A showcase for documentaries focusing exclusively on LGBTQ stories, QDoc presents a lineup that’s small but varied. I always have a hard time deciding which movies I want to screen ahead of time—even film critics can only watch so much. This year, without even realizing it, I ended up watching QDoc’s movies about gay and lesbian nightclubs. Maybe I need to get out more?
Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution (screening Fri May 18) feels scrapped together like one of the zines that erupted out of the movement. Homocore, or queercore, developed from the fringes of punk scenes in the ’80s, so it’s fitting that Queercore isn’t polished—it’s a bunch of parts taped together to make one anti-establishment package.
