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The Inheritance, a Play Haunted by Outdated Gay Archetypes

by Rennie McDougall March 12, 2020March 13, 2020

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

by Dan Schindel March 2, 2020

“[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

by Valentina Di Liscia December 12, 2019December 13, 2019

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

by Caden Mark Gardner October 28, 2019

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

by Svitlana Biedarieva October 16, 2019

“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.

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An Artist’s Mission to Preserve New York City’s History of Lesbian Nightlife

by Sunny Leerasanthanah August 28, 2019August 29, 2019

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

by Rachell Morillo August 23, 2019August 23, 2019

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

by Joshua Kaplan August 12, 2019November 4, 2019

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

by Zachary Small August 9, 2019April 14, 2022

“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?”

Posted inFilm

The Raw, Unshakeable Queer Love in 1951’s Olivia

by Caden Mark Gardner August 8, 2019August 9, 2019

Jacqueline Audry’s powerfully complex film set in a 19th-century French boarding school for girl resonates even today, and it just got a new restoration.

Posted inArt

When Theater Champions Queer and Marginalized Voices

by Eric Vilas-Boas July 23, 2019July 23, 2019

The Corkscrew Theater Festival offers a lineup of performances from underrepresented creatives.

Posted inFilm

Queer Camp, Religious Kitsch, and Music in the American South

by Caden Mark Gardner July 23, 2019November 4, 2019

Two new documentaries, The Gospel of Eureka and Gay Chorus Deep South, explore Southern queerness and faith in drastically different ways.

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