*Updated August 23, 2025*
We asked our supporters for their favourite lesbian movies, television shows, video games, apps, podcasts, YouTubers, books, artists, websites, musicians, magazines, and any other lesbian media they love. LH hasn’t engaged with all of this media, so we cannot guarantee the politics or enjoyability behind each suggestion. Some of the media will be Very Very Same-Sex but not explicitly or completely lesbian.
As of June 2025, LH is giving a star rating out of 5 (like this: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐) next to media we’ve consumed since.
- We are planning on making a list of up-and-comers separately (it would be too long to include in this list) so DM the IG or send an email to co*****@*************ry.com with your up-and-coming lesbian media-makers. This list is for beloved known media. Some exceptions will be made for things like podcasts, because it’s a new media genre, but the authors at LH will sniff each suggestion out to decide if it goes in the “up-and-coming” list or this “matured quality” list.
- Warnings are mostly provided by submitters as LH hasn’t consumed all the media listed.
- Some items on this list might only have one lesbian couple. Maybe even only in one episode, in a complete series filled with heterosexuals. Maybe their sexual orientation isn’t stated at all and there’s an argument for bisexuality. Rest assured, most suggestions will be lesbian-heavy. But we urge you to research the media before you consume it to avoid disappointment. Some of it will deal with traumatic or debatable scenes and topics. There will be items that the authors at LH haven’t seen. Some we don’t like or agree with. It’s actually healthy to disagree. Lesbians aren’t a monolith. Female homosexuality is the only criterion for being a lesbian. Moving on!
Books
Imogen, Obviously (2022) by Becky Albertalli
Disobedience (2006) by Naomi Alderman (warning: many M/F sex scenes)
Patricia Wants to Cuddle (2022) by Samantha Allen
Skin: Talking About Sex, Class and Literature (1994) by Dorothy Allison (NF)
The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn’t a Guy at All (2022-?) by Sumiko Arai
Our Wives Under the Sea (2022) by Julia Armfield
Poppy Jenkins (2016) by Claire Ashton
Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead (2021) by Emily Austen
Legends & Lattes (2022) by Travis Baldree
Boulder (2022) by Eva Baltasar
Permafrost (2021) by Eva Baltasar
Girl, Serpent, Thorne (2020) by Melissa Bashardoust
She is the Poem (2022) by June Bates
The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For (2008) by Alison Bechdel
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (2006) by Alison Bechdel
The Secret to Superhuman Strength (2021) by Alison Bechdel
Nice Jewish Girls (1989) by Evelyn Torton Beck (NF)
The Founds Trilogy #1: Foundryside (2018) by Robert Jackson Bennett
All the Little Moments (2015) by G. Benson
Her Tale of Shim Chong by Seri Biwan
No Shelter But the Stars (2024) by Virginia Black
Delilah Green Doesn’t Care (2022) by Ashley Herring Blake
In Another Place, Not Here (1986) by Dionne Brand
What Comes Naturally (1986) by Gerd Brantenberg
Set in Stone: butch-on-butch erotica (2001) by Angela Brown
Rubyfruit Jungle (1973) by Rita Mae Brown
Dagger on Butch Women (1994) by Lily Burana & Roxxie Linnea Due (NF)
By Anna Burke
Afterlove (2021) by Tanya Byrne
Women: A Novella (2014) by Chloe Caldwell
That’s Ms Bulldyke to You, Charlie! (1992) by Jane Caminos
The Lesbian Sex Book (1993) by Wendy Caster (NF)
XX (2018) by Angela Chadwick
Black Water Sister (2021) by Zen Cho
