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bitter69uk · 11 months

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“Well, it would be a crowded world if we didn’t have death to re-arrange the scenery.”

/ Kenneth Anger interviewed by Purple Magazine in 2018 /

Funny how shocking it feels to type the words “His Satanic Majesty Kenneth Anger (3 February 1927 – 24 May 2023) has died”. (Sprueth Magers Gallery announced his death earlier today via Twitter). The pioneering experimental underground filmmaker, author and occultist was, after all, 96 years old! I always assumed whatever pact Anger made with the devil invested him with immortality (or that he’d at least reach 100). Repeatedly seeing Anger’s homoerotic masterpieces like Scorpio Rising (1964) and Kustom Kar Kommandos (1965) at an impressionable age (often at the much-missed Scala Cinema in London) made a profound impact on me, and his two salacious wildly irresponsible volumes of Hollywood Babylon are like sacred religious texts! What a total original Kenneth Anger was. His art will live forever. Pictured: portrait of Anger in his youth in the 1950s by Edmund Teske.

#kenneth anger #underground cinema #role model #filth elder #underground queer cinema #occultism #art cinema #hollywood babylon

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phantomladyoverparis · 10 months

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Les intrigues de Sylvia Couski (1975), dir. Adolfo Arrieta

#Les intrigues de Sylvia Couski #adolfo arrieta #70s #underground film #Queer Cinema #french cinema

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madredellelacrime · 11 months

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BUT DON’T YOU PANIC, I’LL GIVE YOU A SATANIC MECHANIC : Shiny vehicles and pretty boys in Kenneth Anger’s cinema

Scorpio Rising (1963)

Kustom Kar Kommandos (1965)

A month ago, cinema’s greatest magician left the physical realm and as an hommage to Kenneth Anger, I felt obligated to dig into his filmography again. Far from the occult work I’m usually drawn too, it felt like the right time to rediscover his classic film : Scorpio Rising.

My first encounter with this proto-documentary on a group of bikers happened back in 2019, during an experimental cinema course I took at university. While a classroom doesn’t seem like the proper place to fully enjoy, the power conveyed by the beautiful images still managed to take me away. Almost 5 years later, I found myself drawn to this film, moved by an urge to rediscover this experimental piece.

But what is Scorpio Rising about? Like most experimental films, it’s obviously guided by this fantastic quest to look for beauty in the ordinary, to transform simple things into shimmery jewels. Motorcycles shine and become accessories to the bikers. Far from the traditional straight hyper-masculine figures that usually inhabit the world of bikers, Anger follows the group through the prism of homoeroticism - a bedroom full of James Dean’s pictures, leather jackets customised with studs resembling glitters in the distance, men in drag to replace their actual girlfriends. Moving along with the group and the speed of their bikes, Scorpio Rising takes a step back from the polished images and explores an uglier side of those man-machines where torture and church trashing meet the use of Nazi imagery - act of subversion or real political affinity from its actors/characters ? To this day, the film still is an important part of queer cinema and a gay man’s point of view on a 1960’s New York.

To continue this “automobile double feature”, I picked a short film I hadn’t seen yet : Kustom Kar Kommandos. Abolish the KKK’s white supremacy, hail to the car’s supremacy! This 3-minute long film feels like one of David Cronenberg or Julia Ducournau’s fever dreams with its lush cinematography, full of pinks and reds. Here, the car is the true main character being carefully polished by a guy never seen as a whole. A vehicle almost presented as a woman with the pastel pink background and vulva-like car seats which contrast with the man’s blue outfit. To further this man-machine relationship, the car sports a magnificent shiny body in which the human figure can reflect. The intensive polishing of the metal shapes the machine into a mirror only to cast back the man’s own masculinity. More than in love with his car, he’s in love with the reflection of himself and everything related to a man’s image.

Mechanic has always been related to masculinity and Kenneth Anger uses the representation of vehicles in his film to define his own of idea of the man : reckless, narcissistic and deeply gay. A man in love with the image of himself reflecting in the body of his car and in love with other men which he keeps picture of in his bedroom.

#kenneth anger #scorpio rising #kustom kar kommandos #60s film #underground cinema #queer cinema

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celluloidbroomcloset · 4 months

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OK. I wrote some of this in a vent to @sparklywaistcoat, but I'm gonna say it here.

I'm less sad about there not being a Season 3 and feel more just tearful anger that once again studios and streamers truly don't give a fuck about art or what it means to people or to culture. It’s corporations who just want to reproduce the same boring shit for the same boring people and even when they have something that’s popular and loved, they just can’t see past their own very narrow worldview. I really did think that the second season was going to get chucked once HBO Max restructured and WB merged with Discovery. I was shocked that it ever got released.

There’s such a wonderful scope of art in this world, but streamers won’t give it the space it needs to breathe. So when you get something like OFMD or Reservation Dogs or Good Omens, it’s so hopeful and yet you just sit there in heartbreak, hoping it doesn’t go away, or that it can at least play out as the people who make it want it to. Sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't, but we have to remember that even when it doesn't, it still means something.

Now, Hollywood has always been like this, but it’s still very hard to see art being treated so callously. It’s like when the Code came in and you look back and see all these lovely things, truly groundbreaking stuff, that got cut off at the knees because of the fucking mainstream conservatives who thought they knew what was best, and the Hollywood studios that went right along with them to keep selling their product.

But the studio system, and the Code, broke, and it is breaking again. We’re in line for a major bursting of cinematic art as creators escape from franchises and the mainstream, a la American Independent cinema. It is already happening. The new studio system, built on streamers and franchises, of which WB and HBOMax is a part, is collapsing. OFMD is a big sign of that—an openly queer, incredibly diverse TV show that kept pushing and pushing through eighteen episodes, that rejected queerbaiting, that rejected convention, and that built itself on being a gay pirate rom-com and was exactly that.

