The Kids in Berlin are Alright!
Berlin as an edgy queer punk Utopia
2 min readJan 25, 2019
Yony Leyser’s 2015 movie, “Desire Will Set You Free”, works in much in the same way as John Cameron Mitchell’s “Short Bus” (in which I was an extra and appear on screen for all of maybe two seconds). Neither is the definitive depiction of their respective queer punk underground scenes but both are loving, lovely, unapologetically sexy movies.
