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A Hard Day’s Night is a 1964 comedy film directed by Richard Lester, starring British Invasion band The Beatles – John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr- during the height of Beatlemania. The film follows the band after they are swarmed by fans while boarding a train to London. The band get into […]… Continue reading Classic of the Week: A Hard Day’s Night (1964) — Chloe the Critic

American Graffiti is a 1973 American coming of age comedy film directed by George Lucas starring Richard Dreyfuss, Ron HOward, Paul Le Mat, Harrison Ford, Charles Martin Smith, Cindy WIlliams, Candy Clark, Mackenzie Phillips, Bo Hopkins and Wolfman Jack. The film is set in Modesto, California in 1962 and follows the story of the early […]… Continue reading Classic of the Week: American Graffiti (1973) — Chloe the Critic

Baby Doll is a 1956 American black comedy film directed by Elia Kazan, starring Carroll Baker, Karl Malden and Eli Wallach. It was adapted from the Tennessee Williams play 27 Wagons Full of Cotton. The film centers on a feud between two rival cotton gin owners in rural Mississippi; after one of the men burns […]… Continue reading Baby Doll (1956) — Chloe the Critic

Black, White and Gray: A Portrait of Sam Waggstaff and Robert Maplethorpe – 2007 AWOL – 2017 Taboo- 2000 Emporte-Moi (Set Me Free) – 1999 Head On – 1999 Edge of Seventeen – 1999 Parting Glances – 1986 Suddenly (Tan De Repente) – 2003 Boy Culture – 2007 Shortbus – 2006 I Killed My Mother […]… Continue reading Greatest LGBT Films of All Time — Chloe the Critic

Featured is the LGBT Pride flag. (Photo credit: MONIRUL BHUIYAN/AFP via Getty Images) A federal judge in a high-profile Title IX case has ordered lawyers representing four girls’ track stars to refer to two biological males who outraced them as “transgender females.” The lawyers from Alliance Defending Freedom who represent the four high school girls […]… Continue reading Judge in Female Athletes’ Case Forbids Calling Trans Competitors ‘Males’ — Randy Salars News And Comment

Pride is an annual celebration commemorate the Stonewall riots and gay rights movement, pivotal moments in history connected to gay liberation. Pride is inclusive to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT+) community as well as allies of the community. The Stonewall riots began in the early hours of June 28, 1969, after police raided the… Continue reading What you should know about Pride — Penny Lane Hippy

Anna’s Country: A LesbianLove Story Elizabeth Lang the Naiad Press 1981 Arriving in a small town in Upper New York State with her husband and children, Anna Johnson is befriended by her neighbor, nursery owner Hope Alford. When Anna is brutalized by her husband it is to Hope that she flees for shelter, tries to […]… Continue reading Anna’s Country: A Lesbian Love Story — Frauenkultur

I had an awful time in high school, and all the while, on the inside, I was struggling with my internal homophobia. via I Denied My Sexuality And My Happiness To Fit In, But I’m Done With That — Stigma Breakers

Kristy Leigh takes a scholarly look at three of the films in the 1990s that presented transgender characters as not just freakish beings who defied gender norms but began to move toward more diversity for transgender characters. The films she discusses are “Paris is Burning”, “The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert”, and “The… Continue reading Cinema of Ambiguity: Transgender Imagery in the 1990s — Transgender Forum

Our social correspondent Lynda Martini is back with us today. Since no one has a social life now, at least in the real world, she has submitted a blog that reports on her recent gender confirmation surgery. She has some “interesting facts” about what to expect when you have your GCS, and lays them out… Continue reading Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Gender Confirmation Surgery (But were afraid to ask) — Transgender Forum