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Berlin’s Teddys Give Queer Cinema a Boost as LGBTQ+ Rights Erode Around the Globes
Berlin’s Teddy Awards give queer cinema a showcase as LGBTQ+ rights around the world erode
U.S. President Trump is implementing numerous anti-transgender policies, withdrawing President Biden’s executive order making federal agencies enforce a 2020 Supreme Court ruling that sex discrimination laws include LGBTQ discrimination, and even declaring that there are only two sexes – seemingly oblivious to children born intersex, a plot point in one of this year’s biggest Oscar contenders. His appointee Elon Musk regularly makes anti-trans statements and endorsed Germany’s far-right AfD party, which has opposed some gay rights. One is Shatara Michelle Ford’s Panorama player “Dreams in Nightmares,” a road movie about “three queer Black femmes” traveling through the American Midwest, revealing “a lot of the same questions and adversaries we are facing in Europe,” Stütz said.
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