Many people will have grown up the only gay person in their family, but what about when at least one of your brothers or sisters is also gay? That’s what the documentary Gay Siblings wants to explore, and the filmmakers are currently looking for funding for the first major phase of filming through an Indiegogo campaign.

The documentary will comes from the team of Liz Collier and Cat McShane (who have 20 combined years of documentary filmmaking experience between them), with the latter knowing a fair bit about the subject as she’s the younger of two gay siblings. According to a release, ‘this film will zig-zag across the globe to investigate the rarely explored phenomenon of gay siblings, delving deep into the heart of the gloriously messy and complex world of 21st Century family and telling the stories of extraordinary queer families.

‘From two families with four gay bothers and sisters at their heart, to an upper class mum who took to the Daily Mail to tell the world about her gay daughters, Italian queer triplets with a unique family business and gay twins sister coming to terms with one of them transitioning, our stories open a window on the changing face of family.

‘It is a warm portrait of people’s passionate stories and a unique platform to explore current gay civil rights issues including the fight for gay marriage, same sex parenting and the search for the gay gene.’

The IndieGoGo campaign is currently looking for $7,500, and as usual is offering various rewards depending on how much you give. This money would go towards filming in the United States, where some of our key contributors are based, and key filming in the UK.  Events and interviews include a once-in-a-lifetime family gathering of one of our highest multiple gay sibling families and interviews with some of the world’s leading geneticists working in the field of gay genetics.

If you’d like to help, watch the film above and head over to IndieGoGo.

While you might be surprised to hear most celebrities had bought a gay club, with Drew Barrymore it’s perhaps more surprising she doesn’t already have one. According to the National Enquirer (so possibly not true), she’s purchased the Revolver nightspot, which features scantily clad male go-go dancers.

The Enquirer quotes a source saying that Barrymore ‘loves the gay scene’ and allegedly has her sights on another nearby watering hole called Eleven, which she and her friends would like to own.

If you live in LA, don’t rush down and expect to find her behind the bar, as the Gossip Cop website says her representtive denies Barrymore is buying either joint, although her business associate does own Revolver and is looking into taking over Eleven.

Back in the early 1980s, it was generally seen as career suicide to ‘play gay’, but that didn’t mean stars weren’t interested in roles with a bit of homoerotic subtext. That seems to be true of Richard Gere, who’s told EW that one of the reasons he chose to star in American Gigolo was because of its gay themes.

In an interview that takes in his thought on many of his most popular films, he says, “Paul [Schrader, the film’s writer and director] came to see me in Malibu and said, ‘You’ve got to say yes to this by tomorrow at the latest.’ I read it and I thought, ‘This is a character I don’t know very well. I don’t own a suit. He speaks languages; I don’t speak any languages. There’s kind of a gay thing that’s flirting through it and I didn’t know the gay community at all.’ I wanted to immerse myself in all of that and I had literally two weeks. So I just dove in. If I recall, [the nudity] wasn’t in the script. It was just in the natural process of making the movie. I certainly felt vulnerable, but I think it’s different for men than women.”

The reason Gere only had two weeks is that John Travolta dropped out shortly before shooting was set to begin (perhaps even back then he was trying to avoid the gay rumours that have followed him around for decades). Indeed Gere has a lot to thank Travolta for, as it was the Grease star dropping out of American Gigolo, Days Of Heaven and An Officer And A Gentleman that essentially handed Richard his career.

American Gigolo is about a man who makes his money as an escort to wealthy older women, but whose life gets complicated when one of his clients is murdered. The same year as Gigolo was released, Gere took to the Broadway stage in the play Bent, about gay people in a Nazi concentration camp, which at the time was seen as a brave move for a young actor of the verge of stardom.