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July 1997 | Issue 19
Articles
Hong Kong's “Who's the Man?” series
Gary Morris
Hong Kong's gender-benders are the stuff of legend; director Patrick Chan adds two key works to the canon in these 1996 bookend satires of fame, pop music, and forbidden kisses.
In the Life
Gary Morris
The theme of the latest edition of the acclaimed PBS queer newsmagazine is the queer body and the queer body politic under assault.
Movies
A New Kind of Tranny: Different for Girls
Gary Morris
In a cinema crowded with self-conscious transgressions, Kim offers the real article when she strips to show her straight boyfriend the thrilling secrets of the altered body.
Gay USA
Gary Morris
Queer activism circa 1977 showed a diverse optimistic community moving ever closer to unity — before the body blow of AIDS.
Sexual Subversion: The Bride of Frankenstein
Gary Morris
No institution — society, religion, marriage, or heterosexuality — was safe from the penetrating queer eye of James Whale. Make way for the homosexual creator!
Camera as Cocksucker: Rene Clement's Purple Noon
Gary Morris
Noon isn't the only thing that's purple in this bizarre continental ode to Alain Delon's crotch
Stars
A Mannequin's Face: Joan Crawford
Howard Mandelbaum
The scathing last word on the patron saint of drag n' camp, the Queen of the Land of the Cinema, La Divina Jona!
Festivals
Queer Voices: The 1997 San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
Gary Morris
The world's biggest lesbian and gay filmfest shows the pleasures and pitfalls of gay auteurs caught between assimilation and opposition. Watch out for the "Stepford" homosexual!
The Penis in the Festival
Gary Morris
And you thought the lavender-haired titmouse was an endangered species! Penises are hard to find even in gay movies that ought to know better.
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