Gay Pride persists through the multilateral onslaught of peace-talk-war-crimes-mental-health-failure discussions currently taking place at the indie-movie-dine-in-theater-blacksite-escape-room delivery center warehouse at the Hauser + Wirth Sovereign Wealth Fund of Amerikkka. Once again, for the umpteenth time, Ridykeulous has been summoned as the community representative of the worldwide New Gay Order and although we don’t know how exactly to feel about this compulsory assignment handed down to us through the millenia, qheere we are!
Full of concessions, our unique bluechip ‘Escape from Gay Pride’ evening program begins in the afternoon with the late great demolisher of homonormativity, Rosa von Praunheim’s misterpiece ‘It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives’ (1971, 64 mins), followed by Laura Parnes (experi)MENTAL ‘Magic Thinking’ (2025, 76 mins) – requiring an unnecessary discussion afterwards with Jill Casid and Laine Rettmer – and concluding with Gasper Noé’s unwatchable ‘Climax’ (2018, 93 mins). Trigger warning: this program is one ginormous trigger warning.
Polymarket DARES you to bet your petromasc sociopathic life’s savings on how incredible and groundbreaking this event will be, culminating in further global implosion and exponential profit-sharing from all geonocidal worldwide events @evening’s end/dawn’s beginning 🔪🌗🌈 We’d be tickled rainbow to see you.
XO Ridykeulous
The series will take place in the amphitheater at our 18th Street location in Chelsea, and includes:
5 pm
IT IS NOT THE HOMOSEXUAL WHO IS PERVERSE, BUT THE SOCIETY IN WHICH HE LIVES (1971)
Directed by Rosa von Praunheim
64 min
Film still: 'It Is Not The Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But The Society In Which He Lives' (1971) Directed by Rosa von Praunheim
6.30 pm
Premiere of MAGIC THINKING (2025), Directed by Laura Parnes
76 min
Followed by a talk with Laura Parnes, Laine Rettmer and Jill Casid
Film still: Laine Rettmer and Becca Blackwell in 'Magic Thinking' (2025) Directed by Laura Parnes
Film still: 'Climax' (2018) Directed by Gaspar Noé
All screenings are free and open to the public; however, due to limited space, reservations are required. Please register for each film screening individually.
About Ridykeulous
Ridykeulous is a tireless curatorial initiative founded in 2005 by Nicole Eisenman + A.L. Steiner, joined once again by stealth coollaborator Sam Roeck, to indefatigably recalibrate the conversation surrounding queer and feminist art. Their most recent nom de plume is 'Ridykeulous Presents: Ridykes’ Cavern of Fine Inverted Wines and Deviant Videos' (MIT Press, 2025).
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