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The Queen's Gambit
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Notes of a Crocodile
Carries a strong pull into film through longing and memory.
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Dancer from the Dance
Carries a strong pull into film through memory and longing.
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Love Deluxe
Carries a strong pull into television through power and after-hours.
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The Queen Is Dead
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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The Argonauts
Carries a strong pull into anime through longing and identity.
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Notes of a Crocodile
1990s
"Set in the post-martial-law era of 1990s Taipei, Notes of a Crocodile depicts the coming-of-age of a group of queer misfits discovering love, friendship, and artistic affinity while hardly studying at Taiwan's most prestigious university. Told through the eyes of an anonymous lesbian narrator nicknamed Lazi, Qiu Mi...
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The Queen Is Dead
1980s
Morrissey and Marr's peak. Wit, melancholy, and jangly guitar perfection.
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Scum's Wish
2010s
To the outside world, Hanabi Yasuraoka and Mugi Awaya are the perfect couple. But in reality, they just share the same secret pain: they are both in love with other people they cannot be with. Hanabi has loved her childhood friend and neighbor Narumi Kanai for as long as she can remember, so she is elated to discove...
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The Queen
2000s
The Queen is a 2006 film from United Kingdom, France, and Italy, associated with Stephen Frears. It keeps a wider cinema field of scale, memory, and regional contrast in view without reducing the title to a bare metadata shell.
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Essays 2010s
The Argonauts
Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts is a genre-bending memoir, a work of “autotheory” offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language. At its center is a romance: the story of the author’s relationship with artist Harry Dodge. This story, which...
Television 1990s
Queer as Folk
Queer as Folk is a 1999 British television series that chronicles the lives of three gay men living in Manchester's gay village around Canal Street. Initially running for eight episodes, a two-part follow up was shown in 2000. It was written by Russell T Davies and produced by Red Production Company for Channel 4.
Books 1950s
The Price of Salt
THE PRICE OF SALT is the famous lesbian love story by Patricia Highsmith, written under the pseudonym Claire Morgan. The author became notorious due to the story's latent lesbian content and happy ending, the latter having been unprecedented in homosexual fiction. Highsmith recalled that the novel was inspired by a...
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Music 1970s
Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols
Anarchy in the UK and God Save the Queen. Punk's original explosion in one album.
Anime 2010s
Yuri!!! on Ice
Reeling from his crushing defeat at the Grand Prix Finale, Yuuri Katsuki, once Japan's most promising figure skater, returns to his family home to assess his options for the future. At age 23, Yuuri's window for success in skating is closing rapidly, and his love of pork cutlets and aptitude for gaining weight are n...
Film 1990s
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert is a 1994 film from Australia, associated with Stephan Elliott. It keeps a wider cinema field of scale, memory, and regional contrast in view without reducing the title to a bare metadata...