Results for: queer parenting
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A Love Letter to Alice Wu’s “The Half Of It”
You’re as epic as the concept of love and as small as the town of Squahamish. You’re as perfect as a movie can be and as messy as a movie should be. To say it simply, I love you.
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Monsters & Mommis: “Good Manners” Is a Tribute to Queer Motherhood
If the idea of having children as queer women is a fraught and complicated topic, Good Manners opens itself up to the mess.
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“Frozen 2” Review: Elsa Gets Mommy Issues Instead of a Girlfriend
If Disney wasn’t ready to explicitly represent a fifth of its young audience, they could’ve at least given Elsa a gal pal. I don’t need to see Elsa make out with the mysterious voice calling her to the next chapter of queer life, but lord did it have to be her mother?
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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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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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“Ek Ladki” Is the First Bollywood Lesbian RomCom — but the Lesbians Fall Flat
Why did this movie tank so hard that it was almost immediately out of theaters in America? Why did this not get the coverage or accolades it deserved for being the first mainstream Bollywood movie about a lesbian relationship?
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Thirsty Classics: “Mädchen in Uniform” is the Original Thirsty Classic
Remembering that queer people have always been here, and have always been hot, is a necessity if we want our present and future to be truly queer.
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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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Mindy Kaling’s “Late Night” Is a Rom-Com for Women Who Are in Love With Their Careers
Queer director Nisha Ganatra brings Kaling’s funny, biting, meta-critiquing script to life like a bright, slick, dazzling rom-com for women who fantasize more about their careers than they do about Mr. Darcy.
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“Booksmart” Pushes Teen Comedies and Lesbian Movies to Hilarious New Heights
Booksmart honors, skewers, and completely transcends every genre it’s a part of.
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“Lez Bomb” Is a Lesbian Comedy of Errors and Coming Out Story, Wrapped in a Family Holiday Film
Queering heteronormative tropes is certainly my favorite way to spend Thanksgiving.
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“The Miseducation of Cameron Post” Is a Hopeful, Hilarious, Heartbreaking Lesbian Coming-of-Age Story
“There’s no male gaze in this movie, none whatsoever. Desiree Akhavan is a queer woman and her screenplay co-writer Cecilia Frugiuele is a queer woman too. It matters.”
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For a Movie That’s Not Gay, “Incredibles 2” Sure Is Gay
Don’t go just for the gay subtext, but if you do go I guarantee you’ll see it.
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“Blockers” Is Shockingly Sex-Positive, Feminist and Gay
Who’d have guessed?
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“Hearts Beat Loud” is the Quirky, Queer Rom-Com We All Deserve
When was the last time a motion picture centered itself on the premise that a teenage, mixed race, black lesbian is worthy of support and love from everyone surrounding her? It’s simple and tender and because of those things it’s groundbreaking.
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Shall We Talk About This Extremely Gay Scene From “Shall We Dance” (2004)?
I was just a closeted teen lesbian, wishing on every star in the galaxy that I could one day waltz with Jennifer Lopez!
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“Power Rangers” Gives Young Queer Latinas Hope For A Superheroic Future
Trini, the Mexican-American Yellow Ranger, tells her friends that she’s figuring out her sexuality and that she likes girls, and in the process she finds a family.
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“Almost Adults” Is a Cute Lesbian Movie to Add to the Very Short List of Actually Good Lesbian Movies
Almost Adults isn’t perfect, but there’s a lot to love about a film that sidesteps so many traditional lesbian movie tropes. (Including: No one dies!)
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I Watched Lesbian Classic ‘Everything Relative’ And Whoops I’m Sad Again
“This movie is like visual Zoloft in that I haven’t worried about anything while watching it but I haven’t felt alive either.”
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Southwest of Salem: How Four Wrongfully Convicted Latina Lesbians Survived A Witch-Hunt
Southwest of Salem tells the story of four Latina lesbians who were found guilty of a crime they didn’t commit and how the legal and criminal justice systems failed them as queer women of color. Watch it tonight on Investigation Discovery at 8 pm EST.