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Taking a look at the world of film through gay eyes - news, reviews, trailers, gay film, queer cinema and more

Taking a look at the world of film through gay eyes - news, reviews, trailers, gay film, queer cinema & more

How To Survive A Plague (Cinema)

November 8, 2013 By Tim Isaac 1 Comment

Starring: Larry Kramer, Peter Staley, Iris Long
Director: David France
Running Time: 120 mins
Certificate: 15
Release Date: November 8th 2013 (UK)

I was alive during the early days of the AIDS epidemic but was too young to really understand what was going on. It’s always shocking to see something like How To Survive A Plague, about events that took place while I was around but which seem so far from a world where gay people are increasingly being allowed to get married. Sure there are still problems but it’s incredible that just 20-30 years ago politicians were happy to allow millions around the world to die, just because they didn’t want to be seen to doing anything that might help gay people. [Read more…]

Vito (DVD)

March 22, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: Vito Russo, Armistead Maupin, Larry Kramer
Director: Jeffrey Schwarz
Running Time: 93 mins
Certificate: E
Release Date: March 25th 2013

I often turn into an old man when it comes to most people’s knowledge of gay history, or rather their lack thereof. For many people there was Oscar Wilde, Stonewall and then somebody decided equal marriage would be nice, and that’s about it. You can kind of understand the ignorance, as LGBT history is so resolutely ignored in schools that you’d be forgiven for thinking there isn’t one, so anything that comes along to remind us it was a long, complex path to get us where we are is very welcome. [Read more…]

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