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In remembrance of the Stonewall riots, which began on June 28, 1969, we look back at our feature about the uprising’s 50th anniversary in 2019 while paying tribute to Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera and Stormé DeLarverie three gay activists who all played their part in the night that started a movement.
Fifty years ago this summer, a bottle was thrown, a cop was punched and a movement was born. Police raided New York’s Stonewall Inn, as they had before, to break up same-sex couples dancing, which was illegal, and to check that everyone was wearing at least three pieces of gender appropriate clothing, in accordance with another statute at the time. And for some reason maybe it was because the spirit of the ’60s had finally made it to this darkened mob-run tavern or
The 127 Year History of LGBTQ+ Representation in Film
By Abby Monteil, Stacker News
On 6/15/21 at 8:00 PM EDT
Depictions of queer and trans people have been present in the film medium since its inception more than 100 years ago. But due to censorship and varying degrees of prejudice against the LGBTQ+ community at different points in time, representation onscreen has a long, complicated, and often coded history. While gay characters were frequently used for laughs or not explicitly stated to be queer in most early mainstream Hollywood films, a brief relaxation in Germany s film production code in the early 20th century allowed for LGBTQ+ classics like
Digital Spy about his original plans for the pilot episode, and how it could have led the show in a very different direction.
The show follows New York City s African American and Latino LGBTQ+ community during the drag ball scene of the 1980s and 1990s. Detailing how much of his original pitch actually made it on screen, Canals revealed that he and co-creator Ryan Murphy wrote four or five different versions of the pilot before they eventually filmed it. I m a perpetual rewriter, Canals admitted. So that pilot, I was always going back in and tinkering and changing. But the core journey was the same, which is that there s a young Black boy, named Damon, who gets kicked out of his house for being gay. He moves to New York, then gets enmeshed in the ball scene, and gets caught in a war between two house mothers.
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Left to right: Dyllón Burnside as Ricky, Hailie Sahar as Lulu, Mj Rodriguez as Blanca, Indya Moore as Angel, Angel Bismark Curiel as Lil Papi. (Eric Liebowitz/FX)
The last season of the groundbreaking FX show Pose kicked off Sunday night.
Over three seasons, the award-winning series has gained critical acclaim by taking us back to the 80s and 90s the golden age of the underground ballroom subculture in New York City.
The show holds the distinction of casting the largest number of transgender actors in TV history and sets the record for having the largest LGBTQ crew of all time.
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