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Every year, I get the itch to watch a specific kind of movie. It needs to be gay (ideally lesbian), it needs to be Christmas-y, and it needs to be good, or good-bad – you know, where it’s bad but you have fun. If you’ve seen almost any indie lesbian comedy in the past 20 years, you know what I mean.
In this Amazon original series, a group of teenage girls get stranded on an island when their plane crashes on their way to an all-female retreat in Hawaii. Early on in the series, it is revealed that things aren’t as… Continue Reading →
All right, I’ve finally gotten around to watching and reviewing Motherland, after accidentally watching and reviewing Homeland from the perspective of someone watching Motherland. The establishing shot confirms that we are indeed in the US of A, on account of… Continue Reading →
Love triangles just don’t cut it when it comes to describing the complexity of dating in a small lesbian community. Enter: Lesbian Love Octagon, a musical comedy about dyke drama. Lesbian Love Octagon had two runs in New York, before coming… Continue Reading →
Constance Wu and Angela Trimbur play a lesbian couple who are celebrating their engagement by having a weekend getaway with a few close friends. Relatively early in the film, Lu (Trimbur) lets it slip that she has never had an… Continue Reading →
Two women meet on an elevator. One of them has to be on a flight back home to Manchester the following morning. Together, they wander the streets of Los Angeles as they talk, flirt with, and learn more about each… Continue Reading →
By: SARAH BAROWSKI The Closet Chronicles, by author J.P. Haynes, is a short work of realistic fiction centering on the life and times of lesbian lothario D.J. Spencer as she works at a magazine job that she hates, comes to… Continue Reading →
The tagline for Liberty’s Secret describes it as “a girl-meets-girl musical-movie. About the song and dance of politics.” Personally, I would have described it as Jenny’s Wedding meets But I’m a Cheerleader meets musical theater. It’s silly and lighthearted, even… Continue Reading →
I first became aware of Cameron Esposito and Rhea Butcher (as a couple and comedic duo) last year when I attended a stand-up comedy show that they co-host at the UCB on Franklin every Tuesday night. The couple bantered back and forth before welcoming… Continue Reading →
“My advice to anybody is: get born.” If you’ve read anything by Jeanette Winterson, it was probably Oranges are Not the Only Fruit, a classic lesbian coming of age novel in the same vein as Rubyfruit Jungle, in which a… Continue Reading →
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