QUEER CINEMA NOTEBOOK | What We Learned on Our Summer Vacation

[EDITORS NOTE: This is part of a regular series of articles taking a critical look at the state of contemporary queer cinema. In developing this column, indieWIRE turned to New York City based writers Michael Koresky and Chris Wisniewski, inviting them to take a sort of "he said, he said" approach to discussing queer films.] Chris Wisniewski: There was something almost too easy about our first installment of this Queer Cinema Notebook. Frameline, NewFest, and Outfest provided more than a great excuse to get started; they also offered a glut of LGBT-themed content for us to sift through, debate, and, in a few happy cases, champion. But queer cinema's annual moment in the sun is fleeting, and as the summer stretched on, it became clear that our next installment posed a more serious challenge.
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QUEER CINEMA NOTEBOOK | Fest Forward: Activism. Identification, Titillation and Entertainment

[EDITORS NOTE: This is the first in a regular series of articles that will take a critical look at the state of contemporary queer cinema. In developing this column, indieWIRE turned to New York City based writers Michael Koresky and Chris Wisniewski, inviting them to take a sort of "he said, he said" approach to discussing queer films.] Michael Koresky: Surveying the landscape of queer cinema has become increasingly difficult in recent years. Where there was once a thriving independent gay-lesbian film scene -- confident enough in itself to exist on film culture's fringes, populated with genuinely outcast movies that didn't have their sights set on wider audiences -- there seems to be an increasing disinterest among viewers in seeking out smaller films simply because of gay content.
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