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But I'm a Cheerleader
Directed by Jamie Babbit
Megan is an all-American girl. A cheerleader. She has a boyfriend. But Megan doesn't like kissing her boyfriend very much. And she's pretty touchy with her cheerleader friends. Her conservative parents worry that she must be a lesbian and send her off to "sexual redirection" school, where she must, with other lesbians and gays learn how to be straight. From TMDB
143 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy, TMDB reviews) · newest Oct 28, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
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But I'm a Cheerleader is a 2000 comedy drama romance film, directed by Jamie Babbit, starring Natasha Lyonne, Clea DuVall and Cathy Moriarty.
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60 of 143 · most liked firstThe difference between the SD version and the 4K restoration of But I'm a Cheerleader is honestly shocking -- and wouldn't have been possible if the director hadn't stolen the film elements from the studio years ago, before they threw them out
positive · AI labelView post →10. But I'm a Cheerleader (1999) okay you knew this one was coming haha. but listen it's a great movie and the first (and only, for many years) lesbian stories i would encounter that had a happy ending. but it's also funny! and the colors are great. it deserves its laurels is what i'm saying
positive · AI labelView post →If you are not in the US, But I'm a Cheerleader is just chillin out on Youtube for some reason and it's the best movieee (use a VPN) youtu.be/IuSwvdIsM_E?...
positive · AI labelView post →You mean to tell me Natasha Lyonne is a cheerleader AND a lesbian in this film? IMPOSSIBLE. My new video about But I'm a Cheerleader is coming this Sunday! Hit the notify bell to get a heads-up when we go live: youtube.com/live/tE-pQwn...
neutral · AI labelView post →Today's first movie is But I'm a Cheerleader (1999) 🍿🏳️🌈
neutral · AI labelView post →hen of NDA work lockin. coworking streams would be a death sentence... chorb drawing tuesday!!! demon's souls (3 bosses down) saturday Fate/stay night bookclub UBW #2 then Camp Movie Night (But I'm A Cheerleader, Paris is Burning, Pink Flamingos) collab ?? thursday?? maybe! henemimi.tv
neutral · AI labelView post →im just saying i would watch a 20 years later movie about their characters from But I'm A Cheerleader 💅
neutral · AI labelView post →tonight's pride film: But I'm a Cheerleader
neutral · AI labelView post →She sent me to "pray away the gay" camps three times but never the full torture kind, more like if But I'm a Cheerleader were a Spielberg film But somehow it felt more evil that she was still on her bullshit 20 years later and never learned anything from watching Conversion Lite™️ almost kill me
neutral · AI labelView post →Today's #Movie recommendation is "But I'm A Cheerleader!" This cult classic low-budget LGBTQ+ movie uses high-camp satire to critique conversion therapy while offering a vibrant and queer-affirming storyline. Great cast (including Natasha Lyonne, Clea DuVall, RuPaul, and Michelle Williams)!
neutral · AI labelView post →at 3 PM pacific / 6 PM eastern i will be showing 3 camp movies on mic! we're watching: But I'm A Cheerleader 1999 1h25m (1st up, most general movie appeal) Paris is Burning 1990 1h18m (documentary) Pink Flamingos 1972 1h33m (flithy film on purpose, check content warnings!)
neutral · AI labelView post →But I'm A Cheerleader (1999) Dir. Jamie Babbit Natasha Lyonne & Clea DuVall #Filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →Add "for Tax Purposes" to a movie: But I'm A Cheerleader for Tax Purposes
neutral · AI labelView post →Favourite film from '99: The obvious choice is the Matrix, but I'm gonna pick the adorably camp lesbian romance But I'm a Cheerleader 💞
positive · AI labelView post →The movie "But I'm a Cheerleader" should be a mandatory part of parenting classes.
neutral · AI labelView post →10/x: The phenomenon was so infamous that it was satirized in 1999 by the fab movie But I'm A Cheerleader! www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnUv...
neutral · AI labelView post →"But I'm a Cheerleader" is such a good, campy movie
positive · AI labelView post →I watched "But I'm A Cheerleader" at my local cinema with the local LGBTQA+ community and it feels more relevant to now than when i first saw it in the mid 2000s. It came out in 1999. A film about conversion therapy should not feel more relevant now than it did a quarter of a century ago.
