101 Must See Movies for Lesbians

I was on afterellen again and ran into a blog post talking about 101 movies for lesbians to see. A few people responded, and gave their recommendations. However, a list wasn't actually made. So I compiled their recommendations and my own and made a list. Here is is! 101 Must See movies for Lesbians or Gay Women:

1. A Family Affair

2. A Girl Thing

3. A Village Affair

4. A Walk on the Wild Side

5. Aimee and Jaguar

6. All Over Me

7. Amour de Femme

8. Antonia's Line (Antonia)

9. Bar Girls

10. Better than Chocolate

11. Between Two Women

12. Blue Gate Crossing

13. Bound

14. Boys Don't Cry

15. Boys on the Side

16. But I'm a Cheerleader

17. Chasing Amy

18. Chinese Botanist's Daughters (Les Files du Botaniste)

19. Chutney Popcorn

20. Clair on the Moon

21. Clara's Summer (Clara cet ete la)

22. Daphne

23. D.E.B.S.

24. Desert Hearts

25. Eulogy

26. Everything Relative

27. Fried Green Tomatoes

28. FoxFire

29. Fire

30. Fingersmith

31. French Twist

32. Fucking Amal (Show me love)

33. Gia

34. Girlplay

35. Ghosted

36. Go Fish

37. Goldfish Memory

38. Gray Matters

39. Gypo

40. Heavenly Creatures

41. High Art

42. I Can't Think Straight

43. If these walls could talk 2

44. It's in the Water

45. Imagine me and you

46. Intentions

47. Itty Bitty Titty Committe

48. Julie Johnson

49. Kissing Jessica Stein

50. Lianna

51. Lost and Delirious

52. Love and Suicide

53. Love on the Side

54. Loving Annabelle

55. Madchen in Uniform

56. Maggie and Annie

57. Mango Kiss

58. Monster

59. Mullholand Drive

60. My Mother Likes Women

61. My summer of love

62. Nina's Heavenly Delights

63. Out at the Wedding

64. Pariah***

65. Personal Best

66. Portrait of a Marriage

67. Prey for Rock 'n' Roll

68. Producing Adults

69. Puccini for beginners

70. Red Doors

71. Rescuing Desire

72. Rome and Juliet

73. Running on empty dreams

74. Salmon Berries

75. Face Saving

76. She hate me

77. She Likes Girls

78. Some Prefer Cake

79. Song Catcher

80. Sonja

81. Spider Lilies

82. The Celluloid Closet

83. The Children's Hour

84. The Fox

85. The Girl

86. The Gymnast

87. The Hunger

88. The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love

89. The Journey

90. The Kiss

91. The Laramie Project

92. The Page Turner (La Tourneuse de Pages)

93. The Secrets

94. The Truth about Jane

95. The World Unseen

96. Treading Water

97. TIpping The Velvet

98. Unveiled

99. Vivere

100. Water Lilies

101. When Night is Falling

Edit: Since it is not a movie, I did not put it on the list, but I have gotten recommendations for Last Friends. It's a Japanese drama.

Ani DiFranco and the like

Ani DiFranco is coming to Cornell! Well, sort of. She's coming to the State Theatre of Ithaca in November, which has a lot of affiliation with Cornell, and that also means that the crew might be made of Cornell students...like me!

To be honest, I'm not actually one of her fans. There are a couple songs that I do like (you can blame Lost and Delirious for that one) but for the most part her voice is too irritating to listen to for long periods of time.

Actually, I don't really like most lesbian singers. It's not that I don't like them because they are gay (actually if that was the case, that would be pretty hilarious- all things considered). I just can't get over their style of music and the songs themselves. Yet, I know many gay girls who happen to love all gay singers, or at least a good number of them. Hell, I even have a couple friends whose entire iTunes consists of just gay singers.

Meanwhile, I'm much more inclined to the lesbian movie genre. I find that entire genre of movies fascinating (and be forewarned that a lot of my posts will probably be related to them :p). It has a pretty rich history that I've barely sunken my teeth into. Yet, most of my gay friends don't really care for them, and instead opt for the gay music.

A part of me does think it might just be cultural differences. A lot of the gay girls on campus are a bit crunchy/hippy/veggie type girls. I on the other hand love meat and cement. In that order :p. I've also come across articles and studies in Human Development about how hispanic households in the US also tend to incorporate television more in their lives in comparison to say hippy white people (and of course this is because of so many reasons that could just be a post on its own). Which could explain why I grew up watching a lot of tv and some of them don't even have tv's in their homes. As a hispanic kid in a hispanic household, I've just grown up appreciating the more visual side of things? Ahh, me and my negligible magic window.

It could just be that these girls just have more of an inclination to the outdoorsy folk music-y type, while I just like to stay in doors and watch some movies. Or I'm over-thinking this, but that I doubt (now thats just the HD side of me talking). There has to at least be some precursor to these differences!

Interestingly enough, I haven't really found a person whose into both without having a major preference towards one or the other. What gives yo?

(Also, as a side note...I just use lesbian and gay interchangeably throughout this entire post and blog)