#I love movies about lesbians

[asapphicsunflower]

me and my gf just watched I Can’t Think Straight and it was so good :,)

[sunny-rants]

2023 out here beating the “cinema is dead” allegations with pure camp

[inkmaze]

rewatching big eden w my head in my hands. wheres more media where the surrounding background is so devoid of homophobia/etc that its so chill to just have this quiet gay story w/o a single scene incl them having to justify or explain themselves, or any degree of hatred at them or other gays. n the town is not only chill they're actively trying to help them get together I'm. this aired in 2000 how do we not have. idk. more shit like this truly pretty casual chill regular relationship issues gay media

[xskyll]

I tried resizing this a million times to Tumblr’s recommended specifications, and it just refuses to post clear, so sorry it’s blurry. =‘)

Prev / Next

First

[brutashaswin]

So anyway The Marvels is probably the best MCU movie since No Way Home

[gus-dix]

wanted to draw the girls from hunchback of notre dame 1 and 2 dancing cause they both have a red dress and i thought it would be cute

+ it always seemed likely to me that one of the triplets in beauty and the beast was only pretending to go along with her sisters... and due to that she’s good at playing a role but not so much at being herself so when she gets an interest in belle she suddenly turns real shy

do not erase the caption, use or rePOST my art (reblog ok)

[furoruisa]

I kind of completely understand why Hazel likes PJ so much... I'm just saying, and it was obvious FROM THE BEGINNING!!!

[ted-iverse]

I love how all these midnight burger cast imaginings being posted are basically just:

A lesbian with a PhD

The youngest (and most chill) tía

A pitiful white boy

The coolest guy you've ever seen in your fucking life

And they're all absolutely correct

[the-woman-upstairs]

Favorite Horror Novels I Read in 2023:

[iwillfightgodandwin]

Neil Gaiman and Taika Waititi are out here doing all the work™ for queers right now and that's beautiful

[firelise]

Lucky: Why you always so mad? You must ain't got no man 'cuze you don't never smile. Do you? Justice: What do you want from me? Lucky: Shit, I think you kinda fly. We could start with yo phone number? Poetic Justice (1993)

[butcharium]

Patricia Highsmith, the price of salt was good, but you should have given us the talented Mr Ripley but with butch lesbians

[marley-manson]

Honestly I think the scene in Paradise Found where Xena hallucinates herself snapping Gabrielle's wrist is one of my favourite moments of the show.

Like first of all the aesthetics and vibes of like 4/5ths of this episode (let's not speak of those painfully bad fiveish minutes) are immaculate, and that scene is beautiful, in an incredible and effective contrast to the horrific action on screen and Xena's deteriorating mental state.

But mostly I just love the unabashedly, disturbingly dark depiction of Xena. The sequence is framed as what Xena wants in that moment. "I'll show you what I want," is what she says. She wants to lash out, she wants to cause pain. There's the whole magical aura causing her dark side to like, gain strength of course. This isn't her average day-to-day state of mind, certainly not with Gabrielle. But the episode begins with Gabrielle pointing out that Xena enjoyed her latest fight, and wondering what's more important to her - the good she's fighting for, or the fight itself? And like, the whole point of this episode is to depict Xena's "dark" sadistic side as the most significant part of her, the core of her being, essentially. It's extra heightened here, but it's still ever-present elsewhere.

There is a significant part of Xena, a dominant part, even a driving part, that wants to hurt people. She harnesses that part of her to do good, but the show is sometimes wonderfully stark in its depiction of her darkness, and what it could lead her to do without Gabrielle's, and her own, tempering judgement.

Like, it's such a harsh little scene. It's sudden and intense and scary. And it's just so fucking gratifying to watch a show with a female protagonist who's allowed to be genuinely frightening, without even needing to change. Where the moral of the story is that yes, part of you is frightening, and potentially dangerous to those around you, but that part is still important.

