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"...When Victim came out in 1961, homosexuality was illegal. Director Basil Dearden’s neo-noir thriller was the..."

May 2, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

Self Portraits, Carnivals, and Cannibalism in Our Recommended Events

The weekend in arts and culture

"...presented since; or how the thriller genre’s villainization of homosexuality and gender-ambiguity doesn’t start here but definitely gets a..."

March 28, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

SXSW Film Review: On Swift Horses

In 1950s America, identity is imposed rather than discovered

"...Swift Horses may call to mind other movies depicting homosexuality and general self-repression during that period, such as Carol,..."

March 15, 2025 SXSW Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Unpeeling How Texas Legislators Are Working to Restrict Sex

From porn to sex toys to education to birth control, why does the state hate bodily pleasure?

"...and sex toys – not to mention bans on homosexuality that are still in place, though they are trumped..."

Feb. 14, 2025 News Feature by the News Staff

SXSW 2025 Heads to The Studio With Seth Rogen

New films from Ben Affleck, Nicole Kidman, Nic Cage added to fest

"...out by his parents, who do not accept his homosexuality. Caroline, on the other hand, is struggling to mourn..."

Jan. 22, 2025 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Theatre Review: Ground Floor Theatre’s Falsettos

Wise winter musical gives real lessons on creating family cheer

"...for a show like this, a Nineties touchstone addressing homosexuality in that monumental shift between free love and pandemic,..."

Dec. 13, 2024 Arts Feature by Cat McCarrey

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...the People’s Party. His platform advocated legalization of abortion, homosexuality, and marijuana; ending the Vietnam War; and providing free..."

March 29, 2024 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Review: City Theatre Tackles a Nineties Relic

Good performances can’t save The Twilight of the Golds from its datedness

"...see how the Golds react to the news of homosexuality. I’m not saying those reactions don’t still exist –..."

Feb. 16, 2024 Arts Feature by Cat McCarrey

Freud's Last Session

Fictional meeting between Freud and CS Lewis makes no breakthrough

"...more prurient theories about castration anxiety, the origins of homosexuality, and the Oedipal and Electra complexes. Except for a..."

Jan. 19, 2024 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Maestro

Truly moving biopic of musical leviathan Leonard Bernstein

"...will suffer if he doesn’t minimize his Jewishness, his homosexuality. From this bravura sequence, everything flows downstream, deepening our..."

Dec. 8, 2023 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Fantastic Fest Gets Toxic With The Toxic Avenger

Fall of the House of Usher, The Creator added

"...fantasy holds a big old mirror to persecution of homosexuality and queerness throughout history and confronts it in a..."

Aug. 15, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Anti-Queer Laws Just Keep Coming at the Texas Legislature

Out of the closet, into the woods

"...from the Texas Republican party platform, which explicitly declares homosexuality an "abnormal lifestyle choice," these bills send a loud..."

May 26, 2023 News Feature by Dex Wesley Parra

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...Before 1868, there were no terms "heterosexuality" or "homosexuality."..."

May 5, 2023 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Slamdance 2023 Review: The Underbug

Indian politics trap paranoia, prejudice in home-invasion thriller

"...and cross-examine their counterpart on hot-button issues: arranged marriages, homosexuality, prostitution. In another story, the conversation would be shallow,..."

Feb. 5, 2023 Screens Post by Dex Wesley Parra

Texas Lege Preview: Homophobic Holdout

Democrats try to remove anti-gay laws; Republicans don't want kids to be trans

"...law mandating that educational materials on sex state that "homosexuality is not a lifestyle acceptable to the general public..."

Jan. 13, 2023 News Feature by Maggie Quinlan

World Cup Watch: On Top of the World

Well, how about that Argentina?

"...that suppresses protest, dissent, workers' rights, women's rights and homosexuality."..."

Dec. 23, 2022 Sports Feature by Nick Barbaro

My Policeman

Harry Styles' celebrity overshadows this bloodless period drama

"...effectively conveys the terrors of the times, in which homosexuality was illegal and a back alley tryst could get..."

Oct. 21, 2022 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Memorable Moments From ACL Fest Weekend One

Some of our favorite performances that you can revisit this weekend

"...each act, one segment spoofing the Bible’s condemnation of homosexuality, and a total of six – count them, six..."

Oct. 14, 2022 Music Feature by Abby Johnston

Lil Nas X Perfects Storybook Whimsy and the Art of Self-Creation at ACL Fest

Pop star pulls off performance art in Austin debut

"...each act, one segment spoofing the bible’s condemnation of homosexuality, and a total of six – count them, six..."

Oct. 9, 2022 Music Post by Clara Wang

Fantastic Fest Review: Nightsiren

Tereza Nvotová’s bewitching horror makes her one to watch


"...Mira are significantly unhappy. One character allows her repressed homosexuality to manifest as religious condemnation, while others openly resent..."

Oct. 3, 2022 Screens Post by Matthew Monagle

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"..."acting president," gun control violates "our God given rights," "homosexuality is an abnormal lifestyle choice," and Texas can secede..."

June 24, 2022 News Feature

Five Things That Are Must-Sees at ATX TV Fest

From the newest crime drama to the return of your favorite family

"...bloody camp of The Vampire Diaries, horror stories and homosexuality have always gone hand in claw. Join Pushing Daisies..."

June 3, 2022 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Ailey

The lasting legacy of revolutionary choreographer Alvin Ailey

"...adult personal life, perhaps in keeping with his closeted homosexuality and his efforts to conceal his AIDS-related illness and..."

Aug. 6, 2021 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Into the Darkness

Danish World War II drama sketches and stretches out its own moral complexities

"...Luchino Visconti’s The Damned, but without the incest, transvestitism, homosexuality, and other signifiers of Nazi decadence that lurid 1969..."

May 21, 2021 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Qmmunity: "We Are Here, We Are Queer, and We're on a Deadline."

"...that ultimately led the American Psychiatric Association to remove "homosexuality" from its list of mental illnesses in 1973. Don't..."

April 23, 2021 Column by Beth Sullivan

We Have an Issue: Another Day of Gun Violence in America

Do gun owners honestly think we don't have a problem here?

"...that ultimately led the American Psychiatric Association to remove "homosexuality" from its list of mental illnesses in 1973...."

April 23, 2021 Column by Kimberley Jones

Digging Into Queer History in Cured

Doc explores fight to de-list homosexuality as mental illness

"...LGBTQIA history books: the 1973 activist campaign to remove homosexuality from the American Psychiatric Association’s list of mental illnesses...."

April 21, 2021 Qmmunity Post by James Scott

Qmmunity: Sports, Balls, and Bills

"...1973 campaign that pushed the APA to finally remove "homosexuality" from its list of mental illnesses; post-screening Q&A. Thu.,..."

April 16, 2021 Column by Beth Sullivan

Wojnarowicz: F**k You F*ggot F**cker

Inside the creativity and fury of the artist provocateur

"...Robert Mapplethorpe, the emerging East Village art scene, and homosexuality in general...."

March 26, 2021 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

AGLIFF Presses Play on The Capote Tapes

LGBTQIA+ film festival announces online lineup for 2020

"...historical, retrospective film about the 1969 legislation to ‘decriminalize’ homosexuality. Told through contemporary voices including queer academics, historians, activists,..."

July 8, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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