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Performing Que(E)Ries: Nina Arsenault With J. Paul Halferty, Benjamin Gillespie
Performing Que(E)Ries: Nina Arsenault With J. Paul Halferty, Benjamin Gillespie
Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)
This exciting conversation and performance demo with one of Canada’s leading queer performance artists took place on October 26th, 2012 in the Segal Theatre at the CUNY Graduate Center. The event featured two short films made by Arsenault and filmmaker Jordan Tannehill, Plane of Immanence and Guadalajara, as well as an extended monologue by Arsenault retelling an autobiographical story on her quest for feminine beauty entitled The Ecstasy of Nina Arsenault: a surgical pilgrimage through a waking facelift.
Performing Que(E)Ries, Charles Busch, James Wilson
Performing Que(E)Ries, Charles Busch, James Wilson
Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)
Charles Busch, renowned New York performer, playwright, director, and drag extraordinaire, participated in the second iteration of this new CLAGS series in the Fall. He discussed his astonishing career in the theatre and on film, as well as the changes he has seen in LGBTQ performance over the last four decades in New York and beyond. The conversation was moderated by CLAGS Executive Director James Wilson.
The Robert Giard Foundation Fellows Enlighten Our World, Carl Sylvestre
The Robert Giard Foundation Fellows Enlighten Our World, Carl Sylvestre
Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)
This spring, the Robert Giard Foundation's partnership with CLAGS completed the first of what is anticipated to be an annual event in both organizations' calendars.
The Robert Giard Fellowship, Sarah Chinn
The Robert Giard Fellowship, Sarah Chinn
Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)
For several years we at CLAGS had wanted to work with the Robert Giard Foundation on a project for LGBT artists, but couldn't come up with the right vehicle. Eventually we hit on a perfect project: a fellowship for photographers and video artists working on queer and trans themes that would honor Robert Giard's legacy while directly supporting emerging and mid-career artists.
"I Am", Sonali Gulati
"I Am", Sonali Gulati
Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)
It was the summer of 1999 in Toronto at my very first public screening of my film titled "sum total" that someone asked me what my next film project was. And I had barely formalized my ideas in my head but I spoke from my heart and spoke of this film about parents of gay and lesbian youth living in India. It had only been a year and a half since my mother had passed away and that feeling of regret of not having come out to her before she died was on my mind.
Media, Message And Meaning: The "Queer As...What?" Symposium, Andrew Ingall
Media, Message And Meaning: The "Queer As...What?" Symposium, Andrew Ingall
Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)
On October 11, scholars, journalists, media watch activists, and community intellectuals examined depictions and productions of LCTBQ people in television, the World Wide Web, and print journalism at a CLAGS symposium with the wily title, "Queer as . . . What?"
On The Double: The Hidden (Queer And Jewish) Career Of Danny Kaye, Michael Bronski
On The Double: The Hidden (Queer And Jewish) Career Of Danny Kaye, Michael Bronski
Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)
Last year, in the early stages of applying for the Duberman Fellowship, I began by trying to discern a topic, a subject, that would involve me intellectually as well as emotionally. As a free-lance writer and cultural critic I am, more frequently than not, assigned subjects, books, movies, performances by my editors. If I received the Duberman I wanted to research and write about something that resonated with my life and current interests.