Queer Gaze

2021 Queer Roundup: Unassuming gayness of ACP Khan in Aarya over laboured representation in Chandigarh Kare Aashiqui

My hope for queer storytelling as we step into a new year is to be more irreverent, to see more easy queerness, more desire, and more queer authorship as opposed to only queer characters.

Sooryavanshi, Satyamev Jayate 2, Antim: A queer reading of the testosterone-driven, hyper masculine cinema

"Sooryavanshi is a bland bursting of cars till the three men come together in the end. Finally, there is some heat. The palpable homo-eros is, of course, entirely unintended."

Dash through? Rashmi Rocket’s comfortable feminism doesn’t ask the questions on trans sportswomen it needed to

What is the point of critiquing a film for something it was not even attempting to do? But I find in Rashmi Rocket's silence, a very convenient and thus disturbing thrust.

Is Jeetu Bhaiya from Kota Factory queer? Notes on reading sexuality in narratives where it's not explicit

Anonymity in the form of subtle details is often afforded to queer characters, as they are to queer people in real life who do not want to talk about their sexuality.

Cinderella approaches queerness — but only cautiously and aesthetically

Billy Porter's casting as a genderless fairy godmother however well-intentioned, is rehearsed, unsurprising, and frankly, boring. When extravagance becomes routine, awe needs more than just a cautious, aesthetic nod.

Schitt's Creek to Made in Heaven, why wave of LGBTQ+ content has met with complicated reception from queer folk

In speaking to queer people from across generations, it seems there is a complicated reception to this new tsunami of LGBTQ+ content.