North by Current is a documentary about family reconciliation and premiered very successfully at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. After the inconclusive death of his young niece Kalla, filmmaker Angelo Madsen Minax returns to his rural Michigan hometown during the bleak winter of 2015. He was originally preparing to make a film about a … Continue reading
The combination of fantastic stage outfits and personas, hot bodies, lots of same-sex body contact, and few limits as to what behavior is acceptable on stage, means it’s no surprise that professional wrestling has long attracted queer people. Ryan Levey’s excellent new documentary, Out In The Ring, charts the history of queer pro-wrestling in … Continue reading
In this colorful trip back in time, legendary queer filmmaker and trailblazing gay rights activist Pat Rocco shares his incredible life story as one of Hollywood’s original boundary-pushing pioneers. This really is a must-see film to fully understand the history of American queer culture and activism over the past 50 years. Rocco is the … Continue reading
Paul and Trisha – The Art of Fluidity is an intimate portrait of two British artists, Paul Whitehead and Trisha Van Cleef, both of whom share the same non-binary, gender-fluid body. The youthful seventy-seven-year-old Whitehead has had a successful and varied career as an artist, graphic designer, writer and musician. They have worked as … Continue reading
From the late ’60s to the mid-’80s, in the notorious Times Square area known as the Deuce, the eccentric, Greek-born Chelly Wilson built a straight and queer porn cinema empire and a reputation as one of the savviest and charismatic figures on the scene. With a cigarette in hand and bags of … Continue reading
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