Listen, this is a queer podcast 365 days a year. Pride Month won't be stopped by a little thing like June being over. It's time for the 90s, and the film its director describes as "an episode of Beverly Hills 90210 on acid." On the board for this episode: the difference between "queer representation" and "queer cinema," the queer reclaiming of mainstream genre work, and the pros and cons of making intensely of-the-moment art. CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of suicide, racism, child sexual abuse, homophobia+biphobia, religiosity, gore/animal death and body horror Variety Interview: https://variety.com/2019/tv/features/gregg-araki-starz-now-apocalypse-1203155576/ Black Is, Black Ain't: http://newsreel.org/video/BLACK-IS-BLACK-AINT Disclosure: https://www.netflix.com/title/81284247 Poison: https://zeitgeistfilms.com/film/poison 1:00 Intro to Araki + New Queer Cinema 12:00 24 Hours of “Nowhere” 14:00 Ethics and Young Actors 17:00 The Teen Soap Gang 22:00 Alien Invasion 26:00 At the Party...