Category Archives: Queer Visions
Brokeback Mountain: Annie Proulx and Ang Lee
They were raised on small, poor ranches in opposite corners of the state, Jack Twist in Lightning Flat up on the Montana border, Ennis del Mar from around Sage, near the Utah line, both high school dropout country boys with no prospects, brought up to hard work and privation, both rough-mannered… Continue reading
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Paragraph 175: The Holocaust and Homosexuals
Sixty years ago, in the spring of 1945, Allied forces liberating Europe found evidence of atrocities which have tortured the world’s conscience ever since. As the troops entered the German concentration camps, they made a systematic film record of what they saw. Watch the film online at PBS Frontline… Continue reading
Queer Quotes
“The only queer people are those who don’t love anybody.” “One should no more deplore homosexuality than left-handedness.” “It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It’s like disapproving of rain.” “The fact that we are all human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that distinguish humans from one another.” … Continue reading
Who Are You?
It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing. It doesn’t interest me what planets are squaring your moon. I … Continue reading
