Pride on the Margins

This article has been peer reviewed  Queer cinema exists on a spectrum, with films that have crossover appeal to mainstream audiences (such as Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Céline Sciamma, 2019)) on one end and ...

Unapologetically queer writer/director Everett Lewis burst on the film scene in 1990 — one year before the “New Queer Cinema” movement — with his gritty, black and white gay-themed bromantic drama, The Natural ...

Oh, the soft sound of rain On the ground, on the town. For the heart in its pain Oh, the sound of the rain! - Paul Verlaine, “ Il pleure dans mon coeur”[1. Paul Verlaine, “Il pleure dans mon coeur,” 1885....

With the Reform and Opening Up of the late 1980s, China saw an increase in the visibility of queer representation. Chinese queer cinema in the early 1990s created unique cinematic aesthetics through these groun...

While promoting her film Monica (Andrea Pallaoro, 2022) at the Venice Film Festival, Hollywood actress Trace Lysette spoke about the legacy of transfeminine acting and performance in US and European history. Sh...

This article has been peer reviewed Leeds International Film Festival (LIFF) was founded in 1987 and is supported by Leeds City Council, West Yorkshire in the UK. It is held every November showing about 300 co...

This article has been peer reviewed Abstract This essay argues that the gay romcom is a genre that modifies the generic conventions of the mainstream (‘heterosexual’) romcom. Focusing on the first two of Lege...

This article has been peer reviewed The oeuvre of the Canadian icon and “reluctant pornographer” Bruce LaBruce is largely absent from both academic and popular discussions of queer cinema. I argue that it warr...

This article has been peer reviewed Sadomasochism has been a largely heteronormatively perceived subject in mainstream cinema. But then, The Duke of Burgundy (Peter Strickland, 2014), an unusual relationship s...