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When it feels like the worlds against you, youve got to rise up and take action.
Queerness and activism have long been intertwined.
With activism comes resistance and fighting back against the unjust.
Sometimes, its argued, the only way to make your voice heard is to shake things up.
Thus the motto embraced by queers online: Be gay, do crime.
The film was a box-office disaster and critically dismissed.
Well, Katharine, you could blame the gays.
Draculas Daughter(1936)
Save the Women of London From Draculas Daughter!
one poster of UniversalsDraculas Daughterbegs, the first film to incorporate the lesbian vampire so popular in literature.
She struggles to fight off her bloodlust but doesnt relent on her desire for other women.
Surprisingly, the sensually sapphic sequence of Zaleska seducing Lili (Nan Grey) made it past censors.
He followed that up with the sensationalLes Diaboliques, another master class of unbearable tension.
Naturally, the pair come together with a solution murder him.
Tony and Barretts relationship grows increasingly parasitic as the film reaches a fever pitch.
Female Trouble(1974)
Frankly, most of this list could be films byJohn Waters.
American cinemas most exciting transgressor made his most compelling collaboration with drag queen Divine inFemale Trouble.
Its also got a valuable message to share: As one character claims, Queers are just better.
Dog Day Afternoon(1975)
It was supposed to be easy.
But like many great heist movies, things prove vastly more complicated.
Its also a reminder of how devoted queer people can be hell hath no fury like a Sonny scorned.
Radiating queer energy, its a searing agitprop thats no less timely than it was in 1983.
The Living End(1992)
Fuck the world.
Due to corporate malfeasance, pollution has overwhelmed the city, leading to disturbing cases of radioactivity.
A clever, no-holds-barred critique of corporate capitalism,Fresh Killonly grows more prescient with our increasing environmental panic.
Former convict Corky (Gina Gershon) is hired to renovate an apartment building.
For Violet and Corky, crime promises tantalizing freedom from the weight of a heteronormative society.
This single-location film takes place at a French cruising spot by (you guessed it) a lake.
But that doesnt stop Franck, whos determined to pursue Michel despite the most egregious red flag imaginable.
But the film is vastly more complicated.
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
A pair of lesbians on a road trip is blissfully unaware of the wrongdoing theyre committing inDrive-Away Dolls.
A buddy-comedy-cum-lesbian-sexfest, Ethan Coen and Tricia Cookes joyous romp is an easy-breezy blast.
