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Films about drug addicted male hustlers is pretty much its a subgenre of queer cinema in its own right, and has been for many years. Now a new entry is coming in the form of Love in the Time of Civil War, which has screened at the likes of the prestigious Toronto International Film Festival.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Alex is a young addict who sells his body in Montreal. He’s flanked by Bruno, Simon, Jeanne, Eric and Velma, all of them caught in the same spiral of compulsion. Hostage to society’s market logic, they are the fallen angels of a dark and violent time.’

Breaking Glass Pictures will release the movie in the US later this year. You can take a look at the trailer for the movie below. [Read more…]

Add the Words recently screened at the Outfest LGBT film festival in LA. However if you’re elsewhere in the US, you don’t been to be at the fest to watch it, as thanks to a team-up between Outfest and DirectTV as selection of film, including Add The Words is streaming for free.

However if you’re outside the US or in American and want to know whether it’s worth a watch, take a look at the trailer below.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Since 2006 the LGBT community and human rights supporters have asked Idaho lawmakers to add the words sexual orientation and gender identity to the Idaho Human Rights Act. It is still lawful in this state to fire someone or refuse services or housing because of how they identify.

‘For 8 years Nicole LaFavor, Idaho’s first openly Gay Legislator, was told, “we can’t this year because of the political climate. But behave, and we will get to it next year.”

‘Eight years later, supporters of Add The Words are no longer BEHAVING!

‘With their left hands covering their mouths to symbolize how the Idaho legislators have worked to silence them. They have begun an effective civil disobedience campaign.

‘This documentary is their story.’

If you’re in the US, download the app on Google Play or iTunes, or visit OutfestOnline.com to watch Add The Words and the other LGBT-themed films that are streaming. [Read more…]

Greg Louganis is a legend in the US, particularly thanks to his incredible feat of becoming the first man in Olympic history to sweep the diving events in consecutive Olympic Games, winning four golds, along with five World Championship titles.

Since then he’s become a legend in a different way, for being a bit of a trailblazer in the gay rights movement and being one of the most high profile figures living with HIV. The docuemntary, Back On Board: Greg Louganis will take a look at the sportman, and we’ve got a couple of clips you can watch beloe.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Now 55, Greg Louganis was adopted before his first birthday and grew up in Southern California, taking up diving at age nine. Throughout a difficult childhood, he was forced to deal with depression, bullying and prejudice.

‘Louganis won the silver medal in the 10M Platform event at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal at age 16. In 1978, his diving skills earned him a scholarship to the University of Miami. Three years later, following the United States boycott of the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow, where Louganis would have been the favorite in two diving events, he returned to Southern California to finish his degree and diving career at the University of California, Irvine.

‘He became a full-fledged international diving star in 1984. At the Summer Games in Los Angeles, Louganis won gold medals in the 10M Platform and 3M Springboard events. Four years later in Seoul, he became the only male diver in history to win those events in back-to-back Olympic Games.

‘In one of the most notable moments of his storied career, Louganis suffered a cut on his head when he hit the diving board during a preliminary round of the Seoul Games, but went on to win his gold medals days later. Though the American public originally lauded Louganis for his competitive spirit, it was not known at the time that he had tested positive for HIV six months earlier. When Louganis later announced that he was HIV-positive, it sparked outrage over his original non-disclosure of the virus and sparked a nationwide conversation about HIV/AIDS and sports.

‘Greg Louganis announced to the world that he was gay in the mid-1990s, but it was a not a well-kept secret in the diving world before that. During his dominance in the 1980s, many sponsors knew of his sexual orientation, which limited his marketability – just one example of the homophobia and hateful rhetoric that followed him long before and after his official announcement that he was gay.

‘Ending a prolonged absence from the diving world, Louganis has returned to mentor the next generation of American divers. BACK ON BOARD: GREG LOUGANIS offers unprecedented access to the Olympian as he struggles with financial security and reunites with the sport that he once dominated, but did not feel accepted in. The film examines the good times and bad times, including the choices, relationships and missed opportunities Louganis has experienced throughout his career as a sports pioneer.’

The film premieres on HBO in the US on August 4th. [Read more…]

On Wednesday, July 15, TLC in the US will premiere I Am Jazz, about 14 year old Jazz Jennings, an average teenage girl who just happened to be assigned male at birth.

From early childhood, Jazz wanted to be seen as the girl she knew she was. With the support of her parents, doctors and experts, that dream has come true. Now, as Jazz enters adolescence, she learns to navigate how a transgender teen approaches dating, sleepovers, and avoiding male puberty as she prepares for high school.

If you’re interested in the show, you can take a look at the teaser and opening of the series. It certainly looks like it could be an interesting one, and it may be one reality show that’s actually worth watching. [Read more…]

Synopsis: ‘Female auteur, Nanouk Leopold creates a sensual, beautifully made film about discovering yourself.

‘Helmer, a farmer, takes care of his elderly father in the remote Dutch countryside. His working days are marked by the visits of milk collector Johan, for whom Helmer holds a secret fascination.

‘As he attempts to find happiness within himself, a series of encounters with adolescent farmhand Henk awakens desires he has tried hard to repress.

‘Based on Gerbrand Bakker’s international bestseller ‘The Twin’, IT’S ALL SO QUIET is characterised by an ambient beauty: a reflection on solitude and sexuality.’

The film is released on DVD in the UK on August 10th 2015. [Read more…]

Timothy Conigrave’s memoir Holding The Man is beloved by many, especially amongst people in its native Australia, where the book has already become a stage play and is now a film.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Tim and John fell in love at their all boys high-school while both were teenagers. John was captain of the football team. Tim an aspiring actor playing the lead in Romeo and Juliet. Their romance endured for 15 years to laugh in the face of everything life threw at it – the separations, the discriminations, the temptations, the jealousies and the losses – until the only problem that love can’t solve, tried to destroy them.

‘Ryan Corr and Craig Stott will star in this remarkable true-life story as Timothy Conigrave and John Caleo, whose enduring love affair has been immortalised in both Tim’s cult-classic and hilarious memoir and Tommy Murphy’s award-winning stage play of the same name. Murphy has adapted Tim’s book for the screen.’

As you may have guessed the greatest obstacle they face from the 1970s into the 1990s is the spectre of AIDS.

The great cast of Holding The Man also includes Kerry Fox, Sarah Snook, Anthony LaPaglia and Guy Pearce.

It’s due out in Australia on August 27th, and will hopefully make to other parts of the world soon. [Read more…]

It’s just a few days until one the world’s biggest LGBT film festivals, LA’s Outfest, kicks off, and one of the movies that will be screening this year is Suzanne Guacci’s stuff.

Ahead of that premiere, the trailer has arrived and you can watch it below.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Stuff stars Yvonne Jung (“Third Watch”), Karen Sillas (What Happened Was…), Traci Dinwiddie (Elena Undone), Phyllis Somerville (“The Big C”) and Kevin Brown (“30 Rock”). Guacci directs her cast through a relatable and heart wrenching story of a couple that has lost sight of each other amid their day to day lives. With honest emotions and no clear villains or answers, Stuff explores how a relationship can get off track and the struggle to navigate the trials that life throws at us.’

Stuff screens at the Harmony Gold Theater at 3pm on July 12th. Tickets are available via the Outfest website.  [Read more…]