Arts & Entertainment

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Frameline42 Reveals First 10 Films: Brimming With Stars, Icons, and Fresh Queer Stories

  Lights. Camera. Take Action. Frameline, the world’s longest-running and largest showcase of queer media, is pleased to announce its first slate of high-profile programs and pre-sales—including Opening and Closing Night films and Centerpiece selections—for Frameline42: San Francisco International LGBTQ Film Festival, which takes place June 14-24, 2018 in San Francisco, Berkeley, and Oakland. The complete Frameline42 program will be unveiled on Tuesday, May 22. “Frameline is thrilled to return for our 42nd year, serving as a platform for the world’s finest in LGBTQ content, and a lightning rod for fresh, radical ideas and stories,” says Frameline Executive Director Frances […]

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Book Review: ‘Would You Rather’ by Katie Heaney

Would You Rather is a memoir that follows the life and eventual coming out of Katie Heaney who, at twenty-five, had never had sex. The book follows Katie’s life from her days at an undergraduate college to her grown-up life in New York City, working for Buzzfeed. Along the way, she details her crushes on boys, as well as her resistance to intimacy with them, and the shame she feels because of it. The book also integrates her fear of planes, her short-term passion for astrology, and her personal struggle with anxiety. Would You Rather is what I’d call a […]

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Film Review: ‘From Baghdad to The Bay’

Ten years in the making this new excellent documentary from filmmaker Erin Palmquist is the engaging story of Ghazwan Alsharif an Iraqi refugee and former translator for the U.S. military.  After years of service helping the American invading forces, he was wrongfully accused of espionage and tortured by the military police in Iraq for some 75 days before being rescued by a US Colonel who he had served and who personally vouched for him. When the Iraqi militia learned of his work with the US Forces they first threatened his family and then bombed his home.  His parents who ironically had been […]

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Hollywood May Be Releasing More Queer Films, But One Group is Missing

Although a flood of queer films are being celebrated in the mainstream, there’s still something missing from the roster of movies that have been released. Whether it’s Moonlight, Call Me By Your Name or Love, Simon being celebrated through gleaming accolades in Hollywood, there’s one poignant act about queer coming of age films: They are not favouring the depiction of lesbian women. According to GLAAD – the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation – gay men comprise an overwhelming 83 percent of LGBT representation in the media, while lesbian characters featured on our screens at 35 percent of the rate. In […]

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Ronan Farrow Comes Out

Ronan Farrow (Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP/Getty Images) Influential journalist Ronan Farrow, who helped expose Harvey Weinstein, has come out. Farrow was one of the first journalists to expose allegations of sexual abuse by Weinstein in The New Yorker last October. The former NBC News personality, who is the son of Mia Farrow and director Woody Allen, quietly came out this week as he accepted an honour from the Point Foundation, which supports LGBTQ students. Ronan Farrow (Stephen Lovekin/Getty) Farrow, who has also written extensively on transgender issues, spoke about his own identity in his speech. He said: “Each and every LGBT person […]

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“A Crystal Diary:” The Story of a Young Butch in L.A.

Frankie Hucklenbroich’s “A Crystal Diary,” published in 1997, opens with a description of “bouncing baby butches, boiling and bursting with glands.” They stand outside of the lesbian bar they’re too young to frequent, studying the adult butches and femmes as they enter and exit in pairs, wondering what it would be like to be them, wondering what it would be like to fail:  At sex, at intimacy, at everything. But most of all, at doing what Hucklenbroich’s narrator Nicky refers to as the trademark of every great butch: Eating out. “What’s it taste like? What about germs? And how the […]

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Jill Soloway to Launch Topple Books Imprint

When Jill Soloway created TOPPLE Productions she did it to showcase LGBTQ+ and POC voices with shows like “Transparent,” which continues to represent the nuanced storylines of people from all backgrounds instead of silencing them. The multimedia brand is a tool to, as Soloway exclaimed during her 2016 Emmy win, “topple the patriarchy!” Now, Soloway’s company continues to transcend in popular culture with Amazon Publishing’s new imprint, TOPPLE Books.  The company will allow gender non-conforming, women of color, lesbian, bisexual and queer writers the opportunity to have an outlet specifically designed to spotlight their unique voices in storytelling. The imprint […]

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Analy High School Theatre Department Presents ‘Once Upon a Mattress’

  Once Upon a Mattress is a musical comedy set in a magical kingdom ruled by the devious Queen Aggravain and the mute, King Sextimus the Silent. Queen Agravian maintains all of the power in the kingdom ever since a curse was put on her husband that can only be broken when “the mouse devours the hawk”. In an attempt to keep her son Prince Dauntless single and preserve her rule, the Queen puts out a royal decree that states no one in the kingdom can marry until her drabby son takes a princess of true royal blood to be his wife. The queen has tested the eligibility […]

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Book Review: ‘The Sparsholt Affair’ by Alan Hollinghurst

Authors of fiction do something for us that goes far beyond the mechanics of plot. They create, or recreate, a time and a place drawn from both their own experiences and their imaginations. Few authors do that with the skill and dexterity of Alan Hollinghurst. He can imagine wholly fleshed characters as complex and detailed as an individual artist as well as his oeuvre—not only the vagaries of their personality, but the whole body of their work—as he did so effectively in his earlier masterpiece, The Folding Star. This understanding of an artist’s skills extends to his own work. He, […]

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Film Review: ‘A Moment In The Reeds’

For his debut feature movie, London based Finnish filmmaker Mikko Makela has returned home to tell his compelling tale of a romantic summer encounter between an unlikely pair that literally sizzles on the screen. Leevi (Janne Puustinen ) has been studying in Paris and comes back home to somewhat reluctantly help his estranged father (Mika Melender) renovate their old remote county cottage so they can sell it to help re-finance their ailing family business. The two men couldn’t possibly be more different with their opposing views on practically every aspect of their lives.  The father is a gruff conservative, and it […]

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