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With their new project ‘My Agenda’, the genre-subverting artist is turning toxic masculinity on its head.
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Buffy Summers said ACAB: How the ’90s TV series embraced the real Big Bad
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The sweet escapism of my queer Sims community
In the era of social distancing, heaven is a pixelated hot tub and having at least four girlfriends.
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‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire’ and the value of not-so-happy queer endings
In praise of the rare queer films that aren't trauma porn nor facsimiles of heteronormative cliches
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Christine and the Queens’s visual album is a journey of self-discovery and reinvention
Borrowing from Bowie and Fosse, the singer subverts masculine tropes in a sexy, queer reimagining of a Dante classic
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I just kinda wish you were gay: my thrilling, painful dive into queerbaiting culture
As pop stars increasingly tap into queer aesthetics, our codes of recognition have been transmuted into accessories for capitalistic gain.
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‘Six Feet Under’ still serves our collective cultural anxiety
Why—in today's ‘golden age of television’—I turned to the surreal family drama that dominated television from 2001 to 2005.
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‘In The Dream House’ is a vital and rare account of an abusive queer relationship
Why Carmen Maria Machado's memoir triggered a necessary reckoning with my own past.
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‘The L Word’ is back, and less relevant than ever
10 years after the problematic and beloved original, ‘The L Word: Generation Q’ still can't articulate cohesive queer stories. Matilda Douglas-Henry tell us why.
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