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The first season of Gentleman Jack saw Anne Lister tirelessly working to build a legacy at Shibden Hall with coal mining while wooing the beautiful Ann Walker. The second season still draws inspiration from Anne's real-life coded diaries, but also promises more intrigue and chaos. Fresh on her honeymoon, Suranne Jones steps into Anne Lister's...
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There are a lot of documentaries you need to watch during Pride Month—and P.S. Burn This Letter Please needs to be at the top of your list. This hidden gem—available to stream on Discovery+—is a beautiful ode to queer culture and the drag scene of New York City in the 1950s. You read that right: the 1950s! The doc is narrated via a big stack ...
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A drag queen's career can take many turns after appearing on RuPaul's Drag Race—especially if you end up walking away with the grand prize. True to her style of drag artistry, Season 9 winner Sasha Velour did the unexpected thing. She didn't launch a makeup line or become a YouTuber; she leveled up her already gag-worthy performances, turning...
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Pose may have made history for the countless ways it revolutionized representation for people of color and the LGBTQ+ community. But the crater Pose will leave behind is one of love. Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, and Steven Canals' FX drama told the story of a group of outsiders and one endlessly brave mother who chose compassion over selfish greed...
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One of the very first mainstream Hollywood films to celebrate drag queens, To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar is still as hilarious as ever. After winning a New York City drag queen contest, Vida Boheme (Patrick Swayze) and Noxeema Jackson (Wesley Snipes) decide to bring fledging drag performer Chi-Chi Rodriguez (John Leguizamo) with ...
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The documentary Paris Is Burning covers the Harlem ballroom scene of the '80s. The film showcases the houses—which mostly consisted of LGBTQ people of color—that formed around the most “legendary” performers, like Angie Xtravaganza and Willi Ninja. Though it might have some structural imperfections—like a non-participant director who...
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It's difficult for any film to be so intentionally clueless it's snarky, but that's exactly what Jamie Babbit's brightly colored middle finger to gender norms does. The 1999 satirical rom-com stars Natasha Lyonne as Megan Bloomfield, a high school cheerleader who's sent to a conversion therapy camp by her parents. As Megan spends more and more...
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Director Gregg Araki's Teen Apocalypse Trilogy — Totally Fucked Up, The Doom Generation, and Nowhere — contained some of the most revolutionary storytelling and filmmaking of the '90s. Araki's glorious return to this milieu is Now Apocalypse, a new 9-episode Starz series that points its lens at sex-positive, pansexual millennials (instead of...
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If this stretch of time without any new RuPaul's Drag Race is leaving you thirsty, here comes Alyssa Edwards with a show filled with the juice that is worth the squeeze! Netflix's latest foray into the world of reality TV brings Drag Race superstar Alyssa Edwards home to Mesquite, Texas where the grande dame diva of the South reigns. But...
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