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When it comes to queer pride – the joy of openly and organically living as a queer person – how is it possible to celebrate some bites of queerness in hetero entertainment, but then not others? Where do people draw a line between celebrating gayness, and then profiting from it and its audience? In complete […]… Continue reading Keeping an eye out for Queer-baiting — MoreColorPact

Sometimes, when I say I long for more stories with queer characters, I mean stories where they’re embroiled in intergalactic wars, or committing high-risk heists, or traveling through time and worlds, or navigating a post-apocalyptic landscape. Stories where the characters are permitted to simply exist as queer, where they’re defined by more than just the […]… Continue reading 20 Book Recommendations with Casual LGBTQ+ Representation —

Is homosexuality the monster or is it fear of change? “In a 1984 study of anti-homosexual attitudes, the investigators broke heterosexual’s fears of gay and lesbian sexuality into three topics: (1) homosexuality as a threat to the individual, that someone you know (or you yourself) might be homosexual, (2) homosexuality as a threat to others, […]… Continue reading The Homosexual Monster — Noelle’s Blog Posts

A very young, self-described male-to-female transgender, woman was tortured and murdered miles away from me this week. I live in Kansas, but only four hours away in a small Missouri town, a young girl was subjected to hell. It scares me, not for my own well-being, because I live in the shadow of a liberal […]… Continue reading Notes From A Red State — Mystery Doll

The 1984 horror film A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge (ANOES2), includes themes of homosexuality and the queer to fully portray the role of Freddy Krueger. Before discussing the film and these themes it is important to summarize Harry M. Benshoff’s writings in ‘The Monster and the Homosexual’. Benshoff begins his writings by […]… Continue reading A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge; and the Monster/ Homosexual Relationship — Derek Stoberl CMS 353

Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (if you’re a girl) won the 2020 Oscar for Best Documentary Short Film. It tells the story of a school for girls—nicknamed “Skateistan”—in Afghanistan. I saw the package of all five Academy Award-nominated short documentaries at the theater, and while there is something to be said for all of […]… Continue reading Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (if you’re a girl) [subtitled] — Philo on Movies

There were 109 LGBTQ regular characters counted in original scripted series on the streaming services Amazon, Hulu, and Netflix as well as 44 recurring characters, for a total of 153 LGBTQ characters. via Netflix: Every Gay Person Is Very Necessary — Society Reviews

David Melville Wingrove is back, with the perfect Forbidden Diva for this historical moment — FORBIDDEN DIVAS THE WHITE ORCHID TYPE “I can’t face an unknown future with an un-powdered nose.” – Barbara Stanwyck, The Other Love What do you write about at a time when life as we choose to call it has been […]… Continue reading Forbidden Divas: The White Orchid Type — shadowplay

What’s the similarity between Laura Mulvey, Emily Dickinson, and Camille Paglia? via “How dreary–to be–Somebody!” — Hayden Church

This article contains spoilers for all seven episodes of Hollywood. “When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” That line from The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, the last masterpiece from one of Golden Age Hollywood’s most revered directors, John Ford has become pretty legendary itself. Yet it seems Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan decided […]… Continue reading Netflix’s Hollywood: The History of the Real People in the Series — Den of Geek