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There is a reveal in The Crying Game that, in 1992, the entire cultural apparatus of film promotion worked to protect. Critics agreed not to mention...
Andrew Haigh made Weekend in 2011 and All of Us Strangers in 2023, and between those two films something changed — in Haigh, or in what cinema can...
There is a cinema of the body. Not pornography — something more considered than that, and more honest. A cinema that understands desire as a subject w...
William Burroughs wrote Queer in the early 1950s, directly after the accidental shooting death of his wife Joan Vollmer in Mexico City — an event th...
In the late 1980s, in Harlem and the South Bronx, Black and Latino gay and trans people built a culture of extraordinary invention and beauty in the m...
Gay pornography has a history. Not a shameful one, not a footnote to real culture, but a genuine history — of studios founded by gay men who saw a mar...
Weekend takes place over forty-eight hours in Nottingham. Two men meet at a bar on Friday night, go home together, and spend the weekend in the spec...
There is a lineage. It doesn't announce itself, but it's there — running from a Harlem studio in the 1970s through a California beach, a Berlin apartm...
River Phoenix died two years after My Own Private Idaho was released. He was twenty-three. The film has been lit differently ever since — biographic...
Moonlight won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2017, in a ceremony that will be remembered for the wrong reason — the envelope mixup, the *La L...
