WATCH: The film that sparked a generation of sexy queer indies is about to get a re-release
I Want Your Sex—his first in over a decade!—which he’s said is a response to the fact that Gen Z isn’t having sex, at least compared to the ’90s.And he would know: Araki basically wrote the book on Gen X queerness and sexuality.
Or, he made the movies, rather.After his provocative response to the AIDS crisis, The Living End, put him on the map in 1992, the writer-director would go on to capture the life and love, the alienation and aggravation, the romance and rebellion of an emerging generation with three consecutive movies that would come to be known as the Teen Apocalypse Trilogy.Subscribe to our newsletter for your front-row seat to all things entertainment with a sprinkle of everything else queer.Set against the backdrop of ’90s nihilism, all three movies were connected by common threads: Edgy and stylish explorations of queerness, sexuality, and teen malaise.
