When Rob Halford Screamed Queer-Coded Lyrics
From coded BDSM references to vivid homoerotic imagery, Rob Halford’s lyrics formed a complex, emotionally charged expression of queerness under societal pressure.
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Naughty Naughty Joe Orton
Screenwriter Joe Orton’s specialty was throwing in queer and polymorphous sexuality during a period when English laws were loosening but homosexuals were still being arrested.
Director Roggio on Exposing the Bible’s False Narrative About Homosexuality
Director Sharon ‘Rocky’ Roggio discusses her documentary, 1946: The Mistranslation That Shifted Culture, and how the Bible has been weaponised against the LGBTQIA+ community.
Lecklider’s Historical Work Love’s Next Meeting Examines Homosexuals and Communism in the US
In the virulently anti-Communist and homophobic climate of the postwar era many feared any association between the emerging lesbian and gay cause and Communism.
‘Cured’ Co-Director Bennett Singer on Social Issue Filmmaking and LGBTQ Activism
Co-director Bennett Singer talks with PopMatters about the early gay rights documentary, ‘Cured’, and the cruelty of ongoing conversion therapy.
Viggo Mortensen’s ‘Falling’ Binds Art and Life
Viggo Mortensen's first directorial feature, Falling -- a mix of hope and existentialist despair -- is rooted in the story of his family.
Horrors in the Queer Film Closet: Horrifying Heteronormative Scapegoating
The artificial connection between homosexuality and communism created the popular myth of evil and undetectable gay subversives living inside 1950s American society. Queer film both reflected and refracted the homophobia.
How Kenneth Anger Created Camp Cinema with His Short Film, ‘Puce Moment’
In his 1949 short film Puce Moment, Kenneth Anger created a new kind of cinema — one that was glitzy, gaudy, queer-coded, and proto-feminist.
Brian Selznick Communicates Wordlessly with Walt Whitman in Abram’s ‘Live Oak, with Moss’
Language and image never combine in Abrams' Live Oak, with Moss; they are distant lovers, if you will, as divided as Walt Whitman and Brian Selznick are as collaborators.
Michael Donkor Brings Forth the Power of Women in ‘Housegirl’
Michael Donkor's Housegirl, a PopMatters' pick, is a strong debut novel about traditional changes and personal awakenings.
Disobedience Is Essential: Interview with Filmmaker Sebastián Lelio
Sebastián Lelio reflects on his first English language feature, Disobedience, and how art, the individual, and society benefits from rebellion against one’s own worldview.
On Mishima, and Feeling That One Exists
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters is a singular portrait of an artist's life lived so fiercely as to have left an indelible mark on an alienated world seeking affirmation for its own existence.