Longing Nights
From newbie Spanish writer/director Tiago Leão comes this overwhelmingly sad docudrama of four 20 something year olds who seek pleasure whenever and with whoever they can to escape the sheer loneliness of their lives. Set in the night streets of Madrid, these four separate different stories are each steeped in the same world of sex … Continue reading
Man At Bath aka ‘Homme au Bain’
Emmanuel is a man of very few words, a hustler and the live-in lover of Omar. They live in an apartment in a tower block in Gennevilliers a working class suburb of Paris. When Omar announces that he is going to New York for a week to work on a film project, an angry Emmanuel … Continue reading
Money Shot : The Pornhub Story
Pornography is an industry that catches very few breaks. It is condemned on morality grounds, and the fact that is driven by capitalism, and the fact it can be unsafe for the performers too. It’s a subject that everybody has an opinion on, and one that has become totally a no-go on all social … Continue reading
No Angel – A Life of Marlene Dietrich : a legendary Queer Icon
In 1999 American Film Institute named Marlene Dietrich as the ninth-greatest female star of classic Hollywood cinema. We think if we polled gay men (of a certain age) for Legendary Queer Icons in Gay History, Dietrich would rate much higher than that . For those of you reading this who have never heard of … Continue reading
November 8th sees the Opening Night of SF Trans Film Fest : the world’s longest running Trans FF.
November 8th is a red letter day in San Francisco as it marks the opening of The San Francisco Transgender Film Festival (SFTFF), the world’s longest-running transgender film festival. Since 1977 when the Fest was founded by Christopher Lee and Alex Austin, it has been screening films that promote the visibility of transgender and … Continue reading