Arts & Entertainment

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Janet Mock Makes History as First Trans Woman of Color Directing a TV Show

Activist and writer Janet Mock made history on Sunday, when the episode of Pose she wrote and directed aired on FX to virtually unanimous acclaim. Mock became the first transgender person of colour to direct a TV show. “Love is the Message” was the sixth episode of the show’s inaugural season, for which Mock also worked as a writer—the first trans woman of colour to write for television—and producer. Set in the late 1980s, Pose focuses on life and society in New York City, from its iconic ball culture to the rise of the Donald Trump-like billionaires, against the backdrop of the AIDS crisis. The musical […]

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Tab Hunter, ‘Damn Yankees’ Star and Gay Icon, Dies at 86

Tab Hunter, a former on-screen heartthrob and gay icon, has died. He was 86. Hunter died Sunday night in Santa Barbara after a blood clot in his leg caused cardiac arrest, Allan Glaser, Hunter’s partner for more than three decades, confirmed to Variety. With his All-American good looks, wavy blonde hair, piercing blue eyes, and toothy smile, Hunter rose to the top ranks of Hollywood leading men in the 1950’s and early ’60’s. He appeared in the likes of “Damn Yankees” and “Battle Cry,” and had chart-topping records such as “Young Love.” But at the height of his popularity, he was […]

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Book Review: ‘The Affliction’ by C. Dale Young

C. Dale Young’s fictional debut is a novel in stories that explores seemingly ordinary lives as they intersect with the truly extraordinary. Our guide to these non-linear, interlinked stories, Diego, is a somewhat unreliable narrator who has collected an oral history of the characters that spans several generations. In “Inside the Old House,” we meet Old Cassie. Once a nun, she is now the subject of rumors: Some say she’s seen the face of the devil, while others believe she has the power to heal. Neighbors warn one another not to look up toward her estate high up in the […]

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Frameline42 Awards Announced

Frameline is pleased to announce the winners of the Frameline42 Jury and AT&T Audience Awards, including the new AT&T Audience Award for Best Episodic. In case you want to see this in video form, check out our Facebook livestream here or at the bottom of this post. Frameline42 Jury Awards RETABLO Frameline42 First Feature Award, proudly underwritten by Wells Fargo Directed by: Alvaro Delgado Aparicio L.  A renowned artisan of intricate altarpieces known as retablos, Noé prepares his teenage son Segundo to carry on the family craft. But Noé’s clandestine homosexual life fractures their father-son bond within a conservative patriarchal culture where […]

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Book Review: ‘The Evolution of Love’ by Lucy Jane Bledsoe

Lucy Jane Bledsoe’s new novel, The Evolution of Love, brims with energy. In the opening scene, our protagonist, Lily Jones, walks west toward the San Francisco Bay Area, after flying in to Sacramento from Nebraska, in search of her older sister, Vicky. There’s been a devastating earthquake, and the region has been evacuated, but not everyone has left, and Lily, sweet, stable, dependable Lily, is hellbent on rescuing her sister, even if she has no idea if she’s still alive, even against her husband’s wishes. As she navigates the broken freeway, she comes across two abandoned pit bulls eating the […]

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Book Review: ‘When Katie Met Cassidy’ by Camille Perri

Block an afternoon out of your schedule, grab a copy of Camille Perri’s new novel, When Katie Met Cassidy, and get ready to laugh, cry, and rediscover your faith in romance. This romantic comedy follows twenty-something Katie—a born and bred Kentuckian now living in New York City whose hipster fiancé has just left her for her closest friend—and Cassidy, a suave native New Yorker—as they meet, resist each other, and eventually, succumb to love’s spell. Here’s the catch: Katie is straight (or is she?) Katie and Cassidy are both attorneys, and they meet as opposing counsel during a closing, but […]

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Book Review: ‘Read by Strangers: Stories’ by Philip Dean Walker

It’s challenging to write prose that’s truly unique without crossing the line into the unduly abstract and esoteric. To write something that challenges convention without confusing the reader. Making the reader think, but still entertaining and providing artistic sustenance. Philip Dean Walker fulfills the early promise of his debut collection of short fiction, At Danceteria and Other Stories, in this, his sophomore effort. Read by Strangers is another completely unique effort by Walker drawing on an imagination rich in fully fleshed, finely drawn characters. In this volume, however, he doesn’t draw them from times past, only a vivid present and, in […]

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Frameline42 Film Review: ‘When the Beat Drops’

  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 […]

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Frameline42 Film Review: ‘Life In The Doghouse’

  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 […]

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Frameline42 Film Review: ‘Riot’

  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 […]

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