Family Values, Gay Ghosts, and Taiwan’s Queer Blockbusters

For queer cinema in Taiwan, embracing modernity means embracing tradition too.

12 1000 Clouds, 12 AF Slava, 12 Censored Canvas, 12 Joker, 12 MBOA, 12 TIB Erotica, 12 TSAI MING, 12 Whiz Bam, 12 YentlDiana RamosJuly 1, 2024Zheng Yi Sung, ISSUE12, C - Pick Me

A Thousand Clouds of Peace and Rainbows: Mexico’s Queer Film Trailblazers

When it comes to Mexican films, the sexual is political.

12 Yentl, 12 Whiz Bam, 12 TSAI MING, 12 TIB Erotica, 12 MBOA, 12 Joker, 12 Cinema Taiwan, 12 Censored Canvas, 12 AF SlavaDiana RamosJuly 1, 2024ISSUE12, Julián Hernández, C - Pick Me, C - Leather

The In-Between: Erotica and Porn

Bruce LaBruce has been told his work is too pornographic for the art world, and too artsy for the porn world.

12 1000 Clouds, 12 AF Slava, 12 Censored Canvas, 12 Cinema Taiwan, 12 Joker, 12 MBOA, 12 TSAI MING, 12 Whiz Bam, 12 Yentl, The In-betweenDiana RamosJuly 1, 2024ISSUE12, Bruce LaBruce, The In-Between, C - Rick Castro

The Censored Canvas: Queer Art in the Age of Online Censorship

As culture migrates to digital spaces, the two most dreaded words for queer artists are “community guidelines.”

12 AF Slava, 12 Cinema Taiwan, 12 Joker, 12 MBOA, 12 TSAI MING, 12 Whiz Bam, 12 Yentl, 12 TIB Erotica, 12 1000 CloudsDiana RamosJuly 1, 2024ISSUE12, Slava Mogutin

My Body and Other Adventures: My Pregnancy in Movies

What Gattaca, Venom, Bridget Jones, and Mad Max taught me about my pregnancy.

My Body and Other Adventu, Talia Squires, 12 1000 Clouds, 12 AF Slava, 12 Censored Canvas, 12 Cinema Taiwan, 12 Joker, 12 TIB Erotica, 12 TSAI MING, 12 Whiz Bam, 12 YentlDiana RamosJuly 1, 2024ISSUE12, Talia Squires, My Body and Other Adventures, C - Lying Bi

The Cruising Grounds of Tsai Ming-liang’s Slow Cinema

Amid the neon wash of urbanscapes thrumming with erotic energy, Tsai Ming-liang reveals the queerness beneath the surface of all things.

12 1000 Clouds, 12 AF Slava, 12 Censored Canvas, 12 Cinema Taiwan, 12 Joker, 12 MBOA, 12 TIB Erotica, 12 Whiz Bam, 12 YentlDiana RamosJuly 1, 2024ISSUE12, Travis Jeppesen

Yentl, the Wonderfully Queer Yeshiva Boy

The unlikely tale of how a cross-dressing Jewish girl from the Old World inspired a Cuban-American lesbian in the New World.

12 1000 Clouds, 12 AF Slava, 12 Censored Canvas, 12 Cinema Taiwan, 12 Joker, 12 MBOA, 12 TIB Erotica, 12 TSAI MING, 12 Whiz BamDiana RamosJuly 1, 2024ISSUE12, Anna Margarita Albelo, C - Pick Me

Whiz Bam!: The Video Gays That Made Me

For a gay teen in the 90s St. Louis, this queer video store was a top pick.

12 1000 Clouds, 12 AF Slava, 12 Censored Canvas, 12 Cinema Taiwan, 12 Joker, 12 MBOA, 12 TIB Erotica, 12 TSAI MING, 12 YentlDiana RamosJuly 1, 2024ISSUE12, Bradford Nordeen

The Messy Truths About False Rape Allegations

The online kangaroo court of public opinion is where due process and women’s safety go to die.

Diana RamosJune 28, 2024Currents, Chris Ferguson

The Hypocrisy and Homophobia of Anti-Surrogacy Radicals

How far-right homophobia and radfem misandry have teamed up, once again, to stop the gays from having families.

Diana RamosJune 13, 2024Currents, Daniel DeStefano, Trends

The Common Ground We Dare Not Speak

In a time of supposedly universal polarization, highlighting common ground is a revolutionary act.

Diana RamosMay 24, 2024Currents, Chris Ferguson

Is Feminism Starting To Resemble the Religious Right?

Is Gen Z’s revolt against sex an act of rebellion or just conservative prudery?

Diana RamosMay 17, 2024Currents, Sophie Saint Thomas, C - Anti-Surrogacy, C - QUERFS, Trends

The Long, Whitewashed History of Communist Homophobia

Many activists insist that LGBT rights are an extension of communist ideology, but history says otherwise.

Diana RamosMay 9, 2024Currents, Alexander Von Sternberg, C - Karim

When It Comes to Free Speech, Elon Musk Is a Cissy

Elon Musk rode into Twitter headquarters like a conquering free speech warrior. But all he did was choose different targets for censorship.

Diana RamosMay 3, 2024Currents, Jamie Paul

The Manic Pixie Bi Boys

In the 2000s, male writers dreamed up a trope of the ultimate fantasy woman. Now, female writers are creating their version.

Talia SquiresDiana RamosApril 26, 2024Currents, Talia Squires, C - Cinderella, C - Leo Grande, C - Maestro, C - Shadows, C - Lying Bi, C - Pick Me, Featured

LGBT Culture Wars: America’s Most Dangerous Export

American culture wars get halfway around the world before civil dialogue can get its pants on.

Diana RamosApril 19, 2024Currents, Frances An

The Phantom “Queer” Menace

Critics are convinced that the rise in LGBTQ+ identification is driven by the TQ+, but that’s not what the data says.

Diana RamosApril 9, 2024Currents, Jamie Paul

Easter, Trans Visibility, and the Death of Grace

The manufactured controversy over President Joe Biden recognizing Trans Visibility on Easter reveals the spiritual rot at the core of the culture wars.

Diana RamosApril 3, 2024Currents, John Hyde, C - Cissy

The Right-Wing Groomers Who Call Everyone Groomers

When it comes to the right-wing “groomer” police, methinks they doth protest too much.

Diana RamosApril 1, 2024Currents, Joshua Eakle, C - Salty Boys, Featured OCT

Oh, Canada… A Liberal Immigrant’s Lament

The Canada my parents moved us to 50 years ago was a bastion of liberal freedom. Now it’s beginning to remind me of the country we fled.

Diana RamosMarch 20, 2024Currents, Obaid Omer

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