Gary Needham
@garyneedham.bsky.social
he/they, film and screen media, the University of Liverpool - queer, autistic, Scottish - currently writing 'Sex, Guys, and Videotape: American Independent Cinema and the AIDS Crisis' and co-authoring the Queer Film Classic on 'Buddies' (1985)
… and nothing not in English right? This seems off-brand even for him.
Am I right that all but one of these were directed by a man?
I'm not going to pretend these are bad films (I don't even mind the Woody film) but this doesn't exactly scream "voracious cinephile with a near-encyclopedic knowledge of genre and world cinema" so much as "dad who watches a lot of TNT."
December 3, 2025 at 9:59 PM
… and nothing not in English right? This seems off-brand even for him.
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It’s #WorldAIDSDay - Did you know sanitation and barriers are industry standard in tattooing because Cliff Raven, a gay tattooer from Chicago, made sure he could still provide service to his own community as most shops refused to tattoo homosexuals when the AIDS crisis emerged?
December 1, 2025 at 6:08 PM
It’s #WorldAIDSDay - Did you know sanitation and barriers are industry standard in tattooing because Cliff Raven, a gay tattooer from Chicago, made sure he could still provide service to his own community as most shops refused to tattoo homosexuals when the AIDS crisis emerged?
queers, Is it just not happening here is it or is that me? Seem to have given up on having a queer life on bluesky. All my people/content still on the insta (meta, I know don't @ me). On Friday convo with Dina Xtravaganza (Angie's daughter, Venus' sister), trans legacies events, fab night's out etc.
November 30, 2025 at 9:38 PM
queers, Is it just not happening here is it or is that me? Seem to have given up on having a queer life on bluesky. All my people/content still on the insta (meta, I know don't @ me). On Friday convo with Dina Xtravaganza (Angie's daughter, Venus' sister), trans legacies events, fab night's out etc.
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& for dessert...My ode to unrated director's cut of Jane Campion's erotic thriller IN THE CUT (2003) in SCREENING ADULT CINEMA, 2nd vol. in @culturalstudies.bsky.social's SCREENING CINEMA series edited by @garyneedham.bsky.social Bon appetit!
@emersonsofilm.bsky.social @scmsadultfilm.bsky.social
@emersonsofilm.bsky.social @scmsadultfilm.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 10:56 PM
& for dessert...My ode to unrated director's cut of Jane Campion's erotic thriller IN THE CUT (2003) in SCREENING ADULT CINEMA, 2nd vol. in @culturalstudies.bsky.social's SCREENING CINEMA series edited by @garyneedham.bsky.social Bon appetit!
@emersonsofilm.bsky.social @scmsadultfilm.bsky.social
@emersonsofilm.bsky.social @scmsadultfilm.bsky.social
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One thing with librarians is that they’re acutely aware of *who uses libraries* - many of us might go though our whole adult lives without setting foot in a library, but for people who are a little lost and need somewhere to be, they’re a lifeline.
Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
November 26, 2025 at 7:38 AM
One thing with librarians is that they’re acutely aware of *who uses libraries* - many of us might go though our whole adult lives without setting foot in a library, but for people who are a little lost and need somewhere to be, they’re a lifeline.
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Event this Friday organized by faculty member Gary Needham! COSME presents "Paris is Burning at 35" in conversation with a legend: Dinah Bons Xtravaganza from NYC's House of Xtravaganza. Limited seating, please reserve a spot using the link below. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/paris-is-b...
Paris is Burning at 35 with Dinah Bons, House of Xtravaganza NYC
COSME presents "Paris is Burning at 35" in conversation with a legend: Dinah Bons Xtravaganza from NYC's House of Xtravaganza
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Event this Friday organized by faculty member Gary Needham! COSME presents "Paris is Burning at 35" in conversation with a legend: Dinah Bons Xtravaganza from NYC's House of Xtravaganza. Limited seating, please reserve a spot using the link below. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/paris-is-b...
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check out the bisexuality-related films discussed in my forthcoming book, CINEMAS OF BISEXUAL TRANSGRESSION, here on Letterboxd: boxd.it/LLSt0
November 23, 2025 at 10:19 AM
check out the bisexuality-related films discussed in my forthcoming book, CINEMAS OF BISEXUAL TRANSGRESSION, here on Letterboxd: boxd.it/LLSt0
100% Hence the screen grab not giving them traffic from a link
I hate the Guardian framing of conversation respectability politics, surface bourgeois fakeness & its dining across the divide crap. "Oh let's all be polite to fascists & maybe they'll be cuddly!" Absolute English poison.
