Becoming Babygirl: How Erotica and Kink Saved My Life
As a mother and a career-driven individual who holds power in various aspects of my own life, I immediately related to Babygirl’s Romy.
David Lynch Taught Us To Laugh at the Horrors
Lynch’s films ask us to take the people, concepts, and circumstances that terrify us the most and turn them on their head.
One of the First Lesbian Sex Scenes Has Been Restored
Personally, I like my sexploitation a bit more art house than Looney Tunes, but I’m still grateful to learn more about this noteworthy artist in film history.
All the Queer Movies and Performers Nominated for the 2025 Academy Awards
So no nominations for ‘Queer,’ but what about the queers?
Rediscovering the Once Lost Japanese Genderqueer Road Movie ‘Bye Bye Love’ 50 Years Later
Bye Bye Love is a film all about the ways identity is constructed, defined, and imposed.
Fix Your Hearts and Live
It is through women that Lynch reminds us: No matter how dark it gets, there is always the possibility for suffering to end.
Kelley O’Hara and Filmmaking Duo Tusk Want More Lesbian Happy Endings
Kelley O’Hara, executive producer of the new film Ripe!, wants to see more sapphic joy like her own on-screen.
The Best Theatre Films of 2024 Weren’t Musicals
They weren’t even adaptations of plays.
How the Queer Gen Z Cast of ‘Bodies Bodies Bodies’ Inspired Halina Reijn’s ‘Babygirl’
“I think the younger generations have a very healthy and new and refreshing relationship to identity. You no longer have to be scared of it.”
The Top Gayest Moments of the ‘Wicked’ Press Tour
What a time to be alive, and of course by that I mean what a time to be alive for one of the most unhinged and earnest and delightful and bizarre and GAY big movie press tours of all time!
I Saw the T-Rex Glow: Tammy and the T-Rex, 30 Years Later
Tammy and the T-Rex feels inescapably like a film about gender, dysphoria, and a relationship struggling to find a path forward amid massive, unforeseen changes.
Autostraddle’s Favorite Queer Movie Scenes of 2024
The team was horny at the movies this year and what a blessing.
In Search of a Queer Christmas Horror Classic
If one quality ties the Christmas horror subgenre together, it’s an oddball, camp sensibility that almost always feels at least a little bit queer.
Quiz: Which ‘Conclave’ Character Are You?
The movie that puts catty in Catholic has become the sleeper queer hit of the year. But where would you fit into the conclave?
We Got High and Watched New Indie Queer Christmas Movie “Last Exmas”
This movie has everything: a girl in a beanie who makes pizza pockets for a diner, a meddling friend who wears loud sweaters and makes scissoring gestures, a famous actress from a car commercial getting a key to the city, and so much more
A Queer History of the Twilight Saga
The Twilight franchise’s queerest impulses were found in its beginning and its ending.
New Documentary ‘Our Dad, Danielle’ Didn’t Know How Necessary It Would Become
“I came out as a trans woman in Texas during the age of Trump. For me, there was no stealth coming out. I’m a big, ugly old broad and there’s no hiding it. Coming out may not have been a smart thing to do, but for me to stay alive, it was the only thing for me to do.”
In Time-Honored Musical Theater Tradition, Almost Everyone in the ‘Wicked’ Movie Is Gay
Who all’s gay in the Wicked cast? Turns out, a lot of them!
Why Didn’t the “Year of MILF Cinema” Include Lesbians?
The MILF revolution will be televised…but apparently it will not make room for queer women?!?!
The Top 10 Queer Home Video Releases of 2024
Physical media is back! Or, for some of us, it never left. Here are the best queer Blu-Ray and DVD releases of 2024.