I may quibble with some of the choices, but this video montage in tribute to the queer characters in kid's TV shows and movies (and I would argue that some are not even for kids, really, but it's too much fun to argue) is just hilarious.
Queer Jewish Animation! From Israel. With a dismemberment that is re-membered by birds, this little stop action cartoon has an almost mythic feeling to it. If anyone can tell me what the song in Hebrew means, I'd be grateful, since all my Hebrew is ancient and liturgical.
I remember back in the 90s when a soil sample suggested there was microbial life on Mars and there was a headline on the Daily News that simply read: Life Found On Mars. I don't think it was anything like this:
Okay, it's really a Palm Sunday morning cartoon. And while this queer Jewish Buddhist has been working on the annual Haggadah update, clearly some other folks have the other theological narrative in mind. And they're having fun playing with it. Personally, I feel that if you're going to play with the central story in Christianity, there should be some deeper meaning in it. And this cartoon is lacking in either deeper meaning or even truly deep humor. Nevertheless, here for your consideration is...
I remember seeing this a few years back in the shorts program at the New Festival. It made me laugh then, and it makes me laugh now, though perhaps with more rueful awareness and compassion for all the ways we try to connect...
There have been all kinds of mashups in the fan world from the Potter movies showing Potter and various of his friends and enemies falling in love or lust. Not unlike the Kirk/Spock fan mashups of an earlier era (done painstakingly with actual film or video). But this little fan cartoon of Potter and Voldemort has a weird combination of Narcissism (Harry as Voldemort as Everything and loving himself) along with an unconsciously mystical understanding of the Divine (and thus the Demonic also) in everything. Okay, enough of my ponderous thinking about this cartoon, watch and enjoy:
Present at the creation: head on over to the home page of one kukaipaa at youtube and you can watch the evolution of the curmudgeonly character that is realized in the odd little cartoon below: a rant about the homoeroticism in sports supposedly by an arch-conservative (except for the fact that half-way thru the character is broken to turn into a rant about the so-called religious opposition to same-sex marriage). Enjoy: