It’s the last day of Pride month. The girlies are exhausted, and your cat is tired of you “hydrating” on the couch (you’re chewing ice cubes). Rent’s not due for 4 more hours, and you’re out of klonopin anyway. Why don’t you come to Gayer Together, a double feature of short films correcting the historical record once and for all: The Harlem Renaissance was a queer fantasia, and everyone who fought in the Kronstadt Rebellion was trans.
Looking for Langston combines archival footage, poetry, and dramatized depictions of Langston Hughes’ world, making a significant, if impressionistic, contribution to the historical record of black, gay life. Maggots and Men retells the thrilling revolt of soldiers and townspeople against the new but already oppressive Soviet state--everyone’s doing anarchist praxis, including the casting director.
The people who want to destroy us are getting organized again, and poorly. Let us enjoy the freedom they hate, and together.