Arts & Entertainment

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Lesbian Sleuths: Ten Mystery/Romance Series

  For those who enjoy a mix of romance with their mysteries (or is it the other way around?), here are ten of my favorite lesbian sleuths. One characteristic that these series have in common is mature protagonists, although some of the first books begin when they are young. From P.I, FBI, police women, and reporters to a translator and a coffee shop owner, all these lesbians have become friends who I want to follow in future books. Barbara Wilson’s Cassandra Reilly series are much more sleuthing than romancing, and the twists and turns between schemes and mistaken genders add […]

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Jake Biondi’s ‘Boystown’ series named Best of 2016

“I’m honored and grateful,” author Jake Biondi said about his Boystown book series being included in the BookLikes.com “Best of 2016” book list. With an average customer rating of five stars, the “I’m honored and grateful,” author Jake Biondi said about his “I’m honored and grateful,” author Jake Biondi said about his Boystown book series being included in the BookLikes.com “Best of 2016” book list. With an average customer rating of five stars, the Boystown series continues to receive the highest possible rating on Amazon.com as well. “I must say that this series just gets better and better,” wrote Marco […]

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Xfinity Launches ‘LGBT Film & TV Collection’

Xfinity has launched a new range of content for LGBT viewers. Named the Xfinity LGBT Film & TV Collection the content will be a community-driven library of over 800+ titles featuring LGBT characters and storylines, with new content incorporated weekly. Launching the service, Friday Jean-Claire Fitschen, executive director, Multicultural Services at Xfinity said, “We are proud the collection provides a home for some of the community’s most important and unique stories. Our customers can easily access the Xfinity LGBT Film & TV Collection both On Demand and at www.Xfinity.com/LGBT. X1 users can also search and discover the entire catalog by […]

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Asia Kate Dillon Makes History as One of the First Non-binary Gender Identifying Actors to be Cast on Mainstream TV

Asia Kate Dillon | Photo: Showtime Asia Kate Dillon has become one of the first non-binary gender identifying actors to be cast on mainstream TV. Dillon has been cast on Showtime’s Billions as Taylor, an intern at Axe Capital, in one of the first non-binary gender roles ever to be broadcast. Dillon uses the singular they pronoun for non-binary gender identification. In addition to Billions, they can be seen playing Brandy Epps in the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black. “As someone who is non-binary gender identifying, I feel a particular responsibility to portray members of my community on […]

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Film Review: ‘Teenage Kicks’

Don’t be fooled by the deceptive title of this movie which implies it is just another teenage romp, as Craig Boreham’s feature film debut, is one of the most powerful edgy LGBT dramas  to come out of Australia for some years. It’s hard not to compare it with Ana Kokkinos’s 1998 award-winning break-out hit ‘Head On‘, not just because of its gritty storyline but the fact that it also centered in a immigrant Greek/Australian family. Miklós (Miles Szanto) is a very frustrated and confused 17 year old. He is secretly in love with his best friend Dan (Daniel Webber), and perpetually […]

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SAG Awards: Lily Tomlin, Sarah Paulson, Tituss Burgess and Jim Parsons among nominees

  The 2017 Screen Actors Guild of America Award nominations announced today are filled with plenty out performers and LGBTI characters. The acclaimed drama Moonlight continued its awards season splash by getting a nod in the coveted Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture category which is SAG’s equivalent of best picture. Cast members Naomie Harris and Mahershala Ali were nominated in supporting acting categories. Jim Parsons got one of his two SAG nominations as part of the cast of Hidden Figures which competes against the casts of Moonlight, Captain Fanastic, Fences, and Manchester by the Sea. The […]

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Film Review: ‘Girls Lost’

Three 14-year-old girls who are inseparable best friends are always mercilessly picked on by all the bullies at their school. Considered outsiders by their classmates, Kim (Tuva Jagell0), Momo (Louise Nyvall) and Bella (Wilma Holm) the girls very much keep to themselves.  One day Bella finds a very strange looking seed that she plants to discover that it grows into a flower overnight.  Completely shocked, the rather curious girls randomly decided to taste the plants sap thinking it may posses some magical qualities. They are right, and after a trance like sequence, they wake up to find out they are […]

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Film Review: ‘The Joneses’

Jehri Jones is a most remarkably resilient women.  The outwardly cheery disposition of this 74 year-old-transgender Mississippi native is because she is quick to dismiss the struggle of her journey to establish and accept her own identity which didn’t start until she was in her 40’s, and was not completed until she could finally afford the gender alignment surgery when she was in her 60’s.  She was estranged from her four sons when their very religious mother banned Jehri from their lives the moment she started her transitioning. Now that her ex-spouse has died, Jehri has persuaded two of the adult sons to move […]

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Film Review: ‘Rara’

  When Chilean lawyer Paula (Mariana Loyola) divorces her husband Victor (Daniel Munoz), her new partner Lia (Agustina Muñoz) moves in to share her home in this small conservative town.  One day Paula is summed for a meeting with the school Principal after her 8 year old daughter Catalina (Emilia Ossandon) had made a drawing of their family showing  her two ‘mummies’ and her 13 year old sister Sara (Julia Lübbert). This ‘official’ reprimand to voice disapproval of her sexuality is just the beginning of public dissent that will start to try and eventually break the family up. Even Paula’s […]

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Book Review: ‘Heart Trouble’ by Jae

 Two people meet under unexpected circumstances—and Heart Trouble abounds. Hope Finlay, ER doctor, has kept people at arm’s length since losing her mother and entering the foster care system at the age of eight. Hope is a loner, preferring to work nights and holiday shifts, sleeping and keeping to herself during the day. Occasionally, she chooses to come out into the daylight and play a game of racquetball with her friend, Jordan, another doctor at Griffith Memorial Hospital in Los Angeles. Laleh Samadi keeps a long line of men at bay. They are the ones her Persian parents parade before […]

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