Gay Conversion Therapy Onscreen: Joel Edgerton On ‘Boy Erased’
Actor-director Joel Edgerton details the sensitive process of making Boy Erased and how the film could act as a lifeline for families who have experienced gay conversion therapy.
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The Limits of Hospitality in Fred Rogers Documentary, ‘Won’t You Be My Neighbor?’
Our work on this Earth, Rogers insists, is Tikkun Olam (repairing the world). So why does Morgan Neville shut down the possibility of queerness in his documentary?
In Thrall to Genius: Alain Locke and the Harlem Renaissance
By serving as a midwife to artists, the "Dean of the Harlem Renaissance" Alain Locke would help foster an art that would stand as a midwife to a better future.
Graphic Fiction ‘The Smell of Starving Boys’ Inverts Images and Expectations
Loo Hui Phang emphasizes the nature of image-making from the first panel: an upside landscape as viewed through the inverting lens of the protagonist's camera.
‘Blue Is the Warmest Color’ Is Better As a Comic
Julie Mahor's hand is deft in so many ways, producing a visually and emotionally complex tale of coming-of-age love uniquely grounded in the comics form.
Authors of Our Identity: Filmmaker Eliza Hittman on ‘Beach Rats’
Beach Rats captures the tumultuous divide between one's mind and feelings, as well as the duality of one's nature.
The Price He Was Willing to Pay: ‘Oscar Wilde: The Unrepentant Years’
By picking up his subject after the most infamous event in Wilde's life, Frankel is able to rebuild the narrative of Wilde's post-prison life from the detritus of his public undoing.
‘Homintern’ Is Not as Subversive and Liberating as Its Subject Matter
What was unique and liberating about the gay influence on Western culture? Gregory Woods tells only part of the story in Homintern.
E.T. Was Gay
Steven Spielberg’s most child-friendly blockbuster, E.T., primed a generation to be more accepting of homosexuality.
Uncovering Queer History in ‘Gay Berlin’
Gay Berlin reveals a vibrant gay rights movement that flourished in Germany a hundred years before Stonewall.