Ulysse Dutoit News Today

WITH THE PASSAGE of Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law restricting discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity in schools, and with the recent wave of acutely transphobic legislation throughout the United States, one would be justified in concluding that a vocal subset of American politicians is busy constructing a new closet for LGBTQ+ citizens. How is this possible, given the advances in rights and public acceptance of gay and lesbian relationships in recent decades? How can gay ma...

Leo Bersani was a groundbreaking queer studies scholar who rejected the word “queer.” We can still learn from his contrarian sense of what made homosexuals unique.

The death of the great queer theorist means the end of an era.

THE DYNAMICS, the provocations, the sacrifices entailed in any collaborative viewing and interpreting of works of art are easy enough to imagine. But for Leo Bersani, former chair of French and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, and Ulysse Dutoit, who has taught film at the same institution for some twenty-five years, the collaborative effort has proved a creative stimulant nurtured to a point where it is by now the veritable ethic of the brilliant, often controver...