Queer media has done more than broken through. It has embedded itself in the culture in a way that it never did in the past. It's out from the underground without assimilation. OFMD is not the only part of that, but it is a part of it. And that's something that HBOMax, Zaslav, Hollywood, the studio system, the entire straight, cis, white, conservative, conventional mainstream world can absolutely never take away or push back into the closet. They will try, though, and they will lose. They already lost.

So, yeah, I'm angry and I'm sad, and they fucked Calypso's birthday. But we can chuck a fiddle at their heads to protect the people we love, and it isn't going to destroy our souls.

Our spirit will last throughout their entire fucking empire.

#ofmd #our flag means death #just my thoughts #queer media #queer cinema #stede bonnet #edward teach #izzy hands #the crew of the revenge #gif

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akajustmerry · 3 months

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1 love your blog and podcast

2 I’m really enjoying your weekly Palestinian film recs

3. Do you have more recommendations for Arab and Middle Eastern cinema ?

Thank you ☺️

helloooooo, thank you 🥰 I have a whole sideblog which I don't promote enough called @swanasource where I and my co-mod @thatidomagirl frequently post middle eastern/SWANA film and films made by swana filmmakers in the film tag here:

I myself am still on my journey of watching more swana films (and non-english and non-Western films) so I won't claim to be any sort of exhaustive expert. but here are some of my favourites!

Salt of this Sea (2008). Dir. Annemarie Jacir. Palestinian film about a Palestinian-American woman heisting an Israeli bank

The Persian Version (2023). Dir. Maryam Kershavez. Comedy about an Iranian-American lesbian who gets pregnant after a one night stand and so decides to learn more about her family history.

Kedi (2016). A calming and beautiful Turkish documentary about the cats of Istanbul

Ali's Wedding (2017). A rom-com about an Iraqi-Australian Muslim who falls in love with the Lebanese girl from his mosque who's helping him get into med school.

The Man Who Sold His Skin (2020). Tunisian thriller about a syrian refugee who agrees to let his back be tattooed and be part of a living exhibition by a notorious artist so he can get a visa.

Sirens (2020). A documentary about the queer Lebanese all-girl metal band, Slave To Sirens, set around the Beirut explosion.

In Vitro (2019). A short Palestinian sci-fi film about an elderly woman in an underground bunker trying to describe the world before to a young woman who's only ever known the bunker.

Cairo Time (2009). Dir. Ruba Nadda. Look, this film isn't perfect but It's about a white American woman who's husband is a UN worker in Egypt. She goes to visit him in Cairo, but her husband is waylaid so he sends his bestie played by the beautiful Alexander Siddig to take her around Cairo and oh my GOD the romantic tension of this movie keeps me up at night.

Butterflies (2018). One of my fave movies ever. A Turkish comedy about 3 estranged siblings who have to take a chaotic road trip to fulfil their father's last wishes.

#swana tag #film #anon #/

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bitter69uk · 1 month

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"I loved Candy, and she adored me. She had such a strong sense of femininity … her femininity was even stronger than mine. I'd sometime slip and uncross my legs, but you'd never see Candy doing that. She always had her legs crossed just right. She'd fluff her hair and even flirt with my boyfriend, but I was never threatened by her. She so strongly appealed to me as a wonderful human being. The last time I saw her she was wearing this fabulous purple Harlow-ish nightgown. She was eating chocolate."

/ From Julie Newmar’s eulogy at Candy Darling’s funeral at The Frank E Campbell Funeral Chapel /

“Warhol superstar Candy Darling is synonymous with doomed glamour — a gorgeous woman playing a dying gorgeous woman. The image of her laid up in hospital, looking ready for her close-up in full makeup with one black rose on the pillow beside her, looks like a staged photo for a fashion magazine. But that picture, taken by Peter Hujar, is as staged as it is real. Candy Darling died of lymphoma in that hospital room in 1974. She was 29.”

/ From “50 years after Candy Darling’s death, Warhol superstar’s struggle as a trans actress still resonates” by Jessica Ferri, The Los Angeles Times, 18 March 2024 /

Died on this day fifty years ago: ethereally beautiful, memorable and funny transgender Warhol Superstar Candy Darling (24 November 1944 - 21 March 1974). (Yes, THE Candy “from out on the Island” commemorated in the 1972 Lou Reed song “Walk on the Wild Side”). Coincidentally, the ambitious new ten-years-in-the-making biography Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar by Cynthia Carr just dropped this month, and I can’t wait to devour it. Pictured: portrait of Darling on her deathbed by Peter Hujar (1934 – 1987).

#candy darling #peter hujar #warhol superstar #transgender #lgbtqia #julie newmar #lobotomy room #underground cinema #underground queer cinema

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phantomladyoverparis · 10 months

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Les intrigues de Sylvia Couski (1975), dir. Adolfo Arrieta

#Les intrigues de Sylvia Couski #adolfo arrieta #70s #underground film #queer cinema #french cinema

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homomenhommes · 3 months

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THIS DAY IN GAY HISTORY

based on: The White Crane Institute's 'Gay Wisdom', Gay Birthdays, Gay For Today, Famous GLBT, glbt-Gay Encylopedia, Today in Gay History, Wikipedia, and more … February 3

Francis Douglas (R) with his brother Alfred

1867 – Francis Douglas, Viscount Drumlanrig (d.1894) was a Scottish nobleman and politician, the eldest son of the 9th Marquess of Queensberry.

