It’s time for an exciting night of intrigue and excitement at QFT 101! We’re looking at those movies featuring memorable performances of characters living their best double lives! That’s right, we’re celebrating ALTER EGOS!

Think Mrs. Doubtfire, Spider-Man, or even She’s the Man. These masters of disguise always have such good intentions for their clever deceptions, but their secret identities always get uncovered (and at the most dramatic times!) and everyone eventually learns the impotance of living authentically.

This is pretty familiar territory in the queer community, as many of us basically spent the first portion of our lives in the closet, pretending to be less-interesting versions of ourselves. Getting to live your authentic life is just the frickin’ best, isn’t it? And now that we’re living our authentically best lives, we get to watch all these silly straight people in the movies learn these lessons over and over again!

So join us for a night of wig-snatching and receipts getting read! It’s going to be a blast!

Here at QFT, we love watching the Oscars - the Gay Super Bowl! - for all the drama and the hype and the presenters and the outfits. (Mostly the outfits.) And while we all know that awards aren’t what determine the worth of a film, awards shows sure are fun, and they give us something to talk about for a few days anyways.

This month, we’re inviting all of our professors to pick from the movies that have landed in the winners’ circle, either as a Best Picture, a Best Screenplay, or maybe for Best Director, an acting award, or costumes or even special effects. It doesn’t matter what the movie won for, we’re gonna talk about them.

LGBTQIA2S+ representation has been creeping more and more into cinema these days — and not always for the best reasons. So we’ll be looking at the history of these award-winning movies and how they either contributed or detracted from the greater queer conversation. And trust us, there’s LOTS to unpack.

And yes, of course, we’ll talk about what everyone was wearing on the red carpet…

Here at Queer Film Theory, we LOVE love! So we also love movies about love, especially the queer varieties! So for February’s QFT 101, our professors will be exploring the magic of cinematic romance through the films that made them swoon, maybe taught them some lessons, but always left them wanting more.

There are so many different definitions and ways of feeling and expressing love, and we’ve all experienced the concept differently. So it’s going to be a hoot to see how our professors interpret the assignment using one of our favorite movie genres and unpacking its tropes through a queer lens.

So find someone or someones you love and bring them along for our silly queer exploration of the (other) L-word. Unlike Valentine’s Day, we’re free AND we really can guarantee a good time!