Not Vanishing (1998) by Chrystos
Correspondance Amoureuse (1899) by Natalie Clifford Barney and Liane de Pougy
A Woman Appeared to Me (1904) by Natalie Clifford Barney
Women Lovers, Or The Third Woman (1926) by Natalie Clifford Barney
Once Ghosted, Twice Shy (2019) by Alyssa Cole
Cunt Colouring Book (1975) by Tee Corinne (NF)
Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme (2011), edited by Ivan Coyote
Tomboy Survival Guide (2016) by Ivan Coyote
A Song For You: My Life with Whitney Houston (2019) by Robyn Crawford (Non-Fiction)
Galveston 1900: Swept Away (2005) by Linda Crist
The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2012) by Emily Danforth
Plain Bad Heroines (2020) by Emily Danforth
By Max Dashu
In at the Deep End (2019) by Kate Davies
Dykette (2023) by Jenny Fran Davis
Survival Instinct (2018) by May Dawney
Idylle Saphique (1901) by Liane de Pougy
Ça raconte Sarah (2018) by Pauline Delabroy-Allard
Chronicle of Alsea #1: The Caphenon (2014) by Fletcher Delancy
The Complete Hothead Paisan: homicidal lesbian terrorist (1999) by Diane DiMassa (NF)
Hood (1995) by Emma Donoghue
Learned by Heart (2023) by Emma Donoghue
By Jennifer Dugan
This is How You Lose the Time War (2019) by Amal El-Mohtar
Don’t Stop Me (2022) by Eden Emory
Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the Seventeenth Century to the Present (1994) by Lillian Faderman (NF)
Odd Girls And Twilight Lovers (2012) by Lillian Faderman (NF)
Surpassing the Love of Women (1981) by Lillian Faderman (NF; warning: includes polilez)
Stone Butch Blues (1993) by Leslie Feinberg
Aimée & Jaguar: A Love Story (1994) by Erica Fischer
Acts of Service (2022) by Lillian Fishman
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe (1987) by Fannie Flagg
Curious Wine (1983) by Katherine Forrest
Sappho in the Holy Land: Lesbian Existence and Dilemmas in Contemporary (2004) edited by Chava Frankfort-Nachmias & Erella Shadmi (NF)
Cheer Up: Love and Pom Poms (2021) by Crystal Frasier
Searching for Sappho: The Lost Songs and World of the First Woman Poet (2016) by Phillip Freeman (NF)
Annie on My Mind (1982) by Nancy Garden
The Wild Good (1996) by Beatrix Gates (NF)
Herland (1915) by Charlotte Perkins Gillman
My Lesbian Novel (2024) by Renee Gladman
Another Mother Tongue (1984) by Judy Grahn (NF)
Ammonite (1992) by Nicola Griffith
What Lesbians Do (1975) by Godiva
The Gilda Stories (1991) by Jewelle Gomez
Female Masculinity (1998) Jack Halberstam (NF)
The Well of Loneliness (1928) by Radclyffe Hall
Pure Colour (2022) by Paula Heti
The Price of Salt (1952) by Patricia Highsmith
The Girl Who Can’t Get A Girlfriend (2023) by Mieri Hiranishi
A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend (2010) by Emily Horner
Her Grace (2023) by S R Hoyer
The Two of Them Are Pretty Much Like This (2020) by Takashi Ikeda
Just for Show (2018) by Jae
The Professor (2023) by Elia Johnson
The Music and the Mirror (2018) by Lola Keeley
Wherever Is Your Heart (2022) by Anita Kelly
Just As You Are (2023) by Camille Kellogg
Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community (1993) by Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy, Madeline D. Davis (NF)
Read Between the Lines (2021) by Rachel Lacey
Stars Collide (2023) by Rachel Lacey
Thérèse and Isabelle (2015) by Violette Leduc
Greasepaint (2024) by Hannah Levene
The Very Inside: An Anthology of Writing by Asian and Pacific Islander Lesbian and Bisexual Women (1998) by Sharon Lim-Hing (NF)
Pride and Prejudice and Pittsburgh (2023) by Rachael Lippincott
She Gets the Girl (2022) by Rachael Lippincott
