Flicker Magazine Issue 5
Flicker Magazine Issue 5
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Flicker Magazine Issue 5 is a 88-page print edition exploring film, theatre, art, and queer life.
Issue 05 moves through family, chosen and built, queer festivals, drag, theatre, legacy, and resilience, featuring Waleed Akhtar, Jon Blackburn and John Mays, Divina De Campo, Niamh McCormack, Eleanor Tindall, Pancho Assoluto, and more voices shaping queer art and conversation today.
Inside this issue:
Mezure Builds a Festival
Twenty years deep in French queer cinema, still fighting the same battles over funding, lesbian visibility, and who gets taken seriously.
Kindness Feels Like a Radical Act
Four years after The P Word premiered, Waleed Akhtar still isn't finished with Billy, or with what the play asks of its audience.
A Million Framed Stories
The framer who has hung walls for presidents, Bowie, and half of Manhattan's art world, and still measures success by something else entirely.
The Double Lesbian
The Greek island that gave lesbians their name, and the community of women who have built a life there ever since.
She Just Can't Choose
From Netflix fantasy to prestige drama and back again, an actress who keeps refusing to be boxed into one kind of role.
We Built the Family We Dreamt Of
Two men rebuilding, for three kids, the steady childhood that neither of them was given growing up.
Sleeping with One Eye Open
Decriminalised, legalised, married in law, and still watching rights that felt settled come back up for debate.
OFN Did Pride
One Fluid Night, Flicker, and Lexme.Red march together at London Pride for the first time, one front and many voices.
Falling for Hamed
A romance that started in the rehearsal room and kept going long after the run of the play had ended.
More Than a Portrait
Twenty years of portraits from one photographer, handed over to fourteen artists to reinterpret however they liked.
Trans People Are Awful
A trans antihero written with no interest in making the audience comfortable around him, and all the better for it.
I'm Alright, Take Somebody Else
Two decades in drag, and only now does the gratitude seem to be catching up with the glitter.
More Tender with Each Other
One house, two women, and a set of feelings between them that no script ever quite prepared them for.
All Aboard the Glamazonian Express
RuPaul, a runaway train, and a full cast of queens turning disaster into the campest comedy of the year.
Austin Jennings Boykin Turns Massage Work Into Play
From years on the massage table to a solo show on stage, the real story behind A Gay Masseur's Guide to Happy Endings.