Results for: bisexual
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“The Handmaiden” Dares You to Look
This movie is simultaneously sexy and fucked-up, and its paradoxes mesmerize.
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“Chutney Popcorn” Is the South Asian Dyke Rom-Com I Always Wished “Bend It Like Beckham” Had Been
I wish I could go back and show this film to my baby gay self.
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Viola Davis Towers in “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” Giving Life to a Black Queer Legend
In Viola Davis’ hands, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” becomes a complex portrait of a queer Black woman hurricane whose footprints loom large over the last 100 years.
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“Bound” Is a Trans Classic
If we’re going to reexamine The Matrix through the lens of the Wachowskis’ transness, it’s time we do the same here. Bound is ready for its estrogen shot.
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“Heavenly Creatures” Is a Queer Adolescent Nightmare
The girls are so scared of the realities they’ve been given that their fantasy — murder and all — feels like the only choice. They don’t know yet that there’s a whole world of creative queer people out there.
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“Set It Off” Is the Queer Tribute to Black Women’s Friendship We Need After a Summer of Black Mourning
As Cleo, Queen Latifah had never been better. Young, mighty, unadulterated, sweet to her friends, sexy in the way that only studs can be — an energy that radiates beneath the pores and melanin, the quiet, intoxicating confidence that comes from truly owning your shit.
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“Kissing Jessica Stein” Is a Classic of Queer Jewish Anxiety
I hope those of you who celebrate had a relatively joyous Rosh Hashanah. And now please join me in the High Holy Day of revisiting a Jewish queer woman classic.
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“2 in the Bush” Is a Funny, Warm, Daring Love Story
Untimely deaths, lesbian bed death, a creepy heterosexual polyamorous couple; you won’t find it here. Instead, the film takes the approach of exploring the many different loves we have in our lives.
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“Birds of Prey” Is the Chaotic Sparkly Queer Misandrist Comic Book Movie of My Dreams
With two on-screen queer women characters, “Birds of Prey” is an irate, sparkle laden, middle finger in the air to a society that otherwise cowers to the angry whims of men. Who the hell wouldn’t sign up for that?
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“Whitney: Can I Be Me”: An Intimate, Heartbreaking Portrait of Houston’s Life and Long-Rumored Bisexuality
“While Can I Be Me speculates that Houston was bisexual, no one seems willing to define her connection to Crawford as anything other than a solid friendship.”
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“Let It Snow” Review: I BELIEVE IN LOVE AND I BELIEVE IN CHRISTMAS
A very merry Christmas to us all! Netflix’s new holiday movie has a queer romance!
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“Men in Black: International” Review: Tessa Thompson Wears a Suit, Flirts With Women
Sadly, that’s also pretty much everything that makes Men in Black: International great.
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Monsters & Mommis: Three Trips to Hill House
As The Haunting of Hill House has found new life across decades, the queerness has become more explicit yet less important to the overall work.
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Outfest 2019: “Bit” Is a Trans Teen Vampire Romp About Lesbian Separatism
Anyone who watches Supergirl knows just how talented Nicole Maines is and she carries this movie with ease. She’s so casually present on screen and she absolutely kills a one-liner.
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“Better Than Chocolate” Turns 20, Remains the Only Movie Where a Trans Woman Has a Lesbian Friend Group
“My favorite moment in the movie happens during the climax when one of the skinheads punches Judy. She punches him back. He calls her a dyke. And she says thank you.”
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“Someone Great”: Gina Rodriguez, Brittany Snow and DeWanda Wise Add a Lesbian BFF to the Gal Pal Comedy Formula
It’s like Girls Trip’s less raunchy kid sister who went to NYU and made some white friends.
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I Watched Lesbian Classic “Disobedience” and Be Quiet Tiffany
We were rooting for you.
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“Colette” Review: Keira Knightley Kisses Women, Sports a Suit, Destroys the Patriarchy
The biopic of Colette is only a fragment of her life, the one in which France’s most prolific writer realizes she cannot be contained.
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“Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again” Is the Mommiest Movie of the Summer
The Mamma Mia! Cinematic Universe is the new Marvel Cinematic Universe—spread the word.
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“Can You Ever Forgive Me?” Review: Lesbian Biographer Lee Israel’s Story Is Safe in Melissa McCarthy’s Hands
Amazingly, director Marielle Heller doesn’t seem to care if the audience is willing to forgive Israel. She has a better question, one we never ask about lesbians on TV and in film.