VVC Queer Vidshow: call for suggestions!

[such_heights]

So, the VVC organisers have had a moment of madness and given me a vidshow to run. I am going to need your help!

The vidshow is We're Here, We're Queer, and it's pretty much what it says on the tin: vids that are focused on canonically LGBT/queer/trans* characters. Opened up to gen, het, slash, poly, angst, drama, comedy, in fandoms big and small, hopefully there will be a bit of everything!

Friends, lend me your recs in any and all fandoms - Saving Face, Transamerica, Skins, Queer as Folk, Torchwood, The L Word, Grey's Anatomy, Buffy, Ugly Betty, RPF fandoms, anywhere there are queer people! Extra bonus points for people who can point me towards vids focused on queer non-white characters and on genderqueer/trans* characters.

Please feel encouraged to nominate your own vids, and also, should you happen to feel inspired by the theme and think you could make a vid by June 1st, having a premiere or two would be pretty awesome. Official-ish forms will be up on the VVC website shortly, but in the meantime, rec me things! :D

Also, I would seriously love to hear any and all advice on VJing and vidshows at cons from both VJers and audiences, given that I have never attended one much less organised one before!

Comments

[copracat]

People who call their relationship subtext baffle me and used to make me double-take, but I've become inured to it. But it's like fighting the tidal wave of fandom calling stories 'fic': too late now. If you included a Xena vid, you'd have people having conniptions and you don't need conniptions. Go with the characters who have either said, I'm *insert appropriate queer descriptor here* or who have canonically had the on screen or explicit text queer sexin'.

[thingswithwings]

oh goodness . . . you're maybe right about the conniptions, and therefore right that such_heights should avoid the whole issue. but I would really mourn the absence of Xena and Gabrielle from the vidshow - partially because they never had to say "I'm queer" - they just kissed each other and got naked in hot tubs together and said I love you all the time; they were my ideal of being out without having to come out. Sigh. And Boom Boom Ba is so amazing as a vid about the queer female gaze.

But, you may be right anyhow. :\ Just, I guess, I wanted to put my voice in to say, I also don't think it's subtext, or that Xena and Gabrielle are interpretable as anything but queer.