Coming Out in Football is still a very big deal : here are the latest 2 brave souls

  Sport (and particularly football)  is still one of the last great bastions of homophobia (and misogyny) that ensures that the LGBTQ+ communities acceptance is often at a snail’s pace. So much so when 21-year Australian professional footballer Josh Cavallo came out as gay this week it made headlines around the world which is still … Continue reading

Coming Out Safely

Coming Out is a rite of passage that anyone on the LGBTQ+ spectrum has to deal with at some time or another in their lives. The whole thing is a  very personal choice and there are no real set guidelines on when and how in this heteronormative world, we should take this step. Openly gay Ron Holt is a … Continue reading

Comme Les Autres aka Baby Love

  This excellent ‘comedy of manners’ movie set in Paris is about Manu, a Pediatrician in his mid 40’s with a very successful life, who desperately wants to be a Dad even though his determination causes him to break up with his longstanding partner Philippe a Lawyer who has no paternal instincts at all. Like Florida, … Continue reading

Compared To What? : The Improbable Journey of Barney Frank.

When husband and wife filmmakers Sheila  Canavan and Michael Chandler first approached the Democratic Congressman for Massachusetts with the idea of making a documentary about him they just envisioned that it would simply cover his last year in Office prior to his retirement. They quickly discovered that there was a whole wealth of history and stories … Continue reading

COMPLIANCE

Sandra a rather harried middle-aged manager of a ‘Chickwich’ fast food restaurant in (god-forsaken) Ohio is rallying her troop of very young workers before the busy Friday night shift. She’s short-handed and also low on supplies after someone had left the Freezer door ajar overnight.  It’s going to be a tough night. An hour later … Continue reading

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