With its first episode (which you can watch here), Indoor Boys became a gay-themed web series to look out for. It was a realtively simple set-up – two roommates in their house, where there may or may not be something more between then than just friendship.
That continues with Episodes 2 and 3, although things are getting a little more dramatic. In the second instalment a spanner is thrown in the works, when Nate (Alex Wyse) sees his roomie Luke (Wesley Taylor) in his bed with a hunky man. And he’s not exactly impressed. Then, in Episode 2, how do you save a cat that might be dead soon without leaving your house? And will your roomie be impressed if they do?
It may be a little silly, but it certainly makes you want to find out what will happen next between Luke (Wesley Taylor) and Nate (Alex Wyse), even if they may be a little too co-dependent, and one of them is supposed to be leaving.
Take a look at Indoor Boys: Episodes 2 and 3 below. (And don’t forget to catch up with Episode 1 here) [Read more…]
Back in May, the trailer for In A Hearbeat got a lot of people excited for this Pixar-eque animated short about a sweet gay love story. At the time, filmmakers Esteban Bravo and Beth David from the Ringling College of Art commented, “Being gay is a subject that hasn’t been widely explored in computer animation. Nine out of ten LGBT youths have reported incidences of bullying based on their orientations and identities… We want to put out a message of love and self acceptance to all the kids and young people who struggle to identify as LGBT+”.
Documentaries about interesting LGBT people are always worth a look, and that’s what the Always Love series provides. Two out of the three short docs have now been released online, looking at Hal Moskowitz and Joanna Fang, with a third focusing on Brigid McGinn, still to arrive.
This sweet short takes on a subject that’s not seen that often – not just queer people aging, but what happens when they’re in a retirement home, and one has dementia. What happens if two gay people fall in love at that point, when one of them is no longer judged to be allowed to be in charge of their own life?
The idea of ‘art porn’ has been around for quite a few years now, but it’s only relatively recently that the ‘porn’ part of it been taken seriously (previously it was just movies with very explicit scene, which often were actually rather sex-negative). It’s something a few gay porn studios have taken note of.
This isn’t the typical sort of gay film we post on BGPS, as it’s just a real-life chat between two British men. However, while both of them are gay, one is 13, while the other is 78. They unsurprisingly have very different life experiences, not least that for the older Percy, for the first 28 years of his life sex between men was completely illegal (the video helps mark 50 years since the partial decriminalisation of gay male sex in England and Wales).
We’ve all heard stories about – or experienced ourselves – people hooking up on Grindr, only to discover that the person they’re meeting doesn’t look anything like they did online. Either they used really old images, their pics were deceptively framed or they’re a completely different person.
We’ve featured all sorts of short films on BGPS, but not that many have been released in support of a direct campaign calling for some direct action. However, War Within has hit the web in the hope of increasing support for a push to grant five Mr. Gay Syria contestants asylum.