I’ve been reading lately how some people think that, any kind of homosexual visibility in a film is good, since it is a visibility of some kind. So, it is not so much how homosexuality is being represented on screen, but the fact that it is at least represented, and therefore a positive thing.
I agree [...]
Breakfast With Scot
November 11th, 2009Cinema Gay
November 2nd, 2009In trying to establish the type of film that will constitute the base of my PhD, I encountered some problems. Since I am going to be studying ‘gay cinema’ of sorts, I faced questionings from my friends and relatives wondering what exactly can be defined as gay cinema, if Spain has an specific gay genre, [...]
Read More…Coming Out
October 21st, 2009Amongst other (very interesting) things Annamarie Jagose discusses in ‘Queer Theory. An Introduction’, she talks about a number of (homo)sexual movements, their pros and cons, and a brief history about them. I was just reading about the Homophile movement and Gay Liberation as predecessors to Queer Theory as a theory per se, and it made [...]
Read More…Mr. & Mrs. Gay
October 20th, 2009I’ve started reading ‘Miradas Insumisas’ by Alberto Mira. I’m guessing you will hear much from this book in the coming blogs, since I intend to discuss things that I feel are interesting. I’ve also started Annamarie Jagose’s ‘Queer Theory. An Introduction’, so you will get some posts about that too. I felt that, if I [...]
Read More…The Idea Of It All
October 17th, 2009Welcome to ‘The Day The Earth Stood Gay’, my new blog. My name’s Adrian Gras-Velazquez and I’m a 28 years old Durham University PhD student.
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