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So Yong Kim’s “Lovesong” Acquired by Strand
Strand Releasing has purchased select U.S. rights to So Yong Kim’s “Lovesong,” Variety reports. Jena Malone (“The Neon Demon,” “The Hunger Games” franchise) and Riley Keough (“The...
Trailer Watch: Maura Asks to Be Called Mom on “Transparent”
Viewers will be reunited with the Pfefferman family in just over a month, and fortunately “Transparent” fans have a newly released trailer for Season 3 of the series to tide them over until it...
The Queer and Not-So-Queer History of Early Hollywood Revealed in New Book “Girls Will Be Boys”
Laura Horak tells of a time when cross-dressed women and lesbians roamed the screen in “Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, 1908–1934.” Here, Horak...
Trailer Watch: Cannes Hit “The Handmaiden” is a Sexy and Stylish Revenge Thriller
A trailer has arrived for “The Handmaiden,” a stylish new revenge thriller from Korean director Park Chan-wook (“Stoker,” “Oldboy”). While the film is based on Sarah Waters’ 2002 crime...
Roxane Gay Makes History and Joins the Marvel Comic Universe
Roxane Gay is set to become the first-ever black woman to pen a Marvel comic book. An announcement at Comic-Con revealed that the “Bad Feminist” essayist will co-write a new Black Panther...
Women Win Big at Outfest Los Angeles
Female filmmakers took home two out of three Audience Awards at this year’s Outfest, an LA-based LGBTQ film festival. Annalise Ophelian won the U.S. Documentary Audience Award for “Major!” and...
True Crime Doc “Southwest of Salem” Gets Worldwide Distribution
If you’re looking for the next “Making a Murderer,” “Serial,” or “West of Memphis” you’re in for some good news: an award-winning true crime documentary by Deborah S. Esquenazi has...
The Kilroys Launch “The List”: Production-Ready Plays by Female and Trans Writers
The Kilroys have announced the third annual installment of “The List.” The LA-based collective has assembled a list of production-ready new plays written by female and trans writers. The Kilroys...
Frameline, San Fran LGBTQ Film Fest’s Features Lineup is Nearly 50% Women-Directed
LGBTQ film festivals are always something to celebrate, but especially when women-directed films feature prominently in the program, as both groups are underrepresented on the film festival circuit...
Whoopi Goldberg to Produce Transgender Model Series for Oxygen
Whoopi Goldberg will executive produce the new series “Strut” for Oxygen, Variety has reported. The show will follow transgender models who are breaking into the industry and trying to become...
Ending the “Bury Your Gays” Trope Would Help Storytellers
How do you solve a problem like LGBT characters dying at disproportionate rates on American television? How do you catch a trope and pin it down? With the fandom uproar over the slew of LGBT...
Prince, Queer Girls and the Permission to be Weird
The permission to be weird isn’t so much granted as it is finally realized. Yet if you were a queer kid growing up in the 1980s, the permission to be weird was something you thought would...
Why Imaginary Deaths Matter To Real-World Queer Women
While real-life terrors continue to abound for LGBT people, the question often arises why we should care about anything that happens in the make-believe world of entertainment. Who cares, the...
BFI Poll Names ‘Carol’ the Best LGBT Film of All Time
“Carol” has been named the top LGBT film of all time by a panel composed of 100 film experts. The British Film Institute conducted the poll, described as the first major critical survey of LGBT...
Ellen Page’s ‘Gaycation’ Is a Fascinating, Moving Look at Gay Culture Around the Globe
Do not be fooled by its glib title, “Gaycation” is no mere gay travelogue. The new TV project from out star Ellen Page and her gay best friend Ian Daniel takes them on a journey to visit LGBT...
‘Transparent’ Returns, in All Its Complicated Glory
Marvel Steps Up Its Game With ‘Jessica Jones’
Is This the End of the Model Gay Character?
Earlier this month, Oscar-nominated screenwriter Ron Nyswaner reignited a debate that has long been percolating in the LGBT community about our representation in media and entertainment. At the...