The Grass Widow (1996) by Nanci Little
Last Night at the Telegraph Club (2021) by Malinda Lo
I Swear Somewhere This Works (2023) by Trista Mateer
Sister Outsider (1984) by Audre Lorde (NF)
Hotshot (2023) by Clare Lydon
Lesbian Nuns: Breaking Silence (1985) by Nancy Manahan & Rosemary Curb (NF)
Elemental Logic #1: Fire Logic (2002) by Laurie J. Marks
The Last Binding #2: A Restless Truth (2022) by Freya Marske
Lesbian Sacred Sexuality (1995) by Diane Mariechild & Marcelina Martin (NF)
A Memory Called Empire (2019) by Arkady Martine
A Desolation Called Peace (2021) by Arkady Martine
Back in Your Arms #1: Back in Your Arms (2021) by Monica McCallan
Afekete: an Anthology of Black Lesbian Writing (1995) by Catherine E. McKinley (NF)
I Kissed Shara Wheeler (2022) by Casey McQuiston
One Last Stop (2021) by Casey McQuiston
This is How You Lose the Time War (2019) by Amal El-Mohtar
The Locked Tomb Series #1: Gideon the Ninth (2019) by Tamsyn Muir
The Locked Tomb Series #2: Harrow the Ninth (2020) by Tamsyn Muir
The Locked Tomb Series #3: Nona the Ninth (2022) by Tamsyn Muir
The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader (1992) by Joan Nestle (NF)
A Restricted Country (1987) by Joan Nestle (NF)
Rebel in Venus (2023) by Marissa Alma Nick
Ask, Tell (2017) [series] by E J Noyes
I saw Mommy Kissing the Nanny (2022) by Shannon O’Connor
The Tea Dragon Society (2017) by Kay O’Neill
Broken Things (2013) by Lauren Oliver
Portrait of a Marriage: Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson (1973) by Nigel Nicolson (NF)
The Mimicking of Known Successes (2023) by Malka Ann Older
Dream Work (1986) by Mary Oliver
The Girl From the Sea (2021) by Molly Knox Ostertag
Seafire #2: Steel Tide (2019) by Natalie Parker
The Radiant Emporor #1: She Who Became The Sun (2021) by Shelley Parker-Chan
Love at 350 (2023) by Lisa Peers
The Verifiers #1: The Verifiers (2022) by Jane Pek
Lesbian Love Story (2023) by Amelia Possanza (NF)
Lesbian Culture: an anthology (1993) by Julia Penelope & Susan Wolfe (NF)
When Katie Met Cassidy (2018) by Camille Perri
Violet to Vita: The Letters of Violet Trefusis to Vita Sackville-West, 1910-1921, edited by John Phillips (NF)
Even Though I Knew the End (2022) by C.L. Polk
High School (2019) by Tegan & Sara Quin (NF)
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (2017) by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Garden Variety Dykes: Lesbian traditions in gardening (1994) by Irene Reti (NF)
The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School (2022) by Sonorah Reyes
Lesbian Erotica (1948 onwards) by Cassandra Rios
Honey Girl (2021) by Morgan Rogers
Desert of the Heart (1964) by Jane Rule
Truly Wilde (2021) by Joan Schenkar
After Sappho (2023) by Selby Wynn Schwartz
Let the Record Show (2021) by Sarah Schulman (NF)
Sword Of The Guardian (2016) by Merry Shannon
The Roots of Chaos #0: A Day of Fallen Night (2023) by Samantha Shannon
The Roots of Chaos #1: The Priory of the Orange Tree (2019) by Samantha Shannon
Carmilla (1872) by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Meet Me in Another Life (2021) by Catriona Silvey (bi protag but love interest is lesbian)
SCUM Manifesto (1967) by Valerie Solanas (NF)
Heartstrings (2022) by Rachel Spangler
These Witches Don’t Burn #1: These Witches Don’t Burn (2019) by Isabel Sterling
Olivia (1949) by Dorothy Strachey
The Burning Kingdoms #1: The Jasmine Throne (2021) by Tasha Suri
The Burning Kingdoms #2: The Oleander Sword (2022) by Tasha Suri
A Sweet Sting of Salt (2024) by Rose Sutherland
C+nto & Othered Poems (2021) by Joelle Taylor
