For his directing debut, actor turned filmmaker Rightor Doyle cast three hot queer men Zachary Quinto, Lukas Gage, and Sebastian Arroyo plus Triple Emmy Award Winner (and two-time Tony Awards) Judith Light, yet he still managed to make the most unfunny queer comedy we’ve seen in a long time. This coming-out story (which is … Continue reading
Mama’s Boy : A Story From Our Americas. I fell in love with Dustin Lance Black in 2009. He was in LA accepting his Academy Award for writing the screenplay for MILK in which he made a promise to all the queer kids watching, that things would get better. The very next day Black’s mother … Continue reading
Although it’s over 30 years since the AIDS pandemic decimated the queer community it’s still a very raw memory for so many of us. In the new millennium, we were inundated with fictional movies on the subject, and the majority of them were appalling. Sensationalized, morbid, alarmist, and even excuses to promote rampant homophobia. … Continue reading
Award-winning Canadian documentarian Bobbi Jo Hart has this knack for uncovering queer stories that we may have heard of, but for the most part, are untold. She did this beautifully with her affectionate and in-depth look at Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, the world’s foremost all-male ballet company in ‘Rebels on Pointe’. … Continue reading
Ferzan Özpetek’s feature film Hamam aka [Steam: The Turkish Bath] in 1997 is one of those movie-making debuts that stick in your memory. In it, Özpetek takes a mesmerizing look at how special places and people can transform other people. This romantic drama film is a haunting joy Since then this Italian/Turkish queer … Continue reading