Buffy Like the Wolf
I mean, she was pretty friendly with at least one werewolf in Sunnydale (and a witch or two for good measure). Sarah Michelle Gellar is returning to her supernatural TV roots in the spinoff series to...
View ArticleGender Fuck Thursday: Tar-ing Cate
When I first heard Cate Blanchett was going to play a pioneering female conductor, I was intrigued. When I then realized Cate Blanchett playing a pioneering female conductor meant lots of scenes of...
View ArticleMy Weekend Free BG
Well, we’ve entered worst case scenario zone in the case of Brittney Griner. In custody in Russia since Feb. 17, the WNBA superstar has been wrongfully detained away from her wife, family, friends, and...
View ArticleMusic Monday: Under the Pink
Pink gets it. Pink definitely gets it. My wife’s longtime favorite singer (and a fav of mine as well) is back with a new music video that covers basically everything in this world that’s making you...
View ArticleCancel This
Well, shit. Shit shit shit and shit. Granted, “First Kill” was not a great show. But getting axed as one of the few new shows this season on cable or streamers to center queer female characters as its...
View ArticleBe Gay, Do Revenge
Netflix giveth and, all too unfortunately, taketh away. Today they giveth. Obviously, I am going to watch “Do Revenge.” The new Netflix movie starring Stranger Things’s resident lesbian Maya Hawke and...
View ArticleGender Fuck Thursday: A Kate For All Season
Oh Kate, Kate. Please never stop wearing suits or chunky lesbian watches. And please never stop making prestige TV for HBO. The almost EGOT (perhaps time for a little Broadway after your TV projects,...
View ArticleMy Weekend Crush
Janeane Garofalo has always been a bit of a hero of mine. I’m a Gen Xer through and through, and besides Winona few actors were as Gen X as Janeane. Witty, outspoken, independent, sarcastic,...
View ArticleMusic Monday: Oh My God, Becky
Fletcher, who all the lesbians apparently love. Bella Thorne, who I know is famous but I think I’m too old to understand exactly why. And a motorcycle. Don’t complicate things. Sometimes Becky’s just...
View ArticlePerfect (Yellow)Jacket Fit
Well, well, well. Who called that? OK, fine — everyone. Lauren Ambrose is the practically perfect choice to play adult Van on “Yellowjackets.” Also, the announcement of her casting late last week also...
View ArticleBack in Black
Well, here’s something nice for a change. Krysten Ritter has been cast in a sequel series for “Orphan Black.” As impossible as it seems to replicate the brilliance of Tatiana Maslany (and Tatiana...
View ArticleTwin TV
Looks like some of us will definitely be reliving our high school experiences very soon — well, minus the whole then becoming international rock stars thing. The TV show based on Tegan & Sara’s...
View ArticleMy Weekend (RIP) Crush
When the history of LGBTQ+ civil rights is written, I hope we spare at least a weighty chapter for Anne Heche. Always a complicated figure, but also always seemingly truthful to a fault, she was the...
View ArticleMusic Monday: Working Girl Edition
If you remember the late 80s through a fog of aerosol hairspray and big shoulder pads like I do, you no doubt have a warm spot for Carly Simon’s “Let the River Run.” I associate it, intrinsically, with...
View ArticleTV Review: A League of Their Own
So, obviously, I love the new “A League of Their Own” series on Amazon Prime. This rebooted take on the 1992 movie makes up for a lot of sins of omission of the original, and then some. Series...
View ArticleFit for a Woman King
I don’t believe in fitspo. I like to say, quite accurately, that I only run when chased. But I do believe in ragespo. So please enjoy this minute of the cast of “The Woman King” sharing how they got...
View ArticleGender Fuck Thursday: Carmen Edition
Yes, apparently it is history week at Surrenders. So I had never heard of Carmen Amaya before a random tweet brought her and her amazing body of work to my attention. She was perhaps the world’s best...
View ArticleMy Weekend Crush
I go on vacation later next week. But in my mind, I’m already there. Also on my mind is Michelle Yeoh in this hat. In my mind, I’m also already there. Also, take this is your constant reminder that you...
View ArticleMusic Monday: Stevie Edition
I watched a little of the very short-lived (and very gay) series “Gypsy” with Naomi Watts from a few years ago. She played a therapist who got a little too personal with her patient’s lives. That...
View ArticleQueering Cate
Oh my Lesbian Jesus, it is gay! Yes, we willed Cate Blanchett in another queer role into existence, ladies. Take a bow and give yourself a hand. Because Lesbian Hands are very much enter stage – or...
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