Pride Month: ‘Jeffrey’ by Christopher Ashley

For Pride Month, I’ll be sharing pop culture works like literature, film, television, and music to celebrate queer culture. The early 1990s saw a renaissance of sorts of queer cinema, coined by B. Ruby Rich "new queer cinema." Mainstream and indie films about queer issues were getting more media attention and openly gay performers were...

Pride Month: Bruce Vilanch

For Pride Month, I’ll be sharing pop culture works like literature, film, television, and music to celebrate queer culture. I can't remember when I first saw Bruce Vilanch or became aware of him. He's such a distinct and unique figure in pop culture, particularly queer pop culture, that he seems pretty ubiquitous. Funny, gregarious, and...

Pride Month: ‘Tales of the City’ by Armistead Maupin

For Pride Month, I'll be sharing pop culture works like literature, film, television, and music to celebrate queer culture. Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City is a landmark gay novel that tells the story of San Francisco life in the late 1970s. Coming from a series of newspaper columns, Maupin created characters that become lively...