If there’s one genre where gay-themed entertainment has had to fight to make inroads on the screen, it’s sci-fi. Although some TV series have included LGBT characters, they’re still the exception rather than the rule. And in the movies gay content in sci-fi is even rarer.
With the BFI (British Film Institute) holding a major season called Sci-Fi: Days of Fear and Wonder, which largely concentrates on major moments and movies in the visionary genre, they’ve also decided to include a gay strand featuring a couple of little seen but very interesting gay-themes movie, a screening of the camp classic Barbarella and a look at gay and lesbians in TV sci-fi.
Films screening include Liquid Sky, a 1980s slice of punk sci-fi about aliens addicted to the chemicals humans produce while having sex. There’s also the controversial 1998 transgender splatter movie Dandy Dust, which features a Q&A with the creative team behind the movie.
Then on November 25th comes the panel discussion ‘Gays of Fear and Wonder: Queer Sci-Fi TV‘, which will look into both the past and future of LGBTs in TV sci-fi, with experts talking about and presenting clips showing how the possibilities for pushing the boundaries of sexuality and gender in sci-fi have been addressed on TV.
All this takes place within a season that ranges from screenings of The Hunger Games movies (including Mockingjay Part 1) and ET to 2001: A Space Odyssey and Metropolis, along with focuses on things such as Afrofutrism. The season is already underway and runs through to December 31st. You can find out more here.
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