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Triple Standard
From 2010 comes this provocative and sexy short film “Triple Standard” from award winning LGBTQ director Branden Blinn. It is the story of a homophobic ex professional athlete who relies on all the lucrative sponsorships to pay for his ex-wife and their children. He claims he is not gay, yet he has lived and slept…
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Uncle Howard : a Tribute to filmmaker Howard Brookner
Unquestionably one of the best movies with LGBT content to premiere at this Sundance Film Festival was filmmaker Aaron Brookner’s delightful tribute to his filmmaker Uncle that who he adored and who sadly died of AIDS in 1989 at the tender age of 34. Howard Brookner packed a lot into his short life…
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Sugar Baby Love
The screenshot above is from a rather wonderful animated French AIDS Public Service Announcement that we have just discovered. Directed by Wilfrid Brimo, it chronicles a lifetime of gay sex, love and heartbreak, featuring a track from the 1970s by The Rubettes called “Sugar Baby Love”.
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Nothing Left Unsaid : Gloria Vanderbilt & Anderson Cooper
One of the most wonderful premieres here at Sundance was the documentary on socialite and artist the heiress Gloria Vanderbilt and her son CNN’s anchor the openly gay Anderson Cooper entitled “Nothing Left Unsaid”. The 92 year-old Vanderbilt has the most colorful past and in some very frank and open interviews with her son we learned…
