Roger Walker-Dack at www.queerguru.com

  This wonderfully uplifting Australian documentary is the inspiring tale of how one very determined 40-something-year-old gay man gave the elderly LGBTQI population in Melbourne a reason to celebrate their lives.  The flamboyant TRISTAN MEECHAM along with his partner Bec Reed who make up ALL THE QUEENS MEN creates spectacular theatrical and participatory arts experiences that champion social equality, celebrating diverse community through creative actions and socially engaged frameworks. When he first mooted the idea of a large social gathering that eventually morphed into a grand and impressive Ball, Meecham was greeted with a fair amount of skepticism and questioning of […]

  When Jared (LUCAS HEDGES) is outed as gay to his parents by a desperate new college friend, he is just as shocked as they are.  Whilst he is aware of having feelings for other boys Jared is genuinely unsure of his sexuality and this is the reason he calmly acquiesces to his parents demand that he leave college to attend Love In Action that specialises in gay conversion therapy. His father (RUSSELL CROWE) is the part time Pastor of a large church and also the owner of a successful car dealership in Arkansas and has reached his decision that […]

  When the movie opens Lee (MELISSA MCCARTHY) is seen as a bitter and mean spirited alcoholic who has just been fired from her latest job and is in her squalid unkempt Manhattan apartment with just her cat for company.  Totally broke and not having paid her rent for months , she has  exhausted anyone who has tried to help her in the past and her only solace now is drinking alone in a bar spending her last few dollars. It’s there she meets Jack (RICHARD E GRANT) a flamboyant gay man also destitute and seemingly homeless too, but who […]

  The timing could not be more perfect for the screening of Indian  filmmaker  Sridhar Rangayan’s  beautifully nuanced family drama coming so soon after his country’s Supreme Court finally legalizing homosexuality.  Being gay waa always taboo in India but never a crime in itself,  but the sexual act between two men was. This is the story of Kartik (Devansh Joshi) who is returning for a rare visit home to his conservative family in a small town in southern India.  Against his father’s wishes he has settled in Mumbai and established himself as a professional photographer and now lives with the love of his […]

  It’s no secret that Lizzie Borden hacked her wealthy parents to death in 1892 but was never ever convicted of the crime, There have been endless stories mainly based on rumors and suppositions ever since, and this new biopic on her life tops them all off by painting Lizzie as being motivated by her lesbian relationship with a maid who her father had been raping on a regular basis. Lizzie (Chloë Sevigny who had also been the driving force to get this movie made) is portrayed as a fiercely independent heiress who didn’t care for her stepmother (Fiona Shaw) […]

  When leading choreographer Jamal Sims came across the underground dance movement known as ‘bucking’, he was so taken with it that he decided that this would be the subject of his documentary directing debut. The result is a wonderfully energetic and a rather joyful movie that centers of a group of dancers,  and one in particular who is known as Big Anthony. As Sims explains ‘bucking’ was appropriated from scores of female cheerleading troupes in the South by groups of black gay men, who the women now admit, are not only more creative but better at it too.  It was Big Anthony who not only […]

  Life in The Doghouse is one of those documentaries that will touch the heart of the coldest of souls.  It’s a wonderful love story between two exceptional gay men and their ever-growing four-legged family which have taken over every semblance of what once passed as their ‘normal life’. Ron Danta and Danny Robertshaw, both in their 60’s, live on a horse farm in North Carolina where they very successfully train show horses.  How they have the time and energy to do this is never made that clear from the film, as most of their days (and nights) are occupied by the menagerie of […]

  This intriguing made-for-TV Australian drama directed by Jeffrey Walker is based on the real story of how Sydney’s famous LGBT Mardi Gras came into being.  This tale of how a very marginalized community struggled to win acceptance and basic equal rights may be well known to its home audience but is probably news to the rest of the world. The action starts back in early 1970’s when divorced father-of-three Lance Gowland (Damon Herriman) is now an openly gay man and ardent communist living in a commune and aggressively agitating for gay liberation.  As passionate as he is about ‘the cause’  he finds it enormously difficult to get other gay men involved […]

  For his documentary feature debut filmmaker, Jethro Patalinghug has turned his cameras on one of the oldest LGBT organizations in the country, the Imperial Council also known as the Imperial Court System.  Patalinghug takes a look at its glorious history as it celebrates its 50 year anniversary and now starts to question if there is still place for it in today’s LGBTQ community. The Imperial Court System was founded in San Francisco, California, in 1965 by José Sarria. In those dark days it was considered illegal for homosexuals to congregate in public together, but the owner of the Black Cat Cafe where Sarria worked as a drag queen, fought and won […]

  The social media star and model/actor Max Emerson courageously took on the pressing topic of homeless LGBT youth for his feature film writing/directing debut.  This fictionalized story was evidently inspired by the countless troubling emails Emerson received from when, at the grand old age of 25, he published his own memoir Hot Sissy – Life Before Flashbulbs.  He launched a Crowdsource Fund to make his film in a way that 50% of any profits would be passed to charities such as the Albert Kennedy Trust who specifically work with this too often neglected part of our community. His film is the story of a very good […]