"Tom Waugh was thinking queerly about the movies for decades before the New Queer Cinema was a market niche, but without his careful thinking and charming interventions, it's hard to imagine the present cultural moment. Back when being gay was anything but fashionable, Waugh taught and fought, proselytized and organized, so that queer films and queer audiences would be taken seriously."--B. Ruby Rich, author of "Chick Flicks: Theories and Memories of the Feminist Film Movement"

Foreword / John Greyson
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Films by Gays for Gays: A Very Natural Thing, Word Is Out, and The Naked Civil Servant (1977)
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Gays, Straights, Film, and the Left: A Dialogue (with Chuck Kleinhans) (1977)
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1976–77)
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A Fag-Spotter’s Guide to Eisenstein (1977)
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Derek Jarman’s Sebastiane (1978)
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Medical Thrillers: Born a Man . . . Let Me Die a Woman (1978–79)
Murnau: The Films Behind the Man (1979)
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An Unromantic Fiction: I’m Not from Here, by Harvey Marks (1979)
The Gay Nineties, the Gay Seventies: Samperi’s Ernesto and von Praunheim’s Army Of Lovers or Revolt of the Perverts (1979)
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Montgomery Clift Biographies: Stars and Sex (1979–80)
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Gay Cinema, Slick vs. Real: Chant d’amour, Army of Lovers, We Were One Man (1980)
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Nighthawks, by Ron Peck and Paul Hallam (1980)
A Saturday Night Surprise: Burin des Rozier’s Blue Jeans (1980)
Caligula (1980)
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Taxis and Toilets: Ripploh and His Brothers (1981)
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Bright Lights in the Night: Pasolini, Schroeter, and Others (1981)
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Patty Duke and Tasteful Dykes (1982)
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Two Strong Entries, One Dramatic Exit: Luc ou la part des choses, Another Way, and Querelle (1982)
Hollywood’s Change of Heart? (Porky’s and The Road Warrior) (1982)
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Dreams, Cruises, and Cuddles in Tel Aviv: Amos Gutman’s Nagua (1983)
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Hauling an Old Corpse Out of Hitchcock’s Trunk: Rope (1983)
Sex Beyond Neon: Third World Gay Films? (1985)
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Fassbinder Fiction: A New Biography (1986)
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Ashes and Diamonds in the Year of the Queer: Decline of the American Empire, Anne Trister, A Virus Knows No Morals, and Man of Ashes (1986)
The Kiss of the Maricon, or Gay Imagery in Latin American Cinema (1986–87)
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Laws of Desire: Maurice, Law of Desire, and Vera (1987)
Two Great Gay Filmmakers: Hello and Good-bye (1988)
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Beauty and the Beast, Take Two (1988)
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Whipping Up a Cinema (1989)
Erotic Self-Images in the Gay Male AIDS Melodrama (1988, 1992)
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In Memoriam: Vito Russo, 1946–1990 (1991)
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We’re Talking, Vulva, or, My Body Is Not a Metaphor (1995, 1999)
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Walking on Tippy Toes: Lesbian and Gay Liberation Documentary of the
Post-Stonewall Period 1969–1984 (1995–97)
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Archeology and Censorship (1997)
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Bibliography: Selected Additional Works
Index

Thomas Waugh is Professor of Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University. In addition to his many published articles and reviews, he is the author of Hard to Imagine: Gay Male Eroticism in Photography and Film from Their Beginnings to Stonewall.

John Greyson is a prizewinning filmmaker whose work includes the features Urinal, Zero Patience, Lilies, and Uncut, as well as numerous short videos.