All About Eve (Bette Davis is the role model for GLAM bitches.)
Auntie Mame (How to raise a GLAM child.)
Barbarella(Furry silver spaceship, lots of sex and a costume change every time you blink.)
Beautiful Thing (15 year old gay boys and their adorable, completely faulous girl-friend who is always dressing up as Mama Cass.)
Better Than Chocolate (Very sweet, very funny, and plays on every queer stereotype you can think of.)
Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss (A truly adorable gay-boy flick complete with male models.)
The Birdcage and La Cage aux Folles (Queens! Queens! Queens!)
Breakfast at Tiffany's (Audrey Hepburn + cigarette holder = GLAM)
Clueless ("Dionne and I are best friends because we both know what it's like to have people be jealous of you.")
The Daytrippers (A fantastic winter-glam wardrobe resource.)
Dottie Gets Spanked (A tale of elementary school queerness based on Todd Haynes' own childhood I Love Lucy obsession.)
Elizabeth (Marriage resistance as a route to total political power.)
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (Go-go dancers with guns driving fast cars and killing rapists. And a lesbian sub-plot! If you don't know about this crazy film, see it without delay, and remember -- reading against the grain is a subversive act.)
Go Fish (Dyke appreciation 101, or, how to be a dyke and also very cute.)
Heavenly Creatures (They're soooooo beautiful. And they'll kill for love!)
High Art (Gorgeous dykes who also happen to be serious photo geeks making super performative pics.)
I Shot Andy Warhol (If you had any doubt at all about Andy's GLAMness or any questions about entertaining...)
Johanna d'Arc of Monolia (an entrancing lesbian princess love affair bridging East and West, plus Mongolian women in historically authentic 14th century GLAM-wear.)
Morrocco (Marlene Diethich in drag kissing girls.)
Orlando (Gender
fuck with the costumes and script every girl dreams of.)
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (amazing drag)
Queen Christina (The advisor to the Queen: "But your majesty -- you cannot die an old maid! Greta Garbo as the Queen "On the contrary sir! I intent to die a bachelor!")
Rebel Without a Cause (mid-century GLAM icons in a tragic tale of GLAM misunderstood)
Strictly Ballroom (Rebellion in fabulous costumes.)
Tank Girl ("Mothers, lock up your sons..." The international threat of a girl in a tank.)
Tender Fictions (Barbara Hammer's autobiomythography.)
To Wong Fu, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar (Very straight American boys in AMAZING drag.)
Until the End of the World (Beautiful future-life, good accents, high technology -- plus it's Jessica's favorite movie ever.)
Unzipped (Isaac Mizrahi! Models! Lots of fur! How to plan a runway show for fun and profit!)
Your Kunst is Your Waffen (Carmelita Tropicana wreaking some serious GLAM-girl havoc.)
Anything and everything involving (How to be a girl-power slut.)
Every video and film Sadie Benning ever made, especially Me and Rubyfruit, It Wasn't Love, and Flat is Beautiful (Incredible queer-girl coming of age narratives.)
All musicals ever, especially Sunset Boulevard and Evita. (If you don't understand why all musicals are GLAM, just start with this: "If life were a musical...")
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