Things are getting heated in Australia as voting happens in the country’s same-sex marriage referendum. With the postal vote taking place over several weeks, it’s allowing passions to get heated on both sides, with the ‘no’ camp getting hysterical enough that they tried to stop Macklemore from singing ‘Same Love’ at a sporting event, as if that was going to be the deciding factor.
Aussie stars who’s stood up to speak out have nearly all been in the ‘yes’ camp, and perhaps not too surprisingly that now includes Hugh Jackman, who’s long been a supporter of gay rights. He took to Twitter to says that he and his wife Deborah-Lee Furness, ‘believe all Australians deserve to be treated equally under the law. That’s why Deb & I are voting YES #equality and #love!’
Jackman joins the likes of Kylie and Danni Minogue,and Chris and Liam Hemsworth, who’ve voiced their support for same sex marriage in Australia. Polls suggest a majority of Aussie support a change in the law, but even so it’s believed the vote may be close, partly as it’s believed those opposing same sex marriage are more likely to vote than those who either support or are ambivalent about it. The final result will be announced in November. [Read more…]
Over the past year, The Ornithologist has been picking up plaudits at festivals around the world, winning numerous awards along the way. It’s taken a while to get to the UK, but now it’s on its way, arriving in select cinemas on October 6th, before hitting DVD/VoD in early November.
Synopsis: ‘Gunner receives a strange phone call from his ex-boyfriend, Einar, months after they broke up. Einar sounds distraught, like he’s about to do something terrible to himself, so Gunnar drives up to the secluded cabin where Einar is holed up and soon discovers that there’s more going on than he imagined. As the two men come to terms with their broken relationship, some other person seems to be lurking outside the cabin, wanting to get in.’
Central and South America has become very good at producing entertaining and sexy LGBT cinema. It looks like we’ve got another one on the cards with Body Electric.
A few years ago out actor Russell Tovey had never played a gay character on screen. That’s certainly changed, as he’s played a range of interesting LGBT characters in everything from Looking to Quantico. Now he’s set to play a gay superhero as part of an upcoming four-episode Arrow-verse crossover event, which will bring together the characters from the likes of Arrow, Supergirl and The Flash.
Director Bryan Singer is busy putting the final pieces in place for Bohemian Rhapsody, the biopic of Freddie Mercury and the band, Queen. The latest to join is Aaron McCusker, who’s set to play Jim Hutton, Freddie Mercury’s boyfriend.
