my favorite wlw movies and tv shows, an updated list:
elena undone (2010): the wife of a pastor becomes friends with (and eventually falls in love with) an openly lesbian writer.
the plot, surprisingly, isn’t crazily focused around Elena’s spirituality or sexuality crisis. the lighting is a bit weird but other then that i love it. bonus points for not being two white women and a happy ending.
summerland (2020): During WW2, a reclusive writer gets tasked with caring for a young child.
gorgeous. i’m a slut for a period drama, but this movie is a whole other level of beautiful. the cinematography is amazing, the acting is amazing, the everything is gorgeous. the emotional rollercoaster and just MWAH. again, not just two white women and a happy ending.
i can’t think straight (2008): a bride meets a shy woman as her wedding approaches and they fall in love.
tacky as all hell and i love it. it’s not too heavy but also doesn’t feel like it’s mocking what’s happening. another one w a happy ending and a diverse cast.
killing eve (2018-present): a psychopathic assassin gets tracked down by a MI6 agent.
okay so some people can argue this is queer baiting, but i think it’s just a really slow burn- they’re not avoiding the fact the characters are in love (in a twisted way). also has won like a dozen emmys if that means something. again w the diverse cast, not so much happy ending.
atomic blonde (2017): a spy gets sent to 1980 Berlin to track down a list of traitors.
does this deserve oscars? no. but does it belong on this list since it’s 2h of Charlize Theron kicking ass and kissing women? very much so. bonus points for the immaculate aesthetic and not having two white women, looses points for the unhappy ending.
legends of tomorrow (2016-present): time travellers trying to prevent people from screwing the timeline.
an absolute acid trip. the main character of the show is bi and she seduces women from like every time period. the show itself is extremely diverse and just fuckin amazing. ignore the first season it’s dead to me.
I mean the plot could have been better but ANYways… it was beautiful and I have recently found Traci Dinwiddie from watching Ravens Touch, and I’m living. She’s so beautiful and talented. Both women she played with, were amazing. But there was just something about Elena Undone that did something to me. My heart aches and I can’t describe it. It was just *chefs kiss* ahhhhh
Soooo since I’m on the topic of lesbian movies here are a few that I have watched as well as a few favs
Elena Undone
Loving Annabelle
Carole
Ravens touch
A Perfect Ending
And I know for a fact that i will keep watching and adding to this list.
Madchen in uniforms (both the 1931 and the 1958 one)
Princess Cyd, 2017: Eager to escape life with her depressive single father, 16-year-old athlete Cyd Loughlin visits her novelist aunt in Chicago over the summer. While there, she falls for a girl in the neighborhood, even as she and her aunt gently challenge each other in the realms of sex and spirit.
Vita & Virginia, 2018: Vita and Virginia is a love story of the affair and the friendship between writer Virginia Woolf and aristocrat Vita Sackville West. In 1922, when Vita receives an invitation their paths crossed in Bloomsbury with Virginia. Their romance overcomes all social boundaries, Virginiaās mental health struggles Vitaās recklessness and neither will ever be the same without the other.
Breathe, 2014: Charlie is an average French suburban teenager, but when she becomes fast friends with Sarah, the rebellious new girl at school, she discovers thereās nothing average about how she feels.
But Iām a cheerleader, 1999: A naive teenager is sent to rehab camp when her straitlaced parents and friends suspect that sheās a lesbian.
Carol, 2015: Therese, a young department-store clerk in 1950s Manhattan, meets Carol, a beautiful older woman stuck in a depressing marriage of convenience. As their bond deepens and they become romantically involved, Carol finds the strength to leave her husband. Unfortunately, her spouse starts to raise questions about her fitness as a mother when he realizes that Carolās relationships with her best friend Abby and Therese are more than just friendships.
Imagine me and you, 2005: A newlywed bride becomes infatuated with another woman who questions her sexual orientation, promoting a stir among the brideās family and friends.
The half of it, 2020: When smart but cash-strapped teen Ellie Chu agrees to write a love letter for a jock, she doesnāt expect to become his friend - or fall for his crush.
Loving Annabelle, 2006: The intelligent Annabelle starts in an elite Catholic girlsā boarding high school after being expelled from the previous 2 schools. Sheās open about being lesbian. Sheās attracted to her teacher, Simone.
Disobedience, 2017: A woman returns to her Orthodox Jewish community that shunned her for her attraction to a female childhood friend. Once back, their passions reignite as they explore the boundaries of faith and sexuality.
