QUEER CINEMA CLUB
Animation by Paul Twa
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 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 lobby bar. Each film is paired with a different local queer artist, who designs an original poster for the screening (which will be available for purchase the night of the event).
Up next…
Take out your best anatomically correct rubber suit (the one that puts fire in a girl’s lips, of course) and ready your worst puns (especially if they’re about ice) because holy hard nipples it’s almost time for Batman & Robin!!!
On October 28th at Paradise our annual Halloween screening is taking us to the gayest Gotham City that god (Joel Schumacher) ever created, with a special preshow drag performance from Anne Alien that pays tribute to the absolute camp perfection that is and always will be Uma Thurman’s Poison Ivy.
Of course, there will be a costume contest: category is “gay ass superhero/supervillain” and you can interpret that however you’d like. Just have fun with it and you might just win a prize!
You can also pick up a copy of this mesmerizing dream of a poster by our wildly talented friend Eric Kostiuk Williams. Frame it and hang it in your batcave (that’s what we’ll be doing, at least).
Hosted as always by Peter Knegt (although he may or not be coming incognito), tickets are now available here. Let’s kick some ice, queers!
And then…
On November 11th, let’s take a ride back to 2010 and experience the dark descent of Black Swan together!
Starring Natalie Portman in an Oscar winning performance as unravelling ballerina Nina Sayers, Black Swan is a movie that demands to be watched on a big screen with a crowd. Thrilling, operatic, over-the-top and surprisingly gay, we are so excited to experience it again with you all. And for Gay Jesus to be gracing us with their holy presence before the film for a special Black Swan-fueled performance!!
We only have one request of you: when our queen Winona Ryder shows up to delivers the film’s finest line (“DID YOU SUCK HIS COCK??”), we need all of you to erupt in applause. It will be perfect, we promise.
Tickets now available here. And thank you so much to Karolina Ficek for designing this incredible poster, which will be for sale at the screening.
SEE YOU ON 11/11, SWANS!