The web series Where The Bears Are gained a lot of fans last year, especially amongst those hoping for something a bit different to the twinky types we usually see on screen. Now it’s coming back with Season 2.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Where The Bears Are is a comedy, mystery, web series about three big, hairy, gay men living together in Silverlake California, who find themselves caught up in a murder mystery. It’s the Golden Girls meets Murder She Wrote, with Bears. Season 2 is set to premiere June 10th 2013.’

You can find out more on Facebook or Twitter. [Read more...]

Over the past few weeks, we’ve had three episodes of The Three Bits, featuring young gay man Henry and his rommate, including their attempt to organise an orgy. The plan with the series was always that it would be split between three members of the Bits family, so after Henry’s adventures, we now move on to Roman.

She is a former drug dealer who’s recently started working as a gardener, which doesn’t impress her girlfriend. When a member of Roman’s old crew steals a pound of weed from a rival operation, she finds herself in a tight spot. But she *loves* tight spots.

Take a look at it above. And you can find Henry’s episodes here, here, and here. [Read more...]

Making a film where societal rules are reversed is a simple idea, but it’s rarely been done successfully. For example, White Man’s Burden, starring John Travolta and Harry Belafonte, imagined a world where black people are in charge and white people are the underclass, but it came across as heavy-handed and rather over-simplistic.

A couple of years ago the short film Love Is All You Need did the festival rounds, and found success with its tale of a society where gay people rule and straights are vilified. Now that short has been posted online in full. Although once again it can be a little obvious at times, it mainly smart, insightful, well made and pretty powerful.

It certainly does a great job of pointing out the things that are often overlooked or tolerated about homophobia, which would get society far angrier if it wasn’t happening to an underclass. Take a look above. [Read more...]

The Deep is being hailed as the UK’s black LGBT web drama, with the first two episodes now online for use to take a look at.

Here’s the synopsis: In The Deep is an exciting UK web drama series about four fun-loving best friends who live in the heart of East London, each harbouring secrets of their own. This is not just another gay web drama series, it’s a story about people, their loves, lives and lies as they go about their daily routine telling stories that we can all relate to; Ade, stuck between two worlds, Nigerian and gay. He lives a double life, hiding his relationships on both ends; Emilia has the confusing ‘thing’ with Riley her straight best friend; Wesley looking for that love thing and two come at once; Rene happy go carefree whose life is about to hit a brick wall.

The first two episodes are pretty good, so take a look. The people behind the series have launched an IndieGogo campaign to try and raise funds to complete the rest of the first season, so if you like the eps here, head over to IndieGogo and pledge some cash.

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It’s not that often you see a PSA that could quite happily be included in the programme of a gay short film screening, but that’s true of ‘Stand Up!’, made by directors Anna Rodgers & Aoife Kelleher for the Irish BeLonG To Youth Services to support their annual Stand Up! LGBT Awareness Weeks.

It’s a call to stand up for homophobic bullying, with a young couple facing abuse for showing affection, but then an unexpected response comes from their schoolmates.

The Stand Up! campaign promotes friendship amongst young people as a way to combat homophobic bullying, which sounds like a pretty good idea to me. You can find out more here. [Read more...]

In The Language Of Love, a young man is supposed to be concentrating on his French exam, but his thoughts are elsewhere, which he tells us about while he delivers a monologue to camera. It’s smart and somewhat moving, as the lad segues from French through to his best friend and his feelings for him. That inevitably causes him to wonder what being gay means and how to negotiate life as a young gay man.

The short is the result of Fresh Ink, a development program for emerging playwrights from the Australian Theatre for Young People. 17-year-old writer/performer Kim Ho was one of the winners of the 2012 monologue competition, Love Bytes, and he’s now been assisted in turning his three-minute entry, Transcendence, into The Language Of Love.

Commenting on the Fresh Ink website, Ho says, “Homosexuality is still a sensitive topic, and I immediately felt pressured to write something that was candid but not disrespectful to the LGBT community. I wanted to write something that would make me cry just like the stunning It’s Time advertisement for marriage equality, something that would resonate with people no matter what their sexuality.”

Take a look at the short above and a ‘making of…’ below. [Read more...]

The 3 Bits has been one of the most entertaining new LGBT-themed web series, and now Episode 3 is here, which sees Henry Bits and his hot friend Grant trying to find love with their iPhones. It’s grindr vs. okcupid. Will either of them get lucky, or could one of them wind up dead?!

You can see the earlier episode here and here.

This is just one section of The 3 Bits, with the others Henry’s sister Roman, who’s also gay and a former weed dealer trying to get a career in freelance gardening off the ground. There’s also Madison, the oldest, is a mommy blogger determined to prove her rock-’n’-roll cred. You can follow the series over at The 3 Bits. [Read more...]

Boystown is a web series that follows twenty-something single boys, Steve, Aaron and Geoff (and their gal-pal Amanda) living in a gay-friendly big city where they navigate a thriving out and proud community filled with its own tribes of twinks, bears, ricequeens and gymbunnies. Even though their journey might be filled with additional riddles like, ‘is he a top or a bottom?’, they still face the universal quest of finding “The One”.

The trailer for the series is now online, which you can take a look at above.

Boystown stars Degrassi stars Adamo Ruggiero and Ben Lewis, alongside Richard Lee.

There’s no news on when we might see more, but hopefully there’s be more soon.