Cruising the Movies

Cruising the Movies is a new monthly podcast and screening series at IFC Center in New York from the creators of Ask Any Buddy. In each episode, Elizabeth Purchell and KJ Shepherd take a look at a different film from the fringes of queer cinema history. Through interviews, archival sources, and conversations with filmmakers, critics, and historians, this podcast and screening series will uncover how cinema is inextricable from queer history at large.

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Cruising the Movies

Episodes (58)

Mar 13, 2025 Episode 12: Rosa von Praunheim's TRANSEXUAL MENACE
Feb 26, 2025 Episode 11: Richard Benner's OUTRAGEOUS!
Jan 6, 2025 Episode 10: Gregg Araki's THREE BEWILDERED PEOPLE IN THE NIGHT (1987)

Cruising the Movies

Mar 13, 2025
36¼ minutes
26 MB

This month on the podcast, Liz and KJ return to the well that is Rosa von Praunheim's vast filmography to take a look at a film that (sadly) has been becoming more and more relevent with each passing day this year: his 1996 documentary TRANSEXUAL MENACE. A companion piece of sorts to his earlier ARMY OF LOVERS OR REVOLT OF THE PERVERTS (1979), the film is a sprawling portrait of America's trans arts and activist movement that features everything from icons like Leslie Feinberg and Virginia Prince to events like the Southern Comfort conference in Atlanta and the Fantasia Fair in P...

Cruising the Movies

Episode 12: Rosa von Praunheim's TRANSEXUAL MENACE

Cruising the Movies

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