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68 Pages

His award-winning films The Pink Mirror, Yours Emotionally, and 68 Pages are at the forefront of India’s emergent queer cinema movement — ground-breaking in a country where homosexuality is illegal and socially unacceptable.

Against Equality

Against Equality: Queer Critiques of Gay Marriage contains essays and op-ed pieces by prominent queer thinkers, including Kate Bornstein, Eric A. Stanley, Dean Spade, Craig Willse, Kenyon Farrow, Kate Raphael, Deeg, John D'Emilio, Ryan Conrad, Yasmin Nair, Martha Jane Kaufman, Katie Miles, and Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore.

Amar Mitra Peddireddy

His work consisting of a montage of visuals from the Bangalore Queer Pride parade, November 2011, brought him to light on various blogs as the video went Viral on YouTube.

Aussie Queer Eye for the Straight Guy

Aussie Queer Eye for the Straight Guy was an Australian reality television series that was based on the original and hugely popular American series, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.

Butlerian

Judith Butler (born 1956), American philosopher involved with feminism, queer theory, and ethics

Closeted

In 1993, Michelangelo Signorile wrote Queer in America, in which he explored the harm caused both to a closeted person and to society in general by being closeted.

Coming Out Spiritually

Christian de la Huerta began writing Coming Out Spiritually: the next step as a response to the need he saw in the LGBT and Queer community for bringing together queer identity with the nature of spirituality.

Cypher in the Snow

Cypher in the Snow released several recordings including a single with Outpunk, the first independent record label devoted to queer punk; an album on Candy Ass Records; and a split single with Sleater-Kinney, the Free to Fight single, dedicated to self-defense for women.

Dallas Angguish

Angguish's poetry is in the tradition of queer poetics initiated by Walt Whitman and consolidated by Allen Ginsberg, a tradition that foregrounds the colloquial voice, a first person, personal point of view and the expression of an erotic and mystical vision.

GenderPAC

GenderPAC exemplified what certain feminists opposed about queer rights movements and certain elements of gender studies: Sheila Jeffreys wrote that its aims ignored women in favor of "transgenders, most of whom are men, and homosexuality," and that the organization's conception of gender as something that should be protected, and the basis for individuals rights that needed to be respected rather than eliminated, would serve to reinforce discrimination.

I Wish I Was Queer So I Could Get Chicks

"I Wish I Was Queer So I Could Get Chicks" is the fourth single from The Bloodhound Gang's 1996 (re-released in 1998) album One Fierce Beer Coaster.

Iranian Railroad for Queer Refugees

Iranian Railroad for Queer Refugees (IRQR) is an advocacy group founded and headed by Executive Director Arsham Parsi on behalf of Iranian LGBTs seeking safe havens both within and without Iran.

JD Doyle

Doyle's friend Jimmy Carper was, and still is, producer of KPFT's GLBT radio program After Hours and after Doyle made several requests that more queer music be played, Carper invited him to come on the show and do a couple segments.

Josie Cotton

"Johnny Are You Queer" has been featured on the soundtracks to the movies Jackass Number Two and Valley Girl, and "He could be the one" was also featured in Valley Girl.

Juba Kalamka

In 2005, Kalamka was contacted by artist and sex worker advocate Annie Oakley (whom he'd met at the Olympia, Washington queer arts fest HomoAGoGo) and accepted an invitation to tour with The Sex Workers' Art Show, a month long cross-country cabaret style theater event featuring current and former sex worker artist/activists.

Judith Halberstam

To illustrate a cultural mechanism of subordinating alternative masculinities, Halberstam brings up James Bond and Goldeneye as an example, noting that gender performance in this film is far from what is traditional: M is the character who “most convincingly performs masculinity,” Bond can only perform masculinity through his suave clothing and gadgets, and Q can be read “as a perfect model of the interpenetration of queer and dominant regimes.”

Laura Mulvey

Queer theory, such as that by Richard Dyer, has grounded its work in Mulvey to explore the complex projections that many gay men and women fix onto certain female stars (e.g. Doris Day, Liza Minnelli, Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland).

Lotus 18

With Duckworth having left to form Cosworth in 1958, Mike Costin, who, despite being the co-founder of Cosworth, remained with Lotus for a while longer, adopted the improved Queer Box in Lotus 16 into a configuration for directly mounting it behind the engine for Lotus 18 with dedicated oil scavenge and pressure feed pumps, further improving its reliability while retaining the small and light design.

