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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.
A View of Queer History through Photography
By Ignacio Darnaude
..I’ve never experienced the kind of electricity I felt heading to this exhibit. Conversations buzzed in anticipation of “Queer Lens: A History of Photography.”
Joan E. Biren’s Eye to Eye
By Llewyn Blossfeld
When I was 21 years old and searching for a thesis topic during the COVID-19 pandemic, I thought about the first lesbian photograph I remember seeing.
Film Roundup – Provincetown Int’l Film Festival
We leave Northern Europe behind at last for a passage to India, its climatic opposite, where manicured interiors give way to the crowded indoor-outdoor spaces of a hotter clime.
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Film Roundup – Provincetown Int’l Film Festival
John Lithgow stars in the title role—a portmanteau of “Jim” and “grandpa”—as a brilliant and flamboyant professor living in Amsterdam. He’s the grandfather of a nonbinary “grandthing,” as he calls the fifteen-year-old Frances.
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Film Roundup – Provincetown Int’l Film Festival
Dreams is a contemporary drama centering on a female high school student that becomes an exploration of three generations of women and a sublimated lesbian love affair.
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