Just as every other new film with queer female representation, I Care A Lot was discussed intensely on the Internet following its release. Division was particularly strong over its ending. In the last two minutes of an otherwise enjoyable film, it seemed as though its two protagonists would receive a happy ending. As almost every queer person knows, happy endings to stories about us are incredibly rare, so much so that the “Bury Your Gays” theory has emerged in recent years to analyse the prevalence of this alarming trend.

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She said maybe that’s because she has a tight set of rules when it comes to what makes a Gurlesque poem… of course I was like “well, what are they!” and she said: It begins with a bang: “Tonight you better listen because I am going to tell you/ What you always wanted to hear./ All you bad hombres better take a deep breath./ I shit you not./ This is the night of nights./ Take a chance on love.”For example, researchers found that such a population is much more likely to be victimized by someone they know well than a person who is a non-sexual and gender minority. I apologize as my project with romance maybe doesn’t relate to the Gurlesque? Or does it? I mean I am interested in queer romance but also my formative history of heterosexual romance, and how it continues in my bisexuality, in my work as a sex worker. The kind of romantic conditioning that is thrust upon us all and how that’s shaped me. How I love or hate it or question it or want it.

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The problem though is feminists who have turned sex work into a metaphor, a metaphor about objectification: that’s why we’re still struggling for this to be seen as a labor issue for actual sex workers who are criminalized. Like: Every woman is expected or pressured in heterosexuality to do the labor that sex workers do, but not every woman is a sex worker. The study is based on a national crime survey conducted by the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics, which until 2016 had not asked respondents about their sexual orientation and gender identity. The oversaturated, bubblegum tones of Doug Emmet’s cinematography reflect the plastic superficiality of this sleek, anonymous, urbane world.”Be Gay, Do Comics is an anthology with more than 30 contributors, all discussing some aspect of queer life. This was a refreshingly diverse and thought-provoking collection. Most anthologies in this vein that I've read have played it pretty safe: they've usually been very white, and mostly focused on gay cis men, with the overarching message being one of acceptance. Be Gay, Do Comics covers a wide range of topics from a lot of different voices, including many artists of color and trans artists, and includes comics about queer liberation and resisting assimilation. With the new session of parliament beginning in late November, 12 seats are now held by openly LGBTQ+ politicians, an increase from seven in the previous session. That number amounts to exactly 10% of all seats, besting the previous queerest parliament claimed by the United Kingdom in 2017. At the time, 45 out of 650 federal lawmakers in the U.K. were LGBTQ+, making up 7% of all seats. There are certain socializations that goes in that. I think many people are socialized and have a certain disdain for trans and queer people,” said Tori Cooper of the Human Rights Campaign, a national organization that advocates for the LGBTQ community. Cooper is the director of community engagement for the organization’s Transgender Justice Initiative. This June, Nitehawk Cinema in Brooklyn takes its LGBTQ+ Programming to the next level with the new "Be Gay, Do Crime" a series. It will focus on films about queer people who commit crimes as an act of resistance (and sometimes just for the fun of it!). Film to be screened include The Living End, Bound, Set It Off, Born in Flames, Bloodsisters, and D.E.B.S.,Dog Day Afternoon, My Own Private Idaho, Tangerine, a Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge, Poison, and an Anniversary Screening of John Waters’ Desperate Living. Sandra: When I wrote my book Orlando, I was thinking a lot of the power of teenage girls. Are teenagers girls? I was thinking how there’s a sense in which teenage girls are not taken seriously—their stereotypical preoccupations (makeup, shoes, gossip, diaries) are seen as frivolous, not serious. But also how there’s a kind of pornographic obsession with teenage girls in society as well, and I think this has to do with that kind of patriarchal policing you are talking about. In Orlando, I used my real teenage diaries and quoted them and tried to make sense of the framework of power between the teenage girl and the patriarchal society and how that plays out later in life as a woman. Does it change? I don’t think it changes as much as we want to think it does. Like, a lot of times I hear women say “I’m nothing like the person I was in my teenage diaries,” and I’m just like, I don’t think I’ve changed that much. Same bullshit, years later.

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For me, Elaine’s book goes into something more metaphysical than gender roles and compulsive heterosexuality, beyond bio-essentialism while still rooted in, as she puts it “Romeo & Juliet & Elaine.”

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Amid those unprecedented gains, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern also appointed the country’s first deputy PM, longtime ally Grant Robertson. Although other research has long shown that LGBTQ people and gender minorities are disproportionately affected by crime, the study published in Science Advances, a multidisciplinary journal, on Friday looked at data that has only been collected since 2016, making for the first comprehensive and national study to examine the issue. Sandra: Is Lana still dating a cop? I can’t think of anything more unsexy! Isn’t that fact less Lana than Lana? In general, I like “fallen” women. I think there’s something about femme fatales from noir films that are very attractive. Maybe it’s because they are constantly slapping men and screwing them over and it’s kind of funny and sad, and I like how they are diametrically opposed to the “good” housewives in these movies. They are the criminals. But I also agree that in these nostalgic worlds of reality and cinema, there are very few options for women. But we are writers and I think writers are able to disrupt these terrible binaries. I like this quote from Clarise Lispector. She says:

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Be Gay, Do Comics is a collection of stories about queer experiences from queer authors/artists, ranging from covering history to everyday situations. There's a nice balance in this in terms of both art styles and storytelling, so readers are bound to find at least one comic they enjoy. I didn't have any complaints with the content of this book, and I settled on a 3/5 because like all anthology collections there were some comics I enjoyed more than others. PHOENIX (AP) — The first study of its kind found that people who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer or gender non-confirming are nearly four times as likely to be victims of violent crime than those outside such communities. The gag strips are mostly unfunny. Some of the historical comics and the ones abt other countries are decent but some of them are quite dry. It took me a while to read since some of the comics were very in-depth, and I felt like I needed time to digest them while I was reading, so I'd read a few and then put it down for a day or two. It was definitely cool to see so many different perspectives on what it's like to be a queer person, and also to have them united in the general message that, no matter the struggles and hardships that might be faced along the way, it's actually still pretty great! Some of the comics were short and funny, and I think the mix of more serious pieces with the shorter, lighter ones also helped make the whole thing more readable. The study also found that sexual and gender minorities are burglarized at twice the rate of other households, and that they’re more likely to be victims of other types of property theft.

I think about this lens when it comes to attitudes to sex work, a lot. I think what makes all women want to speculate on sex work, and also makes them nervous, is that it often seems like sex work is a labor that’s available to basically every woman, whether or not that’s true. (Maybe it kind of is but there are things like racism and ableism that make it harder or sometimes impossible to work etc.) (And even if it’s available, we know it’s trans workers and workers of color who face more violence that can be fatal.) Of course I am talking more than about Krystle Cole, I am talking about romance, which I am now trying to write poems about, my personal relationship to romance. And when it comes to that, I finally decided: I’d like to learn to be enraptured by my fear. A survey of more than 12,000 LGBTQ teens around the country released in 2018 by the Human Rights Campaign found that 67% report they’ve heard family members make negative comments about LGBTQ people.