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posted by matildastone
Travel Queeries is a feature-length documentary film that examines the culture, art and activism of radical queers in contemporary Europe. Through personal interviews and documentation of performances, festivals, multi-media visual arts and spaces, Travel Queeries puts an exciting international lens on queer fringe culture. With the aim of building bridges and awareness, Travel Queeries considers the word “queer” and explores the complexities, innovative values and spirit of queer within a progressive social change movement.
Travel Queeries was started in 2005 at Queeruption, Barcelona. Filmed in 2006 (UK, Germany, Poland) and in 2007 (Spain, Denmark, Serbia, Italy), production and editing was completed in Seattle (US) and Bremen (Germany). The film premiered in March 2009 in London (UK).
The filmmaker, Elliat Graney-Saucke, has been a long time friend of QZAP, and we’re very excited to bring this to Milwaukee.
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this film will be playing friday, nov 20 at 7:30 PM in nyc! check it out if you have yr friday night free!
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queers on gears.
i wish i was there! san francisco, ca!
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another photo from the This is Oz campaign! so awesome.
(This Is Oz is an online photo gallery where people can help fight discrimination against Australia’s gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) community. Part art project, part human rights campaign, This Is Oz is all about making Australia a place where everyone belongs.)
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“Via OutSports, we find out that Australia’s national rugby union team, The Wallabies, have joined forces with gay rugby union club the Sydney Convicts to fight against homophobia. (At left is David Pocock of The Wallabies.)
The campaign - This Is Oz - touts itself as ”celebrating diversity and challenging homophobia,” and uses its online photo gallery to feature athletes (and everyone else!) holding up messages supporting GLBT rights.”
via feministing.com
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a sticker on a dumpster in newport news, virginia!
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MondoHomo 2009
If you live near Atlanta or feel like making a road trip later this month, then you must check out this super rad festival. MondoHomo Dirty South 2009 will showcase cutting edge queer music, performance, burlesque, drag, spoken word, arts, crafts, film, video, politics, workshops and much more!
5 days of nonstop queer culture fun, MondoHomo will again be the most OUTRAGEOUS Queer gathering ever to take over Atlanta! How could you miss out on something like that? There’s something for everyone!
Also, Gretchen Phillips will be performing so you definitely want to catch her. If you’re a former riot grrrl or know anything about the movement then you probably know who she is. Basically, dykey radical awesomeness you need to see to believe.
Don’t forget to get in your submissions for the First Ten Days of Summer before it’s too late!
posted by babeuseless
QueerArt Wednesday
Dion Hitchings is an artist from Saint Louis, Missouri currently living in New Jersey. He entered the corporate world and began a long and successful career as an art director. Then, after a trip to the Kentuck Festival of Arts in Alabama, he realized his desire to get back to painting and drawing and to fulfill his dream of being a full-time artist.
His artwork is inspired by the people he sees and works with, dreams, plants at the nursery, news items, guests on the Jerry Springer show and nature. His work in influenced by artists like Jean Michael Basquait, Aubrey Beardsley, Peter Max, Gustav Klimt and Alan Cober.
Featured here is a piece called Envy the Green Dog which is part of his Seven Deadly Sins series. You can view this series in it’s entirety at dionhitchings.com. Also be sure to check out his be book which is dedicated in part to the late, great Bea Arthur (RIP Dorothy, we’ll miss you).
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Lez Have a Gay Ol’ Time in Brooklyn…
Hey there guys n gals (in-betweens n silver-linings, too) of the NY area - It looks like Sunday April 19 will be a queertastic (albeit rainy) day in Brooklyn. Here’s where you can find me, and some other lovely queeros:
thinkBOOM, 4-7pm, Bushwick (L train to DeKalb)
“thinkBOOM is a fresh, new monthly event for artists, writers and passionate thinkers to come together and connect through many forms of expression like story-telling, performance, reading, seeing, sharing artwork, listening, and speaking. We hope that on these thinkBOOM days, our home will become a safe place for people to display, perform and discuss their art or writing (this work may be experimental, improvisational, spontaneous or none of the above)”
(directly from the lips of thinkBOOM)
*if you don’t want to share your personal work, bring along something that inspires you & enjoy the good art vibes!
*e-mail thinkBOOM@gmail.com for specific details
*this is FREE
Pansy Division: Life in a Gay Rock Band, 9:30pm, Monkey Town in Williamsburg
Pansy Division is a gay punk-pop group that has been on the scene the 90’s with their “confrontational” pro-queer tunes. “Bill & Ted’s Homosexual Adventure” is just one of many songs (of 9 albums) that not only helped form an alternative gay culture, but also to make a place for the LGBTQ community within rock. Pansy Division: Life in a Gay Rock Band, a documentary about the band’s experiences, is showing at Monkey Town in Williamsburg, followed by a Q&A with the lead singer John Ginoli as well as an acoustic set!
