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10/01/2010 

Jeff Sheng: Don't Ask, Don't Tell
 
Jeff Sheng is a Los Angeles-based artist who has devoted 2009 and 2010 to photographing gay, lesbian, and bisexual American military servicemembers who serve under the Don't Ask, Don't Tell (DADT) policy that requires them to keep their sexuality secret in order to avoid discharge.

10/01/2010 

Gay Sex in the '70s
 
Gay Sex in the '70s is a compilation of the reminiscences of gay New Yorkers about the explosion of sexual freedom they experienced during the period between the Stonewall riots in 1969 and the emergence of AIDS in the early 1980s. Though the film focuses on gay life in New York's predominantly white West Village and Fire Island and ignores smaller minority gay communities elsewhere in New York, it is useful for its depiction of the libertinism of the 1970s in New York's best-known gay ghetto.
 
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10/01/2010 

Latin American Art and Literature
 
Latin American machismo has contributed to the oppression of GLBT people and limited their expression in the arts. As a result, Latin American GLBT artists often portray a desire for both sexual and political liberation.

Latin American literature includes many works that have homoerotic themes or queer characters, though the of same-sex relations they describe differ sharply from those found in European and North American literatures.

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.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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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 documentary 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.
 
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