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Not Looking Season 2 Trailer – The gay-themed web show is on its way back

March 24, 2015 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

A few weeks ago we posted about the gay-themed web series Not Looking seeking funding via Indiegogo for its second season. Well it reached its target and now that the Season 2 of Looking has ended on TV, it’s gearing up for its Funny Or Die release, and to help prepare us a trailer has been released.

As you can see there’ll be plenty of cameos. Drew Droege, Jason Looney, Justin Martindale and Jeremy Shane are back in the lead roles, while Lance Bass, Jai Rodriguez, Tim McKernan and Mitch Silpa will all return to. Jefferey Self is set to join the cast and there are a several well-known faces due to pop up too!

It’s been promised that the second season ‘is a much more ambitious undertaking and we will need all the help we can get! The story is way bigger and the jokes are way funnier!’

Take a look at the trailer below. As the makers say – It’s not Looking, it’s not Girls, it’s Not Looking.

And if you need to, you can catch up with the first season here. [Read more…]

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All Yours Trailer – An Argentinian rent boy & a middle-aged Belgian baker make for a mismatched gay couple

March 23, 2015 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Director David Lambert had plenty of success with the gay-themed arthouse flick Beyond The Walls in 2012, and now he’s back with All Yours, which takes a look at the type of gay ‘romance’ that doesn’t often get looked at in films.

The movie premiered at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, and here’s the synopsis from that fest: ‘Young Argentine Lucas arrives in a small Belgian town to visit gay bakery owner Henry, who fell in love with him through the internet; Lucas strutted his erotic stuff online in the hope of securing a better future for himself. Henry buys him a plane ticket to Europe, expecting in return that Lucas will not only share his bed but also help out at the bakery. However, their ideas about living together differ greatly. On top of that, Lucas gets to know a Canadian woman named Audrey and her son Jeff.

‘This unusual starting point for director Lambert serves his aim of delving deeply into our interpersonal relationships, our wishes and desires, and the understandable need for a supportive environment. The filmmaker succeeded in humorously describing and distinguishing the film’s characters and in aptly portraying their fragility and inner uncertainty. The bold musical and visual elements round out the picture’s compelling atmosphere, and are among the most telling aspects of the talented Belgian filmmaker’s unmistakable style.’

Breaking Glass Pictures has picked up the movie for release in the US, and you can take a look at the trailer below. [Read more…]

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DIRECTORS: David Lambert

Eating Out Director Q. Allan Brocka Takes On People You Know Gay Web Series

March 23, 2015 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Over the last few years Q. Allan Brocka has been a bit of a one-man LGBT film industry with the likes of Rick & Steve The Happiest Gay Couple In All The World, the award-winning Boy Culture and the popular Eating Out series of rom-coms.

Now though he’s heading online to direct upcoming episodes of the web series People You Know. Season One, Part One of the show has been online for a while, but now Brocka has signed on to direct Season One, Part Two of the gay dramedy. Created by Baltimore Russell and John Dylan DeLaTorre, People you Know is described as ‘a provocative series where the seven deadly sins corrupt a group of thirty-something urbanites, threatening their chance for happiness and love, as they strive to achieve their dreams while surviving the drama. At every turn, these friends get pushed to the limit and run the risk of losing all they hold dear.’

“I’m excited to be a part of People you Know. I love the serialized aspect of the show and can’t wait to get on set with all the actors and really amp up the drama,” Allan says about joining the series. “The character’s storylines are seamlessly interwoven with each other allowing me the opportunity to really play up the dramatic tension throughout the series.”

Season 1, Part 2 will begin filming in June for seven new episodes. It’s currently slated for release Winter 2015. You can take take a look at a promo for the pilot episode below. [Read more…]

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DIRECTORS: Q. Allan Brocka

BFI Flare London LGBT Film Festival Spin-off Will Become First Global Digital Gay Film Fest

March 18, 2015 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Morning Is Broken Short Film

The BFI Flare London LGBT Film Festival kicks off tomorrow with the gala premiere of James Franco and Zachary Quinto in I Am Michael. However there are plans to ensure that things aren’t just limited to London, as the BFi ‘fiveFilms4freedom‘ will become the world’s first digital, global, LGBT film festival.

The British Council, the UK’s international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities has announced that five short films from BFI Flare will be available to audiences around the world for the first time through BFI player, the British Film Institute’s online video service.

On Wednesday 25 March, fiveFilms4freedom will become a 24-hour campaign asking people everywhere to watch a film together over the course of one single day, and will be promoted through the British Council’s network in more than 50 countries and regions including across the Americas, China, India, Israel, Kosovo, Poland, Turkey, Ukraine and the Middle East. The idea is that this will be a chance for audiences, wherever they are, to enjoy a taster of LGBT cinema; to find out a little bit more about emerging LGBT filmmakers from around the world; and to show support for freedom and equality everywhere. fiveFilms4freedom is produced in partnership with Stonewall, the lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans equality charity.

The five films represent a cross section of contemporary LGBT short film. The films are made by lesbians, gay men and transgender filmmakers, and range from sweet short stories about first love to documenting activism. They are polished, rough, funny, sad and inspiring and each has a different voice. The films are:

An Afternoon (En Eftermiddag) Director Søren Green’s new short film is a sensitive exploration of nascent sexuality. Mathias and Frederik are two friends who spend an afternoon together; Mathias has decided that this is the time to tell Frederik that he is in love with him.
Chance Jake Graf’s self-funded short film premieres at BFI Flare. It focuses on older gay love and overcoming loneliness as a chance encounter between Trevor and a mysterious stranger equally troubled by his own past, forces both men to start to live again
Code Academy Canadian writer and director Nisha Ganatra is best known as Producer/Director of Transparent, the Golden Globe-winning TV series. In Code Academy, Frankie masquerades as a boy in futuristic cyberspace to get the girl of her dreams.
Morning Is Broken Director and writer Simon Anderson’s 2014 film is a beautifully shot coming-of-age drