Results for: representation
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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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Sundance 2024: “Ponyboi” Is a Crime Drama with Cowboys, Springsteen, and an Intersex Lead
Reminiscent of the Wachowskis’ Bound, Ponyboi is a queer cinema genre pastiche that understands a movie can be artful, emotional, and incredibly entertaining.
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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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The Best Lesbian Movie Make Outs of All Time
The best lesbian movie make outs are more than just a kiss.
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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 Wild Robot’ Is an Unexpected Depiction of Queer Found Family
This may be a sizzling hot take, but Chris Sanders’ The Wild Robot is a queer film.
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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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December 2024: What’s New, Gay and Streaming on Netflix, Hulu, Peacock and Prime Video
We’ve got Kate Moennig and Abbi Jacobson in a new Liz Feldman comedy, specials from Ilana Glazer and Fortune Feimster, and more!
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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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‘Time Cut’ Is a Silly Slasher with a Sapphic Subplot
The queer reveal is presented as a twist, and while I’m sure it surprised straight viewers, sleuthy queers will probably pick up on it.
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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.
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‘Am I OK?’ Is a Coming Out Story That Belongs in the 2010s
Am I OK? has finally been released by Max. But a movie that felt a decade too late in 2022 has been done no favors by this delay.
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Todd Haynes on “May December,” Queer Community, and Making Art in a Vile World
“My connection with gay women is the through-line of my entire life. But my queer community, as a whole, is not reducible to sexual practice. It’s more attitudinal. It’s the way we look at the world and stand outside certain norms.”
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I Got High and Watched Tello’s Latest Lesbian Christmas Movie, “A Holiday I Do”
Wow Rivkah Reyes really said I will be stealing hearts like the Grinch stole Christmas.
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New Documentary ‘Our Dad, Danielle’ Didn’t Know How Necessary It Would Become
“I came out as a trans woman in Texas during the age of Trump. For me, there was no stealth coming out. I’m a big, ugly old broad and there’s no hiding it. Coming out may not have been a smart thing to do, but for me to stay alive, it was the only thing for me to do.”
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In the Symbolic World of the Deeply Gendered Barbieland, Allan Is Nonbinary
Allan’s discomfort creates an identification point for viewers who are also uncomfortable identifying with either the Barbies or the Kens, a third option in an otherwise binary Barbieland.