Queer: Class War

Tricia Tuttle, the BFI’s deputy director of festivals, said: “Queer filmmakers have delivered some of cinema’s most striking, vital, challenging, provocative and beautiful films and BFI Flare has been key in bringing these to UK audiences over the last 29 years...'

The Guardian online.

Why is it only the gay middle classes who now use the term 'queer'?

An empty signifier of pseudo-radicalism.

That name again... Tricia Tuttle!

Update: How can you be a 'queer' 'LGBT' woman exactly? Either your're a lesbian or not. Did George Carlin die in vain?

New Now Next: 12 Basic Things Gay Guys Love

From 'Making a big deal out of being into sports' to 'Marriage equality as marketing ploy' via 'Over-plucked eyebrows' and 'Little dogs'.

Perhaps not that original or inspired - ironically - but sometimes the obvious can't be restated enough.

Brava New Now Next!

Enjoy your non-basic weekend - Fagburn will be spending his un/happily holed up with Glen Campbell and George Carlin.
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