![]() They suggested that I join them on the team and that would help me towards my litigation abilities as a lawyer. Fortuitously, while playing Bid Whist in the student union, I met a couple of people who were on the debate team. The plan was to get my business going, hire somebody to take my place, and get back in the school without the government finding out…wrong! Within three months of dropping out of school, I got drafted.Īfter arriving at Chabot College in the spring of 1969, I decided that I wanted to be a lawyer. I had saved a little money, so I decided to drop out of college for about six months to a year and start a furniture moving business with my cousin, Nelson. Actually, I got drafted because I was trying to be clever and create a little commerce for myself. I graduated from Hayward High in 1965 and went to Riverside City College for a year and a half before I got drafted. I decided to take advantage of the opportunity to get out of the Army and I enrolled at Chabot College in Hayward, California. After all, Fort Huachuca, Arizona, where I was stationed at the time, wasn’t the most exciting place in the world being 70 miles from everywhere. ![]() 12.In January of 1969, after returning from a tour of duty in Vietnam as a combat medic, I discovered that if I enrolled in college, I could get out of the Army three months early. It's set to make us actually laugh sometime in 2018. Adam, a deeply funny queer and trans activist coming of age novel, might be one of the few exceptions. I am skeptical of anyone who recommends YA fiction, having spent years trying to fend off John Green recommendations. Thank God for this tiny part of 2018.īleecker Street will release the film on September 21, 2018. ![]() This country needs more historical dramas featuring literary queers in love. Knight has an affair with gender nonconforming Marquise de Belbeuf. Keira Knightly plays Colette, a brilliant writer married to a dominating, sometimes abusive Parisian named Willy (Dominic West). "Colette ranks as one of the great roles for which Keira Knightley will be remembered," Variety wrote of the film in January.Įither the reviewer is correct, or they didn't see Knight's 2003 masterpiece Bend it Like Beckham. No word yet on its release date, but we (the dorks reading this article) will be waiting with bated breath. The film reportedly blends social realism with magical realism to create the kind of queer melodrama we deserve. Based on Fiona Shaw's novel, the film features Anna Paquin playing a doctor who falls in love with her patient's mother, played by Holliday Grainger. Tell it to The Beesįact (unproven, but still a fact): 1950's small-town Britain was a breeding ground for queer romances. It's unclear when it'll be in wider release. My Days of Mercy premiered at TIFF in 2017 to mostly positive if incredibly confused reviews. Did I mention that Mara's character is named. This plot is straight out my college creative composition class, and I am here for it. Kata Mara plays an anti-death penalty activist who falls in love with Ellen Page, the daughter of a man on death row. My Days of Mercy is the ultimate film for those of us proudly identify as queer social justice warriors. It is incredible how essential this film's 2018 release has become to me. ![]() It is incredible how essential to me you have become.” "I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless nightmare hours of the night, and it has all gone: I just miss you, in a quite simple desperate human way…So this letter is just really a squeal of pain. If you're not familiar with the romance, I highly encourage you to read selections from their queer love letters, like this one from West to Woolf: In the genre of "melancholy literary queers in love," we have Chanya Button's Vita and Virginia, a British period drama that recounts the great romance between Virginia Woolf (Elizabeth Debicki) and Vita Sackwell West (Gemma Arterton). Roadside attractions will release Lizzie sometime this summer. Please ignore the mixed reviews that came out of Sundance, as well as Sevigny's own critiques of the film. Kristen Stewart as her hot lesbian lover-housekeeper Chloë Sevigny as infamous misandrist maybe-murderer Lizzie Borden Here's everything you need to know about this film: ![]()
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