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THE INAUGURAL FILM of postwar queer cinema and a watershed event in the history of the American avant-garde, Kenneth Anger’s Fireworks of 1947 is an autobiographical account of the awakening of desire. Shot when the filmmaker was only seventeen years old,1 the film is the sadomasochistic fantasy of a young man, played by the teenage Anger, who dreams he is sexually assaulted by a gang of sailors. Like its young author, the film was precocious. Made in the immediate aftermath of World War II, j...

Supporters of the victim and the defendant attended Heather Ann Reyes sentencing hearing. The judge sent Reyes to prison for 10 years.

John Philip Vining, known as Phil to family and friends, died in his home on Wednesday, December 29, 2021, at the age of 58. He is survived by his wife […]