Never Anyone But You (2018) by Ruper Thompson
Pushing the Limits: disabled dykes produce culture (1996) by Shelley Tremain (NF)
Crier’s War #1: Crier’s War (2019) by Nina Varela
Kiss Number 8 (2019) by Colleen A.F. Venable
By Tillie Walden
The Color Purple (1982) by Alice Walker
Dear John, I Love Jane: Women Write about Leaving Men for Women (2010) by Candace Walsh (editor) NF
Missing Dead Girls (2023) by Sara Walters
Affinity (1999) by Sarah Waters
Fingersmith (2002) by Sarah Waters
The Night Watch (2006) by Sarah Waters
The Paying Guests (2014) by Sarah Waters
Tipping the Velvet (1998) by Sarah Waters
The Lesbian Love Advisor (1989) by Celeste West (NF)
Something to Talk About (2019) by Meryl Wilsner
When Women Were Warriors (2008) series by Catherine M. Wilson
Truth #1: The Brutal Truth (2017) by Lee Winter
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985) by Jeanette Winterson
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (2011) by Jeanette Winterson (NF)
Written on the Body (1992) by Jeanette Winterson
She Loves To Cook, She Loves To Eat (2020) by Sakaomi Yuzaki
Newspapers, Magazines & Journals
Arena Three (1964-1971)
Chanacomchana (1981-1987)
Curve (1991-?)
Diva (1994-?)
DYKE: A QUARTERLY (1975-1979)
Dykes & Gorgons (1973-1976) [1]
Landykes of the South: women’s land groups and lesbian communities in the South (2015)
Lesbian Connection (1974-?)
Lez Spread the Word (2012-?)
Maize: A Lesbian Country Magazine (1982-?)
Onyx (1982-1984) [1]
Quim Magazine (1989-1994 + 2001) [1]
Sappho (1972-1981)
Sinister Wisdom (1976-?)
Films
8 Women (2002) (French)
Aimée & Jaguar (1999) (German) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
All Cheerleaders Die (2013)
All Over Me (1997) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Ammonite (2020) ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Another Way (1982) (Hungarian)
Badhaai Do (2022) (Hindi)
Below Her Mouth (2016) ⭐⭐⭐⭐1 (Warning: nudity + actual sex, 18+)
Better Than Chocolate (1999)
Blue is the Warmest Colour (2013) (French) ⭐ – read our article on it
Blue Jean (2022) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐2
Born in Flames (1983) ⭐⭐⭐3
Bottoms (2023) ⭐⭐⭐
Bound (1996) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐4
But I’m a Cheerleader (1999) ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Bye Bye Blondie (2012) (French)
Carmen & Lola (2018) (Spanish)
Carol (2015) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Children’s Hour (1961) ⭐⭐⭐5
Chutney Popcorn (1999) ⭐⭐⭐6
Cloudburst (2011) ⭐⭐⭐⭐7
Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same (2011) ⭐⭐⭐½8
A Comedy in Six Unnatural Acts (1975)
A Date For Mad Mary (2016) ⭐⭐⭐⭐½9
D.E.B.S (2004) ⭐⭐⭐⭐10
Desert Hearts (1985) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Disobedience (2017)
The Duke of Burgundy (2014) (warning: disturbing)
Drool (2009)
Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga (2019)
Elena Undone (2010)
Elisa & Marcela (2019) (Spanish)
The Favourite (2018)
The Fear Street Trilogy (2021)
Fire (1996)
Fire Cracker (2022)
The Firefly (2015) (Spanish)
Fresh Kill (1994)
Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)
Gia (1998) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Go Fish (1994)
The Handmaiden (2016)
I Can’t Think Straight (2008)
If These Walls Could Talk 2 (1996) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Imagine Me and You (2005)
The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love (1995)
Itty Bitty Titty Committee (2007)
Kase-san and Morning Glories (2018)
Kiss Me (2011) (Swedish)
The Little Sister (2025) (French)
Lizzie (2018)
