Film

 Filmmaker Rob Williams who is one of the leading exponents of gay male romantic comedies that could best be described as ‘boy-lite’ fare, is developing quite a penchant for setting his movies in the holiday season.  His most successful movie to date was Make The Yuletide Gay in 2009, and now his latest one involves a group of men coupling up during the week leading up to New Year, or as they keep insisting on calling it, their “Steve Not Eve” New Year’s party. There is Laslo (Christopher Grant Pearson) and his husband Cal (Alex Manley Wilson) who are bemoaning […]

This is one of those hard-to-believe it’s true stories that never really grabbed the attention of the media so when you come to it ignorance and it unfolds on the screen and you hear the horrifying incredulous details, you cannot fail to be stunned into a combination of shock and anger.  The latter particularly if you identify as LGBT as this outrageous case of mis-justice is deeply rooted in intransigent homophobia. In 1994 four young Latina lesbians in San Antonia who were vey good friends …..two of them are involved in a relationship together ….. were accused of raping two young girls […]

Literally just a stone’s throw from the corridors of power in our nation’s capital, lies a whole area of Washington that is completely alien territory to most Americans. Seeing it portrayed in this startling powerful new documentary, you find that you have to pinch yourself to remember what is being played out here is not some fictional dramatized TV program, but very real life. This area is home to hundreds of African/American and Latino gay and transgender youth who have to survive in a culture which has one of the highest rates of anti-gay violence in the whole country, but who […]

  40 year-old Dean is trying not to have a mid-life crisis, but his chances of succeeding are slim.  He’s a very successful graphic designer in Silverlake California who is starting to loath his good paying clients because of their poor taste levels.  Now because the lazy eye he’s had from birth is playing up, his eye doctor has just prescribed tri-focal glasses which he is having great difficulty adjusting too.  Then his rather solitary and seemingly empty life is suddenly disturbed by an email that arrives totally out of the blue.  It’s from Alex an ex-boyfriend who broke his heart […]

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 […]