Does it feel like Pride is still happening? It feels like it to me! Maybe the whole of summer can just be Pride now? Let me know what you think! And also here is a Pop Culture Fix!
+ Okay there is no way in the world that Mattel is going to let Barbie be gay in the Barbie movie. Absolutely no way. And yet! What in the lesbian heck is this? There is no straight explanation on the face of the earth for this! PinkNews deep dived on it. Please discuss!
New clip from Greta Gerwig’s ‘BARBIE’.
“I hope no one from school saw us with a life-sized Barbie in our car!” pic.twitter.com/uyxSk0v6AG
— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) July 4, 2023
+ 15 non-LGBTQ+ movies that queer people still love.
+ 10 songs that spark queer Latine joy.
+ Anime characters that made is realize we’re queer.
+ Buzz Lightyear werks at Disney World!
+ The glorious, queer evolution of Janelle Monáe’s pleasure and politics.
+ Celebrating TV’s chaotic bisexual characters.
+ Best LGBTQ+ movies of the 70s, ranked.
+ Melissa Etheridge wasn’t overly impressed with Rolling Stone’s list of most inspirational gay anthems of all time.
Dear @RollingStone…was it something I said?
“I don’t care what they think
I don’t care what they say
What do they know about this love anyway?” https://t.co/y4jq1KVPaT— Melissa Etheridge (@metheridge) June 28, 2023
+ Bikechess, a dark comedy about journalism in Kazakhstan, wins Karlovy Vary Works in Progress Award. According to Variety: “The Kazakh film follows Dina, who works as a journalist for the national television station. The stories she is asked to report on are becoming increasingly absurd and full of praise for the government. Her love life is limited to a few secret meetings with her married cameraman. Dina looks after her young sister, a lesbian activist, who regularly finds herself in trouble with the authorities.”
+ The power of pink: How Nimona uses color to subvert stereotypes and embrace self-expression.
+ Sex Education is ending with season four.
It feels straight up homophobic to me that Rolling Stone only listed songs by straight people in their tweet. They should’ve called it their top motivational songs if that’s all they think gay music is.
Annnnd after being led astray by Gaylor truther tiktok several times, I’m going to avoid Barbie movie clowning until I see the finished product.
Yes! I think it’s a rite of passage for every queer to be led astray by a theory that XY is totally gay. For me it was TJLC, and I’ve never been fooled again. Let’s wait and see about the Barbie movie…
The only way that clip could have been gayer is if Barbie was diving headfirst into a Subaru. Missed opportunity!
What if the Barbie that Margot Robbie plays was America Ferrera’s Barbie?
I suggested this theory to my wife and she told me to get out of the house until I was ready to be serious!
It’s just the way that Gloria (America Ferrera) seems to immediately recognize her. And that look she gives Barbie, that’s where all of your childhood dreams are coming rushing back…and…and….WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
This is, unfortunately, a very good theory.
i’m with Melissa about that list. “Born This Way”???? absofuckinlutely not
July is actually disability pride month so it is still pride
In The Netherlands august is Pride month, so for me it feels the whole summer is Pride, with starting in June with you gays.
In Ireland too, there are Pride marches in various towns around the country all summer.
The reason is historical – when protesters were organising they wanted to get as many people to each march as possible. Because the country is so small, this meant spacing each the various marches on different weekends so that people could participate in a few marches.
And we’ve kept it that way still. Hot Pride Summer.
Heck yeah! Pride really is all summer!