To celebrate Pride Month, The A.V. Club staff is recommending our favorite queer projects
Everyone has an early or favorite memory of experiencing a queer project that felt transformative. It’s the TV show, album, film, or book you can’t stop recommending to people because it continues to dazzle you today. So in honor of Pride Month, we’re asking a simple, evocative AVQ&A: What’s your essential piece of queer pop culture? Liza With A Z Liza Minnelli ’s status as a gay icon has been solid for close to 60 years.
Shortbus I haven’t seen Shortbus, writer-director John Cameron Mitchell’s gutsy, explicit follow-up to Hedwig And The Angry Inch, since it played in theaters way back in 2006, but it’s always stuck with me. The film centers on the titular party in Brooklyn hosted by Justin Vivian Bond, where the likes of a sex therapist , a dominatrix, a gay couple thinking about opening up their relationship, a stalker, and a whole lot of musicians and artsy types hookup and chat and mingle and celebrate.
Yo La Tengo Dan Levy Bob Fosse Patrick Brewer David Rose Caesar Laura Jane Grace Emily Hampshire Vinay Pathak John Kander Emma Keates Liza Minnelli Saloni Gajjar Shabana Azmi Gay Men Joe Pantoliano Entertainment Culture The Wachowskis Julien Baker Drew Gillis LGBT Studies Jaaved Jaffrey Corky Gershon Jacob Oller Judy Garland Eugene Levy Tim Lowery Ed Koch John Quentin Gina Gershon Cindy White Hedwig And The Angry Inch Jennifer Tilly John Cameron Mitchell Jen Lennon Schitt Bound Fred Ebb Nigel Terry Kulbhushan Kharbanda The Matrix Transgender Matt Schimkowitz Noah Reid Nandita Das Tilda Swinton Justin Vivian Bond Deepa Mehta Derek Jarman Stevie The A.V. Club
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