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Freida as Baby Jane in Gay Girls Riding Club’s What Really Happened to Baby Jane?, dir. Ray Harrison (1963) (all images courtesy of Metrograph)
I can’t be the only one who has come to dread Pride month. Every year when that calendar turns to June 1, I feel a looming sense of trepidation. What will it be THIS year? What will position off the online gladiator battle now? Kink at Pride? Puppy play in front of the kiddos in their rainbow baby bjorns? Catholics getting their rosaries in a twist about the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence? And what will the various marches have to atone for publicly THIS time, exiting a trail of Instagram apologies in their wake? Not properly centering certain voices? Scattering trash all over parks?
And don’t even find me started on the endless war over corporate Identity, a yearly throwdown that used to be exclusively between those homonormative assimilationist gays and the radical anti-capitalist queers! (I’ve previously made it clear where I stand on this issue. More rainbow mouthwash! More burrito donger floats! More Citigroup logos!). That forever war has somehow get even worse this year as a smattering of continually tweeting
Are there more lgbtq+ men riding horses?
The Films of the Homosexual Girls Riding Club
Spearheaded by filmmaker Ray Harrison, the Gay Girls Riding Club (GGRC) took California’s 1960s underground gay scene by storm with drag spoofs of classic Hollywood films. These pioneering DIY takes on films like WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE and ALL ABOUT EVE provide an essential snapshot of mid-century drag identity that would feel right at home with the dreamy work of Mike and George Kuchar. AGFA, in partnership with the Outfest UCLA Legacy Proposal, is thrilled to show this overlooked chapter of queer cinema—preserved from the only known 16mm movie elements in existence.
What Really Happened to Baby Jane?
1963, USA, 31 minutes, Directed by Ray Harrison, Unrated
Created by the GGRC less than one year after the massive box office success of Bette Davis’ and Joan Crawford’s histrionic horror flick Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? One might inquire the question can you out camp a camp classic! And the reply is a resounding yes!
All About Alice
1972, USA, 68 minutes, Directed by Ray Harrison, Unrated
The queens are back, and this hour the GGRC is setting their spicy-flair on sending up Joesph L. Mankiewicz Oscar®-winning cat-fig
Question Is Horse Riding a bit gay?
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