November 22, 2025 at 9:45 AM
100% Hence the screen grab not giving them traffic from a link
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Honestly folks it's fine just to talk real shit. Or to understand there's no such thing as small talk, there's learning another person's way of engaging & exchanging social cues, or offering our own cues of listening & kindness on a brief meeting -- nothing small about that.
November 22, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Honestly folks it's fine just to talk real shit. Or to understand there's no such thing as small talk, there's learning another person's way of engaging & exchanging social cues, or offering our own cues of listening & kindness on a brief meeting -- nothing small about that.
I was being a touch sarcy there and can, like most of us, do it flawlessly but it is goes in the "high-masking mode activity" category for me. Public transport and queues at the checkout tho' 😮💨
Honestly folks it's fine just to talk real shit. Or to understand there's no such thing as small talk, there's learning another person's way of engaging & exchanging social cues, or offering our own cues of listening & kindness on a brief meeting -- nothing small about that.
...said no autistic person ever
November 22, 2025 at 9:29 AM
I was being a touch sarcy there and can, like most of us, do it flawlessly but it is goes in the "high-masking mode activity" category for me. Public transport and queues at the checkout tho' 😮💨
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If you are in Nijmegen, Netherlands, in December - or can get there!
www.ru.nl/en/about-us/...
www.ru.nl/en/about-us/...
Research Symposium: The Cultural Memory of AIDS | Radboud University
In this symposium, experts reflect on cultural responses to AIDS through keynotes, a roundtable on memory, and staged readings by Underground Theatre Nijmegen.
www.ru.nl
November 22, 2025 at 8:55 AM
If you are in Nijmegen, Netherlands, in December - or can get there!
www.ru.nl/en/about-us/...
www.ru.nl/en/about-us/...
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Join us on Sunday 23rd for "Imagining Trans Futures" with Mijke van der Drift (co-author of Trans Femme Futures) and Deity Evans (trans activist-socialist) - location: Liverpool, Blue Coat gallery. For more info, to book a place, and please, see eventbrite link www.eventbrite.com/e/imagining-...
IMAGINING TRANS FUTURES
Relaxed live conversation on trans academia and politics, including facilitated networking for project sharing (Homotopia 2025: Uprising!)
www.eventbrite.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Join us on Sunday 23rd for "Imagining Trans Futures" with Mijke van der Drift (co-author of Trans Femme Futures) and Deity Evans (trans activist-socialist) - location: Liverpool, Blue Coat gallery. For more info, to book a place, and please, see eventbrite link www.eventbrite.com/e/imagining-...
...said no autistic person ever
November 22, 2025 at 9:05 AM
...said no autistic person ever
Hasn't the Pope heard of "Gospel House"?
👇
Barbara Tucker - I Get Lifted (1994)
The Absolute - I Believe - Mark's Full On Gospel Mix (1996)
Dennis Ferrer - How Do I Let Go (2006) ·
etc. etc. etc.
👇
Barbara Tucker - I Get Lifted (1994)
The Absolute - I Believe - Mark's Full On Gospel Mix (1996)
Dennis Ferrer - How Do I Let Go (2006) ·
etc. etc. etc.
He said "Amen" straight into the drop
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
November 22, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Hasn't the Pope heard of "Gospel House"?
👇
Barbara Tucker - I Get Lifted (1994)
The Absolute - I Believe - Mark's Full On Gospel Mix (1996)
Dennis Ferrer - How Do I Let Go (2006) ·
etc. etc. etc.
👇
Barbara Tucker - I Get Lifted (1994)
The Absolute - I Believe - Mark's Full On Gospel Mix (1996)
Dennis Ferrer - How Do I Let Go (2006) ·
etc. etc. etc.
I'm nearly at the end of 12 weeks of 'Queer Film, Video, and Documentary' (a huge 106 students in that class) but they absolutely love Riggs, Dunye, Chocolate Babies, Gregg Bordowtiz, anything AIDS crisis-related, crip theory etc. But, they always really struggle with the end scene of The Living End
I wasn't entirely happy with how this unit went. I've noticed a reactionary response to these films from students, which they mask as enlightened."We [undefined] have moved on as a society, so there's no need to watch such confrontational films anymore." Needless to say, I disagree.
Prepping for to teach my Intro students film history through a case study of New Queer Cinema. It's probably a sign of how bad things have gotten that I'm actually more nervous about how they'll respond to these films than I am when I screen parts of Birth of a Nation or Triumph of the Will.
