Goodbye Pink Flamingo : a global selection of groundbreaking queer, punk, feminist, and DIY art and film.
Goodbye, Pink Flamingo is a three-day retrospective(*) festival running November 17-19, celebrating Sydney’s (Australia) dopest venue presented by Static Vision and Pink Flamingo Cinema, showcasing a global selection of groundbreaking queer, punk, feminist, and DIY art and film. Featuring retrospective screenings of the work of many of our favorite directors, including … Continue reading
Gossamer Folds : the tale of an unlikely friendship
Queer filmmaker Lisa Donato who is known for her short films got her first feature film directing job from actress Yeardley Smith. Smith who was both producing and starring in Gossamer Fold, has a reputation as a good ally of the LGBTQ community. She chose well as Donato’s debut turned to be one of … Continue reading
Great Freedom : one man’s story about being imprisoned in Germany for decades for being gay
Germany’s pernicious Paragraph 1675, was part of the German Criminal Code from 15 May 1871 to 10 March 1994. It made homosexual acts between males a crime, and in early revisions, the provision also criminalized bestiality as well as forms of prostitution and underage sexual abuse. All in all, around 140,000 men were convicted under the … Continue reading
Growing Up Coy
Young married couple Kathryn & Jeremy Mathis had a tough call to make when their son Coy just starting kindergarten kept asking them when he could go to the doctors to become a girl. They were already used to Coy dressing up in his sister’s clothes and refusing to even leave the house if they … Continue reading
The Guys Next Door
Five years ago when filmmaker Amy Geller read the extraordinary story in her local newspaper about a 40 year old mother of teenage children who was going to be the surrogate for a gay male couple for a second time, she thought that this tale may have the making of a good documentary. She roped in fellow filmmaker Allie Humenuk into the … Continue reading