He was educated at Harrow School and later served as a private secretary to the Liberal politician and Prime Minister Archibald Primrose, Lord Rosebery. Thanks to Rosebery's patronage, on 22 June 1893 he was raised to the Peerage of the United Kingdom as Baron Kelhead, of Kelhead in the County of Dumfries. This provided him with a seat in the House of Lords.

Drumlanrig's father served in Parliament from 1872 to 1880 as a representative peer, but in 1880 he refused, as an atheist, to take the religious oath of allegiance to the Queen. He was not allowed to take his seat and was never again chosen as representative peer by the Scottish nobles. His son's accession to Parliament as the 1st Baron Kelhead precipitated a bitter dispute between them and also between Queensberry and Lord Rosebery, who became Prime Minister in 1894.

In October 1894, eighteen months after his ennoblement, Drumlanrig died in what may have been a hunting accident or suicide. He was unmarried and his younger brother Lord Percy Douglas became heir to his father's titles.

It was speculated at the time, and evidence suggests that Drumlanrig may have had a homosexual relationship with Rosebery, and further, that Queensberry had threatened to expose the Prime Minister's supposed proclivities if his government did not vigorously prosecute Oscar Wilde in the affair stemming from Wilde's relationship with Francis Douglas's younger brother Lord Alfred Douglas. Rosebery was, by most accounts, happily married until the death of his wife in 1890, though gossip that Rosebery was homosexual or bisexual was indeed widespread. Queensberry believed that, as he phrased it to Lord Alfred in a letter, 'Snob Queers like Rosebery' had corrupted his sons, and held the Prime Minister indirectly responsible for Drumlanrig's death.

1927 – Kenneth Anger, American Underground Filmmaker, born (d.2023); One of America's first openly Gay filmmakers, and certainly the first whose work addressed homosexuality in an undisguised, self-implicating manner, Kenneth Anger occupies an important place in the history of experimental filmmaking. His role in rendering Gay culture visible within American cinema, commercial or otherwise, is impossible to overestimate.

In 1947, Anger gained instant notoriety with Fireworks, a homoerotic nightmare/reverie in which a muscle-bound sailor enjoys posing for the protagonist's (Anger's) delectation, but then, with four others, bashes the youth in a public restroom. Despite the horrific scenario, the ending suggests redemption with milky fluid spattering Anger's body, a sympathetic sailor's crotch spewing white sparks from a Roman candle, and Anger resurrected, wearing a flaming Christmas tree headdress.

Some early Anger works never made it to the controversial screening stage because negatives were confiscated and destroyed by self-policing labs to which he had sent film for processing. Conversely, other viewers were overly appreciative of Anger's eroticism, pirating and showing his films in nightclubs during an era when Gay porn was largely unavailable.

Similarly, the pervasiveness of iconic Gay imagery in Anger's work, such as the leather-clad bikers of Scorpio Rising (1963), often caused his films to be grossly oversimplified as depictions of homosexual "pathology," rather than understood as critiques of American mass culture, particularly as it was propagated by Hollywood movies and the rock-and-roll music that Anger used for his soundtracks in pioneering ways, critically anticipating the music-video genre.

In unfinished film projects such as Puce Moment (1949), with its close-up sequence of women's gowns, and Kustom Kar Kommandos (1965), in which a youth caresses a hot-rod with a powder puff, Anger inventories American culture's most fetishized objects, evoking a profoundly camp sensibility. Elsewhere, in Eaux d'artifice (1953), whatever Gay content does exist—Anger cites Ronald Firbank's novel Valmouth as inspiration and has likened the fountain imagery to sexual water-sports—is subordinate to the film's elegant visual abstractions.

Although Fireworks and Scorpio Rising had earned him a reputation as an underground Gay filmmaker, through the late 1960s and 1970s, Anger's films expressed less specifically Gay content. His longtime fascination with the writings of occultist Aleister Crowley, which had imparted a dark, ritualistic atmosphere to even his earliest films, propelled works such as Invocation of My Demon Brother (1969) and Lucifer Rising (1973). Collaborative projects with Mick Jagger and Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page recalled Anger's earlier professional engagements with Jean Cocteau, Anaïs Nin, and other iconoclasts, but the results fell short of Anger's expectations and, indeed, abilities.

Through the 1980s, Anger became known to a broader public through the film adaptation of his lurid book Hollywood Babylon (1958), which chronicled scandals of the film industry. Hollywood Babylon is, in essence, a counter-accusation of indecency and intemperance against America's self-righteous film establishment, an institution that at mid-century was so fearful of scandal that only underground filmmakers risked depicting overtly sexual content and exploring radical cinematic forms.

1936 – James Bridges was an American screenwriter and film director. (d.1993) Bridges was born in Paris, Arkansas. He got his start as a writer for Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and one of his episodes, 'An Unlocked Window', earned him a 1966 Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Episode in a TV Series.

He went on to write and direct a number of notable films, including The Baby Maker (1970), The Paper Chase (1973), The China Syndrome (1979), Urban Cowboy (1980), Perfect (1985), and Bright Lights, Big City (1988).

From 1958 until his death in 1993, his life partner was actor Jack Larson, best known for his portrayal of Jimmy Olsen in the TV series Adventures of Superman. Bridges died in Los Angeles, California of cancer. The James Bridges Theater at University of California, Los Angeles was named in his honor in November 1999. Bridges was a faculty member there early in his career.

1950 – Ron Woodroof (d.1992) was an American who created what would become known as the Dallas Buyers Club in March 1988. Contracting the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in the 1980s, he created the group as part of his efforts to find and distribute drugs to treat HIV at a time when the disease was poorly understood.

