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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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Groundbreaking Filmmaker Wakefield Poole Dies at 85

Wakefield Poole may not be a household name, but he changed the world of porn forever.  In 1971, back when porn was something you watched in a movie theater, Poole decided what he was seeing on screen didn’t line up with his own experiences as a gay man in New York City. So he took matters into his own hands, taking a camera to Fire Island Pines and creating a sexy gay fantasia. The film he created, “Boys In The Sand,” broke into the mainstream. Its fanciful vignettes, which included porn star Casey Donovan rising from the ocean to seduce […]

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Outwatch Presents ‘Invisible: Gay Women in Country Music’ @ Rialto Cinema Sebastopol Thur, Oct. 21

Invisible: Gay Women in Country MusicT hursday October 21, 7 pm “Invisible:..” is the story of a group of lesbians and one Transgender man who have written #1 hits for some of Country Music’s greatest stars. Some share how they kept quiet about their sexual identities for fear of how their opportunities or careers could be impacted. Others came out regardless and in some cases did faced negative consequences. How did each of the featured individuals write, produce and survive behind the scenes of Country Music in Nashville.

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Pete Buttigieg documentary ‘Mayor Pete’ to open LGBTQ Film Festival NewFest

The 33rd edition of the New York LGBTQ film festival NewFest will kick off with the East Coast premiere of “Mayor Pete,” the Amazon Studios documentary about Pete Buttigieg‘s run for president in 2020. Now Pres. Joe Biden’s Secretary of Transportation, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, had hoped to have been the youngest and first openly gay president of the United States. The 2021 hybrid edition of NewFest will take place Oct. 15-26 in New York City theaters and virtually on the festival’s on-demand platform. The lineup includes 130 films and episodic series from 31 countries. There are 30 narrative features, 14 docs […]

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