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hayaomiyazaki · 2 months
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ALL OF US STRANGERS (2023) dir. Andrew Haigh
— I do love you very much, somehow even more now that I know you. It's important that you believe me. — I do. And I love you very much, Dad. Dad. Dad, did you hear that?
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celluloidrainbow · 7 months
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GENDER TROUBLEMAKERS (1993) dir. Mirha-Soleil Ross & Xanthra Mackay What happens when two Transdykes get sick of non-transsexual's uninformed representation of their sexualities and their lives? They grab their 8 millimeter home video camera, their last 200 bucks, and come up with an uncompromising in-your-face flick about their shitty relationships with gay men and their unabashed attraction to other trans women. (link in title)
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alistairlowes · 2 months
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ALL OF US STRANGERS (2023)
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certainwoman · 1 year
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“Even at an individual level, there are remarkably few of even the most openly gay people who are not deliberately in the closet with someone personally or economically or institutionally important to them. Furthermore, the deadly elasticity of heterosexist presumption means that, like Wendy in Peter Pan, people find new walls springing up around them even as they drowse: every encounter with a new classful of students, to say nothing of a new boss, social worker, loan officer, landlord, doctor, erects new closets whose fraught and characteristic laws of optics and physics exact from at least gay people new surveys, new calculations, new draughts and requisitions of secrecy or disclosure. Even an out gay person deals daily with interlocutors about whom she doesn't know whether they know or not; it is equally difficult to guess for any given interlocutor whether, if they did know, the knowledge would seem very important. Nor-at the most basic level-is it unaccountable that someone who wanted a job, custody or visiting rights, insurance, protection from violence, from "therapy," from distorting stereotype, from insulting scrutiny, from simple insult, from forcible interpretation of their bodily product, could deliberately choose to remain in or to reenter the closet in some or all segments of their life. The gay closet is not a feature only of the lives of gay people.But for many gay people it is still the fundamental feature of social life; and there can be few gay people, however courageous and forthright by habit, however fortunate in the support of their immediate communities, in whose lives the closet is not still a shaping presence.“
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Epistemology of the Closet
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filmledger · 1 year
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I wish I knew how to quit you
Brokeback Mountain (2005)
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celluloidbroomcloset · 3 months
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OK. I wrote some of this in a vent to @sparklywaistcoat, but I'm gonna say it here.
I'm less sad about there not being a Season 3 and feel more just tearful anger that once again studios and streamers truly don't give a fuck about art or what it means to people or to culture. It’s corporations who just want to reproduce the same boring shit for the same boring people and even when they have something that’s popular and loved, they just can’t see past their own very narrow worldview. I really did think that the second season was going to get chucked once HBO Max restructured and WB merged with Discovery. I was shocked that it ever got released.
There’s such a wonderful scope of art in this world, but streamers won’t give it the space it needs to breathe. So when you get something like OFMD or Reservation Dogs or Good Omens, it’s so hopeful and yet you just sit there in heartbreak, hoping it doesn’t go away, or that it can at least play out as the people who make it want it to. Sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't, but we have to remember that even when it doesn't, it still means something.
Now, Hollywood has always been like this, but it’s still very hard to see art being treated so callously. It’s like when the Code came in and you look back and see all these lovely things, truly groundbreaking stuff, that got cut off at the knees because of the fucking mainstream conservatives who thought they knew what was best, and the Hollywood studios that went right along with them to keep selling their product.
But the studio system, and the Code, broke, and it is breaking again. We’re in line for a major bursting of cinematic art as creators escape from franchises and the mainstream, a la American Independent cinema. It is already happening. The new studio system, built on streamers and franchises, of which WB and HBOMax is a part, is collapsing. OFMD is a big sign of that—an openly queer, incredibly diverse TV show that kept pushing and pushing through eighteen episodes, that rejected queerbaiting, that rejected convention, and that built itself on being a gay pirate rom-com and was exactly that.
Queer media has done more than broken through. It has embedded itself in the culture in a way that it never did in the past. It's out from the underground without assimilation. OFMD is not the only part of that, but it is a part of it. And that's something that HBOMax, Zaslav, Hollywood, the studio system, the entire straight, cis, white, conservative, conventional mainstream world can absolutely never take away or push back into the closet. They will try, though, and they will lose. They already lost.
