When we think of Palm Springs in California we have an image of a gay mecca that has developed a strong reputation as an LGBT-friendly destination. and is also a cheaper alternative to San Francisco or New York. Since the 1980s/90s many LGBT people chose the desert city as a base for their … Continue reading
India is another of those countries that were once part of the British Empire and even after the Brits left and India became a republic they left behind some of the puritanical Laws they had enacted during the Victorian era. One of these in 1861 made male homosexuality illegal and it remained on the … Continue reading
Rebel Hearts is Director Pedro Kos’s fascinating documentary about an activist group of feminist nuns who fought for change within the Catholic Church in California during the 1960s. The 1950s and early 1960s were still a very patriarchal society in America with women expected to miss higher education, marry young, bear children, and stay at … Continue reading
Rebels On Pointe is a very affectionate profile by Canadian award-winning documentarian Bobbi Jo Hart on Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo an American all-male (and proudly openly gay) Ballet Company corps which parodies the conventions and clichés of romantic and classical ballet. Harte adopts a cinema vérité approach with her very entertaining film that takes us … Continue reading
Stu Maddux is a very determined gay activist and filmmaker whose passionate obsession with LGBT history has resulted in three excellent documentaries that deal with different aspects of gay communities in the past. This latest one ‘Reel in the Closet’ is a feature length movie that is comprised of a wealth of unseen footage of … Continue reading
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