QUEER CINEMA CLUB
Queer Cinema Club is more than a film series: it’s a mission to bring Toronto’s LGBTQ folks together in celebration of some of the best queer cinema ever made.
Every month at the gloriously restored Paradise Theatre, curator and host Peter Knegt will be offering queers (and anyone who loves them) a classic queer film, special guests and performers, and some good old fashioned drinks and conversation in the Paradise’s gorgeous lobby bar. Each film is paired with a different local queer artist, who designs an original poster for the screening.
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It’s time to ride the Shortbus! On November 25, we are having a very special screening of John Cameron Mitchell’s deeply sweet, delightfully randy 2006 film. And we will have its star (and a true local queero) Sook-Yin Lee in the house to have a little salon after the film!
It’s always a good time to come together and celebrate bodies and sexuality, but it feels particularly important for us to do that now, and that is exactly what Shortbus has on offer. It’s as progressive and provocative now as it was back in 2006 (if not even more so) and the optimism at its core is something we very much need more of.
Thank you so much Christopher Sherman for this incredible poster, and also just for all the work he does celebrating bodies and sexuality and encouraging us to have a horny day. And on November 25, we will indeed have a horny night in his honour as we watch Shortbus together at Paradise. Get your tickets! 😈