It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's a Girl

I’m pretty burned out on superhero movies. At this point, it’s almost impossible to keep track of them all – and honestly why would I? But female superhero movies? Yeah, we can still count those on one hand. And you’d better believe I’m going to watch one that has a female superhero, a female sidekick and a dog. Plus, I’m pretty sure crushing on Helen Slater in “Supergirl” and “The Legend of Billie Jean” is one of my roots. So I’m hyped to watch Milly Alcock kick a bunch of dudes asses (and in a trench coat, no less). Look, sometimes the appeal of a movie is simple for me. Strong lady smashes bad guys. OK, where’s the popcorn.

Foster the Future

In the midst of all the needless misery of this world and our increasingly unhinged Christo-fascist government, you still deserve nice things. I know, seems trite. But I can’t tell you how much better it made me feel listening to Jodie Foster speak for 13 minutes about her past roles and life with Variety. [Hat tip, Karen!] You can also read the accompanying highly engaging feature about her in the magazine, where she addressed that Golden Globes acceptance speech and seemingly everything else. For a famously private person, it’s entirely candid yet still entirely her.

What I like about the video, besides the glory of 63-year-old Jodie being confidently herself, is how gay it is. If you were here from the beginning, you know exactly how welcome and earned it feels for Jodie to embrace her queerness at this point in her journey. Plus, how great was it to hear her talking about clocking Kristen Stewart as her mini-me/a baby gay, and then saying “I have never enjoyed being stuck in a closet with a person in my life so much as Miss Kristen Stewart as a kid.” So gay! And then for her to reveal she knew Diana Nyad and Bonnie Stoll – the real-life subjects of “Nyad” – well before she had signed on for the movie from Christmas parties and barbecues. Yeah, at LESBIAN Christmas parties and LESBIAN barbecues. They’re lesbians, Stacey. Here’s to getting older, wiser and gayer, just like Jodie.

Music Monday: Rocking Robyn

This is the energy I want to carry into 2026 with me. You know, just 365 days of Robyn playing her first New York City shows in years to kick off the New Year energy. Plus the crowd dancing and singing in unison to every note. Stilettos and broken bottles, indeed. We may all be dancing on our own through life, but on those rare occasions we can connect with our fellow humans, we can dance all night together. Happy Monday, kittens.

p.s. Don't worry, we'll talk about them Globes a little later this week.

My Weekend Crush ICE Crush

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I had another post planned for today. That can wait until next week. Instead I’ll just be singing this with my whole chest all weekend. In the first seven days of 2026 the United States of America has bombed Venezuela and kidnapped its leader, threatened to take Greenland by force and shot a woman in broad daylight for all to see. We are the bad guys. And it’s up to us, its everyday citizens, to denounce, protest and fight this administration in any and every way we can. What the federal government is doing is corrupt, unlawful and immoral. And we, the people, cannot let it stand. Fuck ICE. Fuck Trump. Fuck MAGA. Fuck billionaires. But this weekend especially, FUCK ICE. Plus, it’s a true banger. Happy weekend, all.

Gender Fuck Thursday: A Whole New Year

Welcome to 2026, here are some hot women in hot menswear because we still deserve nice things. Honestly, they should just let us have it. It looks better on us anyway. Menswear only for women in 2026. As for the men themselves, well, let’s hope a lot more of them put in the work this year. Otherwise we’ll just have to take away the rest of their things, too. Until we can figure out what’s going on. You know, like their roles as Fortune 500 CEOs and congressmen and the President of the United States of America. Just as a start. Dream big, it’s a whole new year.

Lucy Liu & Drew Barrymore

Still Charlie’s Menswear-Wearing Angels after all these years.

Demi Moore

Now if she was the solo star and they called it “Landwoman,” maybe I’d watch.

Hayley Kiyoko

Schoolboy shorts always look better on girls, always.

Jessica Chastain

Has a man ever looked this good in a suit this color? I rest my case.

Leisha Hailey & Kate Moennig

Thank goodness they never had Alice and Shane hookup on the show. I mean, Jenny was mean enough.

Renee Rapp

Is there a premium Uber Black service where you get hot lesbians as your chauffeur? Because in that case, you win capitalism, sign me up.

Michelle Yeoh

Start with a hot Asian lady in a beige suit, end with a hot Asian lady in a beige suit. Now that’s what I call some blog post feng shui.

Yes, Virginia, There Are Good Lesbian Movies

A week late with my best-of watch list for 2025? Yeah, seems about right. I mean if the United States can roll back its policies to 1939 Germany, I can be a little late on my pop culture calendar, right? Just so we’re all clear, we’re the bad guys this time around. By a lot.

So I actually saw more movies this year, and liked more of those movies. (But not Marty Supreme, I did not like Marty Supreme and would like those two-and-a-half hours back.) Here’s a look, in no particular order, at the movies that moved me in 2025. Oh, and they also had to be gay, because it’s my blog and I make the rules. And, again, none for you, Marty Supreme.

