Word is Out A Queer Film Classic (Queer Film Classics) by GregYoumans Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2011 by Arsenal Pulp Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55152-420-7, ISBN: 1-55152-420-1
"A Queer Film Classic on the groundbreaking 1977 documentary that profiles the lives of gay men and lesbians of different ages, races, and backgrounds, and played a role in the then-nascent struggle for gay rights (being released at the same time as Anita Bryant waged her anti-gay campaign in Florida). Greg Youmans is a scholar, maker, and programmer of queer film and video. Arsenal's Queer Film Classics series cover some of the most imp ..."
"For the ongoing publication series around Dirty Looks screenings in NYC + LA, Volume three assembles chapters addressing Flawless Sabrina, Latin Boys Go To Hell, Steven Arnold's Luminous Procuress, sisters and brothers, and Chris E. Vargas."
"SPECIAL ON BARBARA HAMMER: Audacious Appropriations: Barbara Hammer's First Half-Century, by Greg Youmans The scope, inventiveness, and audacity of Barbara Hammer's career compel us to expand the frame from found footage to appropriation more broadly. Her appropriations of material from audiovisual archives (what is traditionally called found footage) came after and alongside more fundamental appropriations of various cinematic means of ..."
Queer Film Classics Ser. Word Is Out : A Queer Film Classic by GregYoumans 160 Pages, Published 2011 by Arsenal Pulp Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55152-421-4, ISBN: 1-55152-421-X
"Despite wanting Ann Samsell in the film because she represented the spirit
rather than the rhetoric of lesbian feminism, Nancy Adair eventually decided that
Word Is Out also needed Sally Gearhart as “an articulate spokesperson
representing the lesbian-feminist view” (1978, 304). Gearhart was forty-five years
old at the time of her interview. Born and raised in Virginia, for many years she
taught speech and drama at various Christia ..."
"Suggestions of a Life Being Lived is a bold presentation of contemporary work that looks at queerness as a set of political alliances and possibilities. Untethered to institutions of sexual or gender normativity and in pursuit of greater freedoms, the work in this book represents queer activism, intentional and imagined communities, self-determinism, and DIY alternative world-making. Less concerned with categorical sexual identities or ..."