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fiveFilms4freedom
If you cannot get to the BFI Flare Film Festival on London’s Southbank (shame on you!) then the nice people that organize the event are actually giving you a chance to watch five short movies at home free of charge. The BFI have got together with The British Council to launch fiveFilms4freedom, an online mini…
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Our Top Ten Picks at BFI Flare London’s Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
BFI Flare London’s LGBT Film Festival celebrates its 30th Edition this month with one of their most exciting and eclectic programs to date and it is the reason that we are packing our party clothes to catch the Virgin Atlantic plane back across the Pond to indulge in 12 days of real queer cinematic treats. …
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Movie Milestone for Indian LGBT Community
Tomorrow, March 12th 2016 at the SXSW Film Festival in Austin Texas there is the North American Premiere of an extraordinary new LGBT movie called LOEV. This debut feature from writer/director Sudhanshu Saria is set in India where homosexuality is still illegal and so the whole movie had to be made on the ‘down-low’. This gentle ground-breaking…
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Filmmaker Lily Wachowski Comes Out As Transgender
Lily Wachowski, one half of the celebrated filmmaking duo who made the lesbian classic movie Bound, but are best known for The Matrix movies , came out as transgender yesterday in a very inspirational and eloquent statement to Chicago’s leading LGBT newspaper Windy City Times. After been door-stepped by a reporter from the UK’s notorious tabloid newspaper…
