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Queer Cinema

A new film season is championing queer stories from the 1990s

by Robyn Quick

This Pride Month, Bar­bi­can Cin­e­ma will show­case eight films cel­e­brat­ing LGBTQ+ lives.
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In Praise Of

Why Philadelphia remains a flawed but vital portrayal of the AIDS crisis

by Adam Solomons

Jonathan Demme’s 1993 dra­ma played an impor­tant role in bring­ing straight audi­ences up to speed with the epidemic.
Two people in black and white costumes, one female with cat-like features, kissing an older male character with dishevelled hair and facial features.
Queer Cinema

The Penguin is an empowering anti-hero for trans people like me

by Ian Thomas Malone

Dan­ny DeVito’s por­tray­al of Oswald Cob­ble­pot in Bat­man Returns shows the impor­tance of embrac­ing your differences.
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In Praise Of

Hedwig and the Angry Inch remains a testament to self-acceptance

by Gina Tonic

John Cameron Mitchell’s cult 2001 musi­cal dra­ma is a poignant reminder of the pow­er of being yourself.
Two individuals, a man and a woman, sitting in a car at night.
In Praise Of

20 years on, Lan Yu remains the pinnacle of Chinese queer cinema

by Weiting Liu

Though nev­er released in main­land chi­na Stan­ley Kwan’s cult 2001 melo­dra­ma ful­ly deserves its cult status.
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Queer Cinema

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider was an escape for queer teens like me

by Samuel Sims

Through its rejec­tion of gen­der stereo­types, the 2001 video game adap­ta­tion helped me realise the pow­er of my own identity.
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In Praise Of

In praise of Beautiful Thing, a quintessentially British coming out movie

by Emily Maskell

Het­tie Macdonald’s 1996 film con­tains a beau­ti­ful mes­sage of queer accep­tance and togetherness.
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Queer Cinema

In praise of Shiva Baby and the Messy Bisexual

by Anna Bogutskaya

Emma Seligman’s grow­ing pains com­e­dy ush­ers in a new era for bi char­ac­ters who are not judged on their sexuality.
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In Praise Of

Homoeroticism and sexual repression in Wake in Fright

by Patrick Sproull

Ted Kotcheff’s vis­cer­al, queer-cod­ed descent into one man’s per­son­al hell refus­es to adhere to expectations.
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Queer Cinema

The radical queer politics and bittersweet legacy of Tomboy

by Ariel Klinghoffer

Céline Sciamma’s LGBTQ+ themed sec­ond fea­ture found itself at the cen­tre of a polit­i­cal storm in France.
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Queer Cinema

A new film explores what it means to be queer in Kenya today

by Yassine Senghor

Direc­tor Peter Muri­mi dis­cuss­es cap­tur­ing the expe­ri­ence of a young gay man in I Am Samuel.
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In Praise Of

How Derek Jarman’s films queer the narrative of history

by Sam Moore

In 1976’s Sebas­tiane and 1986’s Car­avag­gio, the direc­tor refus­es to rel­e­gate homo­sex­u­al­i­ty to the subtext.