It's a Pride Party! with "D.E.B.S."

by Nick Taylor

If you’re looking for a fun, unbelievably cute watch this Pride, you couldn’t do better than Angela Robinson’s D.E.B.S., a 2004 comedy with a clear mission statement: What if Charlie’s Angels was lesbians, with the ass-kicking superspy and her archnemesis falling head over heels for each other? An expansion of her own short film, (which you can and should watch for free on Vimeo right here!) Robinson delivers a parody built on real affection for the material it’s inverting. The knowingly cheesy visual effects carbon date this hard in the early ‘00s, yet the premise is a timeless staple of slash fiction the world over...

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GLAAD Nominees, Iceman, and Professor Marston

by Nathaniel R

This just in. The GLAAD nominations for portrayals of the LGBT community are out. This is a different group than the critics group that I vote with (the one from lgbt entertainment journalists) and their focus is less on quality -- or it has been in the past -- than on battling homophobia and fighting for inclusion. Their full name gives you their raison d'etre history: the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. They've made significant blunders in their years (supporting I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry would still rankle if anyone still remembered the film) but let's not hold that against them since we love that their purview is so wide (music, comic books, everything) and their purpose admirable.

The film nominees go like so...

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