Come See Me In the Good Light

Can a movie about someone dying make you fall in love with life? Well, if it’s a movie about queer poet Andrea Gibson and their life with a terminal diagnosis, it just might. Lyrical in expected and unexpected ways, this movie produced by Tig Notaro follows Andrea and their wife Megan Falley as they navigate the end of their life. And even though we all know how this story ends, you will feel better for having watched – I promise.

Hedda

Yes, I found a screener and was able to watch (suck it, Amazon Prime). And what a ride this movie is thanks to the kinetic energy caused by gender-swapping the lover from male to female in this adaptation of the Henrik Ibsen play. Tessa Thompson is magnetic as the titular ambitious socialite lead, alongside Nina Hoss (who we last saw as Cate Blanchett’s long-suffering wife in “Tár”) as her former lover. Let’s just say the party does not go well for pretty much anyone.

Sorry, Baby

Eva Victor’s directorial debut is a quiet yet arresting story about a young woman dealing with her sexual assault by a trusted mentor. That does not sound like something fun to watch, I know. Yet “Sorry, Baby” manages to be both gripping and moving – while purposely not showing the actual assault. Instead, the movie is about how we move on with our lives, in both mundane and profound ways, after trauma. Victor, who uses she/them pronouns, also makes her best friend in the film queer with a nonbinary partner. Also there’s a cat, which defacto makes it gay.

Lesbian Space Princess

You should watch this movie for its name alone. But, it’s also a sweet, funny, topical, empowering and all-together fun ride through space and time. The chronically anxious Princess Saira of Planet Clitopolis gets dumped by her girlfriend who then gets captured by Straight White Maliens and then must summon her labrys to rescue her. Yes, everything I just typed happens in the movie, and more. Honestly, just go watch and enjoy this weird and wonderful super gay little Aussie animated gem.

Stranger Lesbians

Who knew that after nearly a decade of being overrun by rampaging demogorgons, illicit military research projects and a spider-legged hive-minded demon from another dimension, the answer to ending the madness in little old Hawkins, Indiana was queerness.

[SPOILERS FOR THE FINAL SEASON AHEAD…]

Yes, that’s right, everyone is gay on “Stranger Things.” Just kidding, only Robin and Will (and Vickie, who thank goodness she made it – even if the lack of major character death toll in the final season remains up for debate). Still, I’d like to take a moment to acknowledge that the most popular TV show of the moment portrayed coming out, and queerness in general, as key to unlocking super powers. Being gay saved the world, a lot!

For as much as the Christo-fascist right hates queerness and especially transness, the real reason isn’t their so-called religious beliefs. They don’t truly give a shit about all that stuff written in a book all those years ago. But they do care about people being authentically themselves because that leads to happiness and, more importantly, less ability to control. Also, for some of the loudest, angriest voices it’s about suppressing things in themselves as well. But, duh, we knew that already.

So thanks to this little sci-fi coming-of-age show for making friendship, gayness and believing in each other cool as hell. You still can’t make me want to play D&D, but I appreciate those who do. Also, no queer characters were killed in the making of this show (though, admittedly, jury is out on Barb’s sexuality. RIP to the O.G.) Thoughts on the final season? Also Robin going to Smith at the end? Lesbian chef’s kiss.

Music Monday: Silky Start

What if I told you there was a time when a group of sapphics went on national television and sang a song about how hot it is to be queer and makeout while dressed like prom kings/queens complete with tiaras? And what if I told you that was only four years ago? Ah, those were the days. Also, for some reason, James Corden had a national TV show then. Well, at least that’s over. So I guess the future really is better. Or, uh, parts of it still are.

Vacation Vixen: Lena & Gillian Redux

End 2025 with The Mothers fury. Begin 2026 with your joyous hippie aunts who’ve been "roommates" since college. Why couldn’t these two be in a rom-com, and not a gritty western? Oh well,

Vacation Vixen: Lucy & Julien

I mean, if these two aren’t just the cutest, most Ralph Lauren pair you’ve ever seen. It’s like the cute preppy heartthrob in the 80s high school movie, but lesbians. And so on theme, Lucy and Julien, given the first day of 2026 is a Thursday.

Be Kind, 2026

Judy for Christmas, Julie for New Year’s Eve. This year has been, unquestionably, hard – personally, politically, as a whole damn country. I hope you found some bright spots amid the chaos and cruelty. May 2026 bring more joy, more justice, more compassion and more care. Let’s all tak a cup o’ kindness yet, and cheers to a better New Year. Be kind, 2026.

Vacation Vixen: Two Annes

Look at that, two Annes with an E at once. Admittedly, I never watched Amybeth McNulty’s “Anne with an E,” mostly because i loved Megan Follow’s “Anne of Green Gables” so much. But I will stan that sisterhood forever.

Vacation Vixen: Lena & Gillian

Clearly, they chose violence. And is there a more fitting way to remember 2025? I’m taking most of this week off. But I will leave you with the Vixens, and double the Vixens at that. It’s been a hard year. We deserve this.

My Weekend Winter Crush

No, I will never tire of this song. Especially not as long as it keeps being reincarnated like this recent acoustic version with Ingrid Michaelson and Broadway stars Jessica Vosk and Abigail Sparrow. The most hauntingly beautiful seasonal song remains haunting and beautiful, shepherding us back through another long winter's night. Happy weekend, all.