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LGBTQ History Club - Queer Nostalgia in Musical Films

Dr Gilad Padva explores the tension between utopian nostalgia and devastative melancholia in spectacular cinematic musicals. He also highlights the musicals' tendency to dichotomize the real world and the theatrical or imagined psychical space, a refuge in which gay sensibility can be manifested, tolerated and celebrated. In their fusing of sex and despair, romance and alienation, infatuation and bigotry, these films challenge the musical's formulation as utopian, idyllic, or, at least, softened version of reality. *Dr Gilad Padva is a film and media scholar who focuses on New Queer Cinema, popular culture, visual communications, pop music, philosophy, body politics, sexualities and men's studies. He is also the author of Queer Nostalgia in Cinema and Pop Culture (2014), and he publishes extensively in international academic journals, international collections, and international encyclopaedias. He currently works for Beit Berl College and the Open University of Israel.

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  • 01 July – Charles Laughton (1899–1962), English-American actor, screenwriter, producer & director
  • 01 July – Louis Joseph, Duke of Vendôme (1654–1712), French military commander
  • 01 July – Orlando Cruz (1981–), Puerto Rican professional boxer
  • 02 July – Daniel Kowalski (1975–), Australian freestyle swimmer
  • 02 July – Johnny Weir (1984–), American figure skater, 2008 World Bronze Medalist
  • 02 July – Sylvia Rae Rivera (1951–2002), civil rights activist and advocate for transgender rights
  • 04 July – Stephen Boyd (1931–1977), British actor
  • 04 July – Steven Cojocaru (1970–), Canadian fashion critic and TV personality
  • 05 July – Jean Cocteau (1889–1963), French poet, artist & director
  • 05 July – Hein Vos (1903–1972), Dutch politician and economist, 1st gay member of the Cabinet of the Netherlands
  • 06 July – Merv Griffin (1925–2007), American TV host, musician, actor & media mogul
  • 07 July – George Cukor (1899–1983), American film director
  • 09 July – David Hockney (1937–2026), English painter & photographer
  • 10 July – Marcel Proust (1871–1922), French novelist
  • 11 July – Giorgio Armani (1934–2025), Italian fashion designer
  • 12 July – Van Cliburn (1934–2013), American pianist
  • 14 July – Randy Boissonnault (1970–), Canadian politician
  • 14 July – Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1610–1670), Italian aristocrat
  • 15 July – David Cicilline (1961–), American Democratic congressman, Rhode Island
  • 15 July – Olly Alexander (1990–), British singer, Years & Years
  • 16 July – Reinaldo Arenas (1943–1990), Cuban poet, novelist & playwright
  • 16 July – Tony Kushner (1956–), American playwright & screenwriter
  • 17 July – Charles Lapointe (1944–), Canadian business executive & politician
  • 18 July – Elio Di Rupo (1951–), Prime Minister of Belgium
  • 19 July – Joseph Hansen (1923–2004), American crime writer & poet
  • 20 July – Rokas Žilinskas (1972–2017), Lithuanian journalist & politician
  • 21 July – Rufus Wainwright (1973–), American/Canadian singer-songwriter
  • 24 July – Gus Van Sant (1952–), American director
  • 29 July – Dag Hammarskjöld (1905–1961), Swedish diplomat & 2nd Secretary-General of the U.N.
  • 29 July – Paul Taylor (1930–2018), American choreographer
  • 30 July – Sean Patrick Maloney (1966–), American Democratic congressman, New York
  • 30 July – Pascal Smet (1967–), Belgian politician

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