Love Lies Bleeding (2024)
Loving Annabelle (2006)
Mädchen in Uniform (1931)
Maja Ma (2023)
The Mark of Lilith (1986)
The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018)
Monster (2003) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
More Beautiful for Having Been Broken (2019)
Mulholland Drive (2001)
My First Summer (2020)
Novitiate (2017) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Pariah (2011)
The Perfection (2018)
Persona (1966) (Swedish)
Personal Best (1982)
Polarized (2023)
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Pourquoi Pas Moi? (1999)
Princess Syd (2017)
Rafiki (2018) (Swahili)
Reaching for the Moon (2013) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Rebecca (1940)
Salmonberries (1991)
Saving Face (2004)
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister (2010)
Show Me Love [Swedish: Fucking Amal] (1998)
Snapshots (2018)
The Summer of Sangaile (2015) (Lithuanian)
Summerland (2020)
Summertime (2015)
Tár (2022)
Tell it to the Bees (2018)
Unborn (2022)
Vita & Virginia (2018)
The Watermelon Woman (1996)
When Night is Falling (1995) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The World to Come (2021)
Yes or No (2010)
Documentaries
Ahead of the Curve (2020)
The David Susskind Show: Women Who Love Women (1971) ⭐⭐⭐⭐11
Documento Especial – Muito Feminina (1989/1990)
Dyketactics (1974) [another link]
Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives (1992)
FtF: Female to Femme (2006)
Gateways Grind (2022)
Gender Troubles: The Butches (2016)
A Great Ride (2018)
The Important Thing is Love (1971)
Isla’s Way (2023) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐12
Last Call at Maud’s (1993)
Lesbian Avengers Eat Fire Too (1993)
Loving Highsmith (2022)
Old Lesbians (2023)
Once a Fury (2020)
Outlaw (1994)
Rebel Dykes (2021)
Rise Above: The Tribe 8 Documentary (2004)
The Sally Ride Story: A Woman Space Pioneer (2000)
Sappho: Love and Life on Lesbos (2015)
A Simple Matter of Justice (1993)
Some Ground to Stand On (1998)
Storme: Lady of the Jewel Box (1987)
TV Shows
The 100 (2014-?)
3% (2016-2020) (involves lesbians after the first season)
Acacias 38 (2015-2021)
Agatha All Along (2024)
Arcane (2021-?)
American Horror Story: Asylum (2012-2013)
Atypical (2017-2020)
Bad Girls Club (2006-2017)
Black Mirror: San Junipero (2016; Season 3 Episode 4)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003) *Specifically between Willow and Tara later in the seasons
Coming Out for Love (2021-?)
Deadloch (2023-?)
Derry Girls (2018-?)
Dickinson (2019-2021)
Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
Everything Sucks (2018)
Feel Good (2020-2021) *not strictly lesbian but very Sapphic*
The Fosters (2013-2018)
Gentleman Jack (2019 – 2022)
Gap: The Series (2022-2023)
Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies (2023) *not explicitly lesbian*
Grey’s Anatomy (2005-?)
The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020)
High School (2022)
Hoochie Daddies (2023-?)
I Kissed a Girl (2024-?)
Killing Eve (2018-2022)
The L Word [OG] (2004-2009)
The L Word [Gen Q] (2019-2023)
Las Pelotaris 1926 (2023-?)
The Last of Us (2023-?)
A League of Their Own (2022)
Les de l’hoquei (2019-2020)
Lip Service (2010-2012)
The Loyal Pin (2024)
Mind Fudge (2017-2019)
Mine (2021-?)
The Morning Show (2019-?)
Noir (2001)
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1989-1990)
Orange is the New Black (2013-2019)
Orphan Black (2013-2017)
The Other Love Story (YouTube)
The Owl House (2020-2023)
Paper Girls (2022)
Portrait of a Marriage (1990)
Princess Charming (2021-?)
Ratched (2020-?)
