Results for: straight people watch
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The Autostraddle Insider: Issue 70, July 2020
“is this like gay when harry met sally
bc that’s the only heterosexual love story that i like, so i’m feeling positive” -
Ìfé Writer and Director Uyaiedu Ikpe-Etim on Decolonizing Nigerian Storytelling and Queer Love Stories
“Ìfé is a story that not many queer people have seen come out of Nigeria. I’m really hoping that, apart from everything else that it does – normalizing the queer experience and being a great source of representation – I’m really hoping that it brings joy to the LGBT community.”
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“The Haunting of Bly Manor” Isn’t a Ghost Story, It’s a Lesbian Love Story — with Ghosts
Bly Manor is a well-written, beautifully acted, stunningly filmed horror series, with old ghosts and new ghosts and fun lore — and a lesbian love story for the ages
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S L I C K: Wanna Cyber
Mostly I had chalked my ambivalence up to stifling antidepressants and emotional avoidance. Was I gutted of desire or was this a case of under exposure? Or was I supposed to own my simpleton truth and scream from a cliff, “I just want to dim the lights and be pegged, goddamnit!”
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My Top Ten Television Shows: Christina Tucker, Who Loves Hangout Comedies and White Women Going Off
“I watched it all in one night, vacillating from helpless laughter (Olivia Coleman’s line readings!!!) to shocked surprise (“Where did you just go?”) and when it was over I sent profanity littered texts about it to one of my best friends, then watched the entire season again.”
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“To L and Back” L Word Podcast Episode 601: Long Night’s Journey Into Day
“Womp, womp, womp. It’s the new Shane theme song. It used to be a gnarly guitar riff and now it’s a sad trombone.”
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We Honestly Loved the Transparent Musicale Finale and Fondly Recall This Profoundly Jewish Queer TV Show
“Being out of the closet is really intense when you’re related to Shelly Pfefferman.”
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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. -
HBO Max’s British Dramedy “Pure” Is the First Time I’ve Seen My OCD On-Screen
By pairing a visceral portrayal with thorough descriptions of OCD, “Pure” becomes a teaching tool as well as a delightful dramedy. It’s also just a really good and gay story about a 20-something trying to figure out how to be a good person.
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Describe an Iconic Gay TV Show You’ve Never Seen
“Stephen Universe is a cartoon show about a little boy with a large mouth who wears flip-flops regardless of weather or situation. Rebecca Sugar made the show and she is bisexual. Stephen has imaginary friends who live in a big jewelry emporium in outer space famous for its ability to fuse different types of gemstones and rocks into each other.”
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The Time I Wanted to Hug a TERF
A middle-aged transmasculine butch person meets a trans-exclusionary radical feminist in the vast forest of Tumblr. What happens next is both predictable and unexpected.
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Some Answers to Some Things You’ve Been Asking Us #31
How do non-D&D Discords even work?!
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“The Boys” Season 2 Gets Meta About Lesbian and Bisexual Representation
Elena pushes back on all this, saying she doesn’t want to change how she dresses and that actually Maeve is bisexual, but they say that the term lesbian is “an easier sell” because it’s “more cut and dry.”
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The Santana Lopez Moments That Changed Our Lives — And The World
“She raises both hands to the orchestra and she smiles into the audience. She nearly breaks her face in two because she knows, she really knows, that she did it. She’s the star.”
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The Dyke Kitchen: My Dad’s South Indian Gunpowder
I pick up some tips and tricks from my dad for making his gunpowder — a South Indian dal and spice blend that I love to sprinkle on rice, and is also great on salads, toast and most snacks.
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My Top 10 Favorite LGBTQ Films: Riese, Who Appreciates Teen Angst, Suburban Ennui and Angelina Jolie
Includes Angelina Jolie two ways, a lot of coming-of-age, and Blake Lively’s 500-piece suit.
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Naya Rivera Is Dead at 33, Glee Star’s Body Recovered from Lake Piru After 6-Day Search
Naya Rivera was a firecracker, a superstar, a singular talent who simply could not be relegated to the background.
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“The Half Of It” Trailer: Alice Wu is Back With the Lesbian Teen Romcom of Your Dreams
Yes, this is a coming-of-age lesbian teen romcom by the director of Saving Face, and, yes, I did cry tears of joy in the first minute of the trailer.
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Meet The Writers Of Best Lesbian Erotica Vol. 5
Six contributors to Best Lesbian Erotica Volume 5 tell us about how they think about erotica as queer writers. The book came out on Dec 8, so can get your personal and gift copies in time for the holidays.
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“To L and Back” L Word Podcast Episode 506: Lights! Camera! Action! With Lauren Ashley Smith
“I feel like I’m very much a stickler for how Black church is shown on TV, and I think a lot of people get it wrong in movies and TV a lot, like it just never is quite right. And I feel like Hollywood is that way too. And I felt like this [portrayal of Hollywood] was very accurate, and I was shocked!”