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Queer-View Mirror: My Coming-Out Movie
There was only one film with queer content nominated for an Oscar last week—Dallas Buyers Club—but in honor of the upcoming Academy Awards, I’d like to talk about movies. Specifically, gay movies. Much...
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Desert Hearts: Still Sapphic Bliss
In the last installment of Queer-View Mirror, I shared my experience of watching my coming-out movie, Desert Hearts, in 15-minute increments, and simultaneously feeling the door to my own personal...
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Eating Out with the French
PHOTO CREDIT: MIKAEL JANSSON It’s a simple story of first love. Girl meets boy. Girl is disenchanted. Girl meets girl. Girl goes down on girl—many, many times. Girl loses girl. Simple in some respects,...
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Nostalgic for gayer Oscar’s past
This Sunday night, millions of gay viewers around the globe will tune in to the 86th Academy Awards to see if the one queer-themed film nominated this year, Dallas Buyers Club, will win any of the host...
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Queer-View Mirror: Still Trembling Before God?
Yesterday marked the Jewish holiday of Purim. Relatively unknown outside orthodox or conservative circles, it’s a holiday about the triumph of good over evil, the minority over the majority, the prey...
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Queer-View Mirror: Really Gay-ifying Disney
I admit to being a tad behind on my reading. I know that, after the homework is done, the kids are hosed down, fed and in bed, the kitchen is somewhat tidied, I should be sitting down to catch up on my...
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The Five Gayest Things about The Ten Commandments
For those of us who have been eating only unleavened things in observance of the holiday of Passover, this has been a long week. Normally, I gorge on an unbalanced diet of matzo-n-cream cheese and...
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Queer-View Mirror: Concussion
PHOTO CREDIT: CONCUSSION MOVIE.COM Concussion, a Rose Troche (Go Fish, L-Word, Six Feet Under) film that debuted at Sundance last year and won a GLAAD Media Award this past weekend, follows the story...
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Which Disney Princess Would You Do?
Ever play the game Ginger vs. Mary Ann, where you have to choose which Gilligan’s Island character you’d rather get with? That was never an easy call for me. I dug Ginger’s whole insatiable nympho...
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Coming Out: Still Scary After All These Years
This past week’s events marked a watershed in the ongoing battle for marriage equality in the U.S., with a Supreme Court decision (or its decision not to make a decision) effectively paving the way for...
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