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The State of Queer and Trans Film After the 2023 Sundance Film Festival
“In the past few years, we’ve been seeing queer people in film outside of trauma and pain. We’re seeing folks who can be terrible, romantic, sweet, murderous — and who also just happen to be queer.”
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Sundance 2024: A Queer and Trans Festival Recap
Reporting daily with queer movie reviews from one of the world’s most prestigious film festivals.
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42 Queer Horror Movies and Shows To Stream This Month
“This movie has ghosts, great music, incredible cinematography, and queer make outs. What more could you want??”
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‘Rent’ (The Film) Is Best Performed Live (By You)
Rent will never be a perfect movie. And it never needs to be. Because Rent is best enjoyed singing it loudly at the top of your lungs, dancing until you break a sweat, and the collapsing exhausted against your couch with your best friends.
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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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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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Lesbian Classic “Kamikaze Hearts” Asks Questions About Porn and Sex, Fiction and Reality
Juliet Bashore and Tigr’s approach to this film was revolutionary, but now it would fit right in as The Real Gay Housewives of 1970s San Francisco.
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Finally, Horror Is For Black Queer Girls in Aisha Dee’s “Sissy”
Cecilia reminds us that whatever was living in you before you grew up doesn’t just vanish into thin air; it mutates and resides in your bones until it decides your body isn’t home enough for it anymore.
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TIFF 2022: “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery” Isn’t Worthy of Janelle Monáe
Sometimes letting a person be hot and funny and wear great outfits is all the politics you need.
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Peaches Christ and Mink Stole vs. Death
Peaches Christ wants to make sure artists young and old, dead and living, are properly celebrated. That’s true whether she’s mentoring future Drag Race winners or writing a show with her idol turned friend, Mink Stole.
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40 Female Horror Protagonists, Ranked by Lesbianism
The women featured on this list include Final Girls, monsters, and everything in between.
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Slow Takes: We Come to This Place for Magic
A movie theatre was the first reason I left my apartment after the 2016 election.
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Maryam Keshavarz on “The Persian Version,” Translating the Iranian American Experience On-Screen, and Cyndi Lauper
“I was always bisexual. Even in college, I dated a man and a woman at the same time, and they knew about each other.”
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Revisiting the Scary Movie Sleepover
Horror movies are for the depressed and anxious gays.
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“Tahara” Is a Queer Teen Comedy with Death and Depth
This is exactly what I want from contemporary low-budget queer filmmaking.
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Anatomy of a Queer Sex Scene: Disobedience Made Us Horny for Spit
Do I love the Disobedience sex scene because of how I have sex or do I have sex the way I do because of the Disobedience sex scene? Who can say!
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They Should Have Sent A Poet
“I was around the same age as young Ellie when ‘Contact’ came out. The way she so clearly carries her childhood self with her made adulthood legible; it made time seem like less of an unknowable straight line and something more like a circle. Watching it as an adult I have that same feeling.”
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Rowan Blanchard on Not Labeling Our Gay Comedies, Impressing Crushes, and Hulu’s “Crush”
“Crush being gay was way less important to me than it being funny.”
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Stewart Thorndike on “Bad Things,” Motherhood, and Her Childhood Nightmares
“The world is a frightening, frightening place, so I don’t really understand why every film isn’t a horror film.”
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Elm Street Was a Nightmare Before Freddy Made It One
Elm Street was just another part of a society — our society, where people are taught to care very little for each other.