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Artist Feature: Slava Mogutin’s Sexy Underground Hooliganism

Artist Feature: Slava Mogutin’s Sexy Underground Hooliganism

Slava Mogutin fled Russia to the US as a political refugee, but his true home is wherever artistic freedom thrives.

Artist Feature, 12 Joker, 12 1000 Clouds, 12 Censored Canvas, 12 Cinema Taiwan, 12 MBOA, 12 TIB Erotica, 12 TSAI MING, 12 Whiz Bam, 12 YentlDiana RamosJuly 1, 2024ISSUE12, Bradford Nordeen, Artist Feature

Family Values, Gay Ghosts, and Taiwan’s Queer Blockbusters

Family Values, Gay Ghosts, and Taiwan’s Queer Blockbusters

For queer cinema in Taiwan, embracing modernity means embracing tradition too.

12 1000 Clouds, 12 AF Slava, 12 Censored Canvas, 12 Joker, 12 MBOA, 12 TIB Erotica, 12 TSAI MING, 12 Whiz Bam, 12 YentlDiana RamosJuly 1, 2024Zheng Yi Sung, ISSUE12

A Thousand Clouds of Peace and Rainbows: Mexico’s Queer Film Trailblazers

A Thousand Clouds of Peace and Rainbows: Mexico’s Queer Film Trailblazers

When it comes to Mexican films, the sexual is political.

12 Yentl, 12 Whiz Bam, 12 TSAI MING, 12 TIB Erotica, 12 MBOA, 12 Joker, 12 Cinema Taiwan, 12 Censored Canvas, 12 AF SlavaDiana RamosJuly 1, 2024ISSUE12, Julián Hernández

The In-Between: Erotica and Porn

The In-Between: Erotica and Porn

Bruce LaBruce has been told his work is too pornographic for the art world, and too artsy for the porn world.

12 1000 Clouds, 12 AF Slava, 12 Censored Canvas, 12 Cinema Taiwan, 12 Joker, 12 MBOA, 12 TSAI MING, 12 Whiz Bam, 12 Yentl, The In-betweenDiana RamosJuly 1, 2024ISSUE12, Bruce LaBruce, The In-Between

The Censored Canvas: Queer Art in the Age of Online Censorship

The Censored Canvas: Queer Art in the Age of Online Censorship

As culture migrates to digital spaces, the two most dreaded words for queer artists are “community guidelines.”

12 AF Slava, 12 Cinema Taiwan, 12 Joker, 12 MBOA, 12 TSAI MING, 12 Whiz Bam, 12 Yentl, 12 TIB Erotica, 12 1000 CloudsDiana RamosJuly 1, 2024ISSUE12, Slava Mogutin

My Body and Other Adventures: My Pregnancy in Movies

My Body and Other Adventures: My Pregnancy in Movies

What Gattaca, Venom, Bridget Jones, and Mad Max taught me about my pregnancy.

My Body and Other Adventu, Talia Squires, 12 1000 Clouds, 12 AF Slava, 12 Censored Canvas, 12 Cinema Taiwan, 12 Joker, 12 TIB Erotica, 12 TSAI MING, 12 Whiz Bam, 12 YentlDiana RamosJuly 1, 2024ISSUE12, Talia Squires, My Body and Other Adventures

The Cruising Grounds of Tsai Ming-liang’s Slow Cinema

The Cruising Grounds of Tsai Ming-liang’s Slow Cinema

Amid the neon wash of urbanscapes thrumming with erotic energy, Tsai Ming-liang reveals the queerness beneath the surface of all things.

12 1000 Clouds, 12 AF Slava, 12 Censored Canvas, 12 Cinema Taiwan, 12 Joker, 12 MBOA, 12 TIB Erotica, 12 Whiz Bam, 12 YentlDiana RamosJuly 1, 2024ISSUE12, Travis Jeppesen

Yentl, the Wonderfully Queer Yeshiva Boy

Yentl, the Wonderfully Queer Yeshiva Boy

The unlikely tale of how a cross-dressing Jewish girl from the Old World inspired a Cuban-American lesbian in the New World.

12 1000 Clouds, 12 AF Slava, 12 Censored Canvas, 12 Cinema Taiwan, 12 Joker, 12 MBOA, 12 TIB Erotica, 12 TSAI MING, 12 Whiz BamDiana RamosJuly 1, 2024ISSUE12, Anna Margarita Albelo

Whiz Bam!: The Video Gays That Made Me

Whiz Bam!: The Video Gays That Made Me

For a gay teen in the 90s St. Louis, this queer video store was a top pick.

12 1000 Clouds, 12 AF Slava, 12 Censored Canvas, 12 Cinema Taiwan, 12 Joker, 12 MBOA, 12 TIB Erotica, 12 TSAI MING, 12 YentlDiana RamosJuly 1, 2024ISSUE12, Bradford Nordeen