But I'm a Cheerleader
Introduction Queer Cinema has been in existence for decades but without a name. It identified with avant-garde cinema. In 1991, Queer Cinema was introduced at Toronto Film Festival as a concept. It also as known as a concept that re-examined and reviewed the image of homosexuality. Queer Cinema became more visible only in the 1990s with the global traumatizing effects of AIDS. It also known as New Queer Cinema, such films have become a marketable commodity and very much an identifiable movement. Queer Cinema Reborn at 1990s. “ New Queer Cinema” is a term used to describe the renaissance of gay & lesbian filmmaking by the Americans. Gus Van Sant is a leader for such cinema with the contributions My Own Private Idaho (1991) & Even Cowgirls Get the Blues 1993). New Queer Cinema is not a single aesthetic but a collection, taking pride in difference. Unfortunately, it is a male homosexual cinema that focuses on male desires. Lesbianism remains quite invisible (like mainstrea