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Queer Clicks: January 02, 2017 | Check Out These 10 Excellent Films That Celebrated Gayness In 2016, The Gender Waltz of 2016, & Other News

Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures

Check Out These 10 Excellent Films That Celebrated Gayness In 2016

“As the days get shorter, and Trump gets nearer, movie fans will need more than a few good titles to curl up with beside the fire. With awards season just around the corner, here’s a special look at ten excellent films that came out this year that fans of great cinema and all things LGBTQ will not want to miss.” Queerty

The Gender Waltz of 2016

“You could call 2016 the year of the human rights waltz. Whether, its women’s rights or LGBTQI ones, the principle seems to have been two steps forward and a step back. The saving grace is that regardless of the back-stepping, the music is still playing and we are still on the dance floor. Let’s not forget often these baby steps are not because of the system, but despite it. Here’s looking at some major moments of 2016.” DNA India

Gay America’s Harrowing, Heartening Year

“This November, in Denver, Leslie Herod became the first gay African-American to be elected to Colorado’s House of Representatives. One morning the following week, she awoke to find that she’d been tagged in a Facebook post: a Nissan belonging to one of her future constituents, a transgender woman named Amber Timmons, had been covered overnight with black spray paint.” The New Yorker

Best in Photography 2016

“Rainbows don’t exist as a tangible thing out there. They exist only in the eye. And why is it always exciting to catch one against a dark gray sky? Beauty exists in the eye of the beholder, but more than that beauty exists as inherited by our culture. We are trained to think of certain bodies and faces as beautiful. If we are lucky we shed imposed standards and begin to see the beauty in body shapes and facial features outside a commercial set of standards.” Advocate

These 16 Great Videos Remind Us What It Meant To Be LGBTQ In 2016

“2016 will be remembered as a particularly challenging year for many people, including those in the LGBTQ community.” Huffington Post