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“I Care a Lot” is Visceral Catharsis for Women’s Rage
There’s therapy to be found in these films.
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Homophobic Violence Mars the Romance of “The World to Come”
What the film lacks in any real, tangible chemistry between its leads, it makes up for in its excess of violence.
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In Favor of the Queer Mediocrity of “Ammonite”
The film’s mapped-on queerness feels like a form of branding rather than a genuine endeavor.
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“Happiest Season” Shows Queers Joy Is Sometimes Elusive
Happiest Season has big shoes to fill though there is really no other movie like it.
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Ellen DeGeneres and the Many Chances We Give Famous White Women
We give white women so many chances.
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A Queer Icon, a Terrible Boss: Why It Matters That Ellen Can Be Both
Queer people can and do hurt other people.
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Queerness Shines in “She-Ra” and Other Animated Shows
The message out there for young people was that straights get to have fulfilling personal growth and relationships—and queers and queer romance don’t exist.
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Does Taylor Swift Have to Be Queer for “folklore” to be a Lesbian Album?
Longing is, after all, queer.
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Naya Rivera Built a TV Legacy for Queer, Latinx People
“Santana validated me, and was the beginning of what led me out of the closet.”
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Feeling Sapphic: How Velma Shaped Lesbian Culture
“I always felt like Velma was sapphic.”
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