After Louie
Movies about the AIDS pandemic are always a tough call as fifty-something-year-old Sam (Alan Cumming) a NY artist who is working on a documentary about his friend William (David Drake) who died at the peak of the crisis finds out. Unable to move on with his own life since then he has become somewhat obsessed … Continue reading
Against The Law
There has been a wonderful plethora of LGBT films and TV programs to mark the 50th Anniversary of the partial decriminalization of homosexuality in the U.K. that have yet to make their way across the Pond. One has, however, and has just opened in the US and is currently playing the LGBT Film Festival … Continue reading
aGLIFF : the All Genders, Lifestyles, and Identities (and all entertaining) Film Festival goes VIRTUAL TODAY
The 33rd Edition of aGLIFF the All Genders, Lifestyles, and Identities Film Festival opens today August 6th and runs to the 16th. aGLIFF 33: Prism, Austin’s oldest film festival foes VIRTUAL for the very first time will feature almost seventy films including features, documentaries, and shorts over two weekends while additionally hosting exclusive online … Continue reading
Ahead of the Curve : how Frances Stevens created the world”s best selling lesbian magazine
It’s a sad realisation of how segregated the LGBTQ community is when as a gay male you discover that you never heard of Frances “Franco” Stevens the powerhouse publisher/activist who founded Curve Magazine, the best selling lesbian magazine.of all time. This new movie corrects that somewhat as it shows how ground-breaking the magazine was … Continue reading
AIDS The Unheard Tapes – tragedy and joy from voices no longer with us
In the 1980s and 90s, as a new and apparently unstoppable disease ravaged the gay community, volunteers began to record for posterity interviews with the men infected with what would eventually be identified as the HIV virus, and with their friends. The tapes are now archived at the British Library and have never been broadcast … Continue reading