Exploring Internal Lesbian Discrimination in ‘The Same Difference’
Within the lesbian community — especially in communities of color (in the United States but also around the globe) — there are a lot of rules and internal discrimination that take place....
What to Make of GLAAD’s New Report on the State of LGBT TV
Depending on how you look at the numbers, things are either better or still sorely lacking for LGBT characters on television. GLAAD released its annual “Where We Are On TV” report, and its...
Why Queer Women (and Women in General) Should Be Excited for Netflix’s ‘Jessica Jones’
For those who have been waiting — and waiting and waiting and waiting — for the Marvel Cinematic Universe to give us a queer female character, the wait is finally over. Over the weekend,...
TIFF to Honor Indian-Canadian Director Deepa Mehta With 10-Film Retrospective
Deepa Mehta, the director of “Fire,” “Earth,” “Water” and the screen adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s “Midnight’s Children,” will be honored by the Toronto International Film...
Liz Feldman Scores Put Pilot Commitment for New CBS Comedy with “a Gaggle of Lesbians”
“One Big Happy” creator Liz Feldman has landed a put pilot commitment from CBS for her new comedy series “Hello Again.” Deadline reports that the show will focus on a “mostly happy”...
A Guide to All the Queer Female Characters on TV This Fall
Welcome to fall, when you can smell the pumpkin spice lattes in the air and see all the shiny new shows longing for your approval and a full season pick-up. The new television season also brings...
Reed Morano to Direct ‘Lioness,’ Starring Ellen Page as Closeted Lesbian Soldier
The ‘Carol’ Trailer and the Unbearable Lightness of Anticipation
That rush of attraction. The exhilaration of discovery. The ache of longing. The shock of falling in love with a movie trailer. The first full-length trailers for the lesbian drama “Carol” were...
Ellen Page Explains How Starring in Lesbian Drama ‘Freeheld’ Prompted Her to Come Out
Wolfe Video Donates 100 Lesbian Films to June Mazer Lesbian Archives
Wolfe Video, the largest exclusive distributor of LGBT movies, is celebrating its 30th anniversary by donating its complete library of lesbian films — about 100 or so — to the June L....
‘Tig’ Offers an Intimate Look at the Comic’s Darkest Moments and Unexpected Joys
Overnight success in the Internet age is often equal parts skill, timing and luck. Or, in the case of comic Tig Notaro, really bad luck. While well known in comedy circles, Notaro wasn’t a...
Trailer Watch: Katherine Heigl Doesn’t Let her Family Stop Her Gay Marriage in ‘Jenny’s Wedding’
Lesbian progress on the big screen has come a long way, which may be why “Jenny’s Wedding,” which stars Katherine Heigl and Alexis Bledel as lovers on the verge of tying the knot despite...
Cynthia Nixon to Direct Staceyann Chin’s Play ‘MotherStruck,’ Rosie O’Donnell to Produce
Staceyann Chin’s “MotherStruck,” an autobiography on stage of the playwright and performer’s journey toward motherhood as a single black lesbian, will make its world premiere at NYC’s...
Ten Lesbian Films for Pride Month That Show How Far We’ve Come
We’ve come a long way, baby. As celebrations continue across the country for LGBT Pride Month (especially after the Supreme Court decision making gay marriage legal in all fifty states), it’s a...
Guest Post: It Starts With a Pronoun
On June 23, my documentary, “A Self-Made Man,” aired onAmerica Reframed. After a successful festival run, this was its broadcast premiere. I used to get quite nervous when I had to speak about...
Katherine Heigl’s Lesbian Dramedy ‘Jenny’s Wedding’ Sold to IFC
Rom com queen Katherine Heigl stars in a variation on her theme in “Jenny’s Wedding,” which has been sold to IFC. Heigl stars as Jenny in writer-director Mary Agnes Donoghue’s gay dramedy....
‘Fun Home’ Makes Feminist History at Tony Awards
The women responsible for bringing “Fun Home” to the stage made history at the 69th annual Tony Awards last night. Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron became the first all-female writing team to win a...
