Stop buying this bullshit, people, and start asking the hard questions.
Category: Film, Art, Television, and Media
Out filmmaker Bennett Singer is the co-director and co-producer, with Nancy D. Kates, of the critically acclaimed 2003 film, Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin, about the gay, African-American civil-rights activist whom many consider the main organizer behind the historic 1963 March on Washington.



Bashar Barazi is the president of 3B Media, Inc., the parent company of MAQAM, a sponsor of the 2006 Gay Games VII in Chicago. MAQAM brought artists to perform at the Opening/Closing Ceremonies and is now producing A Dream of Arabia. Barazi spoke to Windy City Times on the phone about the upcoming show.


“Dead Images, Live Transmissions: Greg Louganis and the Construction of AIDS on Television.”
Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture, volume 22.1 (Winter 2000)
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“Radical queers haven’t yet figured out how to use film as politics; we’ve done it with performance and spoken word, but not with film. The assimilationists are winning the war because they’ve learned how to use film as propaganda by wrapping their message in the preferred discourse of civil rights.”