He sued the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) over a ban on a drug he was using.

Woodroof was born in Dallas, Texas. His first marriage was to Mary Etta Pybus on June 28, 1969, in Dallas; and they had a daughter born in 1970. They divorced in 1972. On May 6, 1972, he married Rory S. Flynn in Dallas. They divorced in 1973. He then married Brenda Shari Robin on October, 1982, in Lubbock. They divorced on March 4, 1986, after he was diagnosed with HIV.

He had a mercurial personality. One reporter writes that "Woodroof took guns to his doctor’s office, prompting Dr. Steven Pounders to 'fire him as a patient.'" Woodroof later sent the doctor roses, and the doctor took him back.

Some of his friends told reporters he was gay or bisexual. Accounts differ on whether he made homophobic comments. Reporter and screenwriter Craig Borten has said Woodroof was "as racist and homophobic as they come" while friends reportedly claim the opposite.

Seven years following his diagnosis of HIV, Ron Woodroof died on September 12, 1992 from pneumonia brought on by AIDS. Woodroof's final years became the basis of the 2013 film Dallas Buyers Club. He was portrayed in the film by Matthew McConaughey, who was critically acclaimed for his performance and won many awards, including the Academy Award for Best Actor.

1957 – Marlon Riggs, was a gay African-American filmmaker, educator, poet, and gay rights activist. (d.1994) He produced, wrote, and directed several television documentaries, including Ethnic Notions, Tongues Untied, Color Adjustment, and Black Is. . . Black Ain't.

Riggs was critical of American racism and homophobia. He used his films to show positive images of African-American culture as well as those of physical and emotional love between black men in order to challenge representations of African Americans and black gay men in popular culture.

"Blacks are inferior because they are not white. Black gays are unnatural because they are not straight. Majority representations of both affirm the view that blackness and gayness constitute a fundamental rupture in the order of things, that our very existence is an affront to nature and humanity."

Soon after arriving in California Riggs settled in Oakland. For 15 years, he made his home with his life companion Jack Vincent. In 1988, while working on Tongues Untied, Riggs was diagnosed with HIV after undergoing treatment for near-fatal kidney failure at a hospital in Germany.

Riggs was inducted into the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association Hall of Fame in 2006. He produced many documentaries for public television, some of which were controversial like Tongues Untied, being protested by media watchdog groups because they were produced with money from the National Endowment for the Arts. One of his notable students was San Francisco-based documentary filmmaker Sam Green.

Marlon Riggs died from HIV/AIDS related illness in 1994. His death came prior to completion of his final work, Black Is...Black Ain't, a film about sexism and homophobia in African-American communities.

1964 – Gengoroh Tagame is a pseudonymous Japanese manga artist and art historian. He is one of the most influential creators of gay manga, noted for his works depicting graphic themes of sadomasochism, sexual violence, and hypermasculinity. His later work includes the all-ages manga series My Brother's Husband and Our Colors.

Tagame was born into a family descended from samurai. He studied graphic design at Tama Art University, and after graduating in 1982, worked as a commercial art director. On a trip to Europe, Tagame discovered the American leather magazine Drummer. The magazine, which featured drawings by Bill Ward, would make strong impression on Tagame's art. He began publishing erotica under the pen name Gengoroh Tagame in 1986, and since 1994 he has lived off the profits of his art and writings. Tagame's works have been published in several Japanese gay magazines, including Sabu, G-men and SM-Z.

Typical Tagame gay manga

His works contain "virile males, or youths, and their apprenticeship of physical and mental submission". Notable works include Jujitsu Kyoshi at B Product; Emono, Shirogane no Hana (3 vol.) and Pride (3 vol.) at G-Project. Pride focuses on a masculine power top who is discovered by his even more masculine professor to harbor masochistic tendencies, and trains him to be submissive through harsh domination. Naburi mono, ("Laughing stock") serialised in G-Men in 1994, is about a yakuza strongman who falls in love with a wrestler he has been ordered to kidnap, ending with their ritualistic suicide together.

Tagame is additionally noted as an art historian and archivist of gay Japanese erotica, and has edited a two volume artbook series about the history of gay erotic art in Japan from the 1950s to the present, Nihon no gei, erotikku āto, Gay Erotic Art in Japan).

In the mid-2010s, Tagame began creating all-ages manga in addition to his erotic works. His first all-ages work was Otouto no Otto (My Brother's Husband), serialized in Futabasha's Monthly Action magazine in Japan and published in English by Pantheon Books. The series received universal acclaim, and has been awarded excellence awards at the 19th Japan Media Arts Festival in 2015, and the Japan Cartoonists Association Award in 2018. In March 2018, Monthly Action began serialization of Our Colors, Tagame's second all-ages manga.

1969 – Paul Babeu is the elected sheriff of Pinal County in the U.S. state of Arizona. First voted into office in 2008 by defeating the Democratic incumbent, Babeu became the first Republican Sheriff elected in the history of Pinal County. He has received national media attention for speaking out against illegal immigration, the unsecured U.S. border with Mexico, and Operation Fast and Furious gun smuggling facilitated by the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

In October 2011, Babeu announced the formation of an exploratory committee to run for U.S. Congress, but later decided against running. Babeu won reelection to a second term as sheriff on November 6, 2012.

In February 2012, Babeu was accused of threats of deportation by a Mexican man who described himself as a former boyfriend of Babeu. A spokesman for Babeu denied the allegation and described them as "sensationalist". The spokesman confirmed that Babeu would continue to run for U.S. Congress.

