In today’s world, what is family? This question is explored in award-winning director Lester Alfonso’s new thought-provoking documentary, Circus Boy. The film is about a Canadian married couple of men in Ontario named Thomas and Michael who ‘adopt’ a teenage boy called Ethan whom Thomas is training at his circus school. Thomas is an avid … Continue reading
The brilliantly funny queer comedian Robert White who made it to the finals of Britain’s Got Talent flippantly explained his Asbergers away by claiming he is a genius. He played the line for laughs although, by the time he finished his act, I had totally come to agree. White’s appearance on TV is … Continue reading
This new powerful I-D Video from director/producer Isolde Penwarden takes us inside the very unsettling situation of the LGBTQ community in Poland which over the past two years has seen its rights stripped away. In the east of the country, their very existence is outlawed with the creation of so many official LGBTQ-free zones. … Continue reading
Mexican director Gian Cassini’s COMALA is an intimate true-crime odyssey. It follows Cassini as he attempts to uncover the truths of his father’s violent past as a small-time hitman and drug trafficker in Tijuana. Through his queer lens, Cassini unpacks the deeply-rooted networks of machismo and toxic masculinity that informed his own life and perpetuated his family’s … 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
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