Maybe history just likes repeating itself, did you ever think of that? Or maybe there s a scratch on the historic record. It repeats itself a lot, and not just in cascades of doom. Trifling bits of history replay again and again as though stuck in a loop.
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Together Together’ hits Sundance with Patti Harrison, Tig Notaro
Together Together, a new comedy making its debut at the 2021 very online Sundance Film Festival, is another push forward for trans actors. The movie’s co-star, comedian Patti Harrison (Shrill), is a transgender comedian who’s already got a reputation for turning perceptions about comedy upside down. In TT, she plays opposite Ed Helms as a young loner who goes to work for him, and their growing relationship forms the basis of the story.
No word on whether her character is trans or what the on-screen relationship entails, but what’s exciting here is that a trans actor is co-headlining a feature. With the exception of Laverne Cox in the remake of
The Artist s Wife).
On May 13, 1920, Cyril Wilcox, a
sophomore at Harvard, took his own life. The night before, Wilcox
confessed to his brother that he was gay and had been having an
affair with a Boston man. Wilcox s confession led Harvard to create a
Secret Court to investigate claims of gay activity on campus. Eight
students, four “accomplices,” and a handful of locals were tried
by the court. The students were expelled and purged from official
records. The incident was kept secret until 2002.
Quinto said in a statement that the
students were “sidelined due to the social intolerance of their