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Film, Art, Television, and Media

Stop Blaming Media for Sunil Tripathi’s Death

Stop buying this bullshit, people, and start asking the hard questions.

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Film, Art, Television, and Media Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Reporting

‘Brother Outsider’ filmmaker Bennett Singer talks Bayard Rustin

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.

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Chicago Chronicles Film, Art, Television, and Media Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Reporting

CHM celebrates Rustin at 100

The Chicago History Museum hosted a presentation on Bayard Rustin, the late African-American and gay activist who organized the famed 1963 March on Washington D.C. The event, “Bayard Rustin at 100,” was part of the museum’s “Out at CHM” series.

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Film, Art, Television, and Media Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

The New Yorker Sheds More Light on the Clementi-Ravi Story

Can we grapple with the complexity of the truth instead of being seduced by the more palatable tale of good and evil?

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Film, Art, Television, and Media

Looking for the Math and Science in Everything, And Failing to See the Arts

Just, please, don’t pretend it’s anything more than knitting in the round and don’t pretend to be engaging in some profoundly subversive form of politics.

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Feminism Film, Art, Television, and Media Queer Politics, Culture, and History

My Modesty

Excerpt: Modesty represented power and an ability to reinvent oneself without giving a damn.

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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Film, Art, Television, and Media On Books and Publishing Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Make Art! Change the World! Starve!: The Fallacy of Art as Social Justice – Part I

Excerpt: For the most part, arts and social justice funding is infused with the aura of nobility, combining the portrait of the penniless but determined artist with the desire and drive to change the world.

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Film, Art, Television, and Media Reporting

Interview with Bashar Barazi: A Dream of Arabia

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.

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Film, Art, Television, and Media On Books and Publishing

Dead Images, Live Transmissions: Greg Louganis and the Construction of AIDS on Television [Winter 2000]

“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)

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/discourse/

Access to this article is available only through subscription to Muse or to the journal.

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Film, Art, Television, and Media Gay Marriage Hate Crime Legislation Prison industrial complex Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Reporting

Queers on the Run: Interview with Eric Stanley and Chris Vargas

“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.”