Carmen y Lola, 2018: 17-year-old Carmen lives in a gypsy community in the suburbs of Madrid and works with her family in a street market. Like every other woman she has ever met, she is destined to live a life that is repeated generation after generation: getting married and raising as many children as possible. She gets engaged to Rafa. But one day she meets 16-year-old Lola, an uncommon gypsy girl who dreams about going to university, draws bird graffiti and likes girls.
Lesbian movies really took a hit in 2021 COVID times. When in crisis, studios will always heroically sacrifice women and minorities! While last yearās lesbian movie selection included big players like Ammonite, The World to Come, The Prom, Summerland, Happiest Season and New Mutants, this yearās selections were more muted and many came from smaller studios as well as the international film scene. Still, we had some variety this year too. TV, on the other hand, had equal or even better offerings this year with some networks and streaming services stepping up their game with female lgbt+ characters.
Letās take a closer look at what 2021 has been like for wlw entertainmentā¦
On the movie front, Lifetime finally gave us its first lesbian romance movie with Under the Christmas Tree and Hallmark gave us its first movie with a lesbian lead who found romance in Every Time the Bell Rings. These two were our lesbian Christmas movies of the year. The Novice gathered accolades as a queer sports drama done right while The Divide gathered them for being the āhealthcare in the times of Covidā movie with a same sex couple at its center. Winner of Cannes film festival Titane also portrayed its protagonist as queer but what that means in a surreal fever dream of a movie that included doing sexual things with a car I donāt know š¤·āāļø
There were, however, high profile projects as well. I Care a Lot gave us the mainstream lesbian comedy we deserve and threw in 2 big Hollywood names with amazing chemistry for good measure. No wonder it became an instant Netflix hit. Another instant hit was the Fear Street Trilogy, 3 movies that represent the best of the emerging lesbian horror movie genre. Smaller additions to the genre this year were The Retreat, Bloodthirsty and Seance. Australian coming of age romance My First Summer gave us the sweetest lesbian love story of the year. We also got our first queer protagonist in a major studio animated movie this year with The Mitchells vs the Machines. Saint Vincent made the lesbian mockumentary of the year, The Nowhere Inn.
Surprisingly, Benedetta was our only high profile lesbian period piece this year and, considering how subpar it turned out to be, maybe that was for the best. Letās hope upcoming The Chambermaid (releasing at the beginning of next year) doesnāt disappoint. We may criticize the lesbian period romance a lot and often(mostly because for a long time it was all we got) but we still love it. It just needs to be done right.
Over on the TV landscape, some of last yearās favourites continued to deliver while the variety we celebrated last year was a bright spot this year as well. Among the highlights: Legends of Tomorrow, that gave us a superheroic lesbian wedding only matched by the equally wonderful wedding episode of fire fighter show Station 19. Joining the Legends of Tomorrow lesbian/bi ladies on the superhero genre front, was our new Batwoman, Alex from Supergirl and Black lightning (that ended with its lgbt+ ladies married as well). Joining the fire fighter/medical drama of Station 19 were other traditional TV dramas with lesbian/bi women in lead roles like Law and Order Organized Crime, NCIS Hawai, New Amsterdam, Family Law and BBC gem Vigil. On the more hardcore cable/streaming scene one of the leads of The Morning Show came out, cop drama Hightown gave its lesbian lead a love interest, The Box gave us a surreal drama with a lesbian lead, in Dopesick a lesbian is at the center of the opium epidemic, Genera+ion gave us some interesting queer teen drama(before going the way of Everything Sucks! and Teenage Bounty Hunters) and The L Word Generation Q got slightly better at giving us couples with good chemistry (basically Dani and Gigi) even if it still, for the most part, failed to actually give interesting storylines to its lesbian characters. Network comedy gave us family sitcom Home Economics for a second season, Atypical gave us a happy ending for fan favourites Casey and Izzie, Dickinson gave us the comedy period romance weāve been asking for, Queens gave us the black pop queen of our dreams, Disney+ gave us the first gay romance on the platform in Big Shot with a sweet lesbian teen couple, Saved by the Bell gave us a genuinely funny wlw couple, Spanish speaking production gave us Madre solo hay dos and Gentefied continued with the Latina lesbian representation.
