Critical Writing Index

Name calling the queers: Filmakers re-affirm negative stereotypes

by Kathleen Pirrie Adams

Xtra!, Feb. 29, 1996, no. 296, p. 26

Xtra focuses on the stereotypes brought on to 'queer' culture. The film and video program, How to Read A Film: The ABCs Of Queer Culture, opens in Toronto as a document of queer filmmaking. It hopes to help establish a language that is free from negative stereotypes.

ITEM 1996.020 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

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