Young, visionary filmmakers have shared their unique takes on chosen family for Queer Lens, a recent film series from Dazed and Calvin Klein
As an art form, queer filmmaking is crammed with depictions of chosen family, from the actual underground community of the Harlem ballroom scene of the late 80s in Paris is Burning, to the casts of queer misfits in Pedro Almodóvar melodramas, to the caring coterie of friends in Russell T Davies’ It’s A Sin. They might be made up of friends, lovers, biological family, ancestors, allies, or idols – what binds these families together is a way of belonging that permits each individual to specific themselves freely, and to be seen...
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