November 22, 2025 at 8:49 AM
I'm nearly at the end of 12 weeks of 'Queer Film, Video, and Documentary' (a huge 106 students in that class) but they absolutely love Riggs, Dunye, Chocolate Babies, Gregg Bordowtiz, anything AIDS crisis-related, crip theory etc. But, they always really struggle with the end scene of The Living End
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This book has been a labor of love! It's Linda Williams' final writing alongside brilliant essays by great scholars, examining the role of melodrama in current life and politics across the globe. Available for pre-order from the always-wonderful @dukepress.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
This book has been a labor of love! It's Linda Williams' final writing alongside brilliant essays by great scholars, examining the role of melodrama in current life and politics across the globe. Available for pre-order from the always-wonderful @dukepress.bsky.social
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Jungle Jump by Patrick Cowley ♨️ an interstellar floor-filler, which pits whirling beats with dub-laced swirls of synth 🪩
“Jungle Jump” has a clammy drum breakdown that draws a line from mid-‘80s Chicago to early ‘90s London. - @andrewryce.bsky.social
🎥 "The Grease Monkeys" (1979)
“Jungle Jump” has a clammy drum breakdown that draws a line from mid-‘80s Chicago to early ‘90s London. - @andrewryce.bsky.social
🎥 "The Grease Monkeys" (1979)
November 18, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Jungle Jump by Patrick Cowley ♨️ an interstellar floor-filler, which pits whirling beats with dub-laced swirls of synth 🪩
“Jungle Jump” has a clammy drum breakdown that draws a line from mid-‘80s Chicago to early ‘90s London. - @andrewryce.bsky.social
🎥 "The Grease Monkeys" (1979)
“Jungle Jump” has a clammy drum breakdown that draws a line from mid-‘80s Chicago to early ‘90s London. - @andrewryce.bsky.social
🎥 "The Grease Monkeys" (1979)
Join us on Sunday 23rd for "Imagining Trans Futures" with Mijke van der Drift (co-author of Trans Femme Futures) and Deity Evans (trans activist-socialist) - location: Liverpool, Blue Coat gallery. For more info, to book a place, and please, see eventbrite link www.eventbrite.com/e/imagining-...
IMAGINING TRANS FUTURES
Relaxed live conversation on trans academia and politics, including facilitated networking for project sharing (Homotopia 2025: Uprising!)
www.eventbrite.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Join us on Sunday 23rd for "Imagining Trans Futures" with Mijke van der Drift (co-author of Trans Femme Futures) and Deity Evans (trans activist-socialist) - location: Liverpool, Blue Coat gallery. For more info, to book a place, and please, see eventbrite link www.eventbrite.com/e/imagining-...
Age yourself with gaming 🎮
November 12, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Age yourself with gaming 🎮
A few pics from the launch for photographer Ming De Nasty's "Residents" project at Liverpool's Open Eye Gallery. Part of city-wide arts festival Homotopia. The portrait exhibition captures Liverpool's broad LGBTQAI+ community around politics, identity, and place.
www.homotopia.net/events/resid...
www.homotopia.net/events/resid...
November 9, 2025 at 9:20 AM
A few pics from the launch for photographer Ming De Nasty's "Residents" project at Liverpool's Open Eye Gallery. Part of city-wide arts festival Homotopia. The portrait exhibition captures Liverpool's broad LGBTQAI+ community around politics, identity, and place.
www.homotopia.net/events/resid...
www.homotopia.net/events/resid...
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the preface & introduction of my forthcoming book is now freely available to read! & you can also pre-order it at 50% off buff.ly/ehSkevd
In "Cinemas of Bisexual Transgression," @jacobengelberg.bsky.social reimagines queer film studies, using transgressive cinematic figures to challenge binary notions of sexuality. #QueerStudies #FilmStudies Read the intro now and preorder at 50% off during our fall sale! buff.ly/ehSkevd
October 30, 2025 at 11:42 AM
the preface & introduction of my forthcoming book is now freely available to read! & you can also pre-order it at 50% off buff.ly/ehSkevd
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
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Can’t help but wonder if I would still be employed right now and, if so, for how long if I hadn’t left my position in Texas in the fall.
A Texas public university administrator's notes for a meeting with faculty.
"No daylight": faculty "cannot discuss or teach anything regarding transgender - only male and female." They must "scrub" syllabi for "transgender items."
And keep everything out of writing: "Don't email; talk directly."
"No daylight": faculty "cannot discuss or teach anything regarding transgender - only male and female." They must "scrub" syllabi for "transgender items."
And keep everything out of writing: "Don't email; talk directly."
October 18, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Can’t help but wonder if I would still be employed right now and, if so, for how long if I hadn’t left my position in Texas in the fall.
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i'm very happy to share these endorsements for my forthcoming book, CINEMAS OF BISEXUAL TRANSGRESSION. it means the world to have such generous words from scholars i respect so deeply.
September 9, 2025 at 3:33 PM
i'm very happy to share these endorsements for my forthcoming book, CINEMAS OF BISEXUAL TRANSGRESSION. it means the world to have such generous words from scholars i respect so deeply.