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Hannah Gadsby's Gender Agenda: a collage of featured comics against a blue backdrop
Comedy TV Reviews

“Hannah Gadsby’s Gender Agenda” Brings Brilliant Trans Comics to the Famously Transphobic Netflix

Give jobs to trans comics not because it’ll end the protests at your executive offices but because they’re really fucking funny and good at what they do.

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TV Reviews

“The Girls on the Bus” Doesn’t Get My Vote Despite Its All-Star Cast

If The Girls on the Bus was a workplace drama featuring these four characters — played by these four engaging actresses — then I’d tell you, without reservation, to watch it. But its efforts to showcase journalism and the political landscape fall flat.

Natalie March 14, 2024 4 Comments
A black and white photo of Frida Kahlo leaning down in grass from the Frida documentary.
Movie Reviews

“Frida” Documentary Lets the Queer Disabled Communist Speak

The film doesn’t force her to always be Frida Kahlo, famous artist. She’s allowed to just be Frida.

Drew Burnett Gregory March 14, 2024 3 Comments
Peaches Christ Mink Stole feature image - images of the two performers are overlapped against a purple backdrop.
Movie Features Theater

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.

Drew Burnett Gregory March 14, 2024 1 Comment
Girls5Eva season three: Paula Pell sings into a microphone with an arm in the air against a pink and yellow background.
TV Reviews

“Girls5eva” Season Three Is Gay and on a Mission

On the new season of Girls5Eva, Gloria is determined to sleep with every type of girl from “pre-Friends Courtney Cox” to “cigar mommis.”

Valerie Anne March 14, 2024 2 Comments
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Pop Culture Fix

Pop Culture Fix: Major Update On Kristen Stewart’s ‘Chronology of Water’ Dreams Coming True

Kristen Stewart’s interview with The Colbert Show is SO GOOD y’all, Gabrielle Union and Eva Longoria are working on an LGBTQ+ wedding movie, Ayo Edebri makes pasta for you, Sophia Bush and Ashlyn Harris hit up the red carpet, JoJo Siwa is going adult and more pop culture stories for your day!

Riese March 13, 2024 3 Comments
Peppermint at the Traitors season two reunion
TV Show Recaps

The Traitors Season Two Reunion Recap: Peppermint Underscores the Biases That Led to Her Elimination

“It kind of eerily reminded me of a high school experience where I was the only out LGBTQ person at the time,” Peppermint says.

Anya Richkind March 13, 2024 1 Comment
top row: The King and I, West Side Story, The Year of Living Dangerously, The Blind Side. Second row: Monsters Ball, Traffic, Moonlight, Everything Everywhere All At Once
Movie Features

Race and Appropriation at the Academy Awards: A 96 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.

Riese March 13, 2024 110 Comments
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Movie Features

Why Do We Both Have a False Memory of Girls Kissing in Æon Flux (2005)?

Maybe none of us can really remember movies from the 2000s. Maybe they were all fever dreams.

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March 13, 2024 1 Comment
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TV Reviews

Elise Bauman on CBC’s ‘One More Time’ Should Be Your New Obsession

It’s so exciting to see a performer with Bauman’s comedic skills get a character that allows her to really play.

Riese March 13, 2024
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Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

No Filter: Kehlani’s New Album Is Mixing 🚨

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Movie Features

An Ode to Kristen Stewart’s Nervous Tics

Kristen Stewart’s nervous tics are not just her signature. They’re also the element that grounds each of her characters in reality.

Rendy Jones March 13, 2024 2 Comments
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LGBTQ+ Businesses The Scene

All 37 Surviving Lesbian Bars In the U.S.

Building on the work of so many queer archivists, writers, and historians, we have created this list, meant to be an ongoing record, of lesbian bars operating in the U.S. today.

Riese and Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya
March 13, 2024 29 Comments
1 across / 5 letters / clue: Events for Sha'Carri Richardson and CeCé Telfer
Puzzles

Mini Crossword is Much Inclined

I was asked in a job interview if I could perform under pressure.

Darby Ratliff March 13, 2024
Solidarity by Leah Hunt-Hendrix & Astra Taylor
LGBT Book Reviews

New Book “Solidarity” Is Necessary Read, Even if It’s Difficult To Apply to All Liberation Movements

As with most nonfiction books about political topics, I finished Solidarity with more questions than answers about how to integrate its concepts into my day-to-day life.

Abbie Jones March 12, 2024 2 Comments
The Swans of Truman Capote's Swans against a red background
TV Feature

Truman Capote’s Swans Ranked by How Much I Want To Be Insulted by Them

These Swans can terrorize me any day.

Sa'iyda Shabazz March 12, 2024 1 Comment
Betty and Rita look toward the door scared in Mulholland Drive
Movie Reviews

“Mulholland Drive” and the Power That Lurks in the Shadows

David Lynch’s 2001 masterpiece has a thematic core that has been largely ignored.

Drew Burnett Gregory March 12, 2024 3 Comments
a woman looks at the glow of her screen looking despondent
Dating

You Need Help: All I Want Is a Relationship But I Can’t Make it Past the First Date

“How do I somehow give off that I’m girlfriend material? I just want to be wanted back for a change.”

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya March 12, 2024 9 Comments
City of Laughter by Temim Fruchter
LGBT Book Reviews

In “City of Laughter,” a Story Doesn’t Have To Be Complete To Be Meaningful

Temim Fruchter’s debut novel is fueled by queer desire and queer investigation.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya March 12, 2024 1 Comment
Juliane Moore kissing Niamh Algar in new "Mary and George" trailer
Pop Culture Fix

Pop Culture Fix: Julianne Moore Plays Old-Timey Bisexual Mommi in “Mary & George”

There’s something about a woman who has 7 layers of petticoats you have to get through, ya know? Also: The Station 19 showrunners were shocked it got cancelled, and stop being weird on main with your Renee Rapp signs.

Valerie Anne March 11, 2024 1 Comment
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