dispatch from a lesbian film stan

and something about a special announcement

Welcome to this week’s dispatch from the lesbian internet, a mid-week news roundup from Paging Dr. Lesbian. If you like this type of thing, subscribe, and share it with your friends.

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Drop your Letterboxd girl.

The season finale of Yellowjackets premiered on Saturday night, and it was a trip. (Apropos of nothing, I’ve taken two “Which Yellowjackets character are you” quizzes and got Natalie both times.) Yellowjackets and Scream star Jasmin Savoy Brown (a noted lesbian) has had a great pretty great week as the new Scream clinched the #1 box office spot over the weekend. The movie itself is just fine, but Jasmin is great in it and plays a lesbian film nerd (a la Randy Meeks). Savoy Brown and Yellowjackets co-star Liv Hewson also host a podcast called The Gay Agenda, which you can listen to here if you’re interested.

It was Holland Taylor’s birthday on Friday, and, as we’ve come to expect, Sarah Paulson penned a heartfelt birthday letter to her septuagenarian girlfriend and posted it on Instagram. Read Paulson’s birthday message – and Taylor’s similarly heartfelt response – below.

sarah’s pr @sarahpaulsbean

it’s this or nothing

Though this news was announced a while ago, I want to reiterate my excitement about the new Anne+ film, which is an extension of the Dutch television show of the same name. The series (and the film) follows our titular character, Anne, who is a 20-something just trying to figure her life out. Anne is queer (obviously) and much of the story centers on the ups and downs of her love life. Netflix recently released a trailer for the film – which comes out February 11 – that you can watch below. You can watch the series with a subscription on Amazon Prime.

During a panel recently, Lady GaGa revealed that there was a whole plot line that was cut from House of Gucci wherein GaGa and Salma Hayek’s characters “developed a sexual relationship.” GaGa describes the conversation between herself and Hayek going something like this: “So, after Maurizio dies, maybe it gets hot.” This is hilarious, and now I do hope there is a director’s cut that includes these scenes.

Pop Crave @PopCrave

Lady Gaga says that her and Salma Hayek’s ‘House of Gucci’ characters developed a sеxual relationship in scenes that didn't make the final cut.

Other things:

• This profile of Alia Shawkat in The New Yorker.

• Olivia Benson’s 8-year old son came out as bisexual last week on Law and Order: SVU, an announcement that apparently came shortly after another child bullied him by locking him in a cage and forcing him to wear a collar. What?

• A documentary about WNBA star Sue Bird is in the works.

That’s all for this week, folks! Remember to consider subscribing at the end of next week. I will leave you with this photo of leather-clad lesbian vampires Tara and Pam from True Blood.

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