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Frameline46: The San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival 2022 Happens June 16 – 26

“Frameline—the world’s longest–running and largest showcase of queer cinema—announced Frameline46: The San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival, taking place June 16–26, 2022.  “With this year’s theme, ‘The Coast is Queer,’ Frameline46 will expand its footprint with screenings taking place in-person at a record number of theaters and venues throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, including the Castro Theatre, Roxie Theater, SFMOMA, and AMC Kabuki in San Francisco; the New Parkway Theater and Landmark’s Piedmont Theatre in Oakland; and more. “Tickets for Frameline46 will go on sale to the general public beginning Wednesday, May 25, 2022. For more information, visit www.frameline.org.  “Highlights of Frameline46 […]

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Bollywood filmmaker wanted to tell gay soldier’s story – but India’s government say that’s ‘illegal’

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A gay Bollywood’s director has blasted the Indian government’s decision to ban his film about a gay army officer. Onir, born Anirban Dhar, is best known for Mr Brother…Nikhil, one of the first mainstream Hindi films to explore HIV and same-sex relationships. Inspired by the real-life story of gay retired army officer Major J Suresh, who quit the forces over his sexuality, the filmmaker has proposed the film We Are. But India’s Ministry of Defence has allegedly blocked his efforts over its “illegal” depiction of queer soldiers, given that LGBT+ personnel cannot serve openly in India’s armed forces, NDTV reported. For Onir, the government has exploited […]

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Ariana DeBose makes history as first Afro Latina, openly queer actor of color to win Oscar

Actor Ariana DeBose has made history as the first Afro Latina and first openly queer woman of color to win an Academy Award for acting. DeBose won in the best supporting actress category for her performance reviving the iconic role of Anita in Steven Spielberg’s version of “West Side Story.”  “Imagine this little girl in the back seat of a white Ford Focus. When you look into her eyes, you see an openly queer woman of color, an Afro Latina, who found her strength in life through art. And that’s what I believe we’re here to celebrate,” DeBose said in her acceptance speech. “So to […]

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Sundance 2022 Film Review: “Sirens” 

Rita Baghdadi’s feature documentary Sirens, which world premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, is a nuanced, intimate, and upbeat portrait of Lebanon’s only all-female thrash metal band, Slave to Sirens. Although it opens with footage of protests on the streets of Beirut with chants of “revolution” and shots of graffiti with phrases like, “homophobia is a crime”, Baghdadi’s focus for the first third of the film is introducing the band and giving us a sense of its history and the dynamics between the five members, rather than Lebanon’s uneasy social and political state. Cut with a pace and an energy that […]

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Food for Thought Oscar Party Benefit Happens March 27 at Rialto Cinemas

Ready for some glitz and glamour? Rialto Cinemas in Sebastopol is inviting you to celebrate Hollywood’s biggest awards night in style while raising funds for Food For Thought! It’s time to hit the red carpet and join us for a fabulous evening as we view the annual awards ceremony LIVE on the big screen.  Sunday, March 27, 2022Red Carpet 4:00 p.m.Show Begins 5:00 p.m.$50 per person Tickets include passed appetizers and two drinks per person exclusively served inside the viewing room! Prizes offered for best dressed and best decorated mask. BUY TICKETS Rialto Cinemas6868 McKinley StreetSebastopol, CA 95472 Map Showtimes: (707) […]

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Sundance 2022 Film Review: “Framing Agnes”

Chase Joynt’s follow up to his exceptional No Ordinary Man (co-directed with Aisling Chin-Yee) about the life of jazz musician Billy Tipton, is the equally thrillingly and similarly genre-defying feature Framing Ages—expanding upon his own 2019 short—which just had its world premiere in the NEXT lineup at Sundance. It’s a fitting section of the festival for the film to play given that it not only poses questions about what is next in the evolution of the representation of trans lives on screen, but also continually challenges broader notions about storytelling and form.  Agnes is the pseudonym of a trans woman who sought gender affirming […]

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“Let Me Be Me:” the extraordinary journey that a family undertake with their autistic son

The brilliantly funny queer comedian Robert White who made it to the finals of Britain’s Got Talent flippantly explained his Asbergers away by claiming he is a genius.  He played the line for laughs although, by the time he finished his act, I had totally come to agree.    White’s appearance on TV is part of a visible dialogue about the sheer potential that people on the spectrum can achieve if their parents refuse to accept the traditional medical advice of just writing them off at childhood.  Up to very recently once a child had been diagnosed with Aspergers they were actively encouraged to place them […]

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“WEST NORTH WEST” is a Japanese queer drama that explores themes of gender, sexuality, nationality, and religious identity

Set amongst the bustling crowds and underground karaoke clubs of Tokyo, WEST NORTH WEST explores themes of gender, sexuality, nationality, and religious identity through the complex desires of three women. The film is now featuring on PeccadilloPOD, a new On-Demand platform for LGBTQ+ cinema.   Beautiful Kei (Hanae Kan) works at a cocktail bar, and her girlfriend Ai (Yuka Yamauchi) works as a model. Fearing she’ll be ostracized by society, Kei chooses not to admit her sexual orientation to anyone, and, as a result, she becomes distressed and lonely. One day, randomly in a café, Kei meets Naima, (Sahel Rosa) a very religious Iranian […]

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Trans-inclusive TV dominates GLAAD Media Award nominations

TV shows featuring transgender and nonbinary people dominated the media award nominations released Wednesday by the LGBTQ advocacy group GLAAD. Every year since 1990, GLAAD has honored films, television shows, musicians, journalists and other media figures for fair, accurate and inclusive representations of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people.  Of the 30 television shows nominated in three categories — outstanding comedy series, outstanding drama series and outstanding new TV series — 18 feature transgender and/or nonbinary characters, including “Pose,” “9-1-1: Lone Star,” “Good Trouble,” “Grey’s Anatomy,” “The L Word: Generation Q,” “Star Trek: Discovery” and “The Sex Lives of […]

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Poland’s own “Stonewall” and how the Polish LGBTQ community are fighting back

This new powerful I-D Video from director/producer Isolde Penwarden takes us inside the very unsettling situation of the LGBTQ community in Poland which over the past two years has seen its rights stripped away.  In the east of the country, their very existence is outlawed with the creation of so many official LGBTQ-free zones.  In early 2020 ILGA-Europe, a Brussels-based NGO Human Rights Organisation ranked Poland as the most homophobic country in the European Union. However simply complying with all this authoritarian oppression is not an option for Poland’s queer generation Z, and they’re moving forth more powerfully than ever. This summer protests against the anti-LGBT sentiment spreading […]

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