speak of me as i am

Sex scene as character study is so good. What is your relationship to your body? What is your relationship to your partner? What lessons have you absorbed from the culture about yourself as a sexual being? How much do you have to trust someone before being comfortable with intimacy? What fears and insecurities come to the fore for you when you take your clothes off? It's so good.

How do they communicate? How do they expect others to communicate? How well do they understand their body and their own capacity for pleasure? What do they tend to do to make their partner feel comfortable? How comfortable are they showing emotion in front of others? How much insight do they have into what their own emotions mean and are connected to? What are they focused on during the encounter? How conscious are they of exchanges of power and vulnerability? very very very good

Velvet Goldmine does a fantastic job of being a universally queer film in the little moments such as (but not limited to) "making your same gender Barbie dolls kiss" and "using your own blood as lipstick" and "watching a TV show with your parents and trying desperately to not convey any emotion or joy when someone on there shares your identity" and "jacking off to a rock star"

Velvet Goldmine is the best movie ever made because within the first 30 seconds it shows you that aliens are real and gay and made Oscar Wilde and give humanity a pin that makes you gayer and better at your chosen craft and more famous and that's not even a central part of the story

ewan mcgregor being introduced in velvet goldmine with ass & cock fully out pouring glitter on his sweaty chest & people shouting slurs & throwing glass bottles at him i think we need to canonise todd haynes as some sort of homosexual saint

@holy-loki

The idea of listening to no black music is bizarre to me. Even if it's not rap like no earth wind and fire? No reggae? No moonstomp? No ska? No classic jazz? No R and B? No disco??? No skindred? No jungle? No even like metal bands with a few black members? No gospel? Not even stuff like alors en dance? No blues music? No mo town? No jazz of any kind? No big band? No soul music? Not even a little James Brown?

not even yola or tanner adell or brittney spencer or tracy chapman or india.arie or chapel hart or the carolina chocolate drops or rhiannon giddens????