Tag: Rom com
Happiest Season : Hulu’s muddled sugary queer rom-com
Back in the ‘dark ages’ the only way we could see any LGBTQ person on our television screens was if they were manic depressives, seriously unhappy, or dead. Now this Holiday season with every American TV Cable Company insisting on doing their own LGBTQ movie, the pendulum has swung completely the other way. Stuck…
Hallmark loses its gay virginity
Another big sign that we are making inroads into the hetro-normative world is that Hallmark Channel the family oriented highly sentimental TV Channel has its first queer Christmas movie! And if that is not surprising enough, they actually have openly gay actors playing gay characters In The Christmas House two brothers Mike (Robert Buckley…
Single Street : where having a baby trumps falling in love
The new Dutch film Single Street (aka Singel 39) which is the movie debut of TV director Frank Krom is labelled a rom-com but is technically not one in the traditional sense. When girl meets boy she is immediately put into the friend zone which is where she stays for the whole length of…
Femme The Film : a funny film about a serious subject
We just came across this sweet rom-com short movie from 2018 that reminds us that even in this day and age queer men are still ridiculed from within the community for embracing their feminine side too much. We kind of expect pseudo macho straight guys still to be overtly hostile as that is their…
The Thing About Harry: well, he’s cute as hell for a start
Since actor Peter Paige had his breakthrough in the groundbreaking series QUEER AS FOLK , he has gone on to carve out a very successful career as a writer/director. His latest film is The Thing About Harry made for the Freeform Cable TV a highly enjoyable queer rom-com that was released on Valentine’s Day …
