Results for: representation
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Representation Matters but I Didn’t Expect Bottoms To Take It So Far for Me
On discovering a doppelgänger in an unlikely place.
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The Filmmakers Behind ‘Seeking Mavis Beacon’ Are at the Intersection of Cheryl Dunye and Nathan Fielder
“You see me struggling with this idea I was raised on that representation matters and everyone needs to tell their own story. But not everyone wants to tell their story.”
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We’re Watching Trans Media Wrong
Very few movies are Bad or Good, Offensive or Inoffensive, Positive or Harmful.
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The Age of Toxic Queer Women On-Screen Should Tackle Movie Musicals Next
In the last year a slew of movies have begun to presuppose, “What if queer women were out of their goddamn minds?” And that’s exactly what the musical genre needs.
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“My Body, My Choice!”: Unpacking the Queer Subtexts of ‘Junior’ 30 Years Later
Ivan Reitman’s second team-up of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito after Twins (1988) has a bit of a cult status in my queer friend group.
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Why Hasn’t There Been a Good Movie About the Stonewall Riots?
Thirty years after Stonewall (1995), there still hasn’t been a film that meaningfully captures this major LGBTQ+ historical event.
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The History and Future of Trans Women in Action Movies
The Matrix blew open the doors for what action movies could accomplish — why hasn’t it led to more trans-focused action cinema?
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Four Decades Later, ‘Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean’ Is Still One of the Best Trans Films of All Time
Joanne, gets to be a cool, sexy, and morally complicated figure.
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8 British Film and TV Characters Who Made Me Gay
From Skins to Feel Good, these eight characters turned out to be life-changing.
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Anatomy of a Queer Sex Scene: Drive-Away Dolls Is Suffused With Lesbian Sex Throughout
“Justice for shower sex! It’s so controversial but I’m very pro.”
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Beyond Gender Identity: A History of Trans Actors in Cis Roles
I’m talking about stories where the trans character’s transness isn’t the focus — where they’re allowed to be the worst behaved one or simply hot and getting laid or just really fucking good at their job.
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Oscars 2025: Two Queers Discuss the Straightest Academy Awards in Years
“I am so sorry I made a wish on a monkey’s paw for a trans lesbian musical to get an Oscar nomination and it resulted in us all having to suffer through Emilia Pérez.”
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With Its Pride Slate, the Criterion Collection Wants Us To Be Gay and (Maybe) Do Crime
To even say, Criterion’s Pride releases is a sign of our changed — and improved — times.
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Queering the Canon: Where Are All The Trans Rom-Coms?
It’s time trans people get to showcase our desires, in all their variety, in all their complexity, in all their possibility.
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Chase Joynt on “Framing Agnes,” Collaboration, and Finding New Ways to Tell Trans Stories
“What an extraordinary middle finger to the whole apparatus! And I include myself in that.”
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The Academy of Motion Pictures Has a Trans Problem
Trans people’s stories are being told but trans people aren’t being rewarded.
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We Won — Sex Is Back On-Screen
With films like Drive-Away Dolls, Love Lies Bleeding, and Challengers, the movies are sexy again. But I’m not writing this piece to gloat — I’m writing it to get greedy.
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Want To See a Movie Where Buffalo Bill and Norman Bates Are in a T4T Situationship? Well, Do We Have Some News for You!
Drew Burnett Gregory writes, directs, and stars in a new horror short, and it’s available for you to stream!
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Lilly Wachowski Has Her Combat Boots On
“When you make the amount of money we made for Warner Bros. via the franchise it obfuscates most transphobia.”
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Kelley O’Hara and Filmmaking Duo Tusk Want More Lesbian Happy Endings
Kelley O’Hara, executive producer of the new film Ripe!, wants to see more sapphic joy like her own on-screen.