*requires reservation, check the Monkey Town website for more info, or call 718.384.1369
*costs $8 with $10 food/drink minimum
*there is also a showing @ 7, but i’ll be @ thinkBOOM! ;)
Leave a comment or e-mail OneLoveBYOQ@gmail.com if you want to arrange a time/place to meet up before hand!
posted by thegshmee
QueerArt Wednesday
William Conroy Lindsay moved from his small hometown of Merrimack, NH to NYC in 1998 to attend Wagner College as a theater major. He began his work in 1998 sitting in a literature class at college. With just a pen and a notebook listening to lectures, out of boredom and to escape reality for awhile, he would fill hundreds of pages with his never ending squiggle line. After a few years of studying theatre, he transferred to The School of Visual Arts, Manhattan in the year 2000 studying graphic design and fine art. In a class called originality, which encouraged the student to work on creating new images and ideas, his designs became alive beyond all the notebooks. He created them with pen on 18” × 24” drawing paper, filling an entire page.
Experimenting with different mediums, his designs then moved on to acrylic and 3-D fabric paint on canvas in many color combinations and sizes up to 5 by 5 feet. He continues squiggling on many things today, paintings, pillows, T-shirts, lampshades, cocktail glasses, vases, the exterior of his car, and interior walls of people’s apartments. He would like as many as possible to experience and enjoy the influence of the one continuous line. One day he hopes to squiggle an entire room so his own crazy squiggle environment will surround him and other viewers.
posted by babeuseless
QueerArt Wednesday
“Art is important to every community, art is culture, it reflects life. But since the queer community gets so much negativity aimed at it through certain groups of people, it’s always good to see a positive thing in our community. Also, others who are not part of the queer community can see that we are not the negative influence that too many groups claim us to be.”
Melanie Ducharme’s work contains the theme of female identity: what that identity means, and stereotyped femininity. Growing up with mixed messages from family members and society about what it means to be a woman has inspired much of her work.
What makes someone who they are and why? Identity can be a role or stereotype. There are identities that are imposed on us and those we create for ourselves. These identities form when we are young, “What will you be when you grow up?” We incorporate these identities into fairytales or we see them in the role models we admire … they shape us into the people we are or are yet to become.
Melanie’s pieces are these identities, roles, and childhood dreams you once had; recreated and re-seen for their fancy, fallacy, humor or sadness. People change, society and reality supposedly change us and shape us. She wants the viewer to decide for themselves how much they have or have not conformed to these identities.
See more of Melanie Ducharme’s work and read her blog here.
posted by babeuseless
QueerArt Wednesday
Fernando Carpaneda is an artist born in Brasília, Brazil. He works with clay sculptures. His main theme is always the human being. He watches people in the streets, bars, concerts, and places where people sell their bodies. Fernando makes portraits of rent boys, punks, junkies, thieves and outcasts. Instead of attaching himself to muses, he focuses on male nudes to compose his art pieces, having the human being, the masculine, as the main goal in his work. All his portraits are like a relic, a holy place, a moment caught in time. He uses objects that have a connection to the portrayed person to composing his work, such as cigarette butts, condoms, beer cans, underwear, semen.
“I don’t consider prostitutes, drags, junkies, punks or homeless people as losers. On the contrary, they are honest with their attitude and have the courage to show their real face. They do what they like. They, the same way as me, do not belong to the mediocre kind of people who only want to see our negative side. We admit publicly our conditions and points of view, and this displeases many people.”
Read more about Fernando and check out more of his artwork at fernandocarpaneda.com
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Homophobes have hard time finding sponsors for anti-gay bills
This is a cartoon by queer cartoonist Mikhaela B. Reid about how a Massachusetts hate group is struggling to find bill sponsors for anti-gay bills. Check out more queer and political cartoons at her website, The Boiling Point Blog.
posted by scantronHERE’S A LITTLE BLURP ABOUT www.queer-arts.org
“Since 1996 we’ve produced over 50 exhibitions that suggest the range, depth, and importance of queer artistic expression.
Until the recent advent of Queer Studies, the History of Art has omitted most material of direct relevance to lesbians and gays. Much has been suppressed, much has been lost due to neglect or censorship, and a great deal has simply been overlooked. QAR is expanding the range and depth of knowledge about contemporary and historical queer art, and making this information freely available on our website.
We realize that artistic identity is molded by myriad factors, an amalgam of gender, racial, ethnic and sexual, to name a few. But we also know that honest artistic expression by the queer community plays a role in combatting homophobia and advancing the principles of intellectual integrity.”
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