positive · AI labelView post →Have you seen But I'm a Cheerleader? Now that's a gay cheerleading film
neutral · AI labelView post →For TV shows, Ted Lasso is so good at this. So good. At first, it seems like the show will be a caricature of real life kind of like It's always sunny (but less criminal and more quirky), but then it reels it back in to real life again. For movies maybe these: But I'm a Cheerleader The Sandlot The Addams Family A Goofy Movie Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan Forrest Gump
neutral · AI labelView post →I've had a really rotten week so to cheer me up my partner decided she would show me But I'm A Cheerleader, which was a huge mistake. The production design was fun, but god that film is like 10% funny and 90% horribly traumatic, I couldn't stop crying. what the hell :(
negative · AI labelView post →But I'm a Cheerleader is such a funny movie!!! It's like Boy Erased but comically stupid 🤣 Great representation of people trying to ignore their sexuality. The best characters were RuPaul being a masculine coach 🤣 and Andre who is the gayest character I have ever seen LMAO
positive · AI labelView post →Valentine's long-distance movie date with @rebeccabluestone.bsky.social... But I'm a Cheerleader! 💞💓
neutral · AI labelView post →Now Watching: But I'm a Cheerleader Following up Save the Last Dance with another movie we rented a lot in high school ❤️
neutral · AI labelView post →I just watched "But I'm a Cheerleader" the other day. He was an incredible actor. May he rest in peace.
neutral · AI labelView post →Started out with "But I'm a Cheerleader!" which, is a yearly watch for me. It was a defining film in my young years because of how ahead of the time it was with queer storytelling. Aesthetically it is still very much on point. The way it was shot and styled makes it feel timeless. Still A+.
positive · AI labelView post →This month's Discord movie Monday's are 🌈GAY✨ Tonight! - But I'm a Cheerleader (1999) 6/9 (heh) - Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) 6/16 - Booksmart (2019) 6/23 - Happiest Season (2020) 6/30 - Bottoms (2023)
neutral · AI labelView post →The poem Howl has banned as porn, comedian Lenny Bruce, was arrested and charged with porn. For those who don't know, the film, But I'm A Cheerleader, received an NC-17 rating initially. The Film Midnight Cowboy was rated X It was considered a breakthrough when Boys in The Band was rated R
neutral · AI labelView post →I also watched But I'm a Cheerleader, and despite coming out around 2 decades before 4th Man Out it was way more progressive, sincere, and funny. It holds up. 4th Man Out had some jokes, but a 2016 movie about "what if one of my bros was gay" like nooooo come on man.
positive · AI labelView post →But I'm a Cheerleader (2000) study in colored pencil for this Saturday's FILM SCHOOL II show at Giant Robot! I love this movie, yes I did watch it for the first time because of MUNA
positive · AI labelView post →Share a COMEDY movie title that begins with the letter “B” 🎥 But I'm a Cheerleader (1999)
neutral · AI labelView post →When I was a teenager (early 2010s era) I was so desesperate to find some lesbian representation and visibility, and then I watched a lot of lesbian movies. Here are some movies I watched back then : **TIPPING THE VELVET - Sarah Waters (2002)** The movie that every lesbian was watching at the beginning of our century. Sarah Waters also made **FINGERSMITH** , which is the movie that inspired "the Handmaiden". **BOUND - The Wachowski sisters (1996)** A wonderful mafia lesbian…
neutral · AI labelView post →I think @jojosiwa.bsky.social needs to see the movie But I'm A Cheerleader
neutral · AI labelView post →Our annual screening of BUT I'M A CHEERLEADER is this Saturday night and we're running low on tickets. Get your spot soon if you hope to attend. cstpdx.com/event/cult-s...
neutral · AI labelView post →YouTube has censored the word homosexual in the movie *But I'm a Cheerleader* media is dead
neutral · AI labelView post →Fucking excuse me?! Does this algorithm even KNOW me??! #queer #film #ButImACheerleader
neutral · AI labelView post →"But I'm A Cheerleader" visuals at Dyke Dance last night had me coming home and putting on the movie at 2 am..... i had to wait til 30 yo to see this masterpiece?!😭📣
positive · AI labelView post →Oh, before I forget. We watched But I'm A Cheerleader today because to my embarrassment, I'd only ever seen bits and pieces of it. When I checked where it was streaming I was surprised to find it's available on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/but-im-a-cheerleader-jamie-babbit-1999 Enjoy! And be a little extra queer today. :QueerCat_Pride: #ButImACheerleader
neutral · AI labelView post →But I'm a Cheerleader (1999). The only movie that recognizes that it's a very bad thing when the goth girl gets un-gothed.
