I think you either get it or you don't. I don't mean that as an insult or a judgement, I mean more in of a gutpunch feeling. This is not just even queerness, but about being trans and gender diverse, the feeling of not belonging in your self, in your being. And finding yourself through television. For the characters of TV Glow, it's the Buffy-esque Pink Opaque. For me, it was the Muppets and Doctor Who. Most of my…
In which a film designed to provoke discussion about gender causes me to go on a long, personal detour about my relationship with my gender identity and my name.
A bold and thought provoking short about the gender clinic and the way trans people have to shave off nuances of their gender expression in order to get what they want. It's a film about medical assumptions but also about our limited ways of understanding transition and gender diversity. Cleverly, it…
This is literally just a collection of gay music videos, but not the pop divas. No Kylie, no Madonna, no Cher. Instead, this is gay culture at its finest, terrible disco tracks with a banging beat and nonsense lyrics. RuPaul, Divine, Amanda Lear, Dana International and the Village People, its like stepping back in time to the camp disco 00s. Perfect background viewing, I will play this at a party one day, maybe my wedding. Adam and I didn't do…
Deeply, deeply fucking weird. A potato quality recording of the American live theatre adaptation of the anime stuffed to the gills with ballads, weird character romance drama and nowhere near enough Pokemon. Adam is a big Poke-nerd so really loved this, but I found this a punishing experience and promptly fell asleep after the fourth ballad. We tried again the next day and, while still actively terrible, I did manage to stay awake!
At least the TMNT live stage show…
Almost imperceptibly queer for a while, hints and suggestions. A man living with another man, later we notice they only have one bed. Subtle, but growing, until suddenly it becomes overwhelming, this very sweet lovely story becomes bitter and sour. One act, almost one word, destroys everything, shattering two lives while the perpetrator suffers no consequences. This is how homophobia works, not just in the overt violence or the exclusion, but by quietness, a kind of almost gentle emotional betrayal…
