Month: January 2017
At The Terrace
It’s tough enough adapting a stage play into a movie at the best of times, but when it is set in a different culture and language it’s a hard one to pull off for a mainstream audience to get behind and enjoy. Writer/director Kenji Yamauchi’s movie At The Terrace, which seems the nearest thing to…
Scotland’s Kilty Pleasure
If there is one thing that most Scots like more than most, its an excuse for a party, and naturally if you are gay and Scottish you will probably want to do that with even more energy and booze (etc) than the rest. Just when they have about recovered from Hogmanay (the exhausting way that…
Kiss A Ginger Day
Who knew that since 2009 today January 12th, is International Kiss A Ginger Day. So if you have not celebrated it previously, it’s time to catch up and go grab yourself a hot redhead, or two, to smooch with.
How We Got Gay
This remarkable National Geographic documentary How We Got Gay made in 2013, tells the powerful story of the struggle for gay rights, from the 40’s and 50’s to the present day. It tells the incredible story of how gay men and women went from being the ultimate outsiders to occupying the halls of power, with a profound…
Play The Devil
This psychological thriller is set in the Trinidad where, with its patriarchal society, homosexuality is still closeted and is very much stigmatized. Therefore this story about James an older very successful businessman (Gareth Jenkins) who befriends Gregory an 18 year old dirt-poor student (Petrice Jones) and eventually seduces him, plays out as much of a melodrama than…
