PBS’s Queer Newsmagazine In the Life: June 1996
The theme of the latest edition of the acclaimed PBS queer newsmagazine is the queer body and the queer body politic under assault. The body as battleground is the tacit[…]
Category: LGBT & Queer
Asian · LGBT & Queer · Reviews
Bending the Gender Till It Breaks: Hong Kong’s Who’s the Man? Series
Hong Kong’s gender-benders are the stuff of legend; director Patrick Chan adds two key works to the canon in these 1996 bookend satires of fame, pop music, and forbidden kisses.[…]
The Church of Camp: San Francisco’s Castro Theatre
Every religion needs a church, and camp followers have worshipped regularly at San Francisco’s Castro Theatre for two decades. John Lennon’s famous quote that the Beatles were more popular than[…]
Directors · Experimental & Underground · LGBT & Queer
Slapstick Realist: The Cinema of Paul Morrissey
Junkies, queens, washed-up B-movie hags – these are the scintillating “family values” advocates that campmeister and right-wing Republican Morrissey serves up. * * * Much of the myth, if we[…]
Experimental & Underground · LGBT & Queer · Reviews
“An Oasis of Glamor in a Sea of Mediocrity”: Vegas in Space (1991)
John Waters, Zsa Zsa Gabor, The Bad Seed, Supermarionation – the late Doris Fish trawled through the lowest depths of culture for her homemade camp fairy tale. Drag queen diva Doris Fish[…]
Documentaries · Experimental & Underground · LGBT & Queer · Reviews
“There Was No Before!” The Queen (1968)
This grimy, exciting artifact from the ’60s shows how important beauty contests were to the queens who ruthlessly – and kind of sadly – mimicked their straight counterparts. The rank[…]
Documentaries · LGBT & Queer · Reviews
Gay Cuba: Beating the Bully
The U.S. must eventually come to its senses and leave this little island and its vital citizens alone. Americans’ view of Cuba is based more on the right wing’s mythmaking (a process[…]
Directors · Exploitation & Erotica · LGBT & Queer
It’s an Ed Wood World After All!
The “world’s worst director” never apologized for wearing women’s clothes, though many have questioned his taste in sweaters. The story goes that Disney Studios threw Tim Burton a bone in[…]
William Friedkin’s Cruising
The 2014 release of James Franco’s Interior. Leather Bar. reminds us it’s time to revisit the still-notorious film that inspired it. * * * History shows us how easily yesterday’s[…]
The Birdcage: Albert, the titular bird, is more emu than eagle – the poor thing never learns to fly
Queen alert! Seemingly respectable filmmakers are eagerly repackaging homosexuals as whining, pathetic drag queens for a culture disturbed by sex plagues and nose-ringed militants. If last year’s To Wong Foo led the charge, The Birdcage delivers[…]
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