OPINION:
Trans Representation
This year, GAZE will screen Neil Jordan’s 1992 film, The Crying Game, the writer/director’s first foray into the world of transgender people. Released two years before I was born, the film is perhaps most famous for its crass twist, one which by all accounts left audiences of the day a little taken aback. But The Crying Game has a lot more depth than the cheap trick it’s remembered for.
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About GCN
In this issue of GCN Róisín McVeigh explores the changing representation of lesbians on the big screen against the background of GAZE's screening of the controversial Below Her Mouth; Toryn Glavin argues that The Crying Game has a ring of trans truth; Editor Brian Finnegan explore Ireland's LGBT+ community's paradoxical relationship with An Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar; Tributes are paid to two beloved LGBT activists, Ann Loiuse Gilligan and Dave Roach, by those who loved them most; Legendary queer photographer Nan Goldin and feminist filmmaker Vivienne Dick sit down with Mary Nally to discuss queerness, mythomaniacs and much else. And of course, there's much more to explore...