The Real L Word (2010-2012)
Revolutionary Girl Utena (1997)
Sailor Moon (1995-2000)
Saving Face (2004)
Second City Firsts: Episode “Girl” (1974) *First lesbian kiss on British TV
Sex Education (2019-2023)
She Makes My Heart Flutter (YouTube)
She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018-2020)
South of Nowhere (2005-2008)
Special Ops: Lioness (2023-?)
Station 19 (2018-?)
Tipping the Velvet (2002)
Uranus 2324 (2024) (Thai)
Vida (2018-2020)
Warrior Nun (2020-2022)
Wentworth (2013-2021)
The Wilds (2020-2022)
Willow (2022)
Wynona Earp (2016-2021)
Xena: Warrior Princess (1995-2001)
Yellowjackets (2021-?)
Musicians
Adraina Calcanhotto
Alix Dobkin (warning: polilez)
Allison Russell
Ana Carolina
Anna Calvi
Becca Mancari
Boygenius
Boyish
Brandi Carlile
Brittany Howard
Brooke Eden
Chappell Roan
Chely Wright
Destroy Boys
Donna Deitch
Doria Roberts
Dusty Springfield
Ferron
G-Flip
GA31
Gia Woods
Girl in Red
Girl Ray
Giuni Russo
Hayley Kiyoko
Horse McDonald
Jaime Wyatt
The Japanese House
Javiera Mena
Jen Foster
Joan Jett
Judy Small
Julien Baker
The Indigo Girls
KD Lang
Kehlani
Kerryn Fields
King Princess
Lesley Gore
Lez Zepplin
Lily Rose
LP
Maria Gadú
Marika Hackman
Marilina Bertoldi
Melissa Carper
Melissa Etheridge
Morgan Wade
MUNA
Nakala
Norma Tanega
Orion Sun
Raveena
Renee Rapp
S.G. Goodman
Shura
Syd (from The Internet)
Tasha
Tegan and Sara
Torres
Tracy Chapman
Tribe 8
Valkyrien Allstars
Wallis Bird
Xana
Zolita
Artists
Anne-Sophie Guillet
Azzurro Velluto
Barbara Hammer
Because of My Love For Women
Bettye Lane
Catherine Opie
Chloe Sherman
Donna Gottschalk
Harmony Hammond
Helena Janecic
Jenifer Prince
Jennifer Camper
Jessica Tanzer
Joan E. Biren (JEB)
Kay Turner
Lulu Belliveau
Maxine Harlow
Meadow Muska
Morgan Gwenwald
Nazareth dos Santos
Patricia Cronin
Ree Artemisia
Roman Manfredi
Roxana Halls
Sarah Joy Ford
Shelby Sharie Cohen
Suzanne Shifflet
Tina Fiveash
Websites
IHeartSapphfic.com
TheLChat.net
LesbianHerstory.com
LesbiansOverEverything.com
Lesbocine.com
Listening2Lesbians.com
YouTube
Abbie & Julia
Alayna Joy
Alexis and Lilian
Amber’s Closet
Ashley Gavin
Camper Vibe
Chey & Erica
Chloe Lukasiak
Jade Fox
Jessica Kellgren-Fozard
Living Rosa
Lovebrook
Louie Ponto
Magdalen Berns
Mandie & Danae
The No Homo Show
P&J TV
Paige and Holly
Precious Law
Sam & Alyssa
Sapphic Underground
Stevie Boebi
Vanwives
Willow Faith
Podcasts
Blocked and Reported (a host is a lesbian)
Chosen Family
Dyking Out
Gayotic
Handsome
The Lavender Menace
A Lesbian Affair
Lesbian Supper Club
Lésbica & Ansiosa
Lesbiche Liga (Dutch)
Lez Hang Out
Made it Out
Pants
Stone Butch Disco
Two twos
We’re Having Gay Sex
Comedians
Alex Ward
Ali Kolbert
Arielle Isaac Norman
Ashley Gavin
Chaunté Wayans
Chloe Petts
Fortune Feimster
Geraldine Hickey
Gina Yashere
Haley Faulkner
Hannah Gadsby
Irene Tu
Jen Brister
Rosie O’Donnell
Tig Notaro
Urzila Carlson
Video Games
Butterfly Soup (1&2)
Gone Home
Horizon Zero Dawn & Horizon Forbidden West
The Last of Us (1&2)
Life is Strange
Lost Records: Bloom & Rage
Apps
Club Monocle
LH’s Notes
- Below Her Mouth:
The choice between heternormativity or desired sex.
