“I was around the same age as young Ellie when ‘Contact’ came out. The way she so clearly carries her childhood self with her made adulthood legible; it made time seem like less of an unknowable straight line and something more like a circle. Watching it as an adult I have that same feeling.”
“The scene at the LGBTQIA+ meeting is very similar to what I experienced. I felt like an interloper in that space. It’s like, should I be here or should I not?”
Across these three scenes, queer sex is less about pleasure than power.
Starting today, the Film Forum begins their series Sapph-O-Rama billed as “a broad look at the eccentric, enduring, and genre-encompassing history of the Lesbian image in cinema through the last century.”
They weren’t asking for the moon. They were asking for industry standard.
Reporting daily with queer movie reviews from one of the world’s most prestigious film festivals.
Attention Awards gays! The nominations for the 96th Academy Awards have arrived!
Bound was so ahead of its time it would still be ahead of its time if it came out today.
Get in losers, we’re listing every moment in Mean Girls (2024) gayer than the original.
Queerness should always include a cavalcade of perversions.
The Memory of Justice draws parallels between the Holocaust and the more recent horrors of the French occupation of Algeria and the American occupation of Vietnam.
In 1982 Alice Walker wrote a Black queer text so ahead of its time, that 40 years later we’re still fighting to catch up.
“I still love the Carol sex scene even if I’ve never been turned on by it per se.”
Yes, it’s a Christmas movie actually. Let me explain.
Sex scenes, fight scenes, a fanfic-worthy cameo. The best queer movie scenes of 2023 are as varied as the films that contain them.
The horniest parts of The Handmaiden wouldn’t really be called sex scenes by the average viewer and certainly not by the vast majority of straight viewers. But to me, they are sex.
If you love a good Christmas movie or even a bad Christmas movie, then it’s time to test your Christmas movie knowledge!
For some reason, four different works of queer media have used “Total Eclipse of the Heart” this year.
Upper middle class people are rich. But don’t try to tell them that.
Do I love the Disobedience sex scene because of how I have sex or do I have sex the way I do because of the Disobedience sex scene? Who can say!