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

[isagel]

I was so excited to see that you're doing this vid show! Yay!

Things I would like to see but have no recs for include something about Willow and Tara from BtVS, something about Original Cindy from Dark Angel (lesbian of colour!) and something about the gay guys (names currently fail me) from Six Feet Under (character of colour!).

I went through my vids folder, and the only thing I have that no one's mentioned yet is rhiannonhero's Dancing Lessons, which is a vid about the gay couple from the German soap opera Verbotene Liebe. Not the greatest vid ever made in terms of narrative structure and such, but worth checking out simply because it's so bubblingly joyful, and gay characters on tv don't generally get to just be happy and silly and in love. It puts a huge smile on my face, anyway, and I've never watched the show.

I'm making a vid about the bisexual character Lisbeth Salander from the recent Swedish Millenium trilogy movies which is probably headed for VVC in some form, but it's less focused on her sexuality and more focused on her fighting back against abusive men, and I'm thinking it may be a better fit for the "I Blame the Patriarchy" vid show, if they want it there. But if you would like it, you can absolutely have it.

[such_heights]

Oh, I would love an Original Cindy vid! I will have to have a hunt for one. Sadly, the Dancing Lessons link leads to a locked post.

And I am very excited about your vid! I think it does sound like more of a good match for the Patriarchy vid show, but depending on what I and they end up doing, I will definitely keep it in mind. :D \o/

[isagel]

Argh. Sorry about the locked post link. Here's a link to the same post on Rhi's fic journal instead: http://rhihero-fic.livejournal.com/62114.html

[gigglemonster]

Holy shit. Can I just say how freaking excited I am that you're making a Lisbeth Salander vid!?! I'm on the second book right now and am completely obsessed with her. SO awesome! I can't wait! :D

[isagel]

Hee! I sort of feel that there should really be a Lisbeth vid while the Swedish movies are still fresh and before the American adaptation comes and overwrites them (with, I fear, decidedly less feminism). My attempt may suck, though, so don't get too excited. *g*