Pantomime (or Panto for short) is a quintessential traditional British musical family entertainment staged at Christmas time. It includes songs, gags, slapstick comedy and dancing, employs gender-crossing actors, and combines topical very low-brow humor with a story loosely based on a well-known fairy tale, and in which audiences are expected to sing along with certain parts … Continue reading
Bebe Zahar Benet aka Marshall Kudi Ngwa was the very first winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race back in 2009, and one of the most larger-than-life queens to ever compete and is now back on television, in competition on RuPaul’s Drag Race All-Stars (Season 3) on VH1. What Bebe has been up too since winning, and … Continue reading
This highly personal film documents part of the journey that Chaz Bono takes to become a transgendered man. He is remarkably brave, strikingly honest and an extremely likable person who allows the cameras to record the crucial steps of taking the necessary hormones and then having the vital breast surgery and how all of this effects … Continue reading
The Iris Prize LGBT+ Film Festival based in Cardiff, Wales awards the largest short film prize in the world – the prestigious £30,000 Iris Prize. It’s enough money for filmmakers to convert their shorts into full-length features like past winners like Daniel Ribeiro ‘The Way He Looks’ and Dee Rees ‘ Pariah’. This last … Continue reading
Becoming Colleen: Finding the Shoe that Fits is a compelling documentary about a remarkable 85 year Australian transgender woman who is about to move to a Christian retirement village where she fears that they will insist she dresses as a man. Having lived most of her life as Colin – a husband, father, policeman, … Continue reading