If one quality ties the Christmas horror subgenre together, it’s an oddball, camp sensibility that almost always feels at least a little bit queer.

My favorite film from last year’s Toronto International Film Festival is now streaming on Hulu! And my second favorite is streaming on Max!

In honor of Bottoms, here are top queer cheerleader moments from film/TV.

If you have yet to see Past Lives, you should watch it as soon as possible. But I think you should read the film, too.

It is through women that Lynch reminds us: No matter how dark it gets, there is always the possibility for suffering to end.

The movie has great queer sex scenes but falls flat in terms of characters.

We’ve got a biopic about a queer Italian rock star, a queer high school prom movie, a misanthropic lesbian journalist in a dark crime comedy set in Ireland, new seasons of We Are Lady Parts, Hacks and Acapulco and so much more! (Really!)

These little monsters are breaking generational curses and making their own way in the world.

To celebrate the release of Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, we look at why classic Godzilla movies have such a big queer fanbase.

For all the queer art being made now, for all the films and the television shows and the webseries, I never feel as loved as I feel watching some micro-budget Italian horror film from 1975.

Gays! We love our villains!

There is no shortage of cis people who want to own a piece of us — our bodies, our stories, their idea of our stories.

Straightness in Barbieland is cringe.

The whole wedding somehow looks straighter than an Imagine Dragons fan guesting on The Joe Rogan Experience.

Queer cinema can be about the challenges we face, the oppression we experience, the microaggressions and aggression aggressions and all the rest, and still be fun and sexy. In fact, fun and sexy are two of our greatest tools.

The real horror is straight people.

During my most nervous-system-destroying breakup to date, I found myself feeling like an abandoned child, the victim of a broken contract.

Jurassic World: Dominion features a bisexual Black character played by DeWanda Wise, but her queerness barely breaks out of subtextual territory.

Leave it to a bunch of lesbians to pick a film this filled with unrequited love and longing!

Dani Janae talks to Tribeca Film Festival programmers, Lucy Mukerjee and Shakira Refos, on the importance of investing in queer artists and audiences.