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It’s a Trans World, After All!
2017 is being heralded by GLAAD as the breakthrough year for transgender representation in television and film. Despite a plethora of popular Western trans movies in recent decades, including the…More
Return to God of Vengeance, a Lesbian Drama of 1907
Indecent A play by Paula Vogel Directed by Rebecca Taichman Cort Theatre, NYC PAULA VOGEL, the Pulitzer-prize winning dramatist of How I Learned to Drive, has again collaborated with…More
Beach Rats
I think I saw nine feature films plus some shorts at this year’s Provincetown International Film Festival in June—and an excellent bunch of movies it was. This is not a…More
After Louie
I think I saw nine feature films plus some shorts at this year’s Provincetown International Film Festival in June—and an excellent bunch of movies it was. This is not a…More
Tom of Finland
I think I saw nine feature films plus some shorts at this year’s Provincetown International Film Festival in June—and an excellent bunch of movies it was. This is not a…More
God’s Own Country
I think I saw nine feature films plus some shorts at this year’s Provincetown International Film Festival in June—and an excellent bunch of movies it was. This is not…More
The Perils of Polyamory
Afterglow is based in part on S. Asher Gelman’s own experience with an extra-marital relationship, shows that he can write strong individual scenes for his actors that have the ring of truth.
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Friends and Fans on Marilyn Monroe’s Sexuality
MARILYN MONROE made her movie debut seventy years ago, in the 1947 vehicle Dangerous Years, and her career took off from there—thanks in large part to her five-year…More
How Marriage Equality Made Me an American
ON THE MORNING that my husband Joe and I got married, the sun shone warmly on our chilly necks, absorbing the bite of the low, steady breeze floating across…More
Falling in Lust
I REMAIN HAUNTED by a remark a famous novelist made during her public talk at Sewanee University a few summers ago. She lamented, with much audible derision, that…More