Emmanuel is a man of very few words, a hustler and the live-in lover of Omar. They live in an apartment in a tower block in Gennevilliers a working class suburb of Paris. When Omar announces that he is going to New York for a week to work on a film project, an angry Emmanuel … Continue reading
Pornography is an industry that catches very few breaks. It is condemned on morality grounds, and the fact that is driven by capitalism, and the fact it can be unsafe for the performers too. It’s a subject that everybody has an opinion on, and one that has become totally a no-go on all social … Continue reading
In 1999 American Film Institute named Marlene Dietrich as the ninth-greatest female star of classic Hollywood cinema. We think if we polled gay men (of a certain age) for Legendary Queer Icons in Gay History, Dietrich would rate much higher than that . For those of you reading this who have never heard of … Continue reading
November 8th is a red letter day in San Francisco as it marks the opening of The San Francisco Transgender Film Festival (SFTFF), the world’s longest-running transgender film festival. Since 1977 when the Fest was founded by Christopher Lee and Alex Austin, it has been screening films that promote the visibility of transgender and … Continue reading
Hikaru Toda’s Of Love and Life is a gentle meandering fly on-the-wall documentary on a charming couple of Japanese men who are not only a gay couple, but the first to head up their own law company. Masafumi Yoshida and Kazayuki Minami — Fumi and Kazu together for over 13 years are very happy … Continue reading