As a critic, I’m dying to make a meta-critique of the ways my communities are represented on screen.
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Posted inFilm
Celebrating the Creativity, Comradery, and Activism of Japan’s Queer Community
The documentary Queer Japan talks to LGBTQ+ people all over the country.
Posted inFilm
When a Common Language Can’t Keep Lovers Connected
Isabel Sandoval writes, directs, and stars in Lingua Franca, a drama about a trans immigrant from the Philippines trying to avoid deportation.
Posted inPerformance
The Inheritance, a Play Haunted by Outdated Gay Archetypes
Having now announced it will close on March 15 (earlier than expected), we might look at exactly why The Inheritance failed to connect with New York audiences.
Posted inIn Brief
130 Film Professionals Pledge to Boycott the Tel Aviv International LGBT Film Festival
“[W]e understand that our liberation is intimately connected to the liberation of all oppressed peoples and communities,” the pledge reads.
Posted inNews
Farmworker Unions and LGBTQ Activists Clash Over Nude Portrait of Mexican Revolutionary Emiliano Zapata
At a Mexico City museum, farmworker unions demanded the painting of the Mexican Revolution leader be destroyed. Their protest escalated to a clash with LGBTQ activists, amounting to violence and use of homophobic slurs.
Posted inBooks
A Trans Activist’s Memoir Is a Monumental Contribution to Queer History
Lou Sullivan’s diaries, spanning 1961 to 1991, might be one of the most valuable affirmations one can read on the trans masculine experience to date.
Posted inNews
Photojournalist Saves Teenage Boy From Attack After Ukrainian LGBTQ Pride Parade
“A group of more than ten adult men surrounded a boy of maybe 14 to 16 years old and started to punch him laying on the ground when [Gleb] Garanich intervened,” Andrew Kravchenko, another photographer, told Hyperallergic.
Posted inArt
An Artist’s Mission to Preserve New York City’s History of Lesbian Nightlife
Gwen Shockey’s Addresses Project compiles photos, interviews with lesbian and queer-identified community leaders, and a comprehensive online map of former lesbian bars.
Posted inFilm
Pose Is a Much-Needed Ode to Legacy in the Black and Latinx LGBTQ Community
The groundbreaking television show’s second season speaks to the immense power of chosen family.
Posted inFilm
A Searing, First-Person Look at the AIDS Crisis Told Through the Eyes of a Couple
The 1993 documentary Silverlake Life presents an unusual perspective on daily life with a deadly disease.
Posted inPodcast
Joseph Pierce on Why Academics Must Decolonize Queerness
“Decolonial practices are about doing, but they’re also about asking how we know the things we know. Under what conditions did whiteness become the norm? Under what conditions did heterosexuality become the norm?”