2023-07-12 17:12:31
Discovering the films of New Queer Cinema, with their queers rising up against straight society and against a form of homonormativity, was also emancipatory because it meant getting away from painful, victimizing or guilt-inducing gay representations. When I was a teenager, I was inundated with stories of coming out, not very imaginative, a little pathos and compassionate. They are of course necessary but as I was rather soft, shy and discreet, I dreamed of sleazy, radical and crazy images – it gave me more assertiveness. A reading that revolutionized me at the time in relation to that is the trilogy of books Queer Zones by author and activist Sam Bourcier – I remember a brilliant chapter devoted to these filmmakers called “ Are you sick of nice fags ? They were talking about these filmmakers heated by hegemonic representations of LGBTQ+, which were not very disturbing for straight society, which basically validated her and her violence. queerphobe. On the contrary, their films never apologized, replacing them with a vast, unbridled, joyfully deviant world. Bart Simpson must have grown up and is probably about my age – now I’m sure he would like to be too. Zaaaaaap.
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