Juan Barquin, Author at Autostraddle

Juan Barquin

Juan Barquin is a Miami-based writer who programs the queer film series Flaming Classics and serves as co-editor of Dim the House Lights. You can follow them on Twitter and Instagram. They aspire to be Bridget Jones.

florida

interview

An alligator in water filled with bright green runoff in River of Grass

movie features

Saving the Everglades Is a Queer Issue

Queer Floridian Juan Barquin talks to fellow queer Floridian Sasha Wortzel about her new documentary River of Grass and the beauty of the Everglades.

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Jul 2, 2025

Justice Smith in I Saw the TV Glow with Thank You for Watching behind him.

movie features

These Queers Saw the TV Glow

A year after its release, many trans people credit Jane Schoenbrun’s I Saw the TV Glow for inspiring major changes in their lives.

Juan Barquin —

May 23, 2025

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novel

lgbt book reviews

“Brainwyrms” Is the Perfect Twisted Novel for Clive Barker Queers

There’s an undeniable playfulness in the way Alison Rumfitt presents sex, kink, and violence, but there’s also a seething rage underneath it all.

Juan Barquin —

Jan 17, 2024

horror

Horror Is So Gay

the bride of chucky and chucky, surrounded by knives

movie features

The Queerest Horror Franchise Is and Always Has Been Chucky

Don Mancini has given us over three decades of queerness, from gender swapping and gay couples to killing John Waters and the cast of Bound.

Juan Barquin —

Oct 29, 2023

Barbie

movie reviews

On Barbie and Greta Gerwig’s Colorful, Complicated Portrait of Humanity

With each passing scene, Barbie reveals its endgame a little more; beneath all the laughs at the expense of men and women is the sad truth that this brand of…

Juan Barquin —

Jul 21, 2023

Bravo Dyke

real housewives

Sonja Morgan, a white blonde woman, and Alex McCord, another white blonde woman, are wearing wedding dresses and looking puzzled.

tv feature

This Episode of “Real Housewives of New York” Was Performative Pride Allyship at Its Finest

“March Madness”, as completely unhinged and dated as it is, also reveals something far more depressing and contemporary: Nothing has really changed.

Juan Barquin —

Jun 27, 2022

anime

netflix

COWBOY BEBOP (L to R) JOHN CHO as SPIKE SPIEGEL, MUSTAFA SHAKIR as JET BLACK, DANIELLA PINEDA as FAYE VALENTINE and EIN in Cowboy Bebop Cr. GEOFFREY SHORT/NETFLIX © 2021

tv reviews

Netflix’s “Cowboy Bebop” is a Failure of an Adaptation

The live-action Cowboy Bebop takes one of the most fleshed-out universes in a limited anime series — or, hell, in all of television — and strips it of everything that…

Juan Barquin —

Nov 19, 2021

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Saving the Everglades Is a Queer Issue

These Queers Saw the TV Glow

“Brainwyrms” Is the Perfect Twisted Novel for Clive Barker Queers

The Queerest Horror Franchise Is and Always Has Been Chucky

On Barbie and Greta Gerwig’s Colorful, Complicated Portrait of Humanity

This Episode of “Real Housewives of New York” Was Performative Pride Allyship at Its Finest

Netflix’s “Cowboy Bebop” is a Failure of an Adaptation