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Oscars 2022: Two Queers Discuss the Actually Kinda Gay 94th Academy Awards
Riese: “Does the driver count as a lesbian character do you think?”
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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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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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25 Movies Just Perfect for Crying Through Your Divorce
Even if you’re not going through a divorce right now, here are some very pretty movies to look back at you while you blow snot bubbles into your t-shirt (no one is watching, it’s fine).
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The Seduction of Aliens
When I saw a UFO, I was 18 and it was the night before prom.
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January 2023: What’s New and Gay To Stream
We’ve got new seasons of Vox Machina, Hunters and Ginny & Georgia; a cringe comedy indie film set at a destination lesbian wedding, an action series that strands a lesbian on an oil rig, Alan Cummings’ competition reality show with a non-binary contestant, a new “very queer” Anne Rice adaptation, HBO’s “The Last of Us” and so much more!
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“Mean Girls” (2024) Made Us Feel Too Gay To Function
With the power vocals of Auli’i Cravalho and Reneé Rapp and a canonically queer Janis, Mean Girls is back and gayer than ever.
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“Thor: Love and Thunder” Promised Us Gay Valkyrie, So What Happened Here?
After being queer coded for years, everyone expected that Valkyrie would finally have a major gay storyline. And yet! How did Marvel still get it so wrong?
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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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De-Gayed By Hollywood: 22 Movies That “Straightwashed” LGBTQ+ Women Characters
Lesbian and bisexual characters have been straightwashed out of existence in many beloved Hollywood films. Here are 22 examples of times queer stories were de-gayed for mainstream consumption.
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The Best Straight Movies of the Past 10 Years
A dazzling portrait of a white heterosexual girl’s coming-of-age, Lady Bird gave us a straight character anyone can root for.
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It’s Time to Give Harley Quinn a Girlfriend on the Big Screen Already
Not only is fan uproar begging for Big Screen Harley and Ivy, but for the first time, the actual plot in front of us is screaming for it, too. It’s now or never for Harley Quinn to make the leap, and we’re quickly reaching a crescendo in her movie arc where to do anything else would be cowardly.
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Newfest 2021: “Love, Spells and All That” is a Lesbian Romance Both Magical and Real
The spell of the title is not metaphorical. Reyhan cast a love spell as a teen and is convinced its latent effects are what brings Eren back to her.
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Theo Germaine on the Queerness of Horror, the Alchemy of Time, and “They/Them”
“A lot of the history of horror is that, you know, those queer coded people who don’t fit in are baddies.”
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Halle Berry’s “Bruised” Is a Bloodied Mess (But at Least It’s a Gay Mess)
If you’re anything like me and your main reasons for watching “Bruised” were to see Halle Berry fight and make out with girls, you won’t be disappointed. But you might walk away wishing it had stuck to just those two things.
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9 Witchy Alternatives to Traditional Holiday Movies
Any movie in which sisters reunite to kill bad boyfriends feels like Christmas to me, okay?
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“Don’t Look Up” Exposes How Capitalism Won’t Save Us
The movie shows us what happens if we wait too long to interrogate our culture and ourselves, lose sight of truth, and fail to take action: irreversible destruction.
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Disney/Pixar Movies, Ranked by Mommy Issues
Who among us hasn’t been locked in a tower by our overbearing mothers (metaphorically)?
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TIFF 2023: A Queer Festival Recap
This year, I saw 38 features and, once again, most of my favorites were independent or not in English. There’s a vast world of cinema beyond Hollywood’s broken system!