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New York Times
a day ago
- Entertainment
- New York Times
For Pride, Stream These Queer Horror Movies
In horror movies, to be queer is to be different, 'which cinema has continually rewritten as a form of danger,' Peter Marra writes in his new book, 'Queer Slashers.' Dangerous, queer, different: Sounds like my kind of horror movie. Here are some of my favorites. 'Dracula's Daughter' (1936) Rent or buy it on major platforms. 'She Gives You That WEIRD FEELING!': That's how one poster advertised Lambert Hillyer's lesbian-coded vampire thriller, a follow-up to 'Dracula,' a hit for Universal Pictures in 1931. Hillyer's movie centers on Countess Marya Zaleska (Gloria Holden), a Dracula progeny who kidnaps a young woman in Transylvania. Holden's performance is predatory but feminine, menacing but soft-eyed — a powerful example of how lesbian subtext in early Hollywood paved the way for future Sapphic vampires. 'The Seventh Victim' (1943) Rent or buy it on major platforms. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
Yahoo
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Woman Was 'Annoyed' Her Best Friend Turned 'Girls Trip' into Couple's Getaway After Her Husband Was 'Hurt He Wasn't Invited'
A woman arranged a girls' trip with two friends to celebrate her best friend's upcoming birthday Venting on Reddit, said the plan changed after her friend's husband complained about not being invited The trip has since been canceled due to unforeseen circumstancesA woman is vexed following an unexpected change to a planned getaway with friends. Venting about the situation on Reddit, the woman explained that she and another friend had agreed to go with their mutual best friend on a 'girls' trip.' She said they booked a cabin and budgeted for everything they would need, including food. 'At some point during the final planning over the last two weeks, bestie's husband expressed his feelings were a little hurt that he wasn't invited,' the woman wrote. 'So now the husband is coming." 'She also invited mutual bestie's new BF [boyfriend], so now it's two couples going and me. Note: I'm a lesbian and my partner is working abroad for the summer, and all my other friends are busy so I don't have anybody to bring with me.' is now available in the Apple App Store! Download it now for the most binge-worthy celeb content, exclusive video clips, astrology updates and more! The woman confessed the situation had left her 'kind of sad/annoyed' as the cabin only has two bedrooms. Since everyone else is in couples, she would have to sleep on an air mattress in the living room. 'WIBTA [will I be the a-------] if I bailed on this trip?' she wrote, asking for opinions. 'I don't want a refund for my part in the cabin rental or gas money,' the woman continued, adding, 'I know a part of this is due to my jealousy that my partner's not here and theirs are. But I'm also just really upset that this is supposed to be a girls' trip, now it's turned into a couples trip, and me.' The woman revealed in an update that the trip was no longer going ahead for 'totally unrelated reasons.' Despite this, the initial post racked up over 4,000 comments and continued to be flooded with people sharing how they would've handled the situation. 'Nta [not the a------] - also you should get a refund,' one person wrote. 'They completely changed the premise of the vacation on you. Instead of bonding time with the girls, you are being used as a piggy bank for someone else's vacation. Don't let them take advantage of you like that!' Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. Agreeing, another said, 'NTA - I actively encourage my wife to go on girls' trips. And feel zero hurt feelings because I wasn't invited. I live with her and see her every day, so I encourage her to go and do stuff with her friends." 'Not that this is about the bestie's husband, but I feel he has some serious trust issues if he just brings up his feelings 2 weeks before the trip,' the same person added. A third commenter chimed in, 'NTA bail and ask for a refund. The air mattress alone is an insult on top of this, it isn't the trip you agreed to.' Read the original article on People
Vogue
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Vogue
Please, Someone Find Miranda Some Queer Friends
