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Here Are Some Queer Films (And Others) You Need To Add To Your Radar

  If you’ve been observing the 2016 Sundance Film Festival from afar, you’ve surely heard about two films that are receiving the lion’s share of attention for distinctly different reasons. The first is The Birth of a Nation (above), an often-compelling real-life tale about Nat Turner, the heroic black preacher who led a slave revolt in 1831 Virginia, which shares a title with D.W. Griffiths’ 1915 blockbuster that is today viewed as an ugly homage to racism. The drama, which marks an impressive directorial debut for charismatic actor Nate Parker (Beyond the Lights, The Secret Life of Bees), made headlines for its record-shattering […]

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The Bad Old Days for LGBT Characters in Goofy Films Still Worth a Look

  With the recent box office failure and critical thrashing of Stonewall (now available on DVD), which has strong potential to become a camp classic due to its hilariously overwrought performances and stupefyingly inept execution on every other level, and with the media celebrating the 20th anniversary of Showgirls as a cultural milestone, it’s as perfect a time as any to look back at other bad movies with queer aesthetics we love. You know, films that aimed really high but landed with a giant, earth-shattering thud. To disregard these movies as mere disasters is to be ungrateful for the wonders (misconceived casting, misguided performances, the garish art […]

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GLAAD Announces Nominees for 27th Annual GLAAD Media Awards

GLAAD has announced the nominees for its 27th Annual GLAAD Media Awards, presented by Delta Air Lines, Hilton, Ketel One Vodka and Wells Fargo. The GLAAD Media Awards recognize and honor media for their fair, accurate, and inclusive representations of the LGBT community and the issues that affect their lives. The GLAAD Media Awards also fund GLAAD’s work to accelerate acceptance of the LGBT community. Among the nominees: Academy Award nominees Carol and The Danish Girl; Golden Globe nominee Grandma; Film Independent Spirit Award nominees Appropriate Behavior and Tangerine; FOX’s hit drama Empire and Netflix’s Sense8, Master of None, Orange […]

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Lena Dunham’s Documentary on Genderqueer Fashion Debuts at Sundance

  Lena Dunham’s new HBO documentary “Suited,” about queer-friendly tailors Bindle & Keep, features her own genderqueer sister and is set to premiere at the Sundance Flim Festival today, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Dunham, who is best known for writing, directing and starring in the HBO show Girls is co-producing the film, which follows customers of the Brooklyn-based bespoke suit company, including Dunham’s younger sister Grace. “My sister is the subject of the documentary and is somebody who has always had a complex relationship to gender,” Dunham said during a press interview with The Wrap at Sundance this weekend. “She’s […]

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Film Review: “Aya Arcos”

  Edu is not the first middle-aged man to fall in love with a young hustler that he has picked up in the streets of Rio.  It’s not just the sex that draws him to keep returning hooking him up with  Fabio time and time again as he really has developed an emotional attachment to the young man, and it seems that the feelings may actually be reciprocated. The two men move in totally different circles. Edu is a very intense and serious intellectual and a playwright who is not in the best frame of moods as he is currently […]

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Film Review: “Chemsex”

  Chemsex is an unidentifiable issue to most people but after watching this excellent but scarily sobering new documentary from filmmakers Max Gogarty and William Fairman of VICE you will see how this fast-growing phenomenon is deeply affecting a certain part of the urban gay community.  It’s about gay men ‘slamming’, which is evidently the more sociably acceptable term now used for injecting drugs and shooting up, and all for the purposes of having some very extreme sex.  It is a lot more complicated than them just wanting to have the best inhibited sex that is possible, but it is […]

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Film Review: “The Girl King”

  The true story of the young woman who ruled Sweden as its Queen for a mere 10 years in the middle of the 17th Century has been told several times already, most notable in the 1933 movie Queen Christina starring Greta Garbo. Whilst this early version also touched on how fiercely independent the young ruler was, it failed to address the more important aspect of her sexuality, which this new movie by the veteran Finnish Director Mika Kaurismäki finally does. Kristina (Malin Buska) .. as she is called in this movie .. inherited the Throne at the age of 6 when her […]

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Film Review: “Summer”

  Life seems to have been unchanged for ever in this rather boring and isolated Dutch village, but little do its residents know that by the end of the sweltering summer that is about to start, nothing will ever be the same again.  The story that unfolds through the eyes of teenage Annie or “Ms Silent’ as she is better known, and it starts peacefully enough with her biking in the countryside with a pack of other village girls. They alway pass by the Power Station which everyone loves because it provides jobs and even some culture for the entire […]

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Gay Adult Film Written By Late Actor Sir John Gielgud Creates Row In U.K.

  A pornographic gay film based on an original screenplay by the late actor Sir John Gielgud has wrapped production, but it still faces tremendous opposition from his estate. Set in a men’s clothing store where an orgy takes place, Trouser Bar stars Nigel Havers and Julian Clary as passerby who spy the proceedings fondly. Gielgud, one of the most celebrated stage actors of his time, but best-known for his Oscar-winning work as Dudley Moore’s butler in the film comedy Arthur and for his turn in the TV drama Brideshead Revisited, wrote the screenplay in secret in 1976 and intended […]

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“Winning Dad” Offers Up Interesting Family Drama and Sexy Romance

  Colby is ‘out’ to his family and whilst his mother and his sister accept his sexuality, his father can barely tolerate it and refuses to even discuss it. It’s a pity as Colby now has a steady boyfriend Rusty, who he not only loves but he wants to go into business with too and open a restaurant together.  Neither of then are in the first flush of youth and so their relationship marks the perfect time for them to finally settle down. Colby has shared all this news with the women in his family but has been trying to […]

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