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…]
While some movies hang around in pre-production for years and years, that wasn’t the case with Kiss Me, Kill Me, which was announced last October, given the greenlight in November, had wrapped production by the end of February and now has a poster.
Looking arrived with great fanfare on TV in early 2014, but while it attracted a lot of interest and comment, it never became a big ratings winner for HBO. As a result shortly after Looking – Season 2 aired it was revealed that it had been cancelled, although there is still the promise of an upcoming two-hour Looking movie to help wrap things up.
Roland Emmerich may be best known for creating major disasters in everything from The Day After Tomorrow to 2012, but now the gay director is going for something that may be a little more Oscar friendly, with Stonewall.
With the great steps forward being taken for gay rights in the US such as the Supreme Court gay marriage victory, there is little doubt that there has been vocieferous and nastily spiteful backlash from those who still don’t like the gays. Unfortunately, as many of those whose opinions are at the more extreme right-wing end of the spectrum like to go into State politics, that’s led to a raft of anti-gay laws being proposed and passed in various states.
While the straight folks generally stick to monogamy (or at least that’s what they tell one another), in the gay world it’s a bit of a more complex issue, with many couples agreeing that they can have a bit of fun with someone else if they want to, or that they will play with someone else together.
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.
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.
After its successful first outing last year, the Transgender Film Festival London is returning to the Cinema Museum on August 15th for its second edition.
Official Info: It’s “The Golden Girls” meets “Murder, She Wrote” with big, gay, hairy men (aka “Bears”)! The award-winning web series is BACK and better than ever having launched yet another incredibly successful Kickstarter campaign!