It's Episode 1 of And Just Like That… Season 3, and Miranda is in an environment that plenty of queer people will be familiar with: the club. 'Guys, thanks,' she says to Carrie and Charlotte, who suddenly look like the two straightest people to have ever walked the planet. 'I couldn't do another one of these lady bars alone with no one coming up to talk to me….' 'Well, did you try talking to anyone?' asks Charlotte, doe-eyed and woefully naive to the cliquiness inherent to many a sapphic locale. 'Mostly I stood, smiled, and ran up a $37 mocktail tab,' Miranda replies. Despite Miranda very much being a fictional character—in real life, Cynthia Nixon has been happily married for over a decade, and if she showed up to a club the gays would absolutely freak out—my heart sank. This is awful, I thought, stress-watching through my fingers as Carrie and Charlotte inexplicably leave after someone briefly waves at Miranda (didn't she just say she didn't want to be alone?). This is bad wing-man behavior, I fretted, before realizing that it wasn't quite as simple as that. No, it was more that Miranda—still a baby lesbian in the grand scheme of things, still not a deft hand with a strap-on (as revealed last season)—is clearly in desperate need of some queer friends. I love my many straight friends—both of them—but having a solid queer community around you is imperative, especially when you're dating or new to it. You can swap dating stories with that added layer of discernment (straight people might think it's weird if someone's best friends with their ex, for example, whereas queers know it can be complicated). They will also want to come with you to the club. They'll feel comfortable there, which in turn will make you feel comfortable also. They will also know what's up: If Miranda had gone to that bar with a lesbian pal, they would never have allowed her to have sex with that nun (played pitch-perfectly by Rosie O'Donnell), whom she clearly didn't fancy that much. I feel very lucky to have lesbian friends. They won't question going to the cinema twice to watch Love Lies Bleeding, they'll be able to discuss The Real L Word—a niche, early 2010s reality show based on The L Word—in astonishing detail, and we'll probably share the same opinion with regards to the JoJo Siwa and Chris Hughes saga. There's an element of comfortability and ease that comes with being close to people with shared lived experience, and sometimes even your closest, oldest friends can't replicate that. When it comes to dating, too, it can help if you know people who know the person you're seeing, for information-gathering purposes. It's complicated, but if you've heard of the 'the chart' from The L Word, you'll understand.
CBS News
7 days ago
- General
- CBS News
Pair charged with hate crime in attack on lesbian at McDonald's in Carpentersville, Illinois
A man and a 16-year-old boy have been indicted on hate crime charges, accused of attacking a woman at a McDonald's in Carpentersville, Illinois, because she is a lesbian. John Kammrad, 19, has been charged with three counts of aggravated battery, one count of hate crime, and one count of mob action, according to the Kane County State's Attorney's office. A 16-year-old boy also has been charged with hate crime, mob action, and aggravated battery. His name was not released because he is a juvenile. Kady Grass, who is from Carpentersville but now lives in Wisconsin, has said she was visiting the McDonald's at 1660 S. Kennedy Dr. in Carpentersville with her 13-year-old cousin on May 13, after the teen's choir concert. She said a group of strangers started harassing her as she left the restroom — using anti-gay slurs toward her. When she walked away, she said they followed. "I just told my cousin to look forward. 'Don't say anything. Don't give them a reason to talk to us again,'" said Grass. Grass acknowledges she then told the strangers she is a lesbian and flicked her wrist at them. Police said witnesses and surveillance video show two people attacked her. Prosecutors said Kammrad and a 16-year-old accomplice beat Grass and kicked her in the head. Grass was left with a fractured nose, a hemorrhage on her eye, and PTSD after the attack. "I genuinely think that their plan was to kill me, and that they didn't care if they ended my life that day," Grass said. Kammrad originally was charged only with two counts of aggravated battery and one count of mob action when he was arrested last week, but Grass had called for hate crime charges to be added. "How it started was because I'm a lesbian — just because I walked into the woman's bathroom, and I looked the way I look," Grass said. Last week, Kane County prosecutors confirmed they were still weighing possible hate crime charges. "Like all cases we handle, my office filed these charges following a thorough investigation and an unbiased review of the facts. These allegations are serious and will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law," Kane County State's Attorney Jamie Mosser said in a statement on Tuesday. "Everyone deserves to feel safe in public spaces, and no one should be attacked because of their gender identity or sexual orientation, as is alleged in this case. We must make it clear that Kane County is a community that welcomes all." Kammrad is being held at the DuPage County Jail on separate charges in DuPage County, and is due back in court in Kane County on June 27. The video above is from an earlier report.
