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Gentefied

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If There Was Better Queer Latine Storytelling this Year Than “Gentefied,” I Don’t Know Her

In its second season, Gentefied soars. It’s nearly unfathomable how good it is now — how it matured without losing its heart, how it never takes an easy out or…

Carmen Phillips —

Nov 22, 2021

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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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November 2021: What’s New and Gay To Stream

New seasons of Star Trek Discovery, Dickinson and Gentefied; a super-queer comedy series about a gender-fluid Pakistani nanny/baritsa, a star-studded thriller about a girl’s soccer team and so much more…

Riese —

Nov 1, 2021

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October 2021: What’s New and Gay To Stream

Cozy up for a gay October with secret lesbian relationships amid an alien invasion, a way-more-gay I Know What You Did Last Summer reboot, new seasons of The Baby-Sitter’s Club…

Riese —

Oct 1, 2021

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sex education on netflix

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“Sex Education” Continues to Grow In a Masterful Third Season

Sex Education keeps getting better because it approaches storytelling the way it teaches us to approach sex — with curiosity, excitement, and a willingness to learn.

Drew Burnett Gregory —

Sep 17, 2021

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September 2021: What’s New and Gay To Stream

We’ve got new seasons of Sex Education and Dear White People, 90s lesbian Mom documentary, a sci-fi comic graphic novel adaptation chock-full of queers (including Olivia Thirlby!), a cartoon about…

Riese —

Sep 1, 2021

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Pray Away: A Documentary For Gays Who Haven’t Yet Been Personally Victimized by Ryan Murphy

Pray Away is, at best, picking at a scab — and, at worst, poking a dirty finger into a gaping wound.

Heather Hogan —

Aug 5, 2021

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August 2021: What’s New and Gay To Stream

We’ve got some girl-on-girl in Modern Love’s second season, a dramedy about Indigenous teens in Oklahoma, a documentary exposing the ex-gay movement, Season 2 of Control-Z and a little bit…

Riese —

Aug 1, 2021

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It’s Time to Talk about It, “Never Have I Ever” Has a Race Problem

Fabiola’s story taps into a real dynamic in queer communities, but “Never Have I Ever” couldn’t bring itself to actually identify the problem for what it truly is: racism.

himani —

Jul 26, 2021

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“It’s Just a Phase” — Bisexual and Ex-Orthodox Erasure in Netflix’s My Unorthodox Life

We all — Ex-Orthodox, Orthodox, and bisexual — deserve better from Netflix than the perpetuation of misconceptions about our identities.

Dainy Bernstein —

Jul 26, 2021

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Atypical’s Casey and Izzie Join The Magical Unicorn Club of Queer Happy Endings

Stories are the things that make us human, and real gay people still need to see fictional gay people finding happy endings to know happy endings are possible for them…

Heather Hogan —

Jul 23, 2021

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horror

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“Fear Street: 1666” Brings The Trilogy to a Very Gay Close

Part origin story, part conclusion, the final film smashes together its timelines and serves up two distinct films at once that, despite their aesthetic and tonal differences, are inextricably bound.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya —

Jul 19, 2021