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The year 2018 can be best described by the opening voiceover to Mad Max: Fury Road: “As the world fell, each of us in our own way was broken. It was hard to know who was more crazy: me, or everyone else.” The panic of 2017 has given way to a far more insidious exhaustion,…
Hello and welcome back to Riverdale! Whole White House careers have begun and ended since the last time we ventured to the maple-lined streets of our favorite blood-spattered small town, but the second I heard someone say “Papa Poutine’s murder” with a straight face, I knew we were home. This episode is classic Riverdale in…
As every queer woman who has ever logged on to Netflix knows, lesbians are rich in tragedy. The typical story arc for women who love women in film and television goes something like this: Girl painfully comes to terms with feelings for other girl. The exploration of these feelings costs girl her job/children/parental approval, and…
Hello and welcome back to Alice!, the show about a middle-aged woman rediscovering her sexual power despite a town, a family, and a world that want to hold her back. What’s that you say? That’s not what this show is called or about or even an accurate representation of Alice Cooper’s circumstances? Well, someone should…
Friends, in the immortal words of Paul Simon, “these are the days of miracles and wonder.” By which I mean that miraculously, my decision to recap Riverdale has at last borne fruit, and my favorite female character on the show is now canonically queer. This stunning development comes on the heels of last week’s episode,…
On November 22, Netflix will unleash its latest piece of original programming onto our eager minds: a six-part Western called Godless. The series concerns the fate of a town where all the men died in a tragic mining/oil drilling/underground rave accident. THAT’S WHAT YOU GET FOR TRUSTING A WOODEN ELEVATOR, FRANKLY. This awful event leaves the…
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: It has come to the attention of this committee (the Queer Entertainment and Enlightenment Fellowship) that you have not yet read the classic lesbian vampire novel The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez. We must request that you take immediate action to rectify this situation, and then discuss it with us…
The R train was almost silent on Inauguration Day. It was rush hour, a little after 7:30 am, but people were somber. I felt that, but I was also excited, heading to the Manhattan City Clerk’s office to pick up a marriage license with my girlfriend, Jessi. We’d been talking about getting married for over…
Alexander Hamilton: Founding Father, Rap Impresario, Probable Queermo. I fell in love with Hamilton a long time after everybody else. I didn’t even listen to it until a few weeks ago, and that is because the concept of a hip hop musical about America’s first secretary of the treasury is stupid. Even the Obamas laughed…
You know that point in a relationship at which you realize that you cannot live without your other person, and then your mind instantly conjures a horror story in which life shook out a little differently and you never met each other at all? (For example, had I not agreed to help a girl I…