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A press image of Charlie Plummer, Eve Lindley, and Mason Alexander Park

Trans People Deserve Better Than “Unicorns” and “National Anthem”

How to Have Sex: a blonde white teen girl stands in a club, covered in sweat

“How to Have Sex” Shows the Contradictions of Youth

Annette Benning and Jodie Foster in NYAD.

“NYAD” Is a Lesbian Masterpiece of Athletic Mythmaking

Renatta in the film "Something You Said Last Night" laughs while riding in a car with the windows down

“Something You Said Last Night” Is a New, Quietly Subversive Trans Cinema

A collage of four stills from Dos Estaciones, The Cow Who Sang a Song Into the Future, How to Blow Up a Pipeline, and Nothing Compares.

Having Some Film Festival FOMO? Here Are Six Queer Movies You Can Stream Right Now

Maya Hawke as Flannery O'Connor reads a letter by a mailbox wearing a brown coat.; Devery Jacobs stares toward the camera mid push up.; Colman Domingo as Rustin walks in the National Mall with the Washington Monument behind him.;

TIFF 2023: A Queer Festival Recap

Emma conducts in the movie Days of Happiness

TIFF 2023: “Days of Happiness” Is “TÀR” For Bottoms

In The Queen of My Dreams, a South Asian woman and a white woman kiss on a couch.

TIFF 2023: “The Queen of My Dreams” Captures the Creative Spirit of Bollywood and Queerness

a person with a blonde mullet leans against a tree and types on a laptop in Orlando My Political Biography

TIFF 2023: “Orlando, My Political Biography” Casts Trans People in the Virginia Woolf Classic

Elliot Page attends the 11th Annual LACMA Art + Film Gala at Los Angeles County Museum of Art on November 05, 2022

Drag Queens, Lesbian Conductors, and Elliot Page: 5 Queer Films Playing at TIFF 2023

The ensemble of How to Blow Up a Pipeline sits around a campfire. The image is mostly dark. Forrest Goodluck stands behind. Jake Weary, Kristine Froseth, Lukas Gage, Marcus Scribner, and Ariela Barer sit around the fire itself. Sasha Lane leaning on Jayme Lawson sit off to the side.

“How to Blow Up a Pipeline” Is a Radical Masterpiece

Nan Goldin's Picnic On the Esplanade. A group of five queer friends eat cake from paper plates on a grassy hill. They're all laughing and the ocean is behind them.

In “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” Survival Is An Art

Photo 1: Close up of Chitarra playing herself. Her face is lit with orange light as she looks off camera. Photo 2: Railey and Seazynn Gilliland as Tegan and Sara Quinn lie against perpendicular ends of the same school building. Photo 3: Ali Junejo as Haider rides on the back of a moped driven by Alina Khan as Biba. Photo 4: Devery Jacobs as Kawenniióhstha looks at Priya Guns as Malai in soft pink and blue lighting with one hand touching her hair.

TIFF 2022: A Queer and Trans Festival Recap

TIFF 2022: “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery” Isn’t Worthy of Janelle Monáe

The primary cast of Women Talking in traditional Mennonite garb sit in a barn, all looking concerned in the same direction.

TIFF 2022: “Women Talking” Is a Complicated Film for Our Complicated World