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Gay Signatures by Owen Heathcote; Alex Hughes; James S. Williams

Owen Heathcote; Alex Hughes; James S. Williams | Gay Signatures | This interdisciplinary book responds to the explosion of gay and lesbian creativity on modern-day France. Rather than attempting to formalize a specif

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Film and Television

Hollywood’s Silent Closet by Darwin Porter

Darwin Porter | Hollywood’s Silent Closet | Hollywood at the dawn of the Talkies was one of the most gossippy and sexual places on Earth. This anthology of star-studded scandal from the 1920s pr

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Queer Love In Film And Television by Pamela Demory; Christopher Pullen

Pamela Demory; Christopher Pullen | Queer Love In Film And Television | Review

‘The essays in this volume are compelling reading. Brief synopses of films and texts are worked, seamlessly, into the texts to familiarize

Posted in Film and Television Movie/Media Tie-In

The L Word by Kera Bolonik

Kera Bolonik | The L Word | The popular Showtime series about a group of lesbians living in LA has become a genuine cultural phenomenon since its debut in 2004. The San Franci

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Untied by Meredith Baxter

Meredith Baxter | Untied | I remember Sarah asking me, when I’d just begun therapy with her, what I looked for in a man. After a few moments of silent, tense deliberation I had

Posted in Film and Television Performing Arts

New Queer Cinema by B. Ruby Rich

B. Ruby Rich | New Queer Cinema | B. Ruby Rich designated a brand new genre, the New Queer Cinema (NQC), in her ground-breaking article in the Village Voice in 1992. This movement in

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The Lavender Screen by Boze Hadleigh

Boze Hadleigh | The Lavender Screen | Tracing the origins and evolution of films with gay and lesbian characters and themes from the 1930s to their present proliferation, The Lavender Scre

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Screened Out by Richard Barrios

Richard Barrios | Screened Out | Richard Barrios’s book examines hundreds of both obscure and well- known movies with homosexual characters and/or gay sensibilities to document what h

Posted in Film and Television History

Cold War Femme by Robert J. Corber

Robert J. Corber | Cold War Femme | In his bestselling book The Grapevine: A Report on the Secret World of the Lesbian (1965), Jess Stearn announced that, contrary to the assumptions of

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Facets Gay & Lesbian Video Guide by Patrick Z. McGavin; Gabriel Gomez

Patrick Z. McGavin; Gabriel Gomez | Facets Gay & Lesbian Video Guide | Includes descriptions and sources for lesbian and gay films available from Europe, Asia, Australia and America, at the time of printing