Hollywood's track record with depicting queer women has been about as accurate as a horoscope. But we've got a list of movies featuring authentic sapphic relationships, written and directed by our very own lesbian, transgender, and non-binary fam.
As Lesbian Visibility Week comes to a close, we’re reminded that sapphic representation needs to be way more prevalent in our society. More often than not, our identities are fully mishandled. Relationships between queer women are often depicted as overly sexualized. Other times, queer women are written in service to a heterosexual man’s fantasy, like in the infamous Blue Is The Warmest Color or in David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive. Luckily the landscape is changing, and it has been for some time.
Jennifer’s Body Jennifer’s Body is a 2009 comedy-horror created by Karyn Katsuma and Juno director Diablo Cody. Starring Megan Fox and Amanda Seyfried, the film follows the deteriorating friendship between two best friends after a traumatic incident changes them both. Despite its realistic depiction of female adolescence, Jennifer’s Body was eviscerated by audiences upon its initial release. It has since become a bonafide cult classic, with many people defining the film as their queer awakening.
But I’m A Cheerleader! You can’t have a lesbian movie list without this 1999 arthouse classic. But, I’m A Cheerleader! is the textbook definition of camp, slow burns, and happy endings. Natasha Lyonne stars as Megan, an average teenage girl who is accused by her friends and family of “being a homosexual,” in what may be the most hilarious intervention scene of film history. Megan has her world turned upside down when she’s then sent to a gender conversion therapy camp run by RuPaul. Seriously.
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