birth_place nationality notableworks birth_date period article_title name occupation
london , ontario canadian '' aesthetics of the committed documentary '' show us life : towards a history and 1948 1970s-present thomas waugh
 thomas waugh academic , author , critic , programmer , activist
thomas waugh

thomas waugh is a canadian critic , programmer , lecturer , author , actor , and activist , best known for his extensive work on committed documentary and publications on eroticism in the history of lgbt cinema and art .
a professor at concordia university , he teaches in the department of film studies and holds a research chair in documentary film and sexual representation .
a graduate of columbia university , he wrote film criticism and history articles for publications such as `` jump cut '' and `` the body politic '' before publishing his first book , `` show us life : towards a history and aesthetics of the committed documentary '' , in 1984 .
his 1996 book , `` hard to imagine : gay male eroticism in photography and film from their beginnings to stonewall '' , took 13 years to research and write .
its release was delayed eight full months after its initial planned publication date , due to difficulty finding a printer willing to handle the book 's sexually explicit homoerotic imagery .
he is a two-time lambda literary award nominee , garnering nominations in the visual arts category at the 15th lambda literary awards in 2003 for `` out/lines : underground gay graphics from before stonewall '' , and at the 17th lambda literary awards in 2005 for `` lust unearthed : vintage gay graphics from the dubek collection '' .
waugh has also served on the board of cinema politica , has been active with the quebec gay archives , and is coeditor with matthew hays of the `` queer film classics '' series of monographs on lgbt film , published by arsenal pulp press .
in 2013 waugh , ryan conrad and cinema politica raised funds on indiegogo to produce and distribute a documentary film about the russian lgbt organization children-404 .
in 2015 , waugh and filmmaker kim simard launched the queer media database , an online project to collect and publish information about lgbt films made in canada and the personalities involved in their creation .