The day after the story broke, Babeu, then a surrogate for Mitt Romney's campaign, officially acknowledged his sexuality but denied the charges. Babeu claimed his sexual orientation was the only factual statement from the allegations. Later, in May, he told openly gay journalist Don Lemon he wants to provide a bridge between the GOP and LGBT communities. He later won reelection as Sheriff of Maricopa County Pinal County by a large margin.

1971 – Hong Seok-cheon is a South Korean actor, television personality, restaurateur and member of the Democratic Labor Party. He caused considerable controversy in his home country when he came out as gay in 2000, and remains the most prominent openly gay celebrity in Korea.

Hong Seok-cheon was born in Cheongyang County in South Chungcheong Province. He began his entertainment career as a male model, and made his screen debut in 1994 as a reporter for Live TV Information Center. In 1995, he won the bronze prize at the KBS Comedian Festival (for college students). Due to his versatility and comic timing, Hong went on to a prolific career on South Korean television, appearing in children's programs and variety shows, as well as sitcoms and dramas.

In 2000, Hong was asked a question regarding his sexuality on a variety show, and he chose to answer honestly that he was gay. Though the show's producers initially edited out the exchange, a journalist got wind of the story and pressed Hong to confirm his admission. After Hong revealed his homosexuality, he was fired from his network television programs and advertisements amidst public uproar, and no longer landed any major acting roles. He faced massive stigma after becoming the country's first openly gay celebrity, and later said he experienced shunning, verbal abuse and discrimination that he rarely stepped out of his social circle. He then wrote his memoir My Heart Still Throbs for Forgotten Love, in which he recounted his failed romance with a Dutch man named Tony.

Forced out of the entertainment business, Hong decided stay in Korea to prove to his detractors that he could be a success. He started his first restaurant Our Place in 2002, two years after he came out. He now owns and runs nine high-end restaurants in Itaewon, home to a large expat community in Seoul. Hong's restaurants are all characterized by the prefix "My," namely: My Hong, My Chi chi*s, My Thai, My Thai China, My X, My Chelsea, My Noodle, and My Suji.

In 2004, he joined the Democratic Labor Party and was selected by Time magazine as the year's Asian Hero. Hong also continued appearing regularly on talk shows, notably Yeo Yoo Man Man, on which he guested with his parents and discussed his life since coming out. Acting-wise, Hong starred in the thriller Puzzle (2006) and the stage play A Midsummer Night's Dream (2009).

After his sister's divorce, Hong adopted her two children and changed their last names to his. In 2008, he hosted his own talk show Coming Out, which featured gay issues. Despite Korean society's continuing conservatism, Hong overcame initial public disapproval and gradually gained more mainstream acceptance, especially among the younger generation, in part because of his activism in fighting for LGBT rights. From bit parts and cameos, he now emcees shows on cable television and has a sizeable following on social media.

1976 – Daniel Allen Cox is a Canadian author and screenwriter. Shuck, his debut novel about a New York City hustler, was a Lambda Literary Award and a ReLit Award finalist

Cox is a former Jehovah's Witness and model/actor in gay pornography. From 2008 to 2011, he wrote the column "Fingerprinted" for Capital Xtra! in Ottawa, Ontario. He is openly gay.

Krakow Melt, the second novel by Cox, about Polish pyromaniacs who fight homophobia, was released in 2010 and was excerpted in the US-based national gay and lesbian newsmagazine The Advocate. In 2011, Istanbul-based publisher Altikirkbes acquired Turkish-language rights to the novel for an underground literature imprint featuring Lydia Lunch. The novel was nominated for the ReLit Award, the Lambda Literary Award and the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT Fiction. Cox's third novel, Basement of Wolves, was released in 2012.

In a cover interview for Xtra!, the author revealed a collaboration with Bruce LaBruce on the screenplay for the director's film, Gerontophilia. Cox's script One Shut Night was named one of five finalists in the 2013 NYC PictureStart Film Festival short screenplay contest, with the announcement of a stage reading directed by Peter Kelley.

Tattoo This Madness In, his novella about LGBT Jehovah’s Witnesses who use Smurf tattoos to rebel against their faith, was nominated for a 2007 Expozine Alternative Press Award.

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QUEER MTL : quoi faire en mars 2024 // QUEER MTL THINGS TO DO: March 2024

QUEER MTL THINGS TO DO: March 2024

The year keeps marching on, and spring is on its way (not to mention International Women’s Day)! This month, Montréal is stuffed to the brim with events, parties and unique experiences painted in all the colours of the LGBTQ+ rainbow. From drag to community, circuit to underground, here’s some of our picks for the best LGBTQ+ things to do in the city. For further announcements, including those not announced at time of publication, follow QueerMTL on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr! Got an event coming up? DM it our way!

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🎥 Cinema 👑 Drag 🥳 Parties 🎶 Concert ✊ Activism 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans 🏳️‍🌈 Community 😆 Comedy 🎭 Performance 💪 Sports and Dance 👯‍♀️ Dance 🎤 Karaoke 🎨 Arts 📚 Literary / Educational 👠 Ballroom / Vogue

Vendredi 1 mars / Friday, March 1

🏳️‍🌈 FAG QC* : 40 ans, 40 invité.es, 40 propositions tirées des Fonds des Archives Gaies du Québec, commemorating 40 years of the AGQ, Archives gaies du Québec

📚 Québec Lesbian Network hosts Colloque Recherches lesbiennes, Réseau des lesbiennes du Québec

🥳 Britney One More Time: 25 Years of Britney Dance Party, Cabaret Berlin

👑 Mado Reçoit with Special Guests, Cabaret Mado

👑 Vendredi Fou with Michel Dorion, Bar Le Cocktail

🤠 Club Bolo—Danse Country Montréal meet on Fridays at the Association sportive et communautaire du Centre-Sud