👍 Good sex scenes, good chemistry, good articulation of the tomboy/butch experience without leaning into gender identity issues. Good conversations about lesbian issues and past experiences, including “choosing being normal” by pretending to be straight or, alternatively, being abandoned by your lover, “for the straight life.”
👎 The scenes where Dallas chases Jasmine at the club felt a bit pushy. Bad representation or evidence of a complex character? Not sure. It’s a bit overbaked: the movie tries hard to be artsy and cool, at the expense of being Real. Even the cast are aesthetically “perfect,” but the feminine women reflect heteropatriarchal versions of beauty rather than how real femme lesbians look or act… constantly reminding me I’m watching a film. It was giving… harmful, misogynistic femininity (such as beauty procedures) as opposed to the way femmes subvert femininity to attract other women. ↩︎ - Blue Jean:
Life as a lesbian teacher under Section 28.
👍 Masterpiece. Political, emotional, historical, romantic and real.
👎 A tiny bit slow. ↩︎ - Born in Flames:
It’s post-liberation, but nobody’s truly liberated. We’re just told we are.
👍 Don’t be fooled by the three stars; this is worth watching. The concept is great. It’s radical. There’s black lesbian rep galore. It makes you think. It offers feminist solutions. It’s angry. It’s intellectual.
👎 The execution and quality are lacking. It’s a low-budget, very political docufiction from the ’80s—and I’m used to professional, commercial junk made with 2025 tech—so it was extremely hard for me to stay engaged. ↩︎ - Bound:
If the idea of a butch/femme pair of lovers plotting against men tickles your pickle, this is for you.
👍 Hot. Deals with the theme of trust/betrayal in a satisfying way. Quality.
👎 Some of the kissing feels straight. ↩︎ - The Children’s Hour:
Two teachers are rumoured to be into one another, and the whole town gets out its pitchforks. What is the truth? Does it matter?
👍 Fairly sympathetic to lesbianism for what was allowed in 1961, which is probably why it was so controversial for its time. Critics say the film is homophobic because homosexuality is spoken about as unnatural and sickening – but that’s how people did (and sometimes still do!) see homosexuality. The internalised homophobia depicted is very real! The film’s message seems to be “mind your business if they’re not hurting anyone.” It was a good insight into attitudes towards lesbianism in the 1960s, including what’s changed and what hasn’t. Surprisingly relatable.
👎 The way films were made back then can be a bit boring. The Children’s Hour would have benefited from more light moments, as it was almost consistently dark. ↩︎ - Chutney Popcorn:
An independent, alternative Indian-American lesbian chooses to have a baby for her infertile sister.
👍 Interesting, non-stereotypical representation of both lesbians and Indian-Americans. The baby symbolises bridging gaps – which, in this case, I am ambivilant about because…
👎 Would Reena have wanted a baby if it wasn’t to gain her mother’s approval? Some lesbians DO want kids but this feels more like a story about a lesbain who didn’t, but was treated as “selfish” and wanted to prove that wasn’t true. Wanted to fit in with her family, so she gave birth in order to be seen as “normal.” And this is celebrated? ↩︎ - Cloudburst:
An elderly lesbian couple deal with old age and disability in the most hilarious ways, creating a found family along the way.
👍 Probably the funniest lesbian movie I’ve ever seen. I believed in the couple’s connection. The narrative was random, but in a good way. It painted elderly and disabled people in a fully fleshed-out way. Did not rely on stereotypes or portray old and disabled people as helpless, poor, suffering victims who can barely crack a smile.