neutral · AI labelView post →Continuing our week of classic comedies with But I'm A Cheerleader! I.... love this era of film....
positive · AI labelView post →Getting to see the best lesbian film of all time in a theater tonight!! Ive never seen But I'm a Cheerleader on a big screen before.
positive · AI labelView post →Kicked off our Pride Month film series early with 'But I'm a Cheerleader.' Our first viewing, and it was so much better than I had even anticipated. Conversion Camp Classic. It has aged well, and that RT score is evidence of how anti-gay culture was 26 years ago. #Pride #PrideFilms #Filmsky
positive · AI labelView post →Movie years project Year 1999 (45/122) Now Watching 📽️ #4/12 But I'm a Cheerleader dir. Jamie Babbit
neutral · AI labelView post →Cultember Cult Film Challenge: One cult film for every day of September (Plus my original art!) . Day 18: But I'm a Cheerleader . #Cultember #ButImACheerleader #FilmSky #MovieSky #ArtSky
neutral · AI labelView post →#NovemberMovieChallenge Cheerleader in a film But I'm a Cheerleader (1999) Cult LGBTQ film about a gay cheerleader who falls in love during conversion therapy
neutral · AI labelView post →“A delightfully subversive sendup of homophobia and ridiculously rigid gender roles that still feels all too relevant more than 20 years after its release.” Abbey Bender, Nylon BUT I'M A CHEERLEADER plays August 26th at Here-After! grandillusioncinema.org/film/but-im-...
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching "But I'm A Cheerleader" and I love this movie sm 🥰🥰🥰
positive · AI labelView post →The film tent has opened now & is showing But, I'm a Cheerleader. The mermaids move to the tent & the crowd of fae drawn to their seductive singing disperses to explore the #Hopefest site, slightly disappointed, slightly relieved that the mermaids have stopped singing www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuSw...
neutral · AI labelView post →Another Gay Movie (Runner up: But I'm a Cheerleader)
neutral · AI labelView post →Bring back random boobs in film again, and I say that as someone on the ace spectrum More movies like But I'm A Cheerleader please
positive · AI labelView post →the movie Fight Club is LGBT culture on the same level as But... I'm A Cheerleader
neutral · AI labelView post →• Age: 44 • Gender: Woman • Sexuality: Pan I guess • Height: 165 • Eyes: greenbrown • Fav food: sushi or anything with Japanese rice • Fav drink: Yorkshire tea • Fav game: Borderlands • Fav film: But I'm a Cheerleader! • Fav show: Brooklyn 99 • Fav animal: Cats
neutral · AI labelView post →But I'm a Cheerleader (1999) Really funny and really earnest. It's a film that holds your hand. Clea Duvall is so good in this!!! See it, Lesbians. Sorry for the RuPaul jumpscare
positive · AI labelView post →A couple of oddities next up this week. But I'm a Cheerleader - Gloriously camp. Not a good film, but a queer classic for a reason. Perfect Blue - An incredibly 90s anime movie in all the best and worst ways.
neutral · AI labelView post →I've been trying to pin down the vibes on this movie and I think I finally settled on it's "Heathers" + "But I'm a Cheerleader". And I'm absolutely here for that. #FrightClub #Bottoms
neutral · AI labelView post →Exactly! Also, every gay film up until But I'm A Cheerleader
neutral · AI labelView post →This week we really went on a journey, film wise: Alien: Romulus, Nosferatu, Jane Austen Wrecked My Life, and But I'm a Cheerleader. I have been hearing about But I'm a Cheerleader for years, and finally got around to watching it (and was not disappointed!) #Letterboxd #FridayFour
positive · AI labelView post →hi lesbians, don’t forget to rewatch this masterpiece of a film today #butimacheerleader #fanart #digitalart
neutral · AI labelView post →Our event for LGBT+ History month back in February - on conversion therapy - screened But I'm A Cheerleader. The podcast episode where we discuss it is live now! It was great fun to talk about. open.spotify.com/episode/1nba...
neutral · AI labelView post →Join us & Leontine Cinema on the 1st Wednesday of every month with a look at some of the best women-directed cult films of the past, hosted by Garin Pirnia & Ann Driscoll. Tonight at 7:30 we've got the 1999 cult film BUT I'M A CHEERLEADER starring Natasha Lyonne. See you at the movies! #Cincinnati
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