Samedi 2 mars / Saturday, March 2

🏳️‍🌈 FAG QC* : 40 ans, 40 invité.es, 40 propositions tirées des Fonds des Archives Gaies du Québec, commemorating 40 years of the AGQ, Archives gaies du Québec

🥳 Pikete presents Raveton with Jaijiu, Alta Magia, Jashim, Mcherry, La Niña Kiwi and Whorito, La Sotteranea

🥳 BLUSH x Nuit Blanche Montréal : Ménagerie with performers HercuSleaze and Lizzy Strange, DJs Patience, Girl, DJ Thatz and Glowzi, videographer Slug Bait and gogo dancers Dora Bones, Just Horny, Mina Minor and Stupid Baby Cupid at Nouvel établissement

🥳 Nuit Blanche—7 Péchés Capitaux, Le Protocole Kinky Lounge

🎤 Bareoke: Strip Karaoke, Café Cléopatra

👑 Jimmy Moore presents Madonna: The Celebration Tour, Cabaret Mado

👑 Mado Reçoit with Special Guests, Cabaret Mado

👑 Jackbox Games with Uma Gahd and Selma Gahd, Bar Le Cocktail

👑 Drôles de Drags with Miss Butterfly, Ciathanight, Crystal Starz or Emma Déjàvu in rotation, Bar Le Cocktail

👯 Tango/Salsa Queer holds lessons every Saturday, visit queertangomtl.com for information or contact [email protected] or call +1 (514) 709-4678 for prices and signup information, Espaces des Arts

Dimanche 3 mars / Sunday, March 3

🎭 Ligue d’impro Gailaxie, Cabaret Mado

👑 Le Tracy Show with Tracy Trash, Marla Deer, Bobépine, Robin Brutal, Faymiss and Kelly Torrieli Cabaret Mado

👑 Dimanche Show with Michel Dorion, Bar Le Cocktail

Lundi 4 mars / Monday, March 4

😆 Trivia Night with PamDemic, La Casona

Mardi 5 mars / Tuesday, , March 5

👑 Full Gisèle : Spring Break with Gisèle Lullaby, Johnny Jones, Lana Dalida, Prudence and Victoire de Rockwell, Cabaret Mado

😆 Stand Up St. Henri Open Mic focusing on women, non-binary, queer and allied comedians, Impro Montréal

Mercredi 6 mars / Wednesday, March 6

🎨 Drink & Draw by @Hommehomo, Bar Le Cocktail

🎶 Glitterer with Glixen and Seed Toss, La Sotterenea

😆 Very Pretentious Comedy presents 30/30: Raquel Maestre and Yumi Blake at the Poly Mic with Raquel Maestre, Yumi Blake and Sarah Warren, Bar Notre-Dame-Des-Quilles

👑 Crystal and the Pals with Crystal Starz, Victoire de Rockwell, Eden Ashes and Rawxy, Cabaret Mado

Jeudi 7 mars / Thursday, March 7

📚Colloque international : Éthique queer, corporalités queer / Queer Ethics, Queer Embodiments conference, in French and English, Université de Montréal Pavillon Lionel-Groulx

🏳️‍🌈 Comité Queer Pointe-Saint Charles hosts Cuisine collective, Club Populaire des Consommateurs

👑 Girls’ Night Out with Krystella Fame, Tracy Trash, Bobépine and Jessie Précieuse, Cabaret Mado

👑 Concours MX Cocktail, Bar Le Cocktail

Vendredi 8 mars / Friday, March 8

📚Colloque international : Éthique queer, corporalités queer / Queer Ethics, Queer Embodiments conference, in French and English, Université de Montréal Pavillon Lionel-Groulx

🥳 Queen & Queer’s Lesbo-queer dance party is back for its Édition Journée Internationale des Droits des Femmes with Maus and DJ Sam, Société des arts technologiques [SAT]

🥳 Cerise Noire goth night with Shillelagh Jones and Elizabeth Leslie, Bar NDQ

🎶 Matana Roberts solo with special guests, La Sala Rossa

👑 Mado Reçoit with Special Guests, Cabaret Mado

👑 Vendredi Fou with Michel Dorion, Bar Le Cocktail

🤠 Club Bolo—Danse Country Montréal meet on Fridays at the Association sportive et communautaire du Centre-Sud

Samedi 9 mars / Saturday, March 9

📚Colloque international : Éthique queer, corporalités queer / Queer Ethics, Queer Embodiments conference, in French and English, Université de Montréal Pavillon Lionel-Groulx

📚 The Violet Hour Book Club reads Yukio Mishima’s Confessions of a Mask, Archives gaies du Québec

🥳 Jhalak presents Rangoli: A Queer and Trans South Asian Party with DJ Deep, Bar Champs

🥳 Armada Montréal RFC hosts Players with D’Jimi, Lion d’Or

🎭 Le Coin des Arts Montréal / Montreal Art Nook, White Wall Studio

👑 Jimmy Moore personnifie Rihanna, Cabaret Mado

👑 Mado Reçoit with Special Guests, Cabaret Mado

👑 Drôles de Drags with Miss Butterfly, Ciathanight, Crystal Starz or Emma Déjàvu in rotation, Bar Le Cocktail

👯 Tango/Salsa Queer holds lessons every Saturday, visit queertangomtl.com for information or contact [email protected] or call +1 (514) 709-4678 for prices and signup information, Espaces des Arts

Dimanche 10 mars / Sunday, March 10

👑 Afternoon Drag Café with Awful, La Pitre, Spiked Corona and Teddy Boop, L’Orbite

