F(l)ag Football

  It is impossible not to get swept up in the exuberance and sheer passion of  the footballers in Seth Greenleaf’s rather exhilarating documentary.  It’s the story of how gay flag football went from a few guys casually playing together some 20 years to a full fledged league of some 26 teams throughout the US … Continue reading

Flashback Friday : Rufus Wainwright’s Opera HADRIAN from 2018

  On October 13, 2018, the Canadian Opera Company presented the highly anticipated world premiere of Hadrian by composer Rufus Wainwright and librettist Daniel MacIvor. The opera recounts the epic love story of Roman Emperor Hadrian and his young lover, Antinous. Erased by history, their story is reclaimed for the 21st century by its creators in a … Continue reading

Flawless Fassbinder Slays as Macbeth

If William Shakespeare was still around to pick up his royalty checks he would have made more than a wee fortune from Macbeth alone.  It’s been filmed almost 70 times already, with three versions being released this year alone.  Out of all of these, the one due to hit US screens next month could be … Continue reading

Floating Skyscrapers

Polish writer/director Tomascz Wasilewski’s second feature film is a dark tragic love story that you immediately sense from the opening scenes that is doomed. Although it is Poland’s first ever Gay movie, it is so much more a story about the search for one’s identity and about being accepted for one’s own true self and … Continue reading

Florence’s annual bloody brawl that seems more than a tad homoerotic

  Calcio Storico which must qualify as one of roughest competitive sports ever is also one of the World’s oldest and has been played exactly by the same tough rules in Florence,  Italy for the past five centuries.  Once every year neighbors become rivals, and local Tuscans become gladiators and split into four teams as they wage a no-holds-barred battle for the soul … Continue reading

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