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Of Kings and Things: Strange Tales and Decadent Poems by Count Eric Stanislaus Stenbock

Eric Stanislaus Stenbock and David Tibet

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Described by W. B. Yeats as a "scholar, connoisseur, drunkard, poet, pervert, most charming of men,"...

Queer Philologies: Sex, Language, and Affect in Shakespeare's Time

Jeffrey Masten

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For Jeffrey Masten, the history of sexuality and the history of language are intimately related. In...

Victim

John Coldstream

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?Victim (1961) was a landmark in the history both of the cinema and of British society. This modest...

Zach Smith (62 KP) rated Fantastic Beasts: Crimes of Grindelwald (2018) in Movies

Nov 26, 2018

Fantastic Beasts: Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)

2018 | Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Mystery

7.2

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Not as great as the first but well done sequel.

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Ok so this is a great follow up to the first focusing on Johnny Depp's villainous character Grindelwald. But let me stop you there. Wasn't Voldemort supposed to be the worst bad guy in the wizarding world? Not sure because he's followers are pretty nasty killing several people and then a baby. The baby scene could have easily been left out but they included for some reason. Also Grindelwald has a cute evil pet lizard but again for some reason they show him toss it out a door of a carage high in the sky stating it was too clingy. Again there are other ways to do character development without death. Ok and if you don't know that Albus Dumbledore is a homosexual, where have you been living. Instead of stating in the movie that Grindelwald and he were once lovers they tip toe around it with things stated " we were more than friends" WTF say it out loud and proud! Aside from the mild irritation that caused it is really neat how they are connecting this series to the Potter series. You finally are introduced to Nicholas Flemal the chemist. If you don't know who he is go read Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone.

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Reforming Sodom: Protestants and the Rise of Gay Rights

Heather Rachelle White

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With a focus on mainline Protestants and gay rights activists in the twentieth century, Heather R....

Lou Grande (148 KP) rated The Covenant (2006) in Movies

Jul 3, 2018

The Covenant (2006)

2006 | Horror, Mystery

6.1

(7 Ratings)

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I could watch this on infinite loop until I'm dead

I've watched this movie twice in as many days because it is the kind of bad that is wonderful. I don't know how I missed this one as a teenager, as everything involving witchcraft was interesting to me then. Think of The Covenant as a spiritual successor to The Craft, but with boys. And there are boys. This movie is one fuzzy sex scene away from being a David DeCoteau film. Notable features are an all male shower scene filled with foggy butts, Sebastian Stan (who's nineteen or twenty years old here) stumbling over a line regarding another kid's penis (after being called a homosexual slur) and, last but not least, the line, "I'm going to make you my weyotch." It's a gem.

The plot is blah, the music is alright, and it has the mid-noughts "blue and orange" filter--but that's not why you're watching this movie. You're watching it because the actors are hot, there's not-so subtle gay subtext (though if Sebastian Stan's character kisses another guy, is it really subtext?), and latent homoeroticism. The whole stinkin' thing could be an allegory for homosexuality, but really, I don't think anyone was thinking that far ahead.

Also, there's a character named Pogue Perry. Pogue. As in, rhymes with "vogue." My boyfriend couldn't stop laughing, and he was only half watching it to humor me.