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Egghead & Twinkie Has Everything You Want in a Feel-Good Comedy, It Just Happens To Be About Teenagers

Sa'iyda Shabazz

Jul 26, 2023
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The Mattachine Family Tells The Story Of A Very Specific Type Of Family

Sa'iyda Shabazz

Jul 25, 2023
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“Silver Haze” Finds Devastation and Beauty in a New Kind of Lesbian Romance

Drew Burnett Gregory

Jul 24, 2023
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‘Chasing Chasing Amy’ Is Not the Fluffy Love Letter to the Problematic Film You’d Expect

Sa'iyda Shabazz

Jul 23, 2023
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“T Blockers” Reveals the B-Movie Horrors of Being a Trans Teen Today

Drew Burnett Gregory

Jul 21, 2023
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“Your Love” Puts Queer South Asian Elders Front and Center in a Beautiful Way

Sa'iyda Shabazz

Jul 20, 2023
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“The Fabulous Ones” and “Asog” Tell Trans Stories with Fact and Faction

Drew Burnett Gregory

Jul 19, 2023
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“My Animal” Is a Muddled Queer Werewolf Tale Elevated By Its Leads

Drew Burnett Gregory

Jul 17, 2023
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“Playland” is an Avant-Garde Portrait of an Extinct Queer Bar

Drew Burnett Gregory

Jul 15, 2023

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Two Asian teens with detailed, bright eye make up, lay together on a bed.

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Egghead & Twinkie Has Everything You Want in a Feel-Good Comedy, It Just Happens To Be About Teenagers

I really love a road trip comedy, especially one with rock solid storytelling.

Sa’iyda Shabazz —

Jul 26, 2023

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A collection of queer people in formal wear walk hand in hand on a beach during a cloudy day, they are of different genders and races.

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The Mattachine Family Tells The Story Of A Very Specific Type Of Family

This may be an unpopular opinion, but I’d prefer no lesbians in a movie to lesbians who only exist as stereotypes.

Sa’iyda Shabazz —

Jul 25, 2023

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Vicky Knight and Esme Creed-Miles in Silver Haze

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“Silver Haze” Finds Devastation and Beauty in a New Kind of Lesbian Romance

There are plenty of movies with characters who have scars, but very few that don’t use them for either horror or inspiration.

Drew Burnett Gregory —

Jul 24, 2023

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‘Chasing Chasing Amy’ Is Not the Fluffy Love Letter to the Problematic Film You’d Expect

It’s hard to put yourself out there, especially when you’re talking about something that means a lot to you. But the only reason Chasing Chasing Amy works as a documentary…

Sa’iyda Shabazz —

Jul 23, 2023

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Three castmembers from T Blockers stand in a group looking concerned

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“T Blockers” Reveals the B-Movie Horrors of Being a Trans Teen Today

In Alice Maio Mackay’s T Blockers, transphobia is spreading like a contagion. Literally.

Drew Burnett Gregory —

Jul 21, 2023

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Two elder South Asian queer women touch foreheads in an intimate embrace.

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“Your Love” Puts Queer South Asian Elders Front and Center in a Beautiful Way

Theirs is a tenderness — that all-consuming, heady obsession with just being near each other, even if the only way you can convey your love is through touching foreheads.

Sa’iyda Shabazz —

Jul 20, 2023

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Trans women sit joyfully around an outdoor kiddie pool //

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“The Fabulous Ones” and “Asog” Tell Trans Stories with Fact and Faction

What I’ll remember most about these films is the quiet, human moments. The laughter. The grief.

Drew Burnett Gregory —

Jul 19, 2023

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Amandla Stenberg and Bobbi Salvör Menuez in My Animal (2023)

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“My Animal” Is a Muddled Queer Werewolf Tale Elevated By Its Leads

Even though the characters are both ostensibly cis queer women, it’s still thrilling to have two nonbinary actors on-screen together — especially ones of this caliber.

Drew Burnett Gregory —

Jul 17, 2023

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A still from Playland features two actors in pink suits on stage

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“Playland” is an Avant-Garde Portrait of an Extinct Queer Bar

Geordon West’s debut feature Playland is an energetic portrait of the Playland Café, a Boston gay bar that was open from 1937 to 1998.

Drew Burnett Gregory —

Jul 15, 2023