The Sad Stork

Post tenebras spero lucem 30, He/Him

[soupedecroutons]

Thirdworld (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 1999)

[mummer]

tony kushner on pretentiousness 🖤

[alfredsnightmare]

[orchidscurse]

Anthony Bourdain by Jake Chessum. Taken outside Papaya King, New York, 2008.

[retrogirly]

A man drinking with his cat on a rooftop, New York City in 1953. Photo by Hy Rothman.

[adrianoesteves]

[canadianlesbianandgayarchives]

“I become the gay man I am, not by expressing any innate desire (that’s homosexuality), but by joining a particular culture, by learning a particular language. I’ve always thought the phrase should be ‘going in,’ not ‘coming out.’ At whatever point or points we choose, we enter a gay culture which already exists, and in joining that culture we find ourselves amidst a variety of styles which our gay peers offer to us and demand from us. … More and more I actually think the phrase ‘being gay’ means 'doing gay things’ — and for me, drag is one of them. It makes me feel gay. That is, when I put on that frock, I enter into a wealth of specifically gay feelings, gay games, gay possibilities.”

Neil Bartlett on drag, The Body Politic No. 116, July 1985 >

clga.ca

[nobrashfestivity]

Albrecht Durer, Mary among a Multitude of Animals, 1503

[cigarrw-s]

End of the Century (2019) dir. Lucio Castro

Transition is always a relief. Destination means death to me. If I could figure out a way to remain forever in transition, in the disconnected and unfamiliar, I could remain in a state of perpetual freedom / then definitely make the time to see end of the century. In airconditioned comfort, without distraction.

David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration

[the-sad-stork]

[theinternetarchive]

after the riots, the stonewall inn's windows were boarded up with plywood, its insides destroyed. members of the mattachine society as well as customers covered the windows with graffiti. the last piece is a reference to the fact that police took payouts from members of the mob who operated illegal gay bars.

photos taken days after the stonewall riots, weekend of june 27, 1969.

[throwupgirl-deactivated20240906]

I always forget Gary Beach coming out in that bombshell dress in The Producers was a sort of a joke because I got so horny I didn’t even register what dialogue was happening until the musical number started

[a-h-mad-hish]

The Sacrifice 1986 Andrei Tarkovsky

[quasi-normalcy]

Mel Brooks on taking studio notes:

[sparklejamesysparkle]

Raquel Welch as Myra Breckinridge, screen legend Mae West as talent agent Leticia Van Allen, and John Huston as acting school owner Buck Loner in the 20th Century Fox/Michael Sarne satirical camp classic Myra Breckinridge, 1970. The movie was adapted from the ground-breaking and controversial 1968 Gore Vidal lgbtq+ themed novel of the same name.

[infectiouspiss]

let me be pervertly clear

[yeahiwasintheshit]

[the-sad-stork]

Jeffrey Wright as Belize in the original broadway production of Angels in America in 1993

Compared to the 2003 HBO miniseries he reprised his role in

Just interesting to watch what living with the character for that long and a change in medium does to a performance. Not saying one is better than the other. Each has its pleasures and unique resonances. Can't get this monologue and the particular way Wright delivers it out of my head lately, rewinding different tics and Kushner turns of phrase. The closeup versus the stage lets Wright go smaller which really sells the bubbling anger and distaste he is constantly suppressing around these annoying people. Happy 250th!