GAY INTEREST TRAILERS

Back in 2013 we covered the Kickstarter campaign for the movie WInning Dad. Now the film is complete and heading for release very soon in the US exclusively through Vimeo-On-Demand. And to get you ready, we have the trailer.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Set in Seattle and its surrounding forests, “Winning Dad” tells the story of Colby, an out gay man whose conservative father only begrudgingly accepts his sexual orientation. This quiet denial of Colby’s lifestyle means his dad doesn’t know about his new serious love, Rusty. Colby is convinced that, given the chance, his father and his boyfriend will get along great. He just needs to find the right way for them to meet and bond…

‘In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to grant marriage rights to same sex couples, the movie explores how the narrative of the LGBT struggle in America is evolving. It tackles the lingering generational gap that divides the country’s attitudes on issues of LGBT equality, and also bridges the cultural divide embodied in today’s partisan politics.

‘The film takes the risk of allowing its audience to empathize with the homophobic father. Says Allen: “My experience on a testosterone-fueled ship made me want to tell a story where the homophobe gets a word in. Not because he is right, but because he has the right to say what he feels; if he doesn’t, he won’t grow out of it, he’ll only simmer quietly. ‘Winning Dad’ works in part because even the homophobic character earns your sympathy.”

‘”Winning Dad” tells a tale of generational misunderstanding in a whole new way: fresh, surprising, and moving, it employs a gentle touch to encourage everyone to embrace their own complexity and the complexity of others.’

Take a look at the trailer below. [Read more…]

South America really does seem to have a knack for making great gay-themed movies, and hopefully that will continue with the Brazilian movie Aya Arcos.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Maximilian Moll’s first feature film, AYA ARCOS, roams with its two unequal heroes around a never-cooling Rio de Janeiro, a city in which beauty and melancholy, life’s ease and its difficulty, often go side by side. Edu, a successful author, falls in love with 21-year- old hustler Fabio.

‘Their relationship is wild and passionate. Fabio enjoys his carefree life. Their sex is unprotected and, to Edu’s mind, much too dangerous. But it becomes increasingly clear to the older of the two that he has always shied away from love. A human being is a cheap spectacle is what he believes. Much too late he now discovers what it means to live for the moment.’

The film will be released on DVD in the UK in January by TLA Releasing.

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Executive produced by Susan Sarandon, the documentary Deep Run has been having a great run at various film festivals, winning awards along the way. It’s also just been see at the DOC NYC fest in New York.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Executive produced by LGBTQ supporter Susan Sarandon and shot by first-time filmmaker Hillevi Loven, DEEP RUN is a powerful verité portrait of trans life in rural North Carolina. Exiled by her family and rejected by an ex, 17-year-old Spazz has no one to lean on for support.

‘But when Spazz falls in love again and summons up the courage to become Cole, a strong-willed trans man, his candid humor and steadfast, all-inclusive Christian beliefs counter the bigotry he experiences daily. This intimate documentary reveals rebirth and courage within America’s deeply conservative Bible Belt.’

You can watch the film’s trailer below.

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In the past couple of decades there has been a lot of effort put into rediscovering and recording LGBT history. To a certain extent it has been full-on detective work, due to the fact oppression – both legal and societal – meant very little about the history of gay people was documented, and if it was, it was from a one-sided, negative perspective.

Even so, due to the lack of documentary evidence created at the time, it’s still often diffulcult to get a real picture of what it was like to be queer in the past. Director Stu Maddux has set out to help address that with Reel In The Closet, which introduces us to a bunch of archivists whose mission is to digitise and preserve queer home movies, secretly preserved news pieces and other footage.

The documentary includes plenty of that footage, from a lesbian nightclub 65 years ago to rare scenes from the White Night Riots, which were sparked after Harvey Milk’s killer recieved a lenient sentence, along with plenty of peeps into the everyday lives of gays and trans people in decades gone by.

The movie is currently doing the festival circuit, including a screening a couple of days ago at DOC NYC. You can watch the fascinating trailer below. [Read more…]

We posted a trailer for Perfect Cowboy way back in the summer of 2014, ahead of its Outfest premiere. However it’s only now that’s it’s been released on DVD in the US via Breaking Glass Pictures, which has release a new promo, which you can watch below.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Jimmy Poole gets out of prison, eager to rejoin his novelty/country band and to reunite with his family.  His longtime lover/partner, Tyler, has put his son, Jimmy’s step son Mark, into the band while Jimmy was away.  When Jimmy’s kicks Mark out of the band, the resentments fly and the family feuding begins.

‘Trying to acclimate to his old life, Jimmy goes back to his heavy drinking.  Mark’s marriage to a conservative Christian woman is in trouble and his identity in question.  His father, Jimmy’s partner Ty, is caught in the middle of deep family fighting.

‘After a brutal fight between Jimmy and Mark, the latter seeks the council of his estranged mother, an ex drug addict.  Through her, Mark decides to starts his life over by accepting a performer position in a Branson, MIssouri amusement park show.

‘Jimmy and Ty try to heal their relationship.  A huge obstacle arises when Jimmy is forced to admit to Tyler that he has contracted HIV in prison.  Tyler is not sure that he can forgive Jimmy’s infidelity, and is petrified by Jimmy’s “condition.”  Tyler moves out of the house.

‘In Branson, Mark thrives and learns to understand and embrace the flamboyant entertainment world.  He’s now ready to accept his fathers fully.  He goes home for Thanksgiving, where all try to reunite.’ [Read more…]

She’s a drag legend and a winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race, and now Bianca Del Rio is getting her own comedy special, which is also one of Vimeo’s very first pieces of original programming.

They’ve just released a trailer for Live In Austin special, which is debut to debut on December 2nd at Vimeo.com/Rolodex.

Del Rio won season six of RuPaul’s Drag Race, was recently named one of Variety’s ‘Ten Comics to Watch in 2015,’ and was deemed ‘The Joan Rivers of the Drag World’ by the New York Times. Del Rio (Roy Haylock) is still performing the sold out international hit Rolodex of Hate Tour, which Vimeo filmed live in Austin this fall.

Watch the trailer below.

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Although some people still have problems with same sex parents, there are plenty more out there ready to say there’s no real issue – and that includes most of those raised by LGBT people.

Gayby Baby looks into ‘the lives of four kids – Gus, Ebony, Matt and Graham – whose parents all happen to be gay. As they each wrestle with the onset of puberty, the outside world wrestles with the issue of marriage equality, and whether or not kids of same-sex families are at risk.’

Maya Newell’s documentary is due to have its New York premiere on November 18th at the DOC NYC: The New York Documentary Film Festival, but if you want to get a taste, you can watch the trailer below.

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