I know we just wrapped up the Short Animation Blogathon, but time and tide wait for no blogger. So it’s time for another special announcement: we’ll be co-hosting the second Queer Film Blogathon from June 18-22, 2012 alongside the wonderful Caroline of Garbo Laughs!
As Caroline puts it, the purpose of this blogathon is to celebrate “lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, or otherwise non-heterosexual, non-gender-binary depictions or personages in film!” So cut loose, enjoy yourself, and write about whatever you like, so long as it falls under that very broad umbrella. (You don’t need to declare your topic ahead of time; any overlaps between contributions are fine.) Once this party gets underway in a month and a half, all submitted posts will be linked to both here and at Garbo Laughs. Twice the linkage! Twice the queer fun!
And to make this blogathon even better, we’ll be holding a raffle at each site, probably for books about LGBT cinema. (Prizes and rules TBA.) So, wanna join in? Then please RSVP in the comments either here or on Caroline’s announcement, and we’ll add you to the list of participants below. Finally, she also whipped up a series of beautiful banners to publicize the blogathon:
Participating Sites:
- Backlots
- Coffee coffee and more coffee
- Crítica Retrô
- Deep Red Rum
- The Filmatelist
- From the Depths of DVD Hell
- Garbo Laughs
- The Gore-Gore Girl
- The Great Katharine Hepburn
- The Hollywood Revue
- in so many words…
- Krell Laboratories
- Labuza Movies
- The Lady Eve’s Reel Life
- Marlene Dietrich: The Last Goddess
- Memories of the Future
- The Most Beautiful Fraud in the World
- The Movie Projector
- Not Just Movies
- The Projector Has Been Drinking
- Pussy Goes Grrr
- The Queer Film Blog
- She Blogged By Night
- Silent Volume
- Sittin’ on a Backyard Fence
- Sketchy Details
- Thrilling Days of Yesteryear
- Trash Film Addict
- True Classics
- What Happened to Hollywood
- Wide Screen World
Ash
Alice
I have no idea what I’ll write about, but I’m in!
This is KC from Classic Movies by the way.
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Count me in. I think I might write about “The Skin I Live,” but things always open to change.
So excited! Forgot to mention, I also set up a Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/435303853166164/
Sounds like fun. I’ll write on “Happy Together” and “Beautiful Thing”
Haven’t seen any “good” queer films lately. Gonna have to reflect on this one… Does subtext count?
My blog is about classic film, therefore subtext TOTALLY counts.
What Caroline said. If you want, you can argue for a queer reading of a superficially “straight” movie, or really take the blogathon wherever else you want to go. It’s up to you!
You can count Kevyn Knox and The Most Beautiful Fraud in the World in on all the fun.
I wanna play! I have a bunch of queer films that I need an excuse to watch. (They’re packed full of queer dom-text rather than sub-text… ;)
Ha, dom-text! Love it. Can’t wait to read your stuff!
Oh, Shortbus!
I’d love to see a post on Shortbus. Should we put you down for the ‘thon?
Ah, sorry! I just saw this reply. I’ve been a bit busy the past week or so, but I would love to do the next themed project you curate. How’s that sound?
That would be fine! Or, hell, if you write anything queer-themed, about Shortbus, etc. in the weeks after the blogathon, just let me know and I’ll still link to it.
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