A year or so ago the BBC put out a talent call for ideas for ideas that included trans* people and lives, as they had realised that while their public service remit means they are supposed to reflect all parts of British society, this is one area they’d pretty much ignored.
One of the main things to come from this effort is the upcoming sitcom Boy Meets Girl, which made a few headlines when it was announced due to the unfortunately rare fact that it cast a trans* woman, Rebecca Root, in one of the lead roles, rather than handing it to a cisgender actor.
Boy Meets Girls was created by Trans Comedy Award winner Elliott Kerrigan, alongside Simon Carlyle and Andrew Mettam. As well as Root, the series stars Harry Hepple as the ‘boy’ of the title, as well as the likes of Denise Welch, Janine Duvitski, Nigel Betts, Lizzie Roper and Jonny Dixon.
Boy Meets Girl has been compared to Gavin & Stacey, focussing on the developing relationship between Leo and Judy. However this isn’t a show that’s only about the issue trans* people face in the dating world, as there’s also a mini May-December thing going one as Leo is 26 and Judy is 40, and both have plenty of other things to negotiate.
Now the first 30-second promo for the show has been released, which you can take a look at below. The show will air in the UK later this year on BBC2. [Read more…]
After receiving huge amounts of positive buzz at the Cannes film festival (with some suggesting it could be a strong runner in the Oscar race), Carol is gearing up for release later this year. Something that will help keep it in people’s minds if the fact it’s been announced that Todd Haynes’ beautiful 1950s set drama will screen as the American Express Gala and the 59th BFI London Film Festival.
The first things most people think of when they think ‘male strippers’ is ‘vampires’. No, they don’t, but that’s no reason why we shouldn’t mix them together! That’s the idea behind Male Strippers Must Die. However, while the movie already has a trailer (which you can watch below), it hasn’t gone into production yet, partly because it needs some more cash, which it’s hoping to raise via an ambitious $125,000 
Actor Gerald McCullouch is probably best known to general audiences for his recurring role on CSI and to gay audiences as one of the main characters in the Bear City film series. Now though he’s turned director (and star) for Daddy, which has just released its first trailer.
After a successful run at festivals a couple of years ago, The New Black has now arrived on Netflix in the US, but if you want to see whether it’s a gay-themed documentary that’s worth a watch, you can take a look at the trailer below.
There are quite a few high-profile LGBT-themed films starring well-known actors coming out before the end of the year, including Freeheld (starring Ellen Page and Julianne Moore) and Stonewall (with Jeremy Irvine). There’s also About Ray, starring Elle Fanning, Naomi Watts and Susan Sarandon, which we haven’t heard as much about, until now with the arrival of a trailer.
It’s slightly difficult to know what Closet Monster is all about from this trailer, although it certainly make if look adgy and intriguing.
In the last few years South America has become the brithplace of some of the most interesting gay-themed cinema around. Hopefully that will continue with In The Grayscale, from Chile, which Wolfe Video will release in the US this November.
It’s certainly worth making a new movie about the Stonewall riots, as while most people have heard of them, even many gay people have no idea what actually happened, beyond the fact it’s the place where the modern gay rights fight is said to have started.
In early 2014 the sexy French-Canadian series Coming Out was released on DVD in the UK. Now the Second Season is on its way, with an October British release planned, and a trailer to give us a taste for the 12 episode series has arrived.