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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!

Riese October 1, 2021 21 Comments
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Movie Reviews

“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!

Heather Hogan September 28, 2021 17 Comments
Jennifer (Shalita Grant) and Anna (Shannon Woodward) make out in First Date
Film

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!

Heather Hogan September 7, 2021 13 Comments
John Cameron Mitchell as Hedwig looks at Michael Pitt as Tommy Gnosis. Tommy holds up a pink mirror covering half of Hedwig's face so his face appears to complete hers.
Movie Reviews

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.”

Drew Burnett Gregory August 31, 2021 11 Comments
Harley Quinn in "The Suicide Squad" lays the groundwork for a gay future by declaring "when your taste in men is as bad as mine, they don't just go away quietly." She is in a red ball gown with dark red lipstick in a dark mansion.
Movie Features

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.

Carmen Phillips August 11, 2021 12 Comments
A close-up of a face with a cross made of newspaper over the lips. The cross says "exodus"
Movie Reviews

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.

Heather Hogan August 5, 2021 19 Comments
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Movie Features

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.

Drew Burnett Gregory August 3, 2021 13 Comments
Movie Reviews

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.”

Jumko Ogata-Aguilar July 28, 2021 2 Comments
FEAR STREET PART 3: 1666 (L to R) KIANA MADEIRA as SARAH FIER and OLIVIA SCOTT WELCH as HANNAH MILLER. NETFLIX © 2021
Movie Reviews

“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.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya July 19, 2021 23 Comments
In this review for Gunpowder Milkshake, Angela Bassett has on a blue suit and holds a firearm, Michelle Yeoh and Carla Gugino are behind her.
Movie Reviews

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.

Carmen Phillips July 15, 2021 6 Comments
Movie Lists

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.

Riese July 15, 2021 17 Comments
Fear Street's gay characters look alarmed in the foreground as a late 70s summer camp looms in the background
Movie Reviews

“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.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya July 12, 2021 12 Comments
fear street 1994 gay characters huddle in a corner crying
Movie Reviews

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.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya July 5, 2021 22 Comments
LFG Review: The back of Megan Rapinoe's head is backlight against a bright camera light with a microphone hanging in front of her.
Movie Reviews Sports

“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.

Natalie July 2, 2021 6 Comments
A three-photo collage: Carol, I Can't Think Straight, and Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Movie Lists

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!

Heather Hogan June 17, 2021 15 Comments
In a still from the movie, Daphne Rubin Vega and Stephanie Beatriz play girlfriends Daniela and Carla. Carla is dipping Daniela while dancing.
Movie Features

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.”

Carmen Phillips June 10, 2021 12 Comments
In the documentary Changing the Game, a teenage athlete runs very fast against a blurred sunrise
Movie Reviews

“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.

Christine Salek June 10, 2021 1 Comment
A still from the movie Plan B, with Lupe and Sunny standing at pharmacy looking for Plan B.
Movie Reviews

“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.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya June 7, 2021 4 Comments
Movie Reviews

Your Questions About Tig Notaro in “Army Of The Dead,” Answered

Everything you need to know about the heartthrob helicopter hunk (!!!) played by Tig Notaro in Zack Snyder’s zombie-heist mashup movie, Army of the Dead.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya May 25, 2021 17 Comments
Image shows pink text that reads "Shiva Baby" overlaid on an image of a woman in a black and white suit holding a bagel smeared in cream cheese and smoked meats.
Movie Reviews

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.”

Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner May 21, 2021 6 Comments
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