The LGBTQIA-community

[Reality]

Reality is right that there's broad support here but politically it's awful and things are indeed getting worse. The safe schools thing is evidence of this.

That said, oh my gosh I love Priscilla queen of the desert. It's my favourite Australian movie and my favourite lgbtiq movie.

My dad actually caught it on TV for the first time the other day and said it was really good. I just never think of it when choosing movies. It also just feels bizarre to see Agent Smith in drag.

[NewMutant]

Happy Monday! How was everyones weekend?

[MasterOfMagnetism]

Happy Monday! How was everyones weekend?

I binge-watched all of Daredevil season 2 on Friday. Charlie Cox is hotter in season 2, he spends more time with his shirt off and not covered in blood.

[NewMutant]

I binge-watched all of Daredevil season 2 on Friday. Charlie Cox is hotter in season 2, he spends more time with his shirt off and not covered in blood.

I haven't watched any of it yet. I'm actually starting to get a bit overwhelmed with all the comic related movies, tv shows, etc. I can't keep up.

[Kieran_Frost]

That said, oh my gosh I love Priscilla queen of the desert. It's my favourite Australian movie and my favourite lgbtiq movie.

Still such a fun film (even if one scene is verging on a little... wee racist?). I ADORE Terrance Stamp in it, glad he got Golden Globe nominated, but damn it he should have been up for the Oscar too. It's a truly perfect comedy performance, imbued with dignity, toughness and wit. He was... AMAZING!

[ed2962]

Australia always surprises me with this, I guess it's my ignorance but I always assumed Australia was (like Western countries) more ahead on social issues. That and maybe the bulk of my knowledge is from Priscilla; Queen of the Desert (1994)

I've seen maybe a third of this in random scenes on broadcast tv, but I've never just sat down an watched it start to finish. For a long time I thought To Wong Foo ( which I've never seen) was an American version of this film, but I guess they were developed independently of each other?

[Reality]

I binge-watched all of Daredevil season 2 on Friday. Charlie Cox is hotter in season 2, he spends more time with his shirt off and not covered in blood.

My boyfriend and I noticed this. I'm think he's shirtless once an episode on average, if not more. There were many exclamations of "noice."

[Kieran_Frost]

I've seen maybe a third of this in random scenes on broadcast tv, but I've never just sat down an watched it start to finish. For a long time I thought To Wong Foo ( which I've never seen) was an American version of this film, but I guess they were developed independently of each other?

I always felt To Wong Foo... copied Priscilla... just without the charm and wit.
#meeeeeow!

[JediKage]

My boyfriend and I noticed this. I'm think he's shirtless once an episode on average, if not more. There were many exclamations of "noice."

Well he always gets his butt beat so he needs that might as well get some Fan Service. I am sure Cage will be losing his shirt often in Luke Cage.

[t hedge coke]

I finally got to see All About Evil all the way through. Peaches Christ's shoutout to shoutout to herself was fantastically gauche.

I was disappointed with the limited approach to the misogyny question, re the gore and exploitation, given Christ/Grannell's work with gender and off-work self-gendering, especially, but well, it's a horror comedy spectacle, not a think piece. Anyway, nice to see Cassandra Peterson out of drag, as it were, and points for blunt humor and unrepentant tackiness.

I always felt To Wong Foo... copied Priscilla... just without the charm and wit.
#meeeeeow!

I'm halfway with you, half not. I think it was definitely copying Priscilla, but I also find it more entertaining.

Now, riffing on something from the Marvel LGBT thread: Is there anything to pansexual that isn't covered by bisexual, that isn't based in an arbitrary limitation of bisexual is (eg, not excluding trans individuals or not excluding individuals of certain body types)?

[numberthirty]

Now, riffing on something from the Marvel LGBT thread: Is there anything to pansexual that isn't covered by bisexual, that isn't based in an arbitrary limitation of bisexual is (eg, not excluding trans individuals or not excluding individuals of certain body types)?

In the context of Marvel's comic universe, I think so.

[Kieran_Frost]

I finally got to see All About Evil all the way through. Peaches Christ's shoutout to shoutout to herself was fantastically gauche.

I was disappointed with the limited approach to the misogyny question, re the gore and exploitation, given Christ/Grannell's work with gender and off-work self-gendering, especially, but well, it's a horror comedy spectacle, not a think piece. Anyway, nice to see Cassandra Peterson out of drag, as it were, and points for blunt humor and unrepentant tackiness.



I'm halfway with you, half not. I think it was definitely copying Priscilla, but I also find it more entertaining.

Now, riffing on something from the Marvel LGBT thread: Is there anything to pansexual that isn't covered by bisexual, that isn't based in an arbitrary limitation of bisexual is (eg, not excluding trans individuals or not excluding individuals of certain body types)?

Never mind

[numberthirty]

I always felt To Wong Foo... copied Priscilla... just without the charm and wit.
#meeeeeow!

I'm halfway with you, half not. I think it was definitely copying Priscilla, but I also find it more entertaining.

I don't know about "More". I guess I could see "It works a bit better for me."

It does feel like "wit" might have been something they intentionally downplayed(assuming that they were starting there).

[numberthirty]

My boyfriend and I noticed this. I'm think he's shirtless once an episode on average, if not more. There were many exclamations of "noice."

Elektra joking about that Matt has been working out was a nice touch.

[Silvermoth]

Charlie cox is always hot.

My dad actually caught it on TV for the first time the other day and said it was really good. I just never think of it when choosing movies. It also just feels bizarre to see Agent Smith in drag.

My dad used to point at it and say "that's why those people get beaten up" when I was in high school.

Happy Monday! How was everyones weekend?

Amazing! It was sort of like a long weekend for me because we went away on a work trip to Sydney before hand and then on Saturday I caught up with my parents and my cat.

Still such a fun film (even if one scene is verging on a little... wee racist?). I ADORE Terrance Stamp in it, glad he got Golden Globe nominated, but damn it he should have been up for the Oscar too. It's a truly perfect comedy performance, imbued with dignity, toughness and wit. He was... AMAZING!

Yeah, it's a shame about that racist bit. I would love to see a sequel done where the original three kind of pass on the torch to the current generation who cover the issues facing today's lgbtiq people like Priscilla did for its era. You can even keep the Priscilla name like Harry Potter and bam! Franchise potential! (As in, Priscilla, rides to Midsumma or Priscilla and the three twinks)

I actually made my car super fabulous in the video game mad max because I like to think it's secretly a Priscilla, Queen of the desert video game.