Pop Culture Fix: DC’s Gays Are Geared Up for Crisis on Infinite Earths

Hey this is the last Pop Culture Fix before The L Word reboot premiere. Generation Q? Maybe you’ve heard of it?


+ A Crisis on Infinite Earths trailer! Full of gays!

+ A nice profile of Laura Dern by E. Alex Jung over at Vulture, including a little bit about her career was almost destroyed for being Ellen’s love interest in “The Puppy Episode.”

+ The New York Times list of ten most influential films of the decade includes Carol.

+ Newcomer Jo Ellen Pellman will be the lesbian lead in Ryan Murphy’s Netflix adaptation of The Prom

+ The trailer for Lena’s Waithe’s Twenties is finally here!

+ Jennifer Beals on Gen Q, her own sexuality, Jenny’s death, etc. (The answer to that second thing isn’t nearly as exciting as you want it to be.)

+ What are we doing to ruin sports this week for men?

+ The L Word is back with sex, glamor, and a wider lens.

+ Gen Q showrunner Marja-Lewis Ryan is on THR’s Hollywood Remixed podcast this week to talk about the evolution of lesbians on TV.

+ The grown-ish season three trailer is here!

+ The very slow rise of lesbians on TV.

+ Another trophy for Megan Rapinoe.

+ A new Doctor Who trailer!


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Heather Hogan

Heather Hogan is an Autostraddle senior editor who lives in New York City with her wife, Stacy, and their cackle of rescued pets. She's a member of the Television Critics Association, GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics, and a Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer critic. You can also find her on Twitter and Instagram.

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