QUEER CINEMA CLUB
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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).
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Time for a little good old fashioned gay murder! For our 75th edition of Queer Cinema Club, we are bringing out an all-timer: Alfred Hitchcock’s wildly homoerotic and psychosexual Strangers on a Train, which just so happens to be turning 75 years old this year.
Adapted from the novel of the same name by Patricia Highsmith (also the author behind two previous QCCs: Carol and The Talented Mr. Ripley), the film follows two strangers (Farley Granger and Robert Walker) who meet — you guessed it — on a train. What happens from there is a thrilling ride of relentless queer coded suspense that only Hitchcock could offer, and we are so excited to experience it again with you all at the Paradise come September 23rd. But please be wary of any gay strangers you may meet that night!
Strangers on a Train tickets available here. And thank you so much to Anthony Campbell for creating this extraordinary poster, which will be for sale in print on the night of the screening.