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This year for Pride Month we want to highlight our Queer Film Classics series to celebrate 2SLGBTQ+ representation in film. Each book in the series offers a critical analysis of a queer film and the surrounding culture and reception, exploring why these works should be considered classics of queer cinema. In a style that is … Read More >

Midnight Cowboy at the Cabaret on The Main:
A Queer Film Classics Interview
With Jon Towlson, Mikhel Proulx, Julie Vaillancourt
Interview by Matthew Hays and Thomas Waugh

Setting the Stage

The relaunched Queer Film Classics series has added a handful of films from the so-called Stonewall era to its miscellany of more recent queer films from the period between … Read More >

Taking place throughout the month of June, Pride Month is the celebration of the LGBTQ2I communities and their histories, diversity, and freedom. In honour of Pride and our new Queer Film Classics series, we’ve compiled a reading list of books engaged with the theme of queerness in culture and the media.

Queer Film Classics, edited … Read More >

“In thinking about queer bodies and community sports spaces, there is an explicit commitment to doing sports differently.” Who’s Coming Out to Play

In light of the upcoming (and previously postponed) 2020 Summer Olympic games, this week’s blog post encourages us to reconsider our perceptions and beliefs surrounding sports, athletic spaces, and societal … Read More >

“Confession is the primary modality of the internet. It is the force that maintained its impetus through the conversion from analogue to digital, and it remains at the centre of people’s interactions within online culture.” Thomas Waugh and Brandon Arroyo, I Confess!

Whether it be social media posts, online comment boards, or even … Read More >

Making Out in the Mainstream, by Vincent Doyle, was recently reviewed by the Bay Area Reporter, the oldest and highest circulation LGBT news weekly serving San Francisco’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities. The review coincides nicely with this week’s announcement of the 27th Annual GLAAD Media awards.

The following is an excerpt from Brian Bromberger’s piece entitled “Swimming … Read More >

Quill & Quire recently reviewed our newly released book Making out in the Mainstream, GLAAD and the Politics of Respectability by Vincent Doyle.

The following is an excerpt from the review:

There are few groups so prominent in the LGBT mainstream as the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. In this historical and ethnographic study … Read More >