Tell us a line from your favorite queer-coded movie.
Are you the kind of movie-goer who wants to talk back to the screen? Maybe you’ve been kindly escorted from an Alamo Drafthouse for talking too much, or you’ve been shushed more than your share of times. The new movie night hosted by Andy Scahill, CUOn Tuesday, September 13, Scahill hosts a “new interactive queer camp movie night” called.
“Film should be a communal experience,” insists Scahill. “During quarantine and COVID, we all got siloed, watching TV by ourselves.” One of the important differences between film and television, Scahill says, is that “film is something you do together, something you do with strangers, often. You’re in the dark and you’re gauging your reaction to something on screen against other people’s. And there’s something cathartic about laughing together.
. The 1989 Shelley Long comedy about a socialite-cum-Girl Scout Leader is a favorite in the gay community— even among some who’ve never seen it before. “It’s funny,” Scahill says. “There are people who will quote lines from films without ever having seen those films — maybe not even knowing the origin of those things that they say.”
Scahill says that he has a list of over fifty films he’d love to screen with Rainbow Cult, but that “it’s been kind of an education.” Some films are out of circulation, too costly, or purposefully reserved for other use. “I wanted to usefor October,” says Scahill, “but since Disney has a sequel to that coming out, they have a hold on it.”
Still, that leaves a lot of films to present under the banner of the Rainbow Cult that should be lots of fun. Aside from