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Risky Business (1983) edited to make Lana the protagonist and the plot more feminist and sex-worker-positive. For my Film, Gender, Sexuality final. Click on the photo to watch the video! PASSWORD: riskybusiness

Paris is Burning (1990) directed by Jennie Livingston is an indisputably important film for the queer community. Centered around the Drag Ball scene in New York City in the late 1980s and early 1990s, this documentary follows the lives of the queers involved in the scene at the time. Livingston interviews a rang of characters,Continue reading “The Debate Over Race in Paris is Burning”

The Celluloid Closet, though released in 1996, still remains one of the most poignant movies I’ve watched to date. The disservice that Hollywood has done to the LGBTQAI community quite honestly breaks my heart. In addition to this devastating though enlightening history, there are many interesting points of view touched upon in the film, broughtContinue reading “The Celluloid Closet”