Any documentary that makes a contribution to the continuing transgender dialogue is important, but when it is as poignant and compelling as ‘Real Boy’, then it can play a significant role in nurturing more understanding and acceptance both within the community and society at large. Queer filmmaker Shaleece Haas subject is a disarmingly charming young teenage musician(…)
Delphine (Izïa Higelin) is one of those very practical country girls. She lives and works on her father’s farm in the South of France where her days start well before dawn and always finish long after dark. Her father is concerned because she has now taken to going for long walks late at night, and(…)
For his feature film debut Nick Corporon chose to co-write and direct a road movie with a difference. True having a lonely middle-aged gay man pay for the services of a young hustler to accompany him is hardly new, but the journey they undertake together makes this intriguing resourceful wee drama a very suspenseful edgy thriller. When Jonathan(…)
Moonlight is probably the most exquisite and understated lgbt coming of age story to hit our screens for years. Light on plot and even sparse on dialogue, it nevertheless packs a powerful punch showing the inner turmoil of an African/American youth coming to terms with his own sexuality as he grows up in one(…)
This movie is the fictionalized account of the start of the career of a young San Diego youth called Sean Paul Lockhart with the stage name of Brent Corrigan, who in 2003 in the early days of a burgeoning internet culture became an extremely successful gay porn star. Lying about his true age to the(…)
Unless you are gay or fit in somewhere along the queer spectrum you will never ever really be able to appreciate the traumas of coming out of the closet about your sexuality in this heteronormative world. There is simply no one way of doing this, and when young filmmaker Alden Peters decided it was(…)
Don’t expect to discover anything startling new or even shocking in any way from filmmaker Charlie David’s gentle probe (!) into why so many of the performers in the world of gay pornography self identify as ‘straight”. As the acceptability of the sexuality spectrum continues to evolve in a very positive way, it does at(…)
The title of this new (mostly) American dramedy from Spanish filmmaker J.C. Falcón is taken from FaceBook which frequently proffers up suggestions of new friends. In this instance it serves as means to tell Joe (Sean Mather) the protagonist, that he has been ‘catfished’ : the delightful term for someone who has been lured into a relationship by(…)
It would seem that when LGBT men and women come out of the closets as gay to their family in China today, the parents then rush into the closets themselves. According to this new documentary from Italian filmmaker Sophia Luvarà even liberated Chinese parents who ‘accept’ their children’s sexuality have an immediate concern in that the news(…)
Delphine (Izïa Higelin) is one of those very practical country girls. She lives and works on her father’s farm in the South of France where her days start well before dawn and always finish long after dark. Her father is concerned because she has now taken to going for long walks late at night, and without(…)