Lynton Brent

In addition to his film career, Brent also wrote a number of literary works, notably Lesbian Gang Though little recognized when first published in 1964, it has achieved notoriety among a niche queer audience in Peckham, England.

Megan Spencer

Spencer has been a judge for film festivals and competitions across Australia, including Sydney Film Festival, Shoot Out, St. Kilda Film Festival, Brisbane International Film Festival, Melbourne International, Underground and Fringe Film Festivals, Real Life On Film Documentary Festival, Queensland's Pandanus Film Festival, the SA Zoom Fest, Melbourne International Queer Film Festival, SPAA Fringe, the annual AFI Awards and IF Awards.

Mette Bach

Bach's essays have appeared in the following anthologies: First Person Queer (published by Arsenal Pulp Press in 2007, edited by Richard Labonté and Lawrence Schimel), Second Person Queer (2009), Fist of the Spider Woman: Tales of Fear & Queer Desire (published by Arsenal Pulp Press in 2009 and edited by Amber Dawn), and Visible: A Femmethology (Homofactus Press).

My Comrade

It was very popular among the underground queer scene of New York City, and is still considered by many a great embodiment of Manhattan Lower East Side’s and East Village’s LGBT culture of the period.

OutWeek

Queer is now extremely common, even appearing in the titles of TV shows like Queer as Folk and Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.

Queer Eye for the Straight Girl

As opposed to the original show, which is mostly set in New York City, Queer Eye for the Straight Girl is set in Los Angeles.

Queer Latinos in Cinema

While many have attempted to bring the Latino transgender man into queer cinema, such as in Arturo Ripstein’s El Lugar sin limites (1978), the man is seldom portrayed in a positive light.

Queer Nation

The Queer Nation chapters in Atlanta, Georgia; Columbia, South Carolina; Berea and Lexington, Kentucky and Nashville, Tennessee were active in protesting homophobic policies of the Cracker Barrel restaurant chain.

Queer Nation members show up en masse at Macy's department store where Olympic gold medallist Greg Louganis is promoting a new swimsuit line.

Queercore

Later, in the U.S. during the eighties when the Hardcore punk scene arose, The Dicks' Gary Floyd was writing queer-themed songs, as were many hardcore bands, except that he, along with Randy Turner of Big Boys were both open about being homosexuals.

Robert Arnold

In the same year he was crowned "Queer Idol", as part of the UniQ Pride Week celebrations.

Roderick Ferguson

Ferguson is most renowned for the concept of "queer of color critique" from his book Aberrations in Black, which is exemplified by the work of Audre Lorde, Cherríe Moraga, Barbara Smith, and the Combahee River Collective and said to be critiques that do not presume homogeneity across racial or national groups.

Sedgwickian

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (1950–2009), an American academic scholar in the fields of gender studies, queer theory, and critical theory

Sister Spit: The Next Generation

In April 2007, Michelle Tea decided to revive Sister Spit as Sister Spit: The Next Generation pulling together old favourites such as Lynne Breedlove, Eileen Myles and Ali Liebegott and also introducing a whole new selection of queer/feminist/alternative literary folks such as Cristy Road, Rhiannon Argo and Nicole J Georges and hauling them across the USA.

Steven Reigns

Later he organized Loving in Fear, a gay, lesbian, bisexual, queer literary event in response to Hillsborough County’s lack of gay, lesbian, bisexual or queer programming.

The Curiosity of Chance

In 1980s Europe, flamboyant and gay 16-year-old Chance Marquis shows up at an international high school in a top hat and tails, immediately attracting the attention of the "queer-hating" resident bully, among others.

The Wolfgang Press

The genesis of the 1991 album Queer was listening to De La Soul's 1989 debut album 3 Feet High and Rising.

Wavy Spice

A frank and personal interrogation of normative perceptions of colonial history, this track, and her vocal support of Queer, Trans*, woman and fem sexuality, have gained her critical acclaim and support in the music world from other QTPOC rappers such as Mykki Blanco and Le1f.

Waxie Moon

The film won Best Local Film at the Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, Jury Award for Best Film at Queer Fruits Film Festival in Australia, and Best Film, Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Editing and Best Soundtrack at Love Unlimited Film Festival.


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