Welcome to Filthy Dreams
Well hello there! Welcome to Filthy Dreams, a blog that analyzes culture through a queer lens. Rather than jumping right into new content, we thought it best to introduce ourselves and our aesthetics with our Trash Manifesto
Latest Entries
Getting ‘Lucky After Dark’: Uncovering Pittsburgh’s Gay After-Hours Social Clubs
Both drawing on and emphasizing Cvetkovich’s understanding of queer archives as ephemeral records of affect and memory, the Pittsburgh Queer History Project’s current exhibition Lucky After Dark at Future Tenant, which closes June 29, uncovers the hidden history of Pittsburgh’s gay after-hours social clubs. Continue reading
Filthy Dreams’ Hellcat Road Trip Playlist
Why hello there! Here, help us pack up the car! Yes, Mary, we’re bringing Bloody Mary in thermoses. Save your judgments for later once we’re gone! Your always faithful Filthy Dreams co-founders are almost ready to venture off into the great unknown on our rabidly raunchy road trip to New Orleans. How can we pack … Continue reading
Eating Up John Waters’ ‘Car Sick’
Luckily, we can now add our preeminent filth elder John Waters to that list of road tales, sticking his thumb out on the side of the road for literature in his new book Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across America (UPDATED with audiobook section for your filthy listening pleasure) Continue reading
You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real): Warhol, Halston and the Importance of Queer Friendship
Examining the interconnected lives of these two creative forces, the Andy Warhol Museum’s current exhibition Halston and Warhol: Silver and Suede makes the unquestionably important argument that Warhol and Halston’s close friendship, similar artistic sensibilities, and collaborations drove their respective art. Continue reading
Where the Body and the Mind Are: A Look at ‘In Exile’ at Istanbul’s Space Debris
Salman Rushdie describes exile as a dream of glorious return, stating that exile is a vision of revolution in his controversial book The Satanic Verses. Rushdie also adds that exile always has the same paradox of looking forward by looking back. Marcel Duchamp’s escape from Nazi-occupied France in 1935 led Duchamp create La Boite en … Continue reading
Vanity Is Sanity: The Project X Magazine Reading Room
We’re going to roll right into another one for this week’s Party Out Of Bounds. Why, yes, we’re returning to the ever so frivolous era of the Club Kids so enter our Project X Magazine Reading Room! Continue reading
Mining The Sexcapades of Samuel Steward: The Historical Power of ‘The Secret Historian’
In his introduction to the captivating Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist and Sexual Renegade, author Justin Spring discusses the almost unbelievably vast range of personas, lives and experiences of Sam Steward. Continue reading
Filthy Dreams’ Hot Sizzling Summer Sleaze Playlist
Wheeeww, Mary! Can you feel that heat? Quick refill my margarita before I pass out! It’s finally that time of year…Memorial Day has passed and you can feel free to wear white whenever you want. I know what you’re thinking: Blech, who wants to wear white anyway? I’m with you, queens. I stubbornly wear my … Continue reading
Once Upon a Time in the Deep Deep South: A Look at ‘Small Town Gay Bar’
Needless to say, the city makes us people spoiled. The abundance of possibilities and limitlessness of the outreach perpetuate a lifestyle centered around endless shuffling and seeking the ‘newer’, ‘the prettier’ or simply ‘the better’. Small Town Gay Bar, Malcolm Imgram’s 2006 documentary about two gay bars in deep deep Mississippi serves as a reminder of how not every dish is served with the same ease and hospitality to everyone’s plates. Continue reading
Preserving An Alternate History: Remembering Photographer Albert J. Winn
If any photographer, in addition to Wojnarowicz himself, could be said to preserve an alternate history, it would have been Los Angeles-based photographer Albert J. Winn, who sadly passed away this week. Continue reading