Pride full ⁠28%

By Kat Sachs⁠48%

7/9/2026, 8:39:48 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 7 faulty reasoning types, including In-Group Bias, Hasty Generalization, and Circular Reasoning, with Confirmation Bias as the most egregious example at 26.6% saturation with 136 hits. Analysis detected 419 faulty-reasoning hits from 512 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 33.3% and a BS Rank of ⁠28% (19,362 of 26,714 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 72.50% of the article peer group.

It’s no longer Pride Month, but I have yet to detail my Pride moviegoing. 
As always, it was fun, interesting, revelatory, and, most importantly, very queer. 
This past weekend, I saw Alfred Hitchcock’s <em>Marnie</em> (1964) at the Music Box Theatre; last month, I saw <em>Rebecca</em> (1940) as part of the same series, Fond of His Mother: Queer-coded Hitchcock. 
The latter is more straightforwardly queer-coded, with the housekeeper Mrs. 
Danvers being enamored with the deceased titular character, herself a bisexual schemer who entranced men and women alike. 
The former, though, is even more subversive, an excoriation of heterosexuality in general and the ways in which it’s particularly negative for women. 
The unsettling story centers on the eponymous Marnie (Tippi Hedren), who carries deep childhood trauma and, as a result, has forsaken men at all costs. 
My husband and I left our screening of<em> Rebecca </em>early because the audience was laughing inordinately at parts that weren’t supposed to be funny. 
There was laughter during <em>Marnie</em>—though at appropriate times—but then, quite starkly, there wasn’t. 
At a pivotal moment I even heard someone, maybe a few people, sobbing. 
The film is perhaps unique as an evocation of asexuality during an era when the phrase was hardly in the popular lexicon, but even more so, it examines the effects of trauma on its tortured protagonist. 
Where this is common ground nowadays, <em>Marnie</em> feels like a blueprint; admittedly, queerness and trauma are therefore problematically intertwined, but then, Hitchcock isn’t where one turns to for representations of either. 
More straightforwardly funny is Billy Wilder’s<em> Some Like It Hot</em> (1959), which I saw with drag accompaniment at the Rooftop Cinema Club immediately after marching in the Chicago Pride Parade with Planned Parenthood. 
It was in part a belated celebration of Marilyn Monroe’s 100th birthday, but also fitting for pride, considering its plot and status as a classic of early queer-adjacent cinema. 
If all of the above films may have required, at the time, a particularly sophisticated viewer to parse their subversive gender and sexuality politics, Rosa von Praunheim’s<em> It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives</em> (1971) is a wrecking ball of didactic, speculative ideology. 
(Von Praunheim also worked as an assistant director for Gregory Markopoulos. 
In general, <a href="https://chicagoreader.com/film-tv/the-moviegoer/temenos-gregory-markopoulos-eniaios-disclosure-day/">my recent pilgrimage to Greece for the Temenos</a> was also appropriate for Pride Month, as Markopolous was a queer filmmaker—his partner, Robert Beavers, who visited Doc Films at the University of Chicago several months ago, is the one who’s carried on his vision for the event—and the 22-part <a href="https://chicagoreader.com/film-tv/the-moviegoer/temenos-gregory-markopoulos-eniaios-disclosure-day/"><em>Eniaios</em></a> is a profoundly queer text.) 
It screened at the Goethe-Institut as part of a four-film series of the German filmmaker’s work.<em> It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse </em>is an almost scolding treatise on, among other aspects pertaining to queer life, assimilation to heteronormativity in the pursuit of so-called equality. 
After the screening, the presenter noted how some critics have gone so far as to call it a mockumentary, noting the outré militancy of its excessive dogma. 
Until next time, moviegoers. 
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