Season 3
Ballroom Culture
Movie Review: Born in Flames
Movie Review: La Cage Aux Folles x2
Movie Review: Fried Green Tomatoes
Movie Review: Making Love
Movie Review: Love, Simon
Movie Review: Carol
Show Review: Heated Rivalry
Gay in the Digital Age
Balls and Ballrooms are the stage where drag, voguing, and the celebration of trans-ness and gender mess began. Most often, these developments in LGBT+ Culture were led by people of color. Transcript: COMING SOON
Born in Flames is a 1983 alternative history film. Taking place in New York in an America who had a 'peaceful' revolution to a socialist democratic government. The main characters are black women who are resisting the government because they realize that the government has been making moves to silence minorities. Transcript: https://www.theholidaypride.com/post/movie-review-born-in-flames Sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96loCgGvQ_g https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizzie_Borden_(director)#Personal_life
La Cage Aux Folles is a classic stage production for the LGBT+ Community. It has been adapted to the screen twice, and these are both of those version. Transcript: https://www.theholidaypride.com/post/movie-review-la-cage-aux-folles-x2 Watch either movie for yourself! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ebGcS_yeBM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZX81R7SMsQ
Fried Green Tomatoes was more than a 1991 movie. It was also a 1987 novel that the movie was based off of. We take a look at both and see what stayed and what changed. Transcript: https://www.theholidaypride.com/post/movie-review-fried-green-tomatoes
Making Love is from 1982 and is one of the first films to depict LGBT+ characters in a favorable way after the Production Codes of Hollywood loosened their tight grip on what stories movie studios could produce, Transcript: https://www.theholidaypride.com/post/movie-review-making-love
Love, Simon was the first movie dedicated to LGBT+ teens. While there have been reasonable criticisms made about the film, it's a very important peice of media for LGBT+ youth as it's a perfectly fine rom com. Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Becky_Albertalli https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love,_Simon Transcript: https://www.theholidaypride.com/post/movie-review-love-simon
Carol is a 2015 film based on the book, The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith. The book alone was unusal for it's time but the movie was highly anticipated. In this episode, we compared the two. Transcript: https://www.theholidaypride.com/post/movie-review-carol Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_(film)#Production https://www.theholidaypride.com/post/book-review-the-price-of-salt-by-patricia-highsmith
We've spent a lot of time talking about the historical relivance of LGBT+ folks in media, now we wanted to talk about the actual media! Heated Rivalry became very popular very quickly when it came out, so enjoy this review! Transcript: https://www.theholidaypride.com/post/show-review-heated-rivalry
This episode is a bit more personal, as I have grown up alongside the internet for the most part. Being LGBT+ has always been hard, but the internet has certainly changed how we all live. Find the transcript here: https://www.theholidaypride.com/post/gay-in-the-digital-age-transcript Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet https://archive.org/details/inventinginterne00abba https://www.netvalley.com/archives/mirrors/cerf-how-inet.html https://archive.org/details/howwebwasbornsto00gill https://www.nsf.gov/od/olpa https://www.youtube.com/@FrankieFey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_YouTube https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Facebook https://www.thetrevorproject.org/research-briefs/online-experiences-and-mental-health-of-lgbtq-young-people/ https://www.hrc.org/magazine/2021-early-fall/online-communities-early-fall-2021 https://michigan.it.umich.edu/news/2023/06/05/online-safety-for-the-lgbtq-community/ https://www.oah.org/process/dame-griff-how-computers-transformed-lgbtq-life/ https://scholars.org/contribution/how-media-has-helped-change-public-views-about-lesbian-and-gay-people
There are many theatre shows that involve queer folks. Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:LGBTQ-related_musicals https://playbill.com/article/queer-musicals-from-boy-meets-boy-to-jagged-little-pill-traces-lgbtqia-representation-in-theatre https://newprairiepress.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4185&context=aerc https://theatricalindex.com/show/la-cage-aux-folles/la-cage-bway-2004 https://www.broadwayworld.com/grosses/LA-CAGE-AUX-FOLLES-2004-2005 https://www.britishtheatreguide.info/reviews/lacage-rev https://www.whatsonstage.com/west-end-theatre/news/01-2008/review-round-up-is-la-cage-another-menier-hit_20049.html/ https://www.broadway.com/buzz/168053/fetish-footwear-acclaimed-film-rockin-broadway-musical-explore-the-many-steps-of-kinky-boots/ https://web.archive.org/web/20131203004911/http://broadwaydirect.com/feature/kinky-boots-a-new-musical-is-born https://playbill.com/article/rent-dramaturg-suit-dismissed-com-71067 https://prezi.com/rkee5nh4_woa/no-day-but-today-the-critical-reception-of-rent/ https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2007/oct/16/theatre4 http://www.untamedspirits.net/aj/hedwig/la/h-la-bruin1199.htm https://www.metrosiliconvalley.com/papers/metro/08.02.01/cover/hedwig1-0131.html https://www.broadwayworld.com/israel/article/Musical-Theatre-Returns-to-Israel-With-HEDWIG-AND-THE-ANGRY-INCH-20210403 https://www.bbfc.co.uk/release/the-rocky-horror-picture-show-q29sbgvjdglvbjpwwc0xmdeymzq0