Queer Cinema

Sundance Afterglow: Rhys Ernst and the Wilds of Trans Filmmaking

Emerson Whitney | Posted 05.11.2012

Emerson Whitney

Rhys Ernst's films are a tactile fusion of art and queer theory with tones of subtle surreality that nudge at gender identity and real life fabulousness.

The New New Queer Cinema

Kathy Wolfe | Posted 04.25.2012

Kathy Wolfe

Wolfe has been working behind the scenes on an initiative to secure an "LGBT" category heading as part of all digital distribution platforms. This undertaking is just the latest highlight in Wolfe's ongoing mission to facilitate the broadest possible access to our rich cinematic heritage.

Lights, Camera, Action! How Cinema Helped This Small-Town Gay Boy Realize He Wasn't Alone

Michael Varrati | Posted 04.17.2012

Michael Varrati

Velvet Goldmine was the first time I had seen people like that onscreen, people like me. From my seat in small-town America, the film served as a moment of recognition that I wasn't alone. There were other people out there who felt and desired the same things I was keeping to myself.

Camp & Political Correctness: The Controversial Art Of Jack Smith

G. Roger Denson | Posted 08.19.2011

G. Roger Denson

If there's an artist who most reminds us there are multiple art worlds -- each with its own pantheon of artists, fans, aesthetic and ideological concerns and targeted markets -- it's got to be Jack Smith.

MoMA and AA Bronson Present "Queer Cinema: Today and Yesterday"

G. Roger Denson | Posted 05.25.2011

G. Roger Denson

2011-03-03-mfe.jpgIt remains arguable whether queerness has evolved to the brink of true acceptance in developed, democratic nations -- but art is a great way to tell.

Riot Acts: Film Explores The Lives Of Transgender And Gender Variant Musicians (VIDEO)

HuffPost Eyes&Ears Local | Kate Lowry | Posted 05.25.2011

Produced by HuffPost's Eyes & Ears Citizen Journalism Unit Chicago-based acoustic duo Actor Slash Model has been wooing audiences with their folksy t...

Review: "Howl" (2010)

Fabio Periera | Posted 05.25.2011

Fabio Periera

With any luck, later this year audiences everywhere will get to see Howl, a brilliant film by Academy-Award winning documentary filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman.

Preserving Our Queer Legacy

Alan Poul | Posted 05.25.2011

Alan Poul

We don't have that long a history of LGBT imagery to protect. So what we have, we need to protect ferociously.