AfterElton
and AfterEllen.com do a fabulous job of rounding up the year in queer
entertainment for all of you movie and TV fiends. The following links are
recommended if you want a recap of the good, the bad and the ugly in 2006.
In the 'Year in Queer 2006:
Movies,' writer Brian
Juergens tackles the silver screen and breaks things into bite-size pieces
including mainstream and indies, as well as films made specifically for gay
audiences. "Overall, 2006 brought us a group of fairly fresh gay
characters in an incredibly diverse sampling of films — and there's nothing
wrong with that. Perhaps 'Brokeback' sent the message that American audiences are
ready to see their gay characters as something other than a hairdresser or
florist or the catty bitch next door — that if a cowboy can be gay, so can just
about everyone else," says Juergens.
Focusing on lesbians
and film, Karman Kregloe writes: "A bisexual murder victim, a sociopathic
lesbian mom and an obsessive, closeted school teacher — not exactly the plethora
of iconic queer roles any of us might have been hoping for. The representation
of lesbian and bisexual women in mainstream film this year was dodgy at best."
Get her recap of lesbian
movies here.
AfterElton editor extraordinaire Michael Jensen looks to the
small screen in 'The Year in Queer TV: Eleven
Highs and Lows From 2006,'
dissecting gays and race, gay youth, the "F" word (faggot) and a new genre
called "bromance" (two straight men in love). About lesbian
TV, Malinda Lo gives
reality TV good marks for lesbian visibility, scores scripted broadcast and
cable TV shows poorly, and looks ahead at 2007.
Finally, both
sites hand out their own Visibility Awards in a wide variety of entertainment
categories. AfterEllen's glamorously intelligent editor Sarah Warn reveals the
"best moments" in lesbian TV and movies, and names two women as "best
high-profile lesbian(s)." Click here to find out who
they are.
On the men's side, the AfterElton man of the year is
named, along with a slew of
best and worst moments in entertainment, including "The Sissy Boys Rule Award"
(my personal favorite).
Here's an easy-click listing of the
embedded links from above. Check these out, they are worth the
trip.
AfterEllen:
The Year in Queer 2006:
Movies
Year in Queer 2006:
Television
2006 Visibility
Awards
AfterElton:
The Year in Queer 2006:
Movies
Year in Queer 2006:
Television
2006 Visibility
Awards
Do you have some favorite queer characters or movie or TV moments you want to share? Let's hear 'em.
7 comments:
I think that SHORTBUS was absolutely phenomenal. A movie about intimacy in relationships and how barriers and blockages affect people, was just masterful. The plot line with James as an ex-rent-boy who drew the line at receptive sex and dragged that baggage into his relationship with Jaime as a barrier to receiving emotional intimacy, was profoundly moving.
to Chandler77: I completely agree with you about 'Shortbus.' The movie was so fresh and original from its casting to its storytelling and, most of all, the revolutioinary way it treated sex. The movie is stunning in every way.
I seem to remember a charming scene in "Kinky Boots" when the drag performer Lola, played by Chiwetel Ejiofor the icy villain from "Serenity,"checks into her room in a small town boarding house all tarted up and locals makng fun of how she looks. The innkeeper shows Lola to her room and very politely asks in her inimitable British way, "Will you be using the men's or the lady's?" as if none of it makes a difference to her.
I saw KINKY BOOTS in 2005 and it was my favorite film of that year. I ran out and bought the sound track (which has no picture of Lola BTW). The songs "I want to be dirty" and "Not in these shoes" are priceless.
AfterElton definitely got it right when they said Steve Carell had the best gay role and performance of the year in Little Miss Sunshine.
WHAT IS ABAUT ALL THIS GAY TALK ?
GOD CREATED US THE SAME .GAY POEPLE ARE POEPLE TO!!!!!!!!!WY JUdGe them /
it has been a 100 % proven that it is ,the way they are born
so many of us are so fast to say o this quer or lesbian .
think abuat it they are the best dress desighners dancers and kind not like bullie i know .
Please leave them alone they are one of us like it or not .
WE CAME ALL FROM THE SAME CREATER THAT IS GOD ,AND HE CREATED US EQUEL . ALL THIS NAME CALLING AND HATE ,IS UNAMERICAN.
I wouldn't go so far as to say we were all created equal... As blog comments tend to prove, some of us cannot spell for shit.
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