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Before ‘Brokeback Mountain’, ‘My Own Private Idaho’ paved the way for today’s mainstream queer cinema
Before ‘Brokeback Mountain’, ‘My Own Private Idaho’ paved the way for today’s mainstream queer cinema
Tucked away in the history of queer cinema, Keanu Reeves and River Phoenix drove across America so that, 14 years later, Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal could leap into history-making double Oscar noms for their portrayals of two closeted ranchers’ decades-long affair.
·queerty.com·
Before ‘Brokeback Mountain’, ‘My Own Private Idaho’ paved the way for today’s mainstream queer cinema
55 Essential Queer Movies
55 Essential Queer Movies
These 55 movies reflect important elements of modern queer (LBGTQIA+) history—sometimes dramatized, sometimes documentary, and sometimes because the film itself made history.
·lifehacker.com·
55 Essential Queer Movies
The Best LGBTQ Movies of the Past 100 Years
The Best LGBTQ Movies of the Past 100 Years
You can spend Pride disassociating to avoid the news, throwing bricks, or watching selections from a century of queer movies. Here are 42 standouts from the past century.
·lifehacker.com·
The Best LGBTQ Movies of the Past 100 Years
Jim Parsons and the Non-Practicing Homosexual | The Brooklyn Rail
Jim Parsons and the Non-Practicing Homosexual | The Brooklyn Rail
There’s an increasingly antiquated term for gay people who don’t have sex: a non-practicing homosexual. Increased LGBTQ+ acceptance has made the term something of a relic, however its spirit endures in the career of openly gay star Jim Parsons. The characters Parsons has played, on stage and screen, reflect larger questions about which ones audiences can expect to have sex—and, sometimes, how fully human they are allowed to be.
·brooklynrail.org·
Jim Parsons and the Non-Practicing Homosexual | The Brooklyn Rail
In Conversation with Alumni Ramiel Petros and Nicholas Freeman: “The Last Guest of the Holloway Motel” Tracks a Vanished Soccer Star's Reappearance in L.A.’s Gay Mecca
In Conversation with Alumni Ramiel Petros and Nicholas Freeman: “The Last Guest of the Holloway Motel” Tracks a Vanished Soccer Star's Reappearance in L.A.’s Gay Mecca
The Last Guest of the Holloway Motel is an aching portrait of sexual secrecy that reverberates as a cautionary tale of what’s lost when we are forced to hide ourselves.
·tisch.nyu.edu·
In Conversation with Alumni Ramiel Petros and Nicholas Freeman: “The Last Guest of the Holloway Motel” Tracks a Vanished Soccer Star's Reappearance in L.A.’s Gay Mecca