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Click on the image below to watch a documentary/film by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman based on the book of the same name written by Vito Russo discussing the history of how motion pictures, especially Hollywood films, has portrayed gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender characters.

Click on the image below to watch/listen to Staged Right's video on Queer Representation in Theatre. 

This is a zoom meeting provided by HowlRound Theatre. Activist and international star Peppermint (she/her) will host an online conversation with the recipients of the 2021-22 New Visions Fellowship, Ayla Xuan Chi Sullivan (they/them) and Nick Hadikwa Mwaluko (he/they), along with New Visions Lead Mentor, Roger Q. Mason (they/them) and will explore how TGNC-led stories and characters on stages have the capacity to humanize through art, and how other TGNC artists and individuals can begin to imagine more fully realized lives as individuals in society as a result.

Here is a video of iconic queer moments in theatre. These are some really great things to keep in mind as we work on Hellman's The Children's Hour.

An extension of Iconic Queer Moments in Theatre, this video focuses on the first openly queer characters on stage. These are some really great things to keep in mind as we work on Hellman's The Children's Hour.

Explore the visual symbols and language used by LGBTQ+ artists and communities to suggest hidden identities. Oscar Wilde and his circle famously wore a green carnation as a signifier of their identities. These flowers are just one example of the many visual symbols throughout history, which hinted at secret sexualities and identities that had been hidden. So what other coded symbols can we find in the history of queer art? How did today's artist reference and re-use them? And how have hidden symbols transitioned to a wider and more expressive queer visual language?

Explore LGBTQ+ artists with us as we delve into archives and collections to celebrate queer art. These artists have always existed, but art histories have predominately been told from a perspective that often suppressed their identities. This video examines the work and lives of artists including Duncan Grant, Claude Cahun, Joan Eardley, Anne Lister, and George Platt Lynes, among others.

Too often we dwell on the negatives of history's LGBTQ+ artists, dark stories, pain, and repression. We have like Keith Haring, who sadly died of AIDS, Basquiat, who died of drug abuse. Not just in the visual arts but across different art forms. But look closer and queer joy can be found, sometimes explicit, but sometimes in the abstract. Flowers, landscapes, colours and domestic scenes. So how do we find and illuminate this work? And why is it so important that we do?

A comedic video about the overused trope of killing off lesbian characters in television, film, and on stage. 

Throughout the many LGBTQ stories that have been told onscreen, there is one dominant theme: suffering. From the "Bury Your Gays" trope that sees queer characters dying far more frequently than straight characters, to stories that foreground the struggles of LGBTQ lives, we rarely allow them to be happy. So why have we insisted on making queer characters miserable? The Take discusses how this trope has dominated LGBTQ representations over the years, and whether we can get to a place where suffering isn’t always part of their story.

NTGent presented School of Resistance discusses LGBTQIA+ rights and the artistic potential of transforming desire and gender. Several people who center their work around queer liberation (the philosopher Helen Hester and author of the book Xenofeminism, the Polish drag performer and political activist Maciej “Gąsiu” Gosniowski) discuss LGBTQIA+ rights, desire, and gender in the context of the Polish Malta Festival 2021 in Poznan. Discussion starts at 26:00.