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It’s grainy, faded, and, given the clip is now years old, more than a little worse for wear. But this brief footage is not so ancient that you can’t clearly create out two men, waltzing together, as a third male plays a violin in the background. It was an experimental short made by William Dickson, designed to try syncing up moving pictures to prerecorded sound, a system that he and Thomas Edison were developing known as the Kinetophone. It’s known as “The Dickson Experimental Sound Film,” and dates back to , the same year movies were born. While there’s nothing to outright advise that these men were romantically emotionally attached or attracted to each other during the roughly second length of their pas de deux, there is nothing that contradicts that notion either. It’s considered by many to be one of the first examples of queer imagery in clip, and a reminder that homosexual voice has been with the medium from the very beginning.
That clip appears in The Celluloid Closet, Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman’s
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MIX NYC
In , Jim Hubbard and Sarah Schulman co-founded the Fresh York Lesbian and Gay Experimental Film Festival (later MIX NYC) to showcase LGBTQ experimental cinema absent in mainstream venues. Supported by curators Jack Waters, Peter Cramer, and Ela Troyano, they launched “A Queer Sort of Film” at Millennium Film Workshop. The festival soon became a major queer cultural event, premiering groundbreaking films by Su Friedrich, Todd Haynes, and others, and championing Black gay and transitioned representation. MIX prioritized artist fees, inclusive access, and diverse programming, earning global influence while Hubbard preserved essential AIDS-era films for future generations.
From , Jim Hubbard was joined by Marguerite Paris and Jerry Tartaglia, launching a new era with guest-curated shows. In , Shari Frilot and Karim Ainouz became co-directors, renaming the festival “MIX” and expanding its multicultural focus. Frilot championed installations and queer BIPOC filmmakers, notably premiering Thomas Allen Harris’s Vintage and her own Black Nations/Queer Nations in Satellite f
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Since Clea DuVall’s gay Christmas rom-com, Happiest Season, debuted on Hulu last month, it has been the subject of a roiling debate among queer women. Is the premise—a closeted lesbian forces her girlfriend to artificial they’re both straight while visiting her family for Christmas—offensive and dated, or a light-hearted twist on an indignity too many queers have suffered? Was it rude for DuVall to serve gays a narrative of trauma disguised as a rom-com? Does the happy ending support toxic relationship dynamics?
With a few reservations, I loved Happiest Season, but I’m not ashamed to accept that I graded it on a curve. There have been so rare queer comedies in recent memory, and even fewer starring A-listers like Kristen Stewart, that I was primed to forgive Happiest Season’s faults in exchange for a central traits whose romantic and social life looks a small more like mine, albeit with a few dozen more velvet blazers.
I was ready to do the same for A Unused York Christmas Wedding, a new film from writer-director Otoja Abit that’s c