‘The Babadook’ Director Jennifer Kent to Helm True-Life Lesbian Murder Drama ‘Alice + Freda Forever’
Jennifer Kent has announced her follow-up to “The Babadook”: the story of a broken engagement between two 19th-century teenage girls that leads to the murder of one by the other. Based on...
Inside Out 2015 Women Directors: Meet Christina Zeidler — ‘Portrait of a Serial Monogamist’
Christina Zeidler is a film and video artist with over thirtytitles in distribution. Zeidler is one half of the Euro-electronica-pop-diva sensation “ina unt ina” and part of the high-conceptart...
The Power and Relevance of ‘Carol’
In a few short weeks, the Supreme Court of the United States will decide on the issue of gay marriage once and for all. Over here at the Cannes Film Festival, “Carol,” based on Patricia...
Do We Need Another ‘The L Word’?
The song tells us we can’t always get what we want. As lesbian and bisexual female media consumers, we know this all too well. But it also promises that, if we try, sometimes we’ll get what we...
Trailer Watch: ‘Appropriate Behavior’ is the Next Great Love Story
Jane Clark Talks ‘Crazy Bitches,’ Horror Films and Slasher Satire
Seven crazy bitches and one fabulous gay guy take a weekend getaway to a remote ranch for some R&R, gossip, and grub, to celebrate their friend Alice’s birthday. What the group finds out is...
Susanna Fogel’s Female-Friendship Comedy Life Partners Finds Distribution
Director Susanna Fogel’s Life Partners, about a couple of almost-thirty BFFs whose friendship becomes suddenly strained when one finds her new life partner, has found a distribution deal with...
Reading Ellen Page’s Sexuality
“I am tired of hiding and I am tired of lying by omission” film star Ellen Page said, during her much celebrated coming out speech at an HRC event in Las Vegas on Valentine’s Day. “I...
Miranda Otto Talks About Playing Elizabeth Bishop in Reaching for the Moon
Reaching for the Moon tells the story of the explosive love affair between Pulitzer Prize winning poet Elizabeth Bishop (Mirnada Otto) and Brazilian architect Lota de Macedo Soares (Gloria Pires) in...
Ellen DeGeneres and Liz Feldman Developing Lesbian Sitcom for NBC
Ellen DeGeneres and Liz Feldman will be developing a lesbian sitcom for NBC. Written by Feldman, the sitcom will focus on a lesbian who gets pregnant with her straight male best friend just as he...
Quote of the Day: Manohla Dargis Putting the Button on Blue
Manohla Dargis has had some issues with the film Blue is the Warmest Color (which did very well at the box office in the US where it opened this weekend) since she saw it back in Cannes in May. In...
Questions of Queer Identity, Coming of Age and Loss of Self in Blue is the Warmest Color
There’s no doubt when Abdellatif Kechiche’s Blue is the Warmest Color hits theaters today it will cause controversy. The movie has already experienced the both praise and backlash from critics,...
Trailer Watch: Cloud Atlas — Co-Directed by Lana Wachowski
The Wachowskis are an incredibly successful writing/directing duo best known for the Matrix Trilogy. They are also known for the cult classic Bound and for writing V for Vendetta. They’ve been off...
Trailer Watch: Jack and Diane
Film will open in the US on November 2. Synopsis: Jack and Diane, two teenage girls, meet in New York City and spend the night kissing ferociously. Diane’s charming innocence quickly begins to...
‘Wish Me Away’: Directed by Bobbie Birleffi and Beverly Kopf
Wish Me Away is the incredibly moving coming out story of country music star Chely Wright. When I read a little over a year ago that Wright (who I did not know at the time) had come out my first...
Wish Me Away: Interview with Directors Bobbie Birleffi and Beverly Kopf
This is a repost of the interview I did at the premiere of the film last summer at Newfest in NYC. The film opens in NYC today and is also available on demand. Info here. Women and Hollywood: How...