Queer Clicks: March 10, 2017 | “Porn is Everywhere, Almost Like a Collective Unconscious”: Bruce LaBruce on his XConfessions Short Refugee’s Welcome, Photographs that Pick Apart Gay Archetypes of the 1970s, & Other News
Refugees Welcome, Bruce LaBruce, Erika Lust, Amard Bird Films
“Porn is Everywhere, Almost Like a Collective Unconscious”: Bruce LaBruce on his XConfessions Short Refugee’s Welcome
“Bruce LaBruce is one busy renaissance man. The queercore icon — director of 11 features (not to mention numerous short films and music videos, and several theater works), visual artist and author — has now teamed up with Erika Lust’s XConfessions to release Refugee’s Welcome. The story of a Syrian refugee in Berlin who both suffers a hate crime and finds a poetic (and explicitly sexual) connection with a Czech punk, the short will be available on Eroticfilms.com (NSWF link, obviously!) on March 9th.” Filmmaker Magazine
Photographs that Pick Apart Gay Archetypes of the 1970s
Hal Fischer, “Leather Apparel” from Gay Semiotics (1977, printed 2014)
” In a scene of William Friedkin’s movie Cruising (1980) Al Pacino, who plays a straight New York officer who is under cover to investigate a series of murders linked to the gay S&M scene, goes in a sex shop. Puzzled by a display of colored handkerchiefs, he asks a sales assistant what they are for. The obviously bored reply is a very detailed one: “A light blue hanky in your left back pocket means you want a blow job; right pocket means you give one. The green one: left side says you’re a hustler; right side you’re a buyer. The yellow one: left side means you give golden shower; right side you receive.” ” Hyperallergic
Australian Gay Pride: Cheap Thrills
Barrett Pall at Sydney’s Mardi Gras
“Coming to Australia has been a 20 year dream, and as I conclude my tenth day here I can honestly say it’s been just that, a dream. I’m not entirely sure why I’ve dreamt of coming here for so long, but it’s been a place that has fascinated me forever. The weather, the general attitude, the people have all mesmerized me, and every time I see something new I can feel my mind expanding and my heart growing.” Huffington Post
‘Departure’ – Gay Coming Of Age Movie On Amazon w/NSFW Scenes
“Have you searched the archives of your streaming media offerings for the gay stuff? Some of it is clearly not worth watching while others have titles you’re too embarrassed to have on the screen if company ever saw them. I have not been satisfied with any of the offerings I’ve tried to make it through. Call me an entertainment snob but the plot of many are non-existent or the gay sex scenes are nothing but a tease. ” Instinct Magazine
