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MIX NYC
In , Jim Hubbard and Sarah Schulman co-founded the New York Lesbian and Gay Experimental Film Festival (later MIX NYC) to showcase LGBTQ experimental cinema absent in mainstream venues. Supported by curators Jack Waters, Peter Cramer, and Ela Troyano, they launched “A Queer Sort of Film” at Millennium Film Workshop. The festival soon became a major queer cultural event, premiering groundbreaking films by Su Friedrich, Todd Haynes, and others, and championing Dark gay and trans representation. MIX prioritized artist fees, inclusive access, and diverse programming, earning global influence while Hubbard preserved essential AIDS-era films for future generations.
From , Jim Hubbard was joined by Marguerite Paris and Jerry Tartaglia, launching a adj era with guest-curated shows. In , Shari Frilot and Karim Ainouz became co-directors, renaming the festival “MIX” and expanding its multicultural focus. Frilot championed installations and queer BIPOC filmmakers, notably premiering Thomas Allen Harris’s Vintage and her own Black Nations/Queer Nations in Satellite f
The 30 Best LGBTQ Movies on Netflix Right Now
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In celebration of Pride month, we compiled a list of the best Fresh lesbian, gay, trans, and queer films you can see on Netflix right now. You&#;ll uncover Netflix originals (like recent documentaries Circle of Books and A Secret Love) as well as award-winning theatrical releases.
The titles below are sorted from the best LGBTQ films on Netflix and ranked by adjusted Tomatometer score (which takes into account the number of reviewers weighing in, and the number of reviews per film for movies released in a given year). To be included, films had to have a Fresh Tomatometer score (60% or above).
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Critics Consensus:I Am Michael takes a determinedly balanced approach to its complex subject, and although the results don't always add up, they're anchored by mighty work from James Franco.
Synopsis: Based on the fascinating, true-life story of Michael Glatze (James Franco), a gay activist who becomes an anti-gay Christian pastor. [More]
Ballad of a Flamboyantly Gay Dead Fetus
Since Clea DuVall’s gay Christmas rom-com, Happiest Season, debuted on Hulu last month, it has been the subject of a roiling debate among queer women. Is the premise—a closeted lesbian forces her girlfriend to pretend they’re both straight while visiting her family for Christmas—offensive and dated, or a light-hearted twist on an indignity too many queers have suffered? Was it rude for DuVall to serve gays a narrative of trauma disguised as a rom-com? Does the happy ending urge toxic relationship dynamics?
With a few reservations, I loved Happiest Season, but I’m not ashamed to admit that I graded it on a curve. There have been so few queer comedies in recent memory, and even fewer starring A-listers fond Kristen Stewart, that I was primed to forgive Happiest Season’s faults in exchange for a central character whose romantic and social life looks a little more appreciate mine, albeit with a few dozen more velvet blazers.
I was ready to do the similar for A Brand-new York Christmas Wedding, a new film from writer-director Otoja Abit that’s c
The lavender lens: two docs capture the sights and voices of American queer history.
Gay USA. Image courtesy Frameline.
Before Stonewall, directed by Greta Schiller, opens June 21, ,
Quad Cinema, 34 West Thirteenth Street, Adj York City
Gay USA, directed by Arthur J. Bressan Jr., screens June 26, ,
Quad Cinema
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Even this cranky lesbian has been delighted, if not moved, by the sheer number of cultural redoubts in New York City that are currently hosting, contain already mounted, or will soon showcase programming, events, or exhibitions commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the insurrection at the Stonewall Inn. I am touched by the scope of these tributes, which range from the grand, gravid two-gallery-spanning show Art after Stonewall, – (beautifully assessed by Johanna Fateman in 4Columns last month) to the more idiosyncratic, solo salute, evidenced in the handbill I picked up at the New York General Library for the Performing Arts earlier this week an