The part of her deep, deep down that wants to hurt Gabrielle when Gabrielle mildly annoys her is necessary. One assumes that without a magical influence drawing it out, it would be a fleeting, easily dismissed wisp of a thought, rather than an overwhelming, hallucinatory urge. A moment of dumb, irrational emotion channeled into a later battle for good, or a workout, or hell, sex, maybe. But the seed is there, and the show revels in it, sans moral judgement. I mean, even in this very episode Xena's darkness is what saves the day. The show tells us that this is what makes Xena a hero. Her sadism doesn't need to be conquered, it needs to be harnessed and thrust in the right direction. And even more than that, it's something we're meant to enjoy about Xena, part of the core of what makes the show entertaining.

And it's great when it comes out in lighter scenes too, like a cupid's-arrow-influenced Xena sparring with Draco and full on backhanding him as foreplay, or telling Ares she likes the look of him impaled on her sword, or just when she grins as she improvises an entertaining way of fighting 10 mooks; and it's great when it comes out in dark but still action-oriented scenes, like her command of the Athenians in The Price, or her assault on the village in Ties That Bind, or even the Gab-drag.

But when that sadism comes out in a genuinely shocking, grotesque scene of disturbing, abusive, petty violence edited like a moment from a horror movie... well there's something a little extra delightful about that, to me lol. Even if it didn't actually happen, that image of Xena is so powerfully illustrative and interesting and, as far as I'm aware, virtually unique to female heroes in the way the urge behind it is still ultimately framed positively, and I adore it to pieces.

[neofelis----nebulosa]

Po and Tigress's relationship is so funny because they're written like a queerbait couple but like. its a male character and a female character. like theres some stuff that is obviously written in a way that can be interpreted as romantic but like the movie never actually backs it up with any further development of a romance between the two. there's always that plausible deniability so they dont actually have to follow up on it.

[mugmegan]

YOU GUYS OH MY FUCKING HELL I AM SO HAPPY RIGHT NOW I CANT BELIEVE THIS HAPPENED

They had a movie showing at my dorm and guess what fucking movie they decided to show

V FOR VENDETTA

A BUNCH OF STUDENTS MOSTLY FROM CONSERVATIVE BACKGROUNDS GOING TO A CONSERVATIVE UNIVERCITY WATCHING A MOVIE AT A CONSERVATIVE RUN STUDENT DORM FACILITY

AND IT WAS V FOR FUCKING VENDETTA

With lesbians and gay people and criticism of goverment all uncensored and everything I am so fucking thrilled

I have heard many students here talk about gay people, I heard many talk about our government. I heard nasty things. And tonight they watched a movie that showed how a lesbian was rejected by her family for coming out and then was pulled into a facility where they tortured social rejects like her and she was honored by the movie. Her death playing as an undeserved tragedy. And all those uni students saw it. Maybe they wont think it is good. Maybe they are disgusted that a movie would show compassion for sexual deviants. But they saw it. And they will think about it. They will remember. This means so much to me holy fucking shit.

It was only a small part of the movie but IT. MATTERED. SO. MUCH.

[pariaritzia]

Queerness in Indian Media

↳Film: MAJA MA (2022, Hindi) dir. ANAND TIWARI

Maja Ma follows Pallavi Patel (Madhuri Dixit), a closeted lesbian who gave up her beloved, Kanchan (Simone Singh), decades ago and has since become a devoted mother, housewife, and adored member of her community. While making preparations for her son's (Ritwik Bhowmik) wedding, however, Pallavi is outed to the entire town--and subsequently must deal with the consequences to herself, her former beloved, and her family.

Madhuri Dixit discusses her role in this movie, how movies like this are more possible now because of OTT streaming, and the "unexpected reactions" to the story here.

Madhuri Dixit discusses this movie coming from "a place of love", wanting the LGBTQ community to "feel seen", and "accepting people for who they are" here.

The actress Madhuri Dixit has been in multiple gay and gay-coded media, both as a supportive character and as the gay character herself. She has also been supportive in real life of the LGBTQ community.