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Funny Boy. ARRAY In the opening pages of the 1994 Canadian novel Funny Boy, a young Sri Lankan boy named Arjie refuses to play cricket with the boys as his father insists. He'd rather bedazzle in bridal reds and join the girls' make-believe wedding. Novelist Shyam Selvadurai's gay coming of age novel became a critical and commercial sensation in Canada when it was first published, enduring as a pioneering story of queerness, politics, and South Asian history. As the new film adaptation opens with the sound of the ocean — establishing the lush seafront tropical landscape of Sri ...

‘My Best Girlfriend’: Queer Dietrich, on screen and off Modelling top hats and tuxedos, Marlene Dietrich brought an aura of cabaret decadence to her films of the 1930s, yet it was her off-screen habit of wearing trousers to Hollywood premieres that inflamed the media. 14 December 2020 Morocco (1930) In the introduction to her groundbreaking study of pioneer female filmmaker Dorothy Arzner, Judith Mayne includes a snapshot that is very definitely not of the director, but that was in her archive at UCLA. The candid snap shows Marlene Dietrich holding a large, extremely grumpy cat tha...