Each month here at The Queerness, we explore a subject in more depth and invite guest posts. This November we are looking at music. For many queer people, music is an integral part of their life, their coming out, the soundtrack to their first love, how they realised they were queer. Musicians have been a part of … Continue reading November: music month
Tag: media
Bojack Horseman comes out of the stable
Danni Glover turns off the telly long enough to discuss Bojack Horseman's recent coming-out storyline.
X-Men: Bad Queer Civil Rights Crusaders, Not Hetero Heroes
The X-Men characters are presented in more palatable heterosexual bodies but they are very much a coded narrative on two branches of queer protest and resistance. Sean O’Toole writes about why X-Men stories resonate with queer trauma, safe spaces, and survival.
Shoving it in their faces: the story of same-sex PDAs on film
Can we have meaningful LGBTQ+ representation without showing same-sex PDAs? Danni Glover investigates.
TV Review: Orange is the New Black (Season Four)
Stephanie Farnsworth reviews the latest season of the award winning Netflix show 'Orange is the New Black'.
The face of evil: the terrible way we show aromantic and asexual identities
Stephanie Farnsworth takes a look at how we write about asexual and aromantic identities.
Queer and hijabi: It’s complicated
In the wake of the Channel 4 show, What Muslims Really Think, we look behind Islamophobic headlines and scaremongering, with a first person account of growing up gay and Muslim in the UK by Hannah Noor, a gay British Muslim woman.
