey Clemons as an animated activist, a true crime limited series and so much more!
“Birds of Paradise” Review: “Black Swan” Meets “Center Stage” feat. the Second Best Fan Fic Trope
Instead of subtle sabotage and psychological spiraling, Birds of Paradise is more like these rival lesbian ballet dancers slapping, tackling, wrestling, clawing at, and punching each other in the face. Until! They get assigned to their dorm room! AND THERE’S ONLY ONE BED!
Carly Usdin’s “First Date”: A Ten-Minute Lesbian Rom-Com That’ll Make You Swoon
Carly wrote and directed First Date for Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine’s MEET CUTE series — and, as usual, their short films make me wish I was watching their feature films or Netflix series!
20 Years Later, “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” Is Still Outside The Binary
“For some of us, that will always be our relationship to gender. I’m a woman. I’m trans. I’m non-binary. All those words feel right for me. But I’m still naked walking down that dark alley a little unsure of who I’m meant to be.”
It’s Time to Give Harley Quinn a Girlfriend on the Big Screen Already
Not only is fan uproar begging for Big Screen Harley and Ivy, but for the first time, the actual plot in front of us is screaming for it, too. It’s now or never for Harley Quinn to make the leap, and we’re quickly reaching a crescendo in her movie arc where to do anything else would be cowardly.
Pray Away: A Documentary For Gays Who Haven’t Yet Been Personally Victimized by Ryan Murphy
Pray Away is, at best, picking at a scab — and, at worst, poking a dirty finger into a gaping wound.
You Need Help: Can I Kill Queer Characters As A Queer Writer?
If queer creators are so worried about backlash from the community that we begin to self-censor, then the only interesting queer work will be made by straight people.
It’s Your Anniversary: “The Watermelon Woman” Gave Me Black Sapphic Genealogy & Queer Joy
“As queer youth, part of the journey to find and honor our queer lineage is to take the pieces left to us and fill in the gaps with joy.”
“Fear Street: 1666” Brings The Trilogy to a Very Gay Close
Part origin story, part conclusion, the final film smashes together its timelines and serves up two distinct films at once that, despite their aesthetic and tonal differences, are inextricably bound.
Gunpowder Milkshake Wants Credit for Including Kickass Women, It Forgot You Have to Write Them First
If women bone cracking the skulls of men to a Janis Joplin soundtrack with pints upon pints of gory jello blood to spare is your idea of summer weekend fun, there are worse ways to spend your two hours.
De-Gayed By Hollywood: 22 Movies That “Straightwashed” LGBTQ+ Women Characters
Lesbian and bisexual characters have been straightwashed out of existence in many beloved Hollywood films. Here are 22 examples of times queer stories were de-gayed for mainstream consumption.
“Fear Street: 1978” Plays it Too Straight for a Queer Slasher
Fear Street Part Two riffs on the original Friday The 13th movie with its summer camp setting, and we trade in the 90s nostalgia of the first Fear Street for late-70s nostalgia.
Queer Slasher “Fear Street: 1994” Delivers Trashy Fun, Gay Drama, and 90s Nostalgia
This movie isn’t reinventing the slasher, but it does expand the definition of who gets to be a final girl. It lets queerness sit inside of horror without being the source of said horror.
“LFG” Takes You Behind the USWNT Gender Discrimination Lawsuit to Stark Places Behind the Lights
The strength of LFG lies in the way it crystallizes the emotional toll of the UWNT’s gender discrimination lawsuit. Its insight into the moments that we didn’t see are the most compelling.
10 Queer Movies to Make Her Break Up With Him
Someone recently found Autostraddle by Googling “movies to make her break up with him” and, friends, it really touched my heart! Because we’ve all been there!
Stephanie Beatriz and Daphne Rubin-Vega on “In the Heights” and Queer Latinas Finding Love in the Everyday
“To really be in a moment where I could fully inhabit and celebrate all those things that we call limitations. Or let me say that better, what we perceive of as a limitation, being an incredible source of strength. I love that.”
“Changing the Game” Review: With Anti-Trans Bills Rising, Listen to the Many Realities of Trans Athletes
There’s all-out bigotry, and there’s all-out triumph. At the center of the wave of anti-trans sports bills are trans kids who just want to play.
“Plan B” Review: Natalie Morales Directs a High-Stakes Teen Sex Comedy with Humor and Horror
I can see how some viewers might be turned off by a character’s queerness being turned into a plot twist, but I can assure you it’s not intended as a punchline.