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

[rm.livejournal.com]

With the issues that have been in fandom a lot lately regarding slash vs. canonically queer characters vs. queer people in fandom, I am so glad you are doing this.

[anoel]

I am so glad you're doing this vidshow! I wanted to do it last year so it makes me happy to it being done :)

I so used to have a list but sadly it is lost in some notebook somewhere so this is off the top of my head. For Ugly Betty, obsessive24 has a perfect vid for this for Marc, Steady As She Goes. Possibly there's a vid out there on youtube or a comm for Alexis if you're looking for vids featuring trans characters. kiki_miserychic has a House vid about Remy called Skinny Love that's great. For Queer as Folk, possibly f1renze's Given To Fly or sisabet's Epic could work for Justin or bea_anonymous has a good ensemble piece, We All Want to be Loved (or something like it) or possibly f1renze's Affirmation. For Adam Lambert, there's astolat's Beautiful Dirty Rich although there's a bunch of great ones on youtube I'm sure. Oh and f1renze has a great Angels in America vid, Prayer for the Dying. butterfly has two vids that would be great, Oh My God and The Tower that are both from movies. laurashapiro made Queen Bitch which would also work perfectly.

And I'm totally forgetting a bunch but that'll take me some more looking around. And man, looking around at fandoms that feature queer characters, there are so many that need vids.

[copracat]

I want you to show Charmax' Boom Boom Ba because Xena and Gabs are canonically bisexual, but I know that not all fans agree with me. Even though, frankly, if a girl wakes another girl from an enchanted sleep with a kiss...

I'm just sayin'.

[sunnyrea.livejournal.com]

FlashForward has Janis who is a canon lesbian. I don't have an vids as of now but if you feel like looking. She actually has her own community: http://community.livejournal.com/iamsupergay/

Ok, so here are some from a bunch of things, all canon. Hope some of them help!

Torchwood, "The Railway House" Jack/Ianto: http://greensilver.livejournal.com/556108.html

Better Than Chocolate, "Oh My God" Kim/Maggie: http://butterfly.livejournal.com/1306002.html (Not work safe)

Torchwood, "A Blip in Time" Jack/Ianto: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fF2a-Q5z1qQ

Maurice, "Keep Holding on" Maurice/Alec: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQIOu2RmEm0

Hollyoaks, "Every time we touch" Craig/JP: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZ_U7xYHrYA (Yes, I just rec'ed a British soap *hangs head*)

Velvet Goldmine, "Song to Say Goodbye" (Brian/Curt): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUY8UAXmwMw

The Line of Beauty, "Dirty Little Secret" Nick/Leo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_stXnZzHD7w (I'm not actually sure how this one is since my computer has an aversion to youtube and won't let me watch it. However, it has a non-white man so I thought it would make a good adition. You can judge.)

Tipping the Velvet, "Take My Hand" Nan/Kitty: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAFyysYBSAE (this is not the best but its a small fandom and you need more canon ladies)

Tipping the Velvet, "I Was so Lucky" Nan/Flo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvhIYZLQQsk&feature=related

That's what I've got for now!

[charmax]

I'd like to make a premier for this show, if you'll have it. :)

Okay, seriously now

[copracat]

Tanglewood Tree, charmax, fandom = Fingersmith

Wake, by cupidsbow, fandom = Torchwood

[reginagiraffe]

I have no vid suggestion as I'm only peripherally in the fandom but True Blood has a non-white queer character that somone may have done a vid for.

ETA: And he's AWESOME.

ETA2: Here's one. *g*

[copracat]

Papa Don't Preach, greensilver and eunice, Jack/Ianto, Torchwood mpreg :D

Da Bomb, jaidanwolf, True Blood - It's Lafayette/Jason so it's only one half canon gay, but as noted above, that one half is AWESOME.

Edition Tosh

[copracat]

Steady As She Goes, kuwdora, Torchwood - vidder calls it Tosh/everyone, includes canonical Tosh/Mary

Wild Hope, butterfly, Torchwood - more about Tosh than specifically Tosh/Mary

[xtricks]

I have no idea about vid for these two fandoms but:

Stargate: Universe - Camille Wray is played by Ming-Na and her character is canonically lesbian. They had at least one episode that focused on her relationship with her partner (and it was a positive one).

Re: Edition Tosh

[such_heights]

Tosh! \o/ Thanks so much for all of your links and the signal boost, it is much appreciated.

[such_heights]

Thanks, I appreciate that, and thanks a lot for the signal boost! I'm excited to see what comes out of this.

[such_heights]

Oh awesome, thank you so so much for all the suggestions!

And man, looking around at fandoms that feature queer characters, there are so many that need vids.

I know, tell me about it! Maybe this will be a bit of an encouragement for people. *g*

[such_heights]

Oh heavens, I am so torn on this one! I would love to show a Xena vid but I cannot decide whether it counts or not.

[such_heights]

Oh fabulous, thank you so much! :D

[such_heights]

That would be beyond fantastic! Also, it would solve my current dilemma, which is omg which charmax vid do I even show?! *g*

[such_heights]

True Blood, of course! Thanks so much for the suggestions. :D

[such_heights]

Ooh, SGU, that's a point, I will investigate! Were you going to suggest a second fandom, or is that a typo?

[charmax]

Well yay all round! Do you need to know what I'm considering doing so you can get your playlist in order?

[such_heights]

It'd be helpful to know the fandom, thanks!

[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'.

[charmax]

Well I'm thinking "Tipping The Velvet". It's something I've wanted to vid for ages now and this is the perfect opportunity!

[xtricks]

Oops, sorry, yes.

Wilby Wonderful. Again, I don't know if there are any vids (I'll ask around the due South community 'cause they overlap) but it's a sweet, gentle very well done Canadian movie where driving plotline is about a gay man who's trying to kill himself -- with a happy ending! Has a young Ellen Page and Sandra Oh in it.

[sansets]

Delurking to say that there are at least three Wilby vids that I know of that are about Duck and Dan - 100,000 Fireflies, Air and I Would Walk (500 Miles).

Also! I'll Follow You Tonight is an EXCELLENT vid about the canonical couple from the movie Shelter.

[xtricks]

oh, excellent! Thanks.