Film Screening: "No Straight Lines - The Rise of Queer Comics"
The Zukunftskolleg invited everyone to the film screening organized by the Zebra Kino Konstanz in cooperation with the Equal Opportunity Office, the Zukunftskolleg and the student union Uniqueer (University of Konstanz).
We invited you to the film screening "No Straight Lines - The Rise of Queer Comics" on 12 May organized by the Zebra Kino Konstanz in cooperation with the Equal Opportunity Office, the Zukunftskolleg and the student union Uniqueer (University of Konstanz).
About:
"No Straight Lines" tells the story of five scrappy and pioneering cartoonists who depicted everything from the AIDS crisis, coming out, and same-sex marriage, to themes of race, gender, and disability. They tackled the humor in queer lives in a changing world, and the everyday pursuits of love, sex, and community.
Their work is funny, smart, and profound, and provides a unique, uncensored window into LGBTQ lives from the 1970s onward, beginning at a time in which there was no other genuine queer storytelling in popular culture. Equally engaging are their personal journeys, as they, against all odds, helped build a queer comics underground that has been able to grow and evolve in remarkable ways.