This movie obviously has disturbing undertones, but the ensemble of characters, from queer men and women to those questioning their gender identities, makes for one of the best LGBTQ parody movies of all time. We docked in Bermuda, where Olivia partnered with OUTBermuda to host a happy hour with the local LGBT community. When I reached out to Olivia, the company offered me a press ticket for one of its Celebrity-partnered cruises so that I could get a sense of how it's become one of the most successful lesbian companies of all time. Someone mentioned getting a brochure in the mail after they’d given Olivia their contact info years ago (“You guys must be running the lesbian mafia”). Jamie described recently attending the Ohio Lesbian Festival, an annual event that celebrates and welcomes “all womyn,” from which she flew home in tears.

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Boy Meets Girl is funny, tender, and delicately explores the notions of how gender and sexuality are at play with each other.After my partner came out as nonbinary a couple years ago, I felt even more confused and guilty about my conflicting desires to both lean into my own womanhood and flee from it. It’s funny, because on a normal cruise, you’re trying to spend as much time as you can away from other people,” Jamie would later put it. It’s important to remember that the AIDS epidemic was a global one, and this film explores that in a stunning and heartbreaking way. Her best friend Needy ( Amanda Seyfried) discovers the truth and tries to put a stop to the murders, but not before investigating her own repressed feelings for her BFF. Both of these things plus many more phrases and cultural phenomenon can be traced back to the ball culture that was, and still is, popular with queer and trans communities of color.

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Afterward, I had lunch with Dana and some of the other Olivia staffers and asked them about it — why not make the Public Posts more prominent, MichFest style? But I left the meetup keenly aware of how much there was for all of the cruise’s passengers — despite what we had in common — to disagree about. For the last stretch of our afternoon, we were dropped on a secluded beach at Nevis, where a few of us ferried beers and our new favorite drink, the very college-esque Panty Ripper (coconut rum and pineapple juice), from shore to the rest of the women waiting in the water.They are determined — via commitment to a bachelor-esque lifestyle regardless of partner status, and a refusal to even once go to therapy — that they should never, ever have to grow up. A small Indiana high school cancels prom after a student, Emma Nolan (Jo Ellen Pellman), wanted to bring a girl, Alyssa Grenne ( Ariana DeBose) to the dance. Nothing goes the way it’s planned and through tears, laughter, and many regrets, Amy and Molly discover the true meaning of a friendship. The women are in high spirits, chatting animatedly, playfully sketching patterns on each other using body paint, and sharing a picnic.

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As the AIDS epidemic leaves its mark on the community, these friends watch each other fight for their lives, fall in love, and scramble to pay rent. BPM is instead set in France during the 1990s and follows a group of AIDS activists in Paris's chapter of Act Up. I would try to separate my feelings for Lynette from my feelings about wanting someone or something different in general — out of a desperate desire to feel some sort of control over my choices — and concede that was pretty much impossible. Before meeting Lynette, she of the multiple grooming products, I’d gotten used to dating people whose own beauty routines consisted of, if anything, 3-in-1 body wash.That night, Matie and Jamie convinced me (against my natural inclination to avoid live entertainment) to go to the evening’s scheduled attraction, a comedy set by Elvira Kurt. They had a very sweet exchange with a curious anonymous neighbor who wrote them a note, inquiring what a play party is. Olivia was seeing the relief on so many older women’s faces when I told them that my millennial friends and I still care about queer spaces; we want them to grow and to thrive. The women who’ve faithfully gone on dozens of Olivia trips over the decades are getting older, and I didn’t have a lot of faith that younger queer people were going to step in and save companies like this from extinction.

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One woman stuffed a bunch of beers into her bathing suit and we cheered whenever anybody pulled one out. After meeting Elliot (Antonio Marziale), who is openly-gay, Alex struggles with his own romantic feelings towards him and what it means for his future with Claire. Finding a movie about transgender men or women is rare; finding one that’s good is even harder to come by — but finding one that’s authentic and has trans actors playing trans characters is, well, you’re catching on. The story follows Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger), two cowboys who meet in the early 1960s and fall madly in love — and who would have been crucified by society if they’d made their love known. The film, directed by Barry Jenkins, follows the youth, adolescence, and adulthood of Chiron in three definitive acts.Desert Hearts is widely considered the first film with a lesbian storyline where the women end up together. And Olivia’s resort offerings, which skew younger, aren’t much cheaper than the cruises — sometimes they’re even more expensive.