Sort by:  Date  Subject  Popularity

09/01/2010 

Small Town Gay Bar
 
Small Town Gay Bar tells the recent history of several Mississippi gay bars and paints a vivid picture of queer life in a part of the country where the closet is a prerequisite for survival for most glbtq people. In the film, glbtq men and women of Northeastern Mississippi describe the important role a few ramshackle gay bars play in helping them make do and even thrive in one of the most homophobic regions of the United States.
 
 view feature

09/01/2010 

Fashion and Fashion Designers
 
The association between homosexuality and fashion is multifaceted, ranging from the role of clothes as signifiers of sexual orientation to the immense contributions gay men have made at all levels of the fashion industry.
 
 view feature

08/01/2010 

Narratives of Queer Desire
 
Margaret Sönser Breen, author of Narratives of Queer Desire: Deserts of the Heart (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) argues that the reading of queer literature lays a critical groundwork for engaging in glbtq social justice work.
 
 view feature

08/01/2010 

Architecture and Interior Design
 
Gay, lesbian, and bisexual architects, designers, and patrons have made substantial and diverse contributions to Architecture and Interior Design, though the impact of sexual orientation on building design is unclear.
 
 view feature

07/01/2010 

Queer China, Comrade China
 
Cui Zi'en's documentary describes Chinese constructions of sexualities and genders, provides a capsule history of recent Chinese queer activism, and reveals the Communist and Chinese cultural justifications for the officially-sanctioned homophobia gay men and lesbians have endured since the Communist revolution.
 
 view feature

07/01/2010 

Kings, Queens, and Emperors
 
Queer kings, queens, and emperors and those rumored to be queer have been an important presence since the beginning of recorded history.
 
 view feature

06/01/2010 

Hope Along the Wind: The Life of Harry Hay
 
You might expect the first significant documentary film about the founder of the gay male movement for equality in the United States to be an exercise in hero worship, but this well-crafted documetary reveals almost as much about the flaws that kept Hay from achieving more as it does about the strengths that led to his substantial accomplishments.
 
 view feature

06/01/2010 

Rock Music
 
Although Rock Music has been closely associated with freedom of expression and rebelliousness, it has frequently been hostile to gay and lesbian performers. Nevertheless, both closeted and out glbtq performers are an important part of the Rock Music universe.
 
 view feature

05/01/2010 

Cross-Dressers: Male
 
Though male cross-dressing is common historically, cross-dressers have often been misunderstood and maligned, especially in societies with strictly defined gender roles. Despite this disapprobation, cross-dressing entertainers have often been accepted and even celebrated in many cultures.
 
 view feature

04/01/2010 

African-American Literature: Lesbian
 
Most African-American Lesbian Literature is as concerned with racism as it is with sexuality, causing many writers to construct Afrocentric sexual identities that affirm the power of black women.
 
 view feature