👑 Le Brunch aux Folles with Misty Waterfalls, Esirena and Selma Gahd, Bar Social Verdun

🎭 Ligue d’impro Gailaxie, Cabaret Mado

👑 Le Tracy Show with Tracy Trash, Pétula Claque, Kiara, Bambi Dextrous and Aizysse Baga, Cabaret Mado

👑 Dimanche Show with Michel Dorion, Bar Le Cocktail

Lundi 11 mars / Monday, March 11

🎶 The Dandy Warhols, Le Studio TD

😆 Trivia Night with PamDemic, La Casona

🏳️‍🌈 Spring into Action: Outrage, full lineup here, QPIRG | GRIP McGill

Mardi 12 mars / Tuesday, March 12

🎶 Video Age with Sean Nicholas Savage, l’Escogriffe Bar Spectacle

👑 Full Gisèle : Invasion Maritime with Gisèle Lullaby, Brooke Rivers, Trinity Foxx, X and Jessie Précieuse, Cabaret Mado

👑 Garden of Shade : Heroes vs. Villains with Lulu Shade, Sarah Winters, Lady Boom Boom, Ciatha Night, Skyler Rey and Stella Stone, Bar Le Cocktail

🏳️‍🌈 Spring into Action: Outrage, full lineup here, QPIRG | GRIP McGill

🏳️‍🌈 Formation gratuite sur les familles LGBT+, Coalition des familles LGBT+

😆 Stand Up St. Henri Open Mic focusing on women, non-binary, queer and allied comedians, Impro Montréal

Mercredi 13 mars / Wednesday, March 13

🏳️‍🌈 Spring into Action: Outrage, full lineup here, QPIRG | GRIP McGill

Jeudi 14 mars / Thursday, March 14

👑 Le Meilleur des Grands Concerts with Tracy Trash, Bobépine, Johnny Jones, Lana Dalida, Marla Deer, Sasha Baga, Bambi Dextrous, Ruby Doll, Clay Thorris and Nicole Lamotte, Cabaret Mado

🎭 Queer Magique presents DIVAS, Café Cléopatra

🏳️‍🌈 Spring into Action: Outrage, full lineup here, QPIRG | GRIP McGill

👑 Concours MX Cocktail, Bar Le Cocktail

Vendredi 15 mars / Friday, March 15

🎭 Queer Magique presents DIVAS, Café Cléopatra

🏳️‍🌈 Spring into Action: Outrage, full lineup here, QPIRG | GRIP McGill

👑 Mado Reçoit with Special Guests, Cabaret Mado

👑 Vendredi Fou with Michel Dorion, Bar Le Cocktail

📚 Queer Oral History Workshop with Liam Devitt, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling

🤠 Club Bolo—Danse Country Montréal meet on Fridays at the Association sportive et communautaire du Centre-Sud

Samedi 16 mars / Saturday, March 16

🎤 Bareoke: Strip Karaoke, Café Cléopatra

🎶 Stereolab’s Laetitia Sadier with Lola 1:2, Bar Le Ritz PDB

🎶 Chelsea Wolfe, Club Soda

🏳️‍🌈 Spring into Action: Outrage, full lineup here, QPIRG | GRIP McGill

🏳️‍⚧️ Atelier : Devenir parent (personnes trans ou non-binaires), Coalition des familles LGBT+

🏳️‍🌈 Comité Queer Pointe-Saint Charles hosts Soirée Cabaret, Press Start Youth Coop: Bâtiment 7

🥳 Queer Wine Night Edition No. 2, Vinorama

👑 Mado Reçoit with Special Guests, Cabaret Mado

👑 Drôles de Drags with Miss Butterfly, Ciathanight, Crystal Starz or Emma Déjàvu in rotation, Bar Le Cocktail

👯 Tango/Salsa Queer holds lessons every Saturday, visit queertangomtl.com for information or contact [email protected] or call +1 (514) 709-4678 for prices and signup information, Espaces des Arts

Dimanche 17 mars / Sunday, March 17

🎭 Ligue d’impro Gailaxie, Cabaret Mado

🏳️‍🌈 Spring into Action: Outrage, full lineup here, QPIRG | GRIP McGill

🏳️‍🌈 Cabane à sucre des familles 2SLGBTQ+, Coalition des familles LGBT+

🏳️‍🌈 Monkland Quilt Studio hosts Rainbow Stitching Days, Monkland Quilt Studio

👑 Le Tracy Show with Tracy Trash, Marla Deer, Oc��ane Aqua-Black, Sasha Baga, Eva Moist and Crystal Starz, Cabaret Mado

👑 Bonne fête Sally-D with Sally-D, Bar Le Cocktail

Lundi 18 mars / Monday, March 18

🏳️‍🌈 Spring into Action: Outrage, full lineup here, QPIRG | GRIP McGill

😆 Trivia Night with PamDemic, La Casona

Mardi 19 mars / Tuesday, March 19

🎶 Otoboke Beaver with Drinking Boys and Girls Choir, Beanfield Theatre

🏳️‍🌈 Spring into Action: Outrage, full lineup here, QPIRG | GRIP McGill

👑 Full Gisèle : Beach Party with Gisèle Lullaby, Kiara, Adriana, Démone Lastrange and Rose Beef, Cabaret Mado

😆 Stand Up St. Henri Open Mic focusing on women, non-binary, queer and allied comedians, Impro Montréal

Mercredi 20 mars / Wednesday, March 20

🏳️‍🌈 Haircuts Without Appointment for LGBTQ+ community members who are unemployed or on low income, Centre communautaire LGBTQ de Montréal

