Queering the Ballet: A Review
By Irene Javors
The exhibit specifically focuses on five of Robert Owen Lehman’s musical manuscripts that are at the very heart of the story of the Ballets Russes.
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Indies in P’town
Movie Review By Richard Schneider
Merchant Ivory turned it into a film starring Hugh Grant and James Wilby in 1987. Soucy stresses the boldness of this release at the height of the AIDS epidemic.
Indies in P’town
Movie Review By Richard Schneider
As the presence of Alan Cumming might suggest, Mad About the Boy doesn’t hold back on Coward’s gayness and treats his double life as a leitmotif.
Indies in P’town
Movie Review By Richard Schneider
Sebastian is a film of dualities. The title refers to the assumed identity of Max, a successful short story writer who’s trying to write a novel and works as a hustler (okay, sex worker) to get material for his fiction.
Indies in P’town
Movie Review By Richard Schneider
Filmed in Provincetown, High Tide evoked cries of recognition from the PIFF audience, which was primed to love this boy-meets-boy, boy-loses-boy romance.
Where Families Live
By David Masello
In Stephen McCauley’s eighth novel, You Only Call When You’re in Trouble, the main figure, Tom, is a suddenly-single gay architect living in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who specializes in designing “tiny houses” for high-end clients.
Anti-Memoir, Anti-Me
By Kawika Guillermo
Punk poetics is a form of musically-infused writing shaped by queer and trans authors like Patti Smith, Kathy Acker, Kai Cheng Thom. Like punk rock, punk poetics can crowd-surf us along the rhythmic tug of words, only to drop us into a circle pit and leave readers bruised and gasping for air.
On Selfhood: Young Lesbians
By Patricia Silva
On Selfhood: Young Lesbians assembles art works, ephemera, and oral histories from 36 marginalized urban lesbians, ages 18-25. Installed as a multidisciplinary exhibition grounded in personal collections and an interactive collage, On Selfhood.
The Future and Legacy of Queer Zines with Yezmin Villareal and Colby Anderson
In 2017, Issues, a zine-in-residence initiative started by Hello Mr., transported Colby Anderson and Yezmin Villarreal’s visions for a queer alternative publication from an idea into a reality. BRUNCH CLUB, Colby Anderson’s publication, exclusively highlights trans and queer people of color. Dyke Queen, Yezmin Villarreal’s project, is a magazine about QTPOC literature, style, and art.
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Robert Lord’s Hello Book
By Eric Trump
The New Zealand playwright Robert Lord kept eight diaries throughout much of this time, from 1974 to 1991, shortly before his death from an AIDS-related illness in 1992.