Results for: representation
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“Better Than Chocolate” Turns 20, Remains the Only Movie Where a Trans Woman Has a Lesbian Friend Group
“My favorite moment in the movie happens during the climax when one of the skinheads punches Judy. She punches him back. He calls her a dyke. And she says thank you.”
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5 Girl-on-Girl Vampire Relationships That Do More for Me than Willow and Tara’s
Five vampire couples who may not be safe to hang around when they’re hungry, but are pretty good girlfriends
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Glamorous Degradation: On Sex Workers and Authenticity in Cinema
When I watch these movies, I find myself writing fan fictions in my head: What details would I change, to make this piece of art truly for me, and for the community that I love? Maybe it’s simply that the sex workers on film would just be a lot more… regular.
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Outfest 2019: “Second Star on the Right” is a Bisexual Mess in All the Best Ways
The film goes beyond mere representational milestones. It’s beautiful, it’s laugh-out-loud hilarious, it has two whole musical numbers, three whole Britney Spears references, and is just bursting with queer creativity!
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Outfest 2019: The Future of Queer Cinema Is Trans
I’ve lamented that I’m never going to see my stories on screen until I make it happen for myself. Never have I felt that to be less true. There are so many of us out there making work for ourselves, and each other.
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Gal Pals Without Benefits: Why Does Kissing Your Bestie Get You Killed in Horror Movies?
Using Barbara Creed’s ‘The Monstrous Feminine’ as a guide, I take you on a journey of exploration and analysis across the lethal lesbian kisses of horror history.
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“I’m Not a Stripper, but I Play One on TV”: Why Hustlers Won’t Change the Game for Sex Workers
If you can’t handle the titties, get out the strip club, babe. Even if it’s a fictional one.
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Film Historian Jenni Olson on “Mädchen in Uniform,” The First Ever Lesbian Film
“They were like whatever we have dozens of lesbian bars, we have magazines, we have all of this culture, we have Marlene Dietrich, we don’t need this little girl thing.”
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A Kind of Decolonization I Can Feel at the Back of My Pussy
On internal colonization, South Asian shame and representation of happy brown queers on film.
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Outfest 2019: “Jules of Light and Dark” Gets Lost in Its Own Complexity
This is a movie about lonely queers. And it’s a movie about queers who sometimes make baffling choices.
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Outfest 2019: Michelle Hendley is a F*cking Star in “The More Things Change”
Instead of counting down the days to see if we get three lines on The L Word reboot, we should be counting down the days until Simone gets to turn this short into a full-season show.
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“Men in Black: International” Review: Tessa Thompson Wears a Suit, Flirts With Women
Sadly, that’s also pretty much everything that makes Men in Black: International great.
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The 50 Best Lesbian, Queer, and Bisexual Movies of the Decade
The fact is most of the films about us — and especially the films by us — do not get the attention they deserve. But nobody is better equipped to tell our stories than we are.
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GLAAD: Movies Are Getting Better For Lesbian and Gay Characters, Staying Terrible for Trans and LGBTQ Kids’ Characters
GLAAD’s 2019 Studio Responsibility Index is here. Good news: Gay and lesbian rep is up. Bad news: Racial diversity is down, and trans rep remains at zero.
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“Hustlers” Stole My Heart While Robbing Rich White Men
“Jennifer Lopez’s entrance in Hustlers is better than any of us could have dreamed. But days later, the scene that won’t stop playing in my head happens almost directly afterwards, on the rooftop of the club where Ramona and Destiny work.”
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Thirsty Classics: “The Uninvited” Has Subtext! Lesbian Subtext!
“For those keeping score, this movie with no lesbians now has four lesbians. Two living, two dead. And now enters the fifth non-lesbian lesbian, the dykiest of the them all: Miss Holloway.”
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“To L and Back” Podcast Holiday Special: Two Jews Review a Lesbian Christmas Movie
Riese: I would text Riley and be like “you up?”
Carly: Are you still at the gay bar…? Because?
Riese: I would come back incensed with rage and ready to make a mistake.
Carly: Ready to ruin my relationship.
Riese: Yes. I would be full of the spirit of ruin and ready to share it.
Carly: Which is not Christmas spirit, but it is kind of related. -
15 Gayest Moments From “Avengers: Endgame,” Which Was Great But Unfortunately Not Gay
I pulled these nuggets of little gold from all three hours of Endgame and I cannot wait to re-live them in obsessive, snarky detail with you!
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Oscars 2020: Two Lesbians Discuss the Very White, Very Straight, Very Male 92nd Academy Awards
“Okay so Christian Bale plays… Mr. Ferrari. And Matt Damon plays… Henry Ford?”
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23 Lesbian and Bisexual Romantic Drama Films, Ranked
Our team weighs in on 23 romantic drama films including High Art, The Handmaiden, Carol, Blue is the Warmest Color and so many more.