queer films

This is a photo of the film projected onto a mini black screen that most notably features two drag performers in pink and blue wigs and drag outfits. The photo is taken in the OOC room, where hundreds of books are featured on bookshelves in the background.
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Out on Campus hosts Australian drag film screening

Peak Web June 3, 2025

On May 20, Out on Campus (OOC) screened their first movie of the summer with The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. OOC is a student organization “dedicated to supporting SFU’s 2SLGBTQIA+ students and allies.” This 1994 road trip movie follows three drag queens touring Australia. It is based on the lives of three real drag queens — Cindy Pastel, Strykermeyer, and Lady Bump — portrayed by Hugo Weaving, Guy Pearce, and Terence Stamp. The film highlights the harms of deadnaming and portrays a cast who support one another in the face of violence. The Peak attended the event…

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A film still featuring two protagonists of Bottoms, PJ and Josie, in a school gym looking to the side, looking bewildered. PJ has a slight black eye and a bandaid on her nose.
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Bottoms is unabashedly gay, unhinged, and bloody

Peak Web September 28, 2023

When I first read the synopsis of Emma Seligman’s Bottoms — two girls start a fight club at their high school to meet girls and lose their virginity — I thought I knew what I was in for. I expected…

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A film still featuring a group of bored-looking teens sitting on a couch looking up at a projected video. The projector is shown pointed towards the camera and an older woman is clicking the remote. The girls are dressed in pink button-ups and skirts, and the boys are dressed in blue button ups with ties.
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But I’m a Cheerleader brilliantly satirizes heteronormative society

Peak Web July 21, 2023

Content warning: conversion therapy and queerphobia. The first time I watched But I’m a Cheerleader (BIAC), I was a passionate “ally” of my high school gay-straight alliance club. Celebrating queer identities and making straight people the butt of the joke…

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