Handsome, Brooklyn-born-and-bred, Quique (Dennis Garcia) runs a local barber’s shop, Fade to Famous, with his cousin Rafa (Pierre Jean Gonzalez). They are ingrained into their local Puerto Rican community, a community as nourishing as it is stifling. It’s a very traditional, macho world and this is an issue for Quique who is secretly gay and has … Continue reading
Defining one’s sexuality isn’t easy for everyone, especially today where there are several options to choose from. That decision can be harder if you’re in the public eye, where every move and utterance is overly scrutinised by a voracious press and public, eager for gossip. Dalton’s Dream, a poignant new documentary examines this and … Continue reading
“Can a vagina be masculine?” This, and many more thought-provoking questions, are posed by interviewer/director Jules Rosskam, in his innovative new documentary Desire Lines, which examines the lives of trans men who also became gay men after transitioning. Rosskam’s film, which premiered this week at Sundance, combines drama with documentary. Iranian-American trans man … Continue reading
London’s queer bar/club scene at the beginning of the 1990s entered its most exciting decade to date. The homophobic attitudes of the 1980s had eased somewhat due to the widespread use of ecstasy across the UK during the recent acid house rave years. This combined with a hedonist live-for-the-moment attitude in the queer community … Continue reading
Five Films For Freedom, the world’s largest queer digital campaign, now in its tenth year, brings five new films from the Philippines, India, Spain, the UK and USA free to audiences worldwide. The film program continues the British Council’s partnership with BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival. You are invited to dive into … Continue reading
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