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It’s not even lunchtime on Monday and I already feel like I have lived three weeks since I woke up! If anyone has access to the hard reboot button, I’d love to start this day from scratch and with EXTRA COFFEE. In the meantime, here’s your Monday Pop Culture Fix.
+ Brandi Carlile crushed her performance at the Grammys in a technicolor dreamcoat.
+ Kacey Musgraves says she’d jump in front of a moving train for the gays.
+ The absolute power of this declaration: Gillian Anderson also hated The X-Files ending and says she’d only consider playing Dana Scully again with brand new writers.
+ Why does it make me uneasy when straight women write TV shows about lesbians?
+ The first look at the final (sniffle!) season of Grace & Frankie.
+ Candace Parker and National Champion / Player of the Year Aliyah Boston after last night’s game.
Aliyah Boston meets her idol, Candace Parker pic.twitter.com/dQAd8Y8ixW
— Alexa Philippou (@alexaphilippou) April 4, 2022
+ Inside the trans sex revolution on TV (with a special guest appearance by Drew Gregory!).
+ Sandra Oh and Stephanie Beatriz will be honored at Outfest.
+ Ethan Coen’s new movie is a lesbian roadtrip film.
+ Here’s your monthly gay streaming guide, curated lovingly by Riese Bernard.
+ How a video game about unpacking gets the bisexual experience spot on.
+ How LGBTQ+ actors are pushing positive rep in Hollywood forward.
+ It’s not every day you get Euphoria, Taylor Swift, and Spike Lee in the same headline.
+ It’s not every day you get a gay op-ed from the Smithsonian Air & Space museum, but here you go! Star Trek and queer identity.
I need y’all to settle something. Was Aaliyah Boston shooting her shot with old-ass, married-ass with two kids having-ass Candace Parker, or was it just a fangirl moment? Or both? Her body language in the above clip suggests it was both.
I also think it was both and it was ADORABLE. Aaliyah Boston is an absolute star. Did you see that video of the little girl fully melting down at the SC game when she called out “Aaliyah!” and Aaliyah smiled and waved at her? It made my entire NCAA season.
That was just too cute, but I’m not crying, no no.
And Emeli Sande came out!
i thought the article about sally wainwright kind of missed the mark by using the language of lesbians having certain personality traits instead of talking about (some) lesbians having a certain culture. not all queer people are culturally queer, but i think for the characters who are it makes sense for the writers to be at least very familiar with that culture and ideally a part of it. on the other hand, i don’t see any reason why a character who isn’t visibly queer and doesn’t have a lot of queer friends or investment in queer community would need to be written by a queer person
Just want to give an enthusiastic plug for Everything Everywhere All At Once, which I found alternately hilarious, poignant, imaginative, and thrilling. The daughter’s queer relationship does not get a ton of screen time, but that queer character is central to the plot and holds her own alongside Michelle Yeoh (no small feat!).
Quote:”Just look at Ryan Murphy promoting great stories about gay men. Where is his female counterpart? (I’ll tell you where she is, she’s in the closet)” Can somebody guess who that could be(who that
person in the closet is)?
cause I have no idea, and I consider myself a film nerd…
Its from the guardian article about straight women writing/ directing lesbian stories.
If Lena Waithe would act right, it could be her, but she won’t, so it ain’t.
I might have missed it, but will you guys be recapping the back half of season 2 of The Owl House? The first few episodes are out, and Dana Terrace has been pretty vocal about all the BS at Disney they’ve been facing