👎 The pacing was a bit off in parts. I couldn’t locate them geographically, except when they mentioned driving to Canada (so I assume they were from the USA), but the various accents confused me… we needed a little more backstory of how everyone arrived in the seaside town, to make sense of the environment they lived in. ↩︎ - Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same
Aliens come to Earth hoping to break their own hearts to fix the ozone layer, which they believe is caused by humankind’s Big Love Feelings.
👍 Silly, but in a good way. Also feels eerily familiar, in a way it shouldn’t. Captures the awkward silliness of Big Feelings.
👎 Perfect for what it was, I just need something more than silly to rate it higher. It was low-budget, which is fine, but it felt a bit like an art school project, which takes away believability… although I don’t think its intention was to be believable. ↩︎ - A Date For Mad Mary
Young woman navigates trauma, anger issues, growing up, finding out who her real friends are, and falling in love.
👍 True to life but unique – something I haven’t quite seen in a lesbian movie before. A raw, real and at times dark spin on the traditional coming of age story.
👎 Not missing anything in particular, just lacks the extremely special edge to be 5 stars. I left the film feeling good but not necessarily blown away. No reason for that, aside from the plot being a bit predictable toward the end. ↩︎ - D.E.B.S
One teen girl spy in an academy filled with them falls in love with a villain she’s supposed to hunt down.
👍 Girls are better than men at stuff. ’90s weirdness (despite it being a 2004 film). Campy. Fun. Lighthearted. Girl power. Feel-good. Bad graphics (it’s in the thumbs-up category because it adds to the comic book vibe – makes it cartoony). Made me nostalgic for the normal teeth and facial features of female actors pre-Botox and veneers.
👎 Sexualised school uniforms. I think the villain love interest might be a bit too old for the protagonist, particularly if she’s a minor. An age gap wouldn’t be an issue if the younger one weren’t still in school. But then again, the villain does a test at the end, indicating she’s supposed to be in school too – but research says she’s in her 20s. ↩︎ - The David Susskind Show: Women Who Love Women
Lesbians tear a homophobic straight man apart on his own TV show like a pack of lionesses.
👍 It was cool seeing such opposing views (some wildly homophobic) being discussed in a way that’s jovial and non-dramatic—a panel of very resilient people. I think having a face-to-face conversation prevented the homophobic host from saying worse. I love how the show didn’t put any other homophobic people on the panel to back him up, either, and the audience was all lesbian and gay (deducing from the reactions), or else it would have been excruciating for the lesbians involved. The timing of this was fascinating to me (1971); the gay liberation movement was mature, but lesbians were moving off to the women’s liberation movement… and a gay man asks why.
👎 It sounded like some of the women might have been polilez, but I think lesbianism was spoken about a little differently back then anyway, especially due to the innateness of lesbianism being seen as a sickness. I’m not sure if it was a choice between an attraction to both men and women for them… or whether they mean “choosing lesbianism” as opposed to a heterosexual life they’d hate due to being homosexual. They speak about “being straight” and “being lesbian/gay” more in terms of actions, rather than attraction, which made it confusing. Like “I was straight and I hated it” – OK, but were you attracted to men or not? Do you mean you appeared straight due to the relationships you had, being a lesbian the whole time, without a word for it? The ones who spoke more about their solidarity with gay men were not polilez. I think the interview shows the conflict between real lesbians and polilez at the time, but, for the purpose of the interview, there wasn’t a point in arguing about that. Maybe they attempted to focus on one thing at a time. ↩︎ - Isla’s Way:
An 87-year-old great-grandmother and Australian cowboy named Isla lives with her partner, Susan.
👍 Best documentry I’ve ever seen. Familiar, relatable, interesting, engaging, honest and real. Isla is a legend. Director Marion Pilowsky does such a caring, generous job.
👎 Literally nothing. Perfect. ↩︎
Leave a Reply