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
Mammy’s Revenge: The Inescapability Of History In Kara Walker’s ‘A Subtlety’
One of the most subversive public art installations I have ever seen, Walker’s radical artistic creation vibrates with history: the history of race and gender under slavery, the history of the sugar industry, the history of art and the history of New York City. Given the multitude of meanings, Walker’s A Subtlety is certainly anything but subtle. Continue reading
Welcome to Dean Johnson’s Rock n’Roll Fag Bar
While our filth elder Dean Johnson hosted several significant and sleazily-named parties in his nightlife career such as the Pubic Hair Club for Men and HomoCorps at CBGB, the most memorably named is undoubtedly his weekly party Rock n’Roll Fag Bar. Continue reading
Excuse-moi, Can I Have a Bite?: A Look at ‘Only Lovers Left Alive’
“I blame Shelley and Stoker,” says Eve, one of the main vampires in Only Lovers Left Alive. Eerie and existentialist can be perfectly convenient for defining Jim Jarmusch’s cinema. Since his major feature film Stranger Than Paradise, he has been keeping his auteur soul with a filmography dedicated to character development, atmosphere orchestration and visual … Continue reading
From Art Fairs To Club Kids: Time-traveling Back To The Tunnel
Hello there! It’s that time of week again and we’re ready to celebrate, reminisce and wax poetic about queer nightlife history. Can you believe its Friday already? Me neither. Here, have some drink tickets! You’ll need them at the Tunnel for this week’s Party Out Of Bounds. This week seems like the perfect time to reflect … Continue reading
Sleaze, Mister, Sleaze: The Power of Erotic Gay Male Illustrations In ‘Stroke: From Under the Mattress To The Museum Walls’
If you’re like me and have been rummaging around the Internets for archives of bygone LGBTQ magazines, you may recognize that half of the perfectly sleazy title to this article is ripped straight from the pages of a 1989 issue of Outweek Magazine. From the 1950s on, magazines such as the activist Outweek, and many others, have provided queer … Continue reading
Lighting Strikes: Klaus Nomi Video Lounge
Well, welcome to our newest Filthy Dreams series Party Out of Bounds. Do you need a refill? Make sure you grab one before you enter our first Party–The Klaus Nomi Video Lounge! Continue reading
Sorry Dante, This Purgatory is Different!: An Interview with Purgatory Pie Press
We sat down with Esther K. Smith and Dikko Faust of Purgatory Pie Press in their TriBeCa studio where they have been pressing, drawing, sawing and cutting for more than 20 years. Continue reading
Drifting Through Queer Utopian Memory: Mx Justin Vivian Bond’s “Golden Age of Hustlers” And “The Drift”
So when I choked up watching Mx Justin Vivian Bond’s recent “Golden Age of Hustlers” video, a cover of iconic transsexual singer and former Cockette Bambi Lake’s ode to hustlers in pre-AIDS 1970s San Francisco, I knew Bond hit on something significant to queer culture. Continue reading
Spinning in a Flat Circle: Visions of Queerness and Filthy Dreams
I’ve always admired Eyes Wide Shut. People poo-poo’ed over its release, which can mean either one of two things: it deserves it or people just don’t get it. When I first saw the Masked Ball scene, I firmly decided that people just didn’t get it. They were looking for more Tom and Nicole. They got … Continue reading
James Franc-OH NO!: The Privilege of James Franco’s ‘New Film Stills’
Last week, Renaissance man James Franco opened his New Film Stills at Chelsea’s blue-chip Pace Gallery, which has since sent me into a Franco-inspired slow rage boil since I first heard about and had the unfortunate pleasure to see the exhibition. Continue reading