Fantasy and Science Fiction was, as it often is, good grounds for gay women in 2021. This year we got a lesbian lead character and a lesbian romance of the week in Fantasy Island, a lesbian lead reunited with her love in Motherland Fort Salem, queer teens in The Girl in the Woods, our little detective that could in Nancy Drew, survival adventures in Yellowjackets and our lesbian astronauts in Invasion and For all Mankind. By far the best one of the year though was Amazon Prime blockbuster adaptation Wheel of Time. In the meantime, just like Adventure Time, Shera and Harley Quinn the animated series before it, The Owl House and Arcane dominated the gay animated scene this year. Reality and competition shows added to the mix with lesbian contestants on both The Circle and The Voice, JoJo Siwa on Dancing with the Stars for the showās first same sex pairing, a new lesbian reality show Tampa Baes on Amazon Prime and 12 Dates of Christmas on Hbomax.
In the world of video games, selection wasnāt as big but it did contain some real jewels. Life is Strange True Colors, a sequel to the popular graphic adventure game, dominated the conversation of course but fans of other genres had some choices too. Farming Simulator fans got a really fun game in Story of Seasons Pioneers of Olive Town, fans of rogue dungeon crawlers got Sword of the Necromancer and Mass Effect fans finally got the remastered version for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Microsoft Windows. Narrative adventure Lake gave gamers who like slow paced games a sweet lesbian romance to play, while life simulator Growing Up did the same in a different way.Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous gave RPG fans another game to love and Unsighted gave everyone a great action 2D game to play. The surprise of the year? Mobile choice game Scripts that finally gave lgbt+ choice game fans the front and center lesbian romance stories apps like Episodes and Choices never put on the cover of their visual novels.
One of the most important milestones of the year came from the world of comics when DC decided to dedicate an entire comic book title to the romantic relationship of Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy. A spinoff from the Harley Quinn animated series (season 3 coming in 2022), The eat, bang, kill Tour gave gay fans of the couple everything we wanted. A close second, the regular Harley Quinn comic title also gave importance to the relationship while other DC titles like DC Pride and the Batman comics also cemented that the relationship is canon all across the board. Comic book titles likeAmerica Chavez: Made in the USA completed the lesbian comic book mosaic.
The gay girl music world seems to be having a pop renaissance brought on, in great part, by the popularity of online creators but some mainstream musicians also contributed. Lesbian music icons Hayley Kiyoko and Fletcher gave us a new song, āCherryā. Angele, Ladyhawke and Girl in Red gave us new albums. Internet popularity gave musicians like Dodie, Grace Gaustad, Rebecca Black, Marina Lin, Hollie Col and Zolita the chance to put their music out there. The very gay new music video of Maneskin for Mamma Mia cannot be ignored of course.
Variety on the online entertainment creator scene started to stagnate. Still, we got some good content from iconic YouTube creators Rose & Rosie who had a baby this year. Some other YouTube highlights included content from beloved couple Paige and Holly, Colombian supercouple Calle and Poche, the return of Lilly Singh aka Superwoman and the wedding of the German lesbian super couple from Coupleontour. The Instagram and TikTok lesbian couple scene also grew and many couples came to have huge followings and popularity.
On a slightly different note, if youāre a fan of TikTok episodic sketch comedy, one of the most popular TikTok creators in the world, kallmekris, has an ongoing lesbian romance of her own (and on her own š)ā¦
Overall, in spite the set backs that COVID-19 brought upon us, 2021 wasnāt a bad year for variety and diversity in lesbian entertainment. Hereās hoping (and contributing so that) the upward trend continues. Happy New Year!
2021ās Best Lesbian TV, Movies, video games, music and More So Far
Halfway through the year retrospective Part 1
Weāre halfway through the year and itās a good time to do a retrospective of how things have been going for wlw in the world of entertainment. 2021 offerings are still affected by the pandemic with a lot of projects being delayed but that doesnāt account for the indifference of certain outlets to actually cater to lgbt people when they have been able to put out countless projects geared towards the straight audience. Weāve seen nothing of the projects Netflix was supposedly working on for example while theyāve miraculously been able to put out a lot of other content.
We have however had some good offerings and there are news that more is on the way. Letās take a look at what was good so far.
can not get over how the flash of caitlyn that vi sees when sheās convinced jinx is about to reveal she killed her is slightly different than the actual shot of the moment she thinks of. top is the original scene, bottom is viās memory. in her memory caitlyn is looking more directly into viās eyes, caitās eyes are more open, her lip is pouted just a bit, her brows are less furrowed. vi has been romanticizing this moment over and over in her head. so similar to caitlyn rewinding vi leaving in her head so that she could do it over and make it right. idk iām just ready to pull my hair out over it all. if she was going to see caitlyn for the last time, she wanted it to be this moment. god.
