Jordan Bryon on BIRDS IN THE BORDERLANDS which looks at gender and sexual identity in the Middle East

  Australian qenderqueer filmmaker JORDAN BYRON spent 5 years in the Middle East documenting the lives of local queer people whose sexuality was causing both them and their families to be shunned and physically harmed. Their powerful & thought provoking film is having its US Premiere at Wicked Queer: The Boston LGBT Film Festival very … Continue reading

JORDAN : Queen of Punk dies aged 66

  1976 was such an important cultural milestone as it was when the British Punk Revolution started. They rejected contemporary mainstream discarded nostalgia with many in the scene adopting a nihilistic attitude summed up by the Sex Pistols slogan “No Future”  One social observer noted that  amid the unemployment and social unrest in 1977, “punk’s … Continue reading

Jose

  Li Cheng’s new drama Jose is preceded by a huge reputation after it beat out the multi Oscar nominated The Favorite to win the Queer Lion at Venice’s prestigious film festival last year.  It is (to our knowledge) the first LGBT movie ever to be made in Guatemala and is a tender coming-of-age story … Continue reading

José Mayorga reviews 8 Years a story of the quest for true love

    LIFE IS A JOURNEY, BUT LOVE AND FEAR ARE JOURNEYS ALSO. La Palma Island belongs to the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife,  in northernmost Spain’s Canary Islands and it is also known as “La isla bonita” (the beautiful island).  Almost a year ago, an eruption at the Cumbre Vieja volcanic ridge lasted … Continue reading

Jose Mayorga reviews ROSODIUM a queer French road trip movie

  The French romance/drama develops a significant segment in the lives of  Noah (Thibaut Cattelin) and Lohan (Jules Bahloul), their characters are portrayed sharing the road for a few days being driven, in the back of pick-up, by friends Rox and Coco who have concerns of their own. A story told in a loop begins … Continue reading

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