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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 days ago

The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo review haunting queer fable burns with love and menace

A queer western fable in 1982 mining country uses a plague-like illness and dream logic to portray love, gender, and violence against LGBTQ+ people.
Books
fromThe Nation
3 months ago

George Whitmore's Unsparing Queer Fiction

A 1987 novel titled Nebraska uses the state's flat, isolating landscape to frame a family chamber drama that serves as an oblique allegory of AIDS.
Film
fromVulture
11 months ago

Why Julia Ducournau Was 'Scared' to Make Alpha

Ducournau's 'Alpha' explores themes of transformation and societal stigma through a haunting allegory of a virus that turns the infected to stone.
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