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From Pan’s Flute to TikTok: Review of MIX FEST
MIX FEST, New York’s forum for queer experimental film, returned to Manhattan’s Quad Cinema in November. Since 1987, MIX has been a petri dish for cinematic talent that’s beyond the heterosexual pale.
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Finding Queer Community in Church
Review of When We All Get to Heaven
By Jim Van Buskirk
…the newly released ten-episode podcast shares the story of the Metropolitan Community Church (MCC) of San Francisco.
Overheated Fantasy: Review of Heated Rivalry
By Jeremy C. Fox
Lately the girls ’n’ gays on social media have been feverish with excitement for the Canadian TV show Heated Rivalry, a titillating tale of forbidden love between two professional hockey stars.
A Fine Mess! Review of Messy White Gays
By Brian Alessandro
Inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s […] Rope, […] Messy White Gays imagines a Hell’s Kitchen brunch during which the hosts must hide the body of their throuple partner in a Jonathan Adler credenza.
Ely Murray-Quick Speaks with Scott Holleran
By Scott Holleran
Like most viral videos, the April 2025 encounter in a Charleston, South Carolina, store aisle between Congresswoman Nancy Mace and Ely Murray-Quick dominated the news cycle..
Kill Your Darlings Howls at Metrograph
By Brian Alessandro
While Allen Ginsberg might have “seen the greatest minds of [his] generation destroyed by madness,” the Lower East Side’s Metrograph theater hosted some of the greatest minds of ours…
The Troubles: Northern Ireland Punk
By Anne Marie Molloy
From the late 1960s until a peace agreement was reached in 1998, Northern Ireland—particularly its capital, Belfast—was devastated by bitter sectarian violence dubbed “The Troubles.”
Avian Art Mysteries for Queer-Coded Histories
By Jason Jenn
A pattern of bird-inspired bar names can be found in cities across the world, and while no formal conspiracy is confirmed and not all queer bars use bird names, this avian trend was…
Revisiting 2020: Then and Now
By Umar Ibrahim Agaie
In early 2020, as the deadly Covid-19 pandemic descended and the George Floyd protests lay ahead, a quiet transformation surfaced in queer literature.
The Paradox of “Tolerant” LGBT Communities
By Mala Kumar
…Philosopher Karl Popper theorized that a tolerant society cannot allow intolerant ideologies to fester, lest authoritarian or oppressive practices grow and eventually erode the community.