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Over six parts, six different directors cram in a decade of LGBTQ+ history in this strangely muted series from Disney+

The 127 Year History of LGBTQ+ Representation in Film By Abby Monteil, Stacker News On 6/15/21 at 8:00 PM EDT Depictions of queer and trans people have been present in the film medium since its inception more than 100 years ago. But due to censorship and varying degrees of prejudice against the LGBTQ+ community at different points in time, representation onscreen has a long, complicated, and often coded history. While gay characters were frequently used for laughs or not explicitly stated to...

‘Pride’ offers snapshots in the battle for LGBTQ rights across the decades “Pride” offers an off-the-beaten-track history of LGBTQ experiences and activism in the US from the 1950s to the present, with different filmmakers undertaking each decade/episode. Even diced up that way it’s a lot to cover, most effective when it comes to highlighting key individuals and moments than connecting those dots. Indeed, the format of this FX project — which precedes Pride Month and coincides with ...

Pride review: FXs docuseries offers snapshots in the battle for LGBTQ rights across the decades CNN 2 hrs ago © FX Transgender activist Felicia "Flames" Elizondo is interviewed in the FX docuseries Pride (FX). "Pride" offers an off-the-beaten-track history of LGBTQ experiences and activism in the US from the 1950s to the present, with different filmmakers undertaking each decade/episode. Even diced up that way its a lot to cover, most effective when it comes to highlighting key individuals...

Satyajit Ray “Not to have seen the cinema of Satyajit Ray means existing in the world without seeing the sun or the moon,” observed Akira Kurosawa with regards to the Indian master who would have turned one hundred this May. Influenced by the poetic humanism of Jean Renoir and the Italian neorealist movement, Ray self-financed his landmark debut Pather Panchali—the first installment of his internationally celebrated Apu Trilogy, a cycle of richly humane masterworks that traces its title...

Remembering Patient Zero and the Wreckage of Antigay HIV Fear April 26 2021 7:56 PM EDT It was a beautiful, sunny spring morning in 2019. I awoke to a message from my friend, Richard Vaughan, who was in Toronto and had caught the opening of a new film at the Hot Docs Film Festival the previous night. "Hey, did you hear?" he wrote. "We just won the queer lottery: you and I are in a documentary with Fran Lebowitz!" It was a typical jovial message from Richard, my friend who maintained a prolific...

As the 1990s approached, films began to offer more positive portrayals of LGBTQ people, often as the loyal best friend/confidante, with characters beginning to be more fleshed out, having lives rooted in their sexuality but not necessarily ruled only by it (i.e. Fried Green Tomatoes, 1991). Straight society could identify with the queer search for happiness despite facing oppression and traditional values (i.e. The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, 1994). One remaining taboo w...

David Oyelowo to be honored by Ashland Independent Film Festival; his Oregon-filmed ‘The Water Man’ will open event Updated Mar 03, 2021; Posted Mar 03, 2021 Actor David Oyelowo made his directing debut with "The Water Man," which will open the 2021 Ashland Independent Film Festival. (Photo: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)Getty Images Facebook Share Following notable acting roles in such projects as “Selma” and the “Les Miserables” miniseries, David Oyelowo made his directing debut ...

Veneno Veneno, 2020, still from a TV show on HBO Max. Season 1, episode 4. Cristina “La Veneno” Ortiz Rodríguez (Daniela Santiago). THE FOURTH EPISODE of HBO Max’s Spanish-language biopic Veneno (2020) etymologizes its title, the national pet name of Spain’s late trans icon Cristina “La Veneno” Ortiz Rodríguez. In the limited series’ most memorable sequence, Cristina (an intoxicating Daniela Santiago) descends on Parque del Oeste, the center of trans sex work in 1990s Madrid,...

Flee.(Sundance Film Festival) Queeries is a weekly column by CBC Arts producer Peter Knegt that queries LGBTQ art, culture and/or identity through a personal lens. It may have mostly happened in the living rooms of movie lovers, but the Sundance Film Festival just successfully pulled off its first — and hopefully only — pandemic edition. And with it came the same quality of LGBTQ-themed filmmaking we have come to expect from a festival that has built a pretty unparalleled reputation in...