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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 Bennett Wallace who she starts following when he takes his very first steps of beginning to take testosterone .  Haas keeps with Ben up to the part where he has ‘top surgery’ and even beyond when he is adjusting to the fact that he is finally achieving his dream.We […]

  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 a boyfriend in sight, and he worries that she will end up all alone. She isn’t actually alone as her nocturnal excursions are to the nearby village where she has been having secret trysts with a local girl, but that is about to end as […]

  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 of the tougher aggressively machismo neighborhoods of Miami. Chiron’s story is played out in three parts. The first is when he is a scrawny 10 year old who is nicknamed ‘Little’ (Alex R Hibbert) and is always being picked on by his classmates.  one day to avoid […]

  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 rather sleazy predator producer who liked to be known by same name as his label i.e. King Cobra (brilliantly portrayed by Christian Slater) Corrigan (25 year old Garrett Clayton) became an overnight sensation as the latest hot ‘twink’ to perform on camera.  After a year living with Cobra […]

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 time he took this step starting with his family and friends, he looked for a film that could help guide him through the process, but all he could find were fictional accounts. He found that each of the stories were told in hindsight, and none […]

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 least make it easier for more men to openly discuss where they fit into the Kinsey Scale, especially when it involves money changing hands. David starts by establishing his credentials from when he was the only openly gay actor in Here TV’s gay soft-porn series […]

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 means of a fictional online persona.  More of that later. Joe and his three best friends are now in their late 30’s and are reaching a point in their lives when they each will be confronted with some major unexpected developments which will require change […]

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 is not shared with anybody else at all within their own circles or neighborhood. Luvarà follows Andy a gay man and Cherry a lesbian as they both set about re-focusing their own lives just to please their parents.  Andy is 31 year old and a […]

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 a boyfriend in sight, and he worries that she will end up all alone. She isn’t actually alone as her nocturnal excursions are to the nearby village where she has been having secret trysts with a local girl, but that is about to end as the […]