So, yeah, I'm angry and I'm sad, and they fucked Calypso's birthday. But we can chuck a fiddle at their heads to protect the people we love, and it isn't going to destroy our souls.
Our spirit will last throughout their entire fucking empire.
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cloudtinn · 10 months
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But I'm A Cheerleader (1999), dir. Jamie Babbit.
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horrorhick · 24 days
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Operation Hyacinth (Hiacynt) | 2021
Robert + Arek
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wszczebrzyszynie · 10 months
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Because it is pride month i highly encourage you to watch one of my favourite polish movies, Hiacynt (Operation Hyacinth in english), avilable on netflix... set in mid 80s Polish Peoples Republic durning the titular operation hyacinth (secret operation of communist police targeting and arresting polish gays in order to create a national database of polish homosexuals), it follows Robert, a citizens milita worker, whos unsatisfied with militias lack of action about the murders of gay men in Warsaw and decides to discover the truth himself. In order to do that, he infiltrates the local gay scene through Arek, a german language student, and begins discovering a lot about himself in the process
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it may not be the greatest movie to ever exist but its special to me specifically and i wanted to share it with you. :)
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dorian-they-ao3 · 7 months
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THE BIRDCAGE (1996) • starring ROBIN WILLIAMS and NATHAN LANE
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The Watermelon Woman (1996)
Director: Cheryl Dunye 
Cinematographer: Michelle Crenshaw
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hayaomiyazaki · 27 days
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CRASH (1996) dir. David Cronenberg
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celluloidrainbow · 1 year
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SOUTHERN COMFORT (2001) dir. Kate Davis The final year in the life of Robert Eads, a transgender man from the back hills of Georgia. "A hillbilly and proud of it," he cuts a striking figure: sharp-tongued, bearded, tobacco pipe in hand. Though his home is nestled among tranquil hills dotted with hay bales, Robert confronts a world hostile to him. He was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, then turned away by more than two dozen doctors who feared that taking on a trans patient might harm their practice. Beginning in spring, he falls deeply in love with Lola, a trans woman. That summer, his mother and father drive ten hours to visit their "lost daughter," a trip they know may be their last. His final dream is to make it to the Southern Comfort Conference in Atlanta, the nation's preeminent transgender gathering. Beating the odds, he addresses a crowd of 500 and takes Lola to "The prom that never was". (link in title)
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sapphiccooper · 8 months
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I cannot express enough how much it hurts to see people complain about how “Heartstopper is unrealistic bc it lacks sex”.
Like, if that is/was your experience as a teenager, that’s fine! There are HUNDREDS of teen shows that display (usually overly so) sex and sexuality in that way. But, that is not everyone’s experience, nor is it the experience everyone wants, nor wanted.
As a queer person who was unable to live joyous teenage years for the most part, it is incredibly healing to see healthy and loving queer relationships on screen.
This show isn’t that realistic, and that’s TERRIFYING.
These teens are more mature than most people will ever be. This is because they are a community that values boundaries, communication, and consent. The relationships, romantic and platonic, in Heartstopper focus on the importance of community within queerness. How just being queer/queer allied can unify a group in a way that can’t be outwardly understood.
There shouldn’t be pressure or expectations when it comes to sex, affection, or any type of intimacy. I understand not everyone will relate to a story like this, but for those of us who do, people need to know that it is everything to be able to see. It is everything to see even a fictional reality where boundaries are respected, and people care enough to take the time to grow love.
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argentinosaurus · 2 years
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Yes, I wear foundation. Yes, I live with a man. Yes, I'm a middle-aged fag. But I know who I am, Val. It took me 20 years to get here, and I'm not gonna let some idiot senator destroy that. Fuck the senator. I don't give a damn what he thinks.
ROBIN WILLIAMS as ARMAND GOLDMAN in THE BIRDCAGE (1996) dir. Mike Nichols
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beingharsh · 6 months
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The Living End (1992), dir. Gregg Araki
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