Film and Television

Stephen Tropiano | The Prime Time Closet | Television history was made on April 30, 1997, when comedian Ellen DeGeneres and her sitcom alter-ego Ellen Morgan, ‘came out’ to her close friends an

Raymond Murray | Images in the dark | This guide chiefly covers American and English films with some European samplings as well. It contains chapters called: ‘Of Queer Interest’, ‘Of Lesbi

Clare Whatling | Screen Dreams | From the introduction, ‘(in)appropriate(d) others or how Vanessa Redgrave turned me lesbian’, to the afterwood, ‘persistent desires and pleasurable fr

Michele Aaron | New Queer Cinema | Coined in the early 1990s to describe a burgeoning film movement, ‘New Queer Cinema’ has turned the attention of film theorists, students, and audienc

Lisa Daniel; Claire Jackson | The Bent Lens | Spanning gay and lesbian filmmaking from 1914 through present day, The Bent Lens showcases 2300 titles from 45 countries, including feature films, doc

Steven Paul Davies | Out At The Movies | Over the decades, gay cinema has reflected the community’s journey from persecution to emancipation to acceptance. Politicized dramas like’ Victim’ in

Stephen Bourne | Brief Encounters | Prejudice and misconception mean that lesbian and gay representation in British cinema has largely escaped the attention of critics and historians. In

Andrea Weiss | Vampires and Violets | The story of lesbianism, explicit and implicit, in the cinema from the days of the silents, the Golden Era and the post war period. With a section on

Patricia White | Uninvited | ‘White writes with considerable flair, and her arguments are always interesting…’ — Choice’Uncovering a massive trove of what she calls ‘lesbian re

Darwin Porter; Danforth Prince | Blood Moon’s Guide to Gay and Lesbian Film | Here, assembled into one comprehensive volume, is a rundown of the year’s most intriguing gay, lesbian, and transgendered films, an illustrated guide