🏳️‍🌈 Spring into Action: Outrage, full lineup here, QPIRG | GRIP McGill

👑 Le Sami Party with Sami Landri, Cabaret Mado

Jeudi 21 mars / Thursday, March 21

👑 RuPaul’s Drag Race UK vs. The World contestant Marina Summers, Cabaret Mado

👑 Sashalicious with Sasha Baga, Scarlett Evans, Will Charmer and Maeva Evans, Cabaret Mado

🏳️‍🌈 Spring into Action: Outrage, full lineup here, QPIRG | GRIP McGill

👑 Concours MX Cocktail, Bar Le Cocktail

Vendredi 22 mars / Friday, March 22

👑 Mado Reçoit with Special Guests, Cabaret Mado

🏳️‍🌈 Spring into Action: Outrage, full lineup here, QPIRG | GRIP McGill

👑 Vendredi Fou with Michel Dorion, Bar Le Cocktail

🤠 Club Bolo—Danse Country Montréal meet on Fridays at the Association sportive et communautaire du Centre-Sud

Samedi 23 mars / Saturday, March 23

📚 Violet Hour continues its literary series with Making Space featuring Michael Belcher, Paige Maylott and Marcus McCann, Casa d’Italia Montréal

🥳 Lez Dance presents Le retour de DJ Franklyne à la Taverne Urbaine! with DJ Franklyne, 1309 Taverne Urbaine

😆 Matteo Lane: The Al Dente Tour with Tranna Wintour, Olympia de Montréal

👑 Mado Reçoit with Special Guests, Cabaret Mado

👑 Jimmy Moore personnifie Taylor Swift, Cabaret Mado

👑 Drôles de Drags with Miss Butterfly, Ciathanight, Crystal Starz or Emma Déjàvu in rotation, Bar Le Cocktail

👯 Tango/Salsa Queer holds lessons every Saturday, visit queertangomtl.com for information or contact [email protected] or call +1 (514) 709-4678 for prices and signup information, Espaces des Arts

Dimanche 24 mars / Sunday, March 24

😆 Matteo Lane: The Al Dente Tour with Tranna Wintour, Olympia de Montréal

🎭 Ligue d’impro Gailaxie, Cabaret Mado

👑 Le Tracy Show with Tracy Trash, Pétula Claque, Kitana, Peggy Sue and Lady Boom Boom, Cabaret Mado

👑 Dimanche Show with Michel Dorion, Bar Le Cocktail

Lundi 25 mars / Monday, March 25

😆 Trivia Night with PamDemic, La Casona

Mardi 26 mars / Tuesday, March 26

🎶 Olivia Rodrigo: Guts World Tour, Bell Centre

🎶 Arlo Parks with Chloe George, Beanfield Theatre

👑 Full Gisèle : Burlesque, le Film with Gisèle Lullaby, Pétula Claque, Lady Boom Boom, Miss Fountain, Sasha Baga and Celes, Cabaret Mado

😆 Stand Up St. Henri Open Mic focusing on women, non-binary, queer and allied comedians, Impro Montréal

Mercredi 27 mars / Wednesday, March 27

🎶 Olivia Rodrigo: Guts World Tour, Bell Centre

Jeudi 28 mars / Thursday, March 28

🎶 Rêve with RALPH, Fairmount Theatre

🏳️‍🌈 Comité Queer Pointe-Saint Charles hosts Club de lecture Queer, Bibliothèque Saint-Charles

👑 Trashilaz with Aizysse Baga and Special Guests, Cabaret Mado

👑 Concours MX Cocktail, Bar Le Cocktail

Vendredi 29 mars / Friday, March 29

👑 Mado Reçoit with Special Guests, Cabaret Mado

👑 Vendredi Fou with Michel Dorion, Bar Le Cocktail

🤠 Club Bolo—Danse Country Montréal meet on Fridays at the Association sportive et communautaire du Centre-Sud

Samedi 30 mars / Saturday, March 30

🎤 Bareoke: Strip Karaoke, Café Cléopatra

🥳 District Events presents Locker Room with Reid Bourgeois, Alain Jackinsky and Mateo Tomas, Bain Mathieu

👑 Mado Reçoit with Special Guests, Cabaret Mado

👑 Jimmy Moore personnifie Britney Spears, Cabaret Mado

👑 Drôles de Drags with Miss Butterfly, Ciathanight, Crystal Starz or Emma Déjàvu in rotation, Bar Le Cocktail

👯 Tango/Salsa Queer holds lessons every Saturday, visit queertangomtl.com for information or contact [email protected] or call +1 (514) 709-4678 for prices and signup information, Espaces des Arts

Dimanche 31 mars / Sunday, March 31

👑 Jimmy Moore presents Madonna: The Celebration Tour, Cabaret Mado

👑 Star Queens : Pâques with Plane Jane, Aurora Matrix, Denim, Pythia and Carmen Sutra, Cabaret Mado

👑 Dimanche Show with Michel Dorion, Bar Le Cocktail

OTHERS / LES AUTRES

🏐 Les Ratons-Chasseurs (Montréal’s LGBTA dodgeball group) holds regular events. Keep an eye on their Facebook for upcoming opportunities to join in and play.

🕹Montréal Gaymers hosts regular gatherings including board game nights and gaming gatherings. Check their Facebook for what’s next!

🏃🏾Join the Out-Run run and workout club for people relating to the queer / sapphic experience. Details on their Instagram!

🐦 Bird lovers should keep their eye on Queer Birders' regularly scheduled birdwatching events and excursions. Join the Facebook group and get those binoculars at the ready.

👠 Twice a month on every second Tuesday, Bring It! hosts an OTA night of ballroom and vogue with commentator and DJ. Follow their Instagram for dates and details.

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