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The Bloody History of the Lesbian Vampire in 20 Films
The phrase “lesbian vampire” might be one of the most titillating combinations of words in the English language.
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The Autostraddle Encyclopedia of Lesbian Cinema
With every passing year, every passing update, this is a list begging to break out of limitations.
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“Mommy Is Coming”: Cheryl Dunye’s Self-Reflexive Sex Comedy Dissects and Embraces the Erotic
Sex is weird, and this movie leans into that without pretending to have all the answers.
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Race and Appropriation at the Academy Awards: A 95 Year History
We’ve got data and timelines and infographics and conversation on topics including: white actors getting Oscars for playing people of color, white savior narratives, actors of color who actually did get nominated or win Oscars for Acting and so much more. Just updated for 2023.
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Annette Haywood-Carter on “Foxfire,” Filmmaking, and Being a Queer Woman in Hollywood
After “Foxfire,” Annette was pushed aside and ignored. But she kept working — detours and frustrations included — and now she’s back with a new film and ready to move beyond for-hire jobs to direct the personal, artful work she should have been making for decades.
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TIFF 2022: A Queer and Trans Festival Recap
Over the past couple weeks, I’ve watched forty features and the first two episodes of a TV show. Yes, forty. Consider this list a reference, a collection of short reviews for the rest of the year’s buzzed about films and films that should be buzzed about.
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Every Kristen Stewart Movie, Ranked
I watched all 42 Kristen Stewart movies and lived to tell the tale: from tiny tomboy robbing a bank to Princess Diana driving a car, here’s how good (and often pretty bad) they are.
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Autostraddle’s 30 Scariest Queer Horror Movie Moments
Drew Burnett Gregory and Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya present the most skin-crawling, chilling, disquieting, grotesque, macabre queer and trans horror movie scenes of all time.
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Jamie Babbit on “But I’m a Cheerleader,” Barbie Sex, and Getting Bad Reviews
“That’s my whole junior high experience: No, I don’t want to be friends with you. I actually want to have sex with you.”
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“A New York Christmas Wedding” Asks You to Believe in the Power of Love at Christmas
I love Christmas. I love having a guardian gayngel. And even when the movie is not great, I love a queer Afro-Latina in New York getting her very own Gay Christmas Love Story.
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GLAAD 2020 Film Report: Mainstream Movies Continue to Ignore Lesbian, Bisexual, Queer and Trans Women
Of 118 major studio releases in 2019, 15 included gay men, eight included lesbian or bisexual women, and zero included trans characters.
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“Misdirection”: Carly Usdin’s Magical Queer Short Film Is Free to Stream Right Now!
It will make you laugh and swoon, I promise. (There’s a surprise therapist I won’t spoil for you, but you’ll love that too.)
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From “Calamity Jane” to “The Prom”: A History of Queer Women in Movie Musicals
To celebrate the release of The Prom here is an exhaustive look at the representation of queer women in movie musicals.
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My Top 10 Favorite Lesbian Films: Drew Gregory
If love is going to exist — which, ugh, I guess it does — then it’s going to exist within the messiness of our lives. It’s going to exist alongside our families and our cultures and our hopes and our fears. It’s going to be hard and it’s going to take risk.
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Netflix’s “The Prom” Review: Broadway’s Favorite Teen Lesbians Warmed Our Unruly Hearts
Join Valerie, Drew, and Carmen as they geek out about Ryan Murphy’s Netflix adaptation of The Prom.
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The New “Charlie’s Angels” Delivers Fights, Fashion, and Friendship
The movie pays homage to its predecessors while still charting its own course.
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Why Did We Love “Grease” So Much As Gay Children?
“I see the dichotomies of Good Sandy v. Bad Sandy as something specifically magnetic for little baby gays, too, even if we were too baby to fully unpack that.”
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12 Thrillers and Action Films With Lesbian and Bisexual Characters, Ranked
Our team weighs in on 12 queer action/thrillers, from the Power Rangers to Atomic Blonde to Bound and beyond!
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Thirsty Classics: “Vampyros Lesbos” Invites Us Into the Male Gaze
Vampyros Lesbos is not my fantasy. But it is a fantasy. And, while this fills me some guilt, I do, in fact, enjoy it.
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Thirsty Classics: “The Children’s Hour” Is All About Shirley MacLaine’s Hair
“Shirley daydreams about their first meeting. “I remember thinking, What a pretty girl.” Later, Audrey kisses her cheek and Mary’s eyes widen. Mine do too.”