Queer Clicks: January 30, 2017 | New Documentary Nobody Speak Investigates Peter Thiel’s Takedown Of Gawker, Queer Cinema Gets a Bold New Movie in ‘Paris 05:59: Théo & Hugo’, & Other News
Anthony Friedkin
A Candid View From The Front Lines Of The Gay Liberation Movement In 1970s Los Angeles
I decided to shoot The Gay Essay for a variety of reasons,” Los Angeles-based photographer Anthony Friedkin tells Queerty in an exclusive interview. “I wanted to photograph gay people who were living an open gay life and where proud of it. It’s my personal belief that all human beings are unique when it comes to their sexual identity, as unique as our finger prints are.
New Documentary Nobody Speak Investigates Peter Thiel’s Takedown Of Gawker
“Director Brian Knappenberger spoke with Democracy Now! about the Silicon Valley billionaire’s destruction of Gawker by funding Hulk Hogan’s lawsuit after Thiel was outed as gay by the defunct blog.” Out
Queer Cinema Gets a Bold New Movie in ‘Paris 05:59: Théo & Hugo’
“You’ve seen the moment many times. Two future lovers see each other in a crowd, and something clicks. In West Side Story that moment prompts a blur on the edges of the frame, with only the lovers in focus. In La La Land, it takes the form of a camera push-in with all the lights, but for a spotlight, going out. The moment is so familiar in fantasies (and desired in reality) that there’s even an old showtune about it.” Towleroad
Austin Armacost Just Can’t Seem To Keep His Clothes On
“Mirror mirror on the wall, who’s the fairest of them all?
Austin Armacost’s backside by the looks of it.
The Celebrity Big Brother hunk gave his followers an eyeful when he stripped completely naked for a moody snap this weekend.
We’re pretty sure they’re not complaining, though.” Gay Times