Washington Post
25-05-2025
- Lifestyle
- Washington Post
Carolyn Hax: Inked gay daughter feels stifled at parents' conservative community
Dear Carolyn: My parents, who are in their 60s, are starting to spend more and more time in the Floridian country club community where they recently purchased a condo. The expectation around the holidays is that we will come and visit them and stay for a while. My younger brother brings his wife and small children, who absolutely love it there. I feel betrayed and stifled. There are strict rules around the condo complex, at the club itself and on the beach — no tattoos, specific attire, no body piercings. I am a heavily tattooed, body-hair-covered lesbian whose general existence is policed in this place. At first, it was fine, but it became clear quickly that my mother loves to have a reason to tell me to cover up while being able to hide behind the fact that it's 'just the rules.' The final straw for me was when I offered to take my niece outside, but my mother informed me that some of the neighbors were outside who had more conservative views and might not approve of my appearance. To her, she was just suggesting I would be more comfortable avoiding an unpleasant reaction. To me, she was saying that she would absolutely not consider standing up for me and that a smooth relationship with her new neighbors was more important than her own daughter. I am at a loss. I want to see my family, particularly the children, and enjoy the holidays somewhere warm and beautiful. I cannot stand to basically keep myself inside or fully covered at all hours just to avoid the slightest bit of unpleasantness for my parents. Is there a way to talk to them about this that won't escalate to a larger fight about whether they should be expected to sell their condo and move to accommodate me? Am I forced to choose between my comfort and ever spending the holidays with my family? They are always so generous with their time, money and space, and they themselves have always been liberal and somewhat accepting — but I have spent so much of my life trying to fit into the country club box, and I just don't know if I can do it much longer. — In Distress In Distress: I am sorry your generous and accepting-ish parents chose such an ungenerous place to settle in for their grandparent years. I am also sorry for the message. I don't think you got the wrong one from your mother — that in a complicated world, she likes the simplicity of letting 'the rules' make your differences in personal expression go away. I realize that's a lot of conclusion to draw just from your brief account. But of all the condo complexes in all of Florida, they bought into this one? Huh. (Brief disclaimer, my column is about relationships, not how enforceable these rules might be.) As sympathetic as I am, though, the idea that a conversation would ever veer into a brawl over their accommodating you by selling the condo they just bought seems bonkers to me. Not that you don't 100 percent deserve a place where you feel comfortable. You absolutely do. But the time for your parents to shop for that right thing just happened, and they zeroed in on Rearstick Estates. So I guess I just don't see anything for you to gain by trying to relitigate their decision now. Do tell them you're hurt. That's fair. Admit you feel rejected and forced to choose between your comfort and ever spending the holidays with your family. But don't ask them for anything beyond awareness of how you feel. No escalating, certainly. Instead, I suggest de-escalating. Decide on a general approach to these visits you can live with, then ask your parents to accept it on principle. Then don't refight the battles again. The most obvious approach is not to go. Plan to see your parents and your brother and his family at other places and times. Another approach is to reach an agreement with your mother beforehand. Something like: 'Send me the bylaws, I'll pack and even shop accordingly' (time with the kids time with the kids time with the kids, that's your mantra here), 'but no correcting me during the visit. It's insulting. Deal?' Another approach is just to do you, in all your glory. 'Love you guys. But I'm coming dressed as me. I'll handle the side-eye from neighbors.' Or maybe a fourth or fifth approach suits you better. What matters is your peace with it. Not mine or theirs or the neighbors'. Here's a travel-size version: You can't change their hurtful decision; you can only minimize its effects on you; all those little do-I-or-don't-I questions force you to relive (i.e., maximize) the effects; so decide your approach to visits up front, wholesale; tell your parents you're hurt and this is your answer; either secure their support or declare it's not up for debate. Whew. Again, I'm sorry — it's a reflection on them, not you.
