"Jennifer Kroot's latest doc, Hunky Jesus, can be considered the third part of a trilogy of films addressing the queer experience in these United States from different vantage points. Her first was To Be Takei (2014), in which Star Trek icon and activist George Takei recounted his experiences both as a gay actor in Hollywood, and as a victim of the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II."
"Hunky Jesus (2026), with its ebullient celebration of queerness in all its forms, is more than a culmination of what came before; it is the distillation, nay, even apotheosis, of how to channel anger and trauma into a version of a better world that The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, and Jesus, envision."
Hunky Jesus is the third installment in filmmaker Jennifer Kroot's trilogy examining queer experiences in America. Following To Be Takei (2014), which featured George Takei's accounts of being a gay actor in Hollywood and a Japanese-American internment victim, and The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin (2017), chronicling the author's life and his serialized stories about San Francisco during the AIDS epidemic, Hunky Jesus celebrates queerness through the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence and their 2023 Easter event. The documentary transforms anger and trauma into a vision of a better world, representing the culmination and distillation of Kroot's exploration of queer activism and community resilience across three decades of filmmaking.
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