Results for: straight people watch
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“Boy Meets Girl” Is Heartwarming, Groundbreaking, Has Cute Queer Kissing
It’s heartmeltingly cute, and one of the best portrayals of a trans woman in years. Michelle Hendley should be everyone’s new girl-crush.
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“The Duke Of Burgundy” Is The Lesbian BDSM Film You’ve Been Waiting For
Bondage, butterflies, and zero men.
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Movie Review: “Life Partners” is About a Lesbian, Not a Man
I know you probably read the longline (Two codependent best friends — one straight girl, one lesbian — and the man who comes between them.) and wanted to shoot yourself, but this movie isn’t about a man at all AND it’s pretty good.
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“Saving Mr. Banks” Erases P.L. Travers’ Queer Identity, Misses Amazing Opportunity for Representation
In my mind, to fail at LGBT inclusion in fiction is to have a failure of imagination, a lazy lack of understanding concerning the world outside of one’s self. To intentionally choose to tell a story about a real LGBT person and then exclude their queer identity is a failure on an entirely different level.
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Blue Is The Warmest Color: The Male Gaze Reigns Supreme
If you’re looking for a primer in all the ways that modern media is still failing queers, this film is a good start.
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Secretly Gay Movies: A League Of Their Own
“Just look at every woman’s face here and tell me they are straight. I dare you.”
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Secretly Gay Movies: “Fried Green Tomatoes”
Most people who love this movie would never categorize it as gay, but that’s just because they don’t watch it with hopeful queer eyes.
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Murderous Crazy Lesbians in Pools: Breaking The Girls
Breaking the Girls is not the kind of movie where you are going to see RuPaul in short-shorts. Not unless RuPaul’s corpse is in short-shorts when they find him floating facedown in a SoCal jacuzzi.
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Movie Review: Spring Breakers (I’d Rather Retake a Midterm)
The same artsy shots, repeating scenes, and haunting dialogue that make it indie/creative/experimental just make it boring/repetitive/annoying. It doesn’t take stupidity to task, it glorifies it.
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Movie Review: ‘Jack & Diane’ is Weird, Gay and Kinda Good
Being young and in love makes you an idiot monster, and that’s what “Jack & Diane” is about.
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“United in Anger” Shares History of ACT UP Through Original Footage
“The birth and life of the AIDS activist movement from the perspective of the people in the trenches.”
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I Am Alike: A Nigerian Boi’s Reflection on ‘Pariah’
“I remember holding my breath during pivotal scenes in the movie. I wondered nervously if my brother saw then the direct parallels to his own sister’s life.”
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Homopiece Theater Presents: The Skin I Live In
“Almodovar leaves the audience without an easy place to rest.”
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Twilight Eclipse Totally Eclipsed Team Bella’s Hearts: Movie Review
We saw Twilight: Eclipse, and it made us feel feelings ranging from feminist rage to boredom to JUST THE TIP to Kristen Stewart is Hawt. An Autostraddle mini-Roundtable.