Queer people don’t need to look quite as long and hard anymore to see a version of themselves reflected onscreen (though LGBT representation still skews white, cis, monosexual, and male). In the post-Ellen era, there’s no longer a dearth of lesbian storytelling in film and television - see: The L Word, Orange Is the New Black, et al. These days, coming out epiphanies can likely be attributed to a wide variety of pieces of pop culture. “So many people have been telling me these stories over the years - I decided it was time I start collecting them.” “They say, ‘Can I just tell you what happened to me after I saw Desert Hearts? I came out after that.’” At this week’s screening, she announced that she’s going to start asking people to record their revelations. “People will come up to me after screenings at festivals,” Deitch told BuzzFeed News over coffee at the BFI Southbank theater. When Flare (formerly known as the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival) launched in 1986, Desert Hearts was on its starting slate, at a time when lesbian stories were barely getting made, let alone being seen by mainstream audiences. This week, Desert Hearts returned for a special screening in 35 mm at BFI Flare: London’s LGBT Film Festival. Young women make fan cuts on YouTube, reblog GIF sets on Tumblr, and reach out to the director, Deitch, with their stories. The film, which is based on the novel Desert of the Heart by Jane Rule, has experienced a spirited second life, spurred by streaming options like Netflix and Amazon Prime. Three decades after it was made, this particular lesbian romance - about Vivian, a 35-year-old English professor from New York who, in 1959, temporarily relocates to a ranch in Reno for a quickie divorce, then meets a wild-hearted younger woman named Cay - still resonates, particularly with a new generation of viewers. A sizable percentage of those searchers likely found the affirmation they were looking for after streaming Donna Deitch’s 1985 lesbian romance Desert Hearts. If you don't think any of the above situations apply, you can use this feedback form to request a review of this block.For anyone who’s frantically googled “How do I know if I’m a girl who likes girls?” within the past 10 years, the Gay & Lesbian section of Netflix is an all-too-familiar place. Contact your IT department and let them know that they've gotten banned, and to have them let us know when they've addressed the issue.Īre you browsing GameFAQs from an area that filters all traffic through a single proxy server (like Singapore or Malaysia), or are you on a mobile connection that seems to be randomly blocked every few pages? Then we'll definitely want to look into it - please let us know about it here. You'll need to disable that add-on in order to use GameFAQs.Īre you browsing GameFAQs from work, school, a library, or another shared IP? Unfortunately, if this school or place of business doesn't stop people from abusing our resources, we don't have any other way to put an end to it. When we get more abuse from a single IP address than we do legitimate traffic, we really have no choice but to block it. If you don't think you did anything wrong and don't understand why your IP was banned.Īre you using a proxy server or running a browser add-on for "privacy", "being anonymous", or "changing your region" or to view country-specific content, such as Tor or Zenmate? Unfortunately, so do spammers and hackers. IP bans will be reconsidered on a case-by-case basis if you were running a bot and did not understand the consequences, but typically not for spamming, hacking, or other abuse.
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