The audience has spoken!
The Audience Has Spoken!
We are proud to bestow our first ever WQ Docs Audience Award to:
Esther Newton Made Me Gay.
Directed by Jean Carlomusto
Drawn to the drag scene as a student in the 1950s and identifying as both butch lesbian and between genders, Esther Newton has spent six decades writing about and forging queer communities; and her 1972 book ‘Mother Camp: Female Impersonators in America’ is noted as the first rigorous academic/anthropological study of queer community in modern history. ESTHER NEWTON MADE ME GAY is a rare look at queer history and gender studies through a living lesbian icon, encompassing amazing archival footage peppered with Esther’s other passion….dog training poodles!
Honorable mention goes to:
Casa Susanna
Directed by Sebastien Lifshitz
In the straitlaced 1950s and 60s, cross-dressing men and transgender women found temporary refuge, community, and joy gathering at a house in the Catskills. Filmmaker Sébastien Lifshitz’s documentary explores this vibrant underground group through archival images and interviews with Casa Susanna’s visitors.
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Mar 31- Apr 9 for Wicked Queer: 39
WQ will be coming back to all your favorite venues: The Brattle, MFA, ICA, The Bright Family Screening Room at the Paramount and virtually, on Mar 31-April 9. We will be be bringing you the best and brightest of new Queer cinema, a few throwbacks and lots more short films.
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