Brian Mullin
@bamullinspeaks.bsky.social
Queer theatre-maker. Writer, dramaturg & creative facilitator. Blatantly imitating Vito Russo’s politics — and his mustache.
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End-of-year thoughts on politics, popes & the transfer of power.
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2024 was an exhausting year, not because so much happened but because so much change got stifled. I tried to sum this up, alongside hope for a way forward (and a mini-review of Conclave!). My last essay of the year, over at Substack:
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Worth noting LBJ used the National Guard to protect and expand civil rights; DJT is doing exactly the opposite.
“.. It's the first time since 1965 — when President Lyndon B. Johnson sent forces to Alabama to guard civil rights demonstrators — that a president has mobilized a state's National Guard without the governor's request ..”
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June 8, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Worth noting LBJ used the National Guard to protect and expand civil rights; DJT is doing exactly the opposite.
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People don't often think of White as a political writer, but all that sex writing was, among other things, political to its core. He went directly at the one thing about gay identity that is at the very heart of discomfort and hatred--and he did it over and over, to provoke but also to explore. >
June 4, 2025 at 1:03 PM
People don't often think of White as a political writer, but all that sex writing was, among other things, political to its core. He went directly at the one thing about gay identity that is at the very heart of discomfort and hatred--and he did it over and over, to provoke but also to explore. >
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UPDATE: in honor of the passing of the inimitable Edmund White, we’re definitely celebrating gay lust this month
June 4, 2025 at 4:07 PM
UPDATE: in honor of the passing of the inimitable Edmund White, we’re definitely celebrating gay lust this month
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I’m so saddened by the death of Edmund White, a great writer and dear friend. His wit and kindness were such a joy.
June 4, 2025 at 12:39 PM
I’m so saddened by the death of Edmund White, a great writer and dear friend. His wit and kindness were such a joy.
I reckon this is true of any space she ever enters
May 2, 2025 at 12:32 PM
I reckon this is true of any space she ever enters
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i will say again that given the trajectory of the white house so far, strident opposition a la 2017 would have absolutely been the most prudent and effective decision and the absence of that opposition in the first two months made things demonstrably worse.
May 1, 2025 at 12:08 PM
i will say again that given the trajectory of the white house so far, strident opposition a la 2017 would have absolutely been the most prudent and effective decision and the absence of that opposition in the first two months made things demonstrably worse.
honestly WTF?!
LAST NIGHT AT UCLA -
On the one year anniversary of the violent encampment raid, UCLA admin called in riot police to break up students watching The Encampments documentary on campus.
These schools are at war with their students. Movies are illegal.
On the one year anniversary of the violent encampment raid, UCLA admin called in riot police to break up students watching The Encampments documentary on campus.
These schools are at war with their students. Movies are illegal.
May 2, 2025 at 6:19 AM
honestly WTF?!
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Labour is handing this country on a silver platter to Reform. People do not vote Labour because they hate immigrants and want Reform-lite. They vote Labour because they want it to make a positive difference to their lives.
May 2, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Labour is handing this country on a silver platter to Reform. People do not vote Labour because they hate immigrants and want Reform-lite. They vote Labour because they want it to make a positive difference to their lives.
So many great affordable courses on offer from Theatre 503 - inc. this one taught by me! Short plays are a great way to start writing & 503 is a truly supportive home for new playwrights. And it’s ONLINE so you can join from anywhere. Sign up now! ✍️
Courses 👇
🖋 Brian Mullin (We Wait in Joyful Hope) on Writing Short Plays and Rapid Write Response Course.
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🖋 Brian Mullin (We Wait in Joyful Hope) on Writing Short Plays and Rapid Write Response Course.
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April 22, 2025 at 1:13 PM
So many great affordable courses on offer from Theatre 503 - inc. this one taught by me! Short plays are a great way to start writing & 503 is a truly supportive home for new playwrights. And it’s ONLINE so you can join from anywhere. Sign up now! ✍️
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Incredulous, honestly, at the number of Sensible Centrists who are trying to justify the Met forcing their way into a religious space to arrest people who had not actually committed a crime at the time of arrest
March 29, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Incredulous, honestly, at the number of Sensible Centrists who are trying to justify the Met forcing their way into a religious space to arrest people who had not actually committed a crime at the time of arrest
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Conan: You know, Anora is having a good night. That's great news. Two wins already. I guess Americans are excited to see somebody finally stand up to a powerful Russian.
