Pride Month Picks: Jennifer's Body Is The Glorious Lesbian Trash We Deserve

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This article is part of Pride Month Picks, a collection of pieces that aim to highlight queer representation across games, television, film, books, and more throughout June.

There are oh so many gay movies I could write about for Pride Month. Call Me by Your Name moved me to tears, A Portrait of a Lady on Fire is one of the most gorgeous movies I have ever seen, there’s a deep and moving melancholy to Ammonite, Moonlight is still underrated despite its highly memorable Oscar win, and more people need to see The Handmaiden. But instead I’m talking about Jennifer’s Body, because I love my trash.

I consider myself something of a film buff. I watched Morbius on opening night, don’t you know. By the end of this year, I will have seen the complete AFI 100 list and every Best Picture winner. I plan to watch every 1,001 Movies You Must See Before You Die movie before I die. I watch a lot of movies, from different eras, different genres, different countries. Objectively, I know Jennifer’s Body is something of a footnote in the cinematic canon. But it was the first actively queer film I can remember seeing (I was 14 when it came out), and I’ve not seen a movie since that has spoken to me as deeply.

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Yes, it’s a fairly silly dark comedy about a lesbian vampire monster, but it’s not written or presented as something silly. It’s simultaneously incredibly aware of what it is, and yet also understands what people need it to be. The queerness at its heart is not the butt of the joke, it’s what keeps it going.

I hold both Jennifer’s Body and Life is Strange very close to my heart. Both are tales of female friendship evolving