by Dahlia Schweitzer | Jan 12, 2022 | Journal
Inspired by the sudden influx of queer films, characters, and directors in 1992, film scholar and general badass B. Ruby Rich coined the term “New Queer Cinema.” From Paul Verhoeven’s Basic Instinct to Derek Jarman’s Edward II, from Tom...
by Dahlia | Oct 11, 2014 | Journal
For the last few days, I’ve been telling myself that I should write something about National Coming Out Day, which is, after all, today. I figured I should write something personal and timely and maybe a little emotional. After all, it is National Coming Out Day...
by Dahlia | Sep 23, 2014 | Journal
In what would otherwise be a charming love story, Lauren Morelli, one of the writers from the TV show Orange is the New Black, fell in love with one of the stars of the show, Samira Wiley. One of the reasons why the situation is not exactly perfect is that Lauren had...
by Dahlia | Feb 7, 2014 | Journal
There has been quite a bit of cyber-ink spilled recently about the shameless new Shakira/Rihanna video and its faux-lesbian posturing. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3mP3mJDL2k&w=560&h=315] Regardless of whether or not faux-lesbians (or Shakira) are...
by Dahlia | Nov 2, 2013 | Journal, Special Features
[Another one from the archives.] Unless you had a VIP ticket, everyone was instructed, via email, to park in a parking garage in Century City. From there, a shuttle would take us to the mansion. I get to the parking garage at 9pm, half an hour after check in began. ...
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