#queer classics

[makingqueerhistory]

Honestly, I think The Bone People deserves more space in the discussion of classic queer literature. Published in February 1984, it won The Booker Prize the following year and has an asexual, aromantic main character. Written by Keri Hulme, it is in part based on her experiences as someone who self-identified as asexual and aromantic. I had only heard of it recently, and wow, I'm shocked it's not brought up more as the queer classic it is.

[easterndelights]

ブルース・ハープ Blues Harp (1998) dir. Miike Takashi

[probably-an-alien]

To anyone interested in queer interpretations of Herman Melville's Moby Dick I strongly recommend reading Emma Rantatalo's thesis "A Cosy, loving pair”? – The Elusion of Definitions of Queequeg and Ishmael’s Relationship in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick.

This text explores the intersections between queerness and race in the context of the relationship between Queequeg and Ishmael and has some really interesting things to say both about how them being an interracial couple makes their relationship possible (within the context of the time and place it was written in and takes place) in the first place, while also exploring how that fact has lead to so many people arguing against interpreting their relationship as romantic or sexual.

In doing so the paper explores and critically examines, among other things:

how Ishmael's race is not often discussed, because society sees whiteness as the default

Queequeg's classification as an other, but simultaneous deviation from then common tropes about non-white characters like the myth of the noble savage

the link between homosexuality and cannibalism in 19th-century perceptions

the myths built around Herman Melville due to his posthumous classification as a "great American writer"

Rantatalo's paper was a very interesting and enlightening read and my hope is that this post will convince at least one other person to check it out.

[newvision]

E.M. Forster, from Maurice

[write-the-room]

rip basil hallward u would've loved casual by chappel roan

[ozthedm]

If anyone is looking for an accurate film adaptation of "The Picture of Dorian Gray" I recommend the 1976 BBC version.

For those of my followers who are in the Re-animator fandom, have fun transporting Dan and Herbert into this scene.

[someperson4546]

My fanart for Tootsie! This film has to be one of my favourites by far. I just watched the musical yesterday and I liked it as its own separate thing but I don't think it can compare to the movie. Plus, Dorothy had way better fashion in the movie, so I thought I'd draw her in some of them

[snapbookreviews]

I did @makingqueerhistory 's 2025 queer book bingo and came damn close to a full board clear, with one unfilled and one partially filled.

The Making Queer History 2025 Book Bingo