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Cheryl Dunye

Happy International Butch Appreciation Day!
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Trish Bendix, Managing Editor
 on August 18, 2011 | Comments (17)
Is it an official holiday? It should be!
25 Greatest Working Film Directors (Who Also Happen to be Female)
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Trish Bendix, Managing Editor
 on February 24, 2011 | Comments (40)
Because Entertainment Weekly forgot about 24 of them (at least).
Review of "The Owls"
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Danielle Riendeau
 on December 29, 2010 | Comments (12)
Lesbian art house cinema queen Cheryl Dunye returns with a twisty, cerebral thriller starring a number of lesbian film icons.
Review of "Watermelon Woman"
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Shauna Swartz
 on March 16, 2006 | Comments (15)
A smart and sexy self-portrait of a young, black lesbian and her take on her world.
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2008 Power Premiere Photos
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Karman Kregloe, Editor
on November 11, 2008 | Comments (60)
The celebrity-studded gala honored 3Way creator Nancylee Myatt, Watermelon Woman filmmaker Cheryl Dunye, and more "amazing gay women in showbiz."
Retro Reviewing: "Watermelon Woman"
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Trish Bendix, Managing Editor
 on July 19, 2008 | Comments (33)
This week, retro reviewers Danielle and Rina welcome Danae and Gambit (from the D.E.B.S. review) to the fray in order to give proper due to Watermelon Woman.
2007 Power Premiere Photos
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Malinda Lo, Contributing Writer
 on November 13, 2007 | Comments (71)
The fundraiser drew lesbians and lesbian icons, like Renee O'Connor, Donna Deitch, Michelle Clunie, Mandy Musgrave, Michelle Paradise, and more.
Scene: San Francisco
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Karman Kregloe, Editor
on July 4, 2007 | Comments (12)
In the first article in a monthly series about local lesbian life, we go to the City by the Bay for Itty Bitty, the Dyke March, Cyndi Lauper and more.
Note to lesbian filmmakers: mainstream Hollywood is "secretly bored"
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Malinda Lo, Contributing Writer
 on June 11, 2007 | Comments (5)
This past Saturday at the 3rd Annual Queer Women of Color Film Festival in San Francisco, out filmmakers Cheryl Dunye (The Watermelon Woman, Stranger Inside) a
Review of "Stranger Inside"
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Sarah Warn, Founder and Former Editor in Chief
 on September 14, 2006 | Comments (0)
Out director Cheryl Dunye's surprisingly entertaining and provocative film about women in prison.