March 3, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Conan: You know, Anora is having a good night. That's great news. Two wins already. I guess Americans are excited to see somebody finally stand up to a powerful Russian.
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There's simply no universe where what these two guys are saying should be controversial
March 3, 2025 at 4:26 AM
There's simply no universe where what these two guys are saying should be controversial
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Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Fernanda Torres' perfs in their respective films will live forever
March 3, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Fernanda Torres' perfs in their respective films will live forever
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watching the oscars
March 3, 2025 at 12:59 AM
watching the oscars
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congratulations to No Other Land, which may be the first film to win a major Oscar but not theatrical distribution.
The Most Relevant Movie in Theaters Is Poised to Make Oscar History. It Would Be a Shameful First.
It swept the critics’ awards and seems like an Oscars lock, yet it still doesn’t have a distributor.
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March 3, 2025 at 2:18 AM
congratulations to No Other Land, which may be the first film to win a major Oscar but not theatrical distribution.
There must be a political solution, and the foreign policy of this country is blocking that path. There is no other way.
March 3, 2025 at 2:27 AM
There must be a political solution, and the foreign policy of this country is blocking that path. There is no other way.
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I just realized that Isabella Rossellini is wearing blue velvet in honor of David Lynch & immediately started to cry.
March 3, 2025 at 1:45 AM
I just realized that Isabella Rossellini is wearing blue velvet in honor of David Lynch & immediately started to cry.
Starting off with a classic song medley! Pairing intergenerational presenters! Feels like the 80s/90s — this is a very old school approach to an Oscar broadcast, and the old ways really WORK.
March 3, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Starting off with a classic song medley! Pairing intergenerational presenters! Feels like the 80s/90s — this is a very old school approach to an Oscar broadcast, and the old ways really WORK.
There are 3 musicals nominated for Best Picture (wow!). And one of them is EMILIA PÉREZ (whoa). Just in time for Oscar weekend, I pulled together an 11 o’clock number about queerness, musicals & the performance of authenticity. Sing out, Louise!! open.substack.com/pub/brianmul...
Emilia, Elphaba, Bob & Me
Songs of the Self in this year's Oscar-nominated musicals
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February 28, 2025 at 2:06 PM
There are 3 musicals nominated for Best Picture (wow!). And one of them is EMILIA PÉREZ (whoa). Just in time for Oscar weekend, I pulled together an 11 o’clock number about queerness, musicals & the performance of authenticity. Sing out, Louise!! open.substack.com/pub/brianmul...
The sexiest, most honest, most heart-wrenching & exhilarating depiction of queer solidarity and collective action I’ve ever seen
Morning rewatch of Robin Campillo’s masterpiece BPM and once again filled with a gay rage so consuming it blocks out despair and doubt so yeah just in case you need a recommendation in these times
February 15, 2025 at 10:07 PM
The sexiest, most honest, most heart-wrenching & exhilarating depiction of queer solidarity and collective action I’ve ever seen
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it is genuinely incredible that all you have to do is scratch the surface and it becomes clear that each of these guys is a huge piece of shit
Incredible: Russ Vought’s daughter has cystic fibrosis and benefits from a “miracle drug” made possible by the National Institutes of Health—an agency Vought now aims to gut as part of the Project 2025 attack www.motherjones.com/politics/202... Scoop from @motherjones.com’s @metrauxjulia.bsky.social
Project 2025 is gutting medical funding that helped Russell Vought's own kid
Its architect's daughter has cystic fibrosis—and benefits from a "miracle drug" backed by an agency he's attacking.
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February 12, 2025 at 2:24 AM
it is genuinely incredible that all you have to do is scratch the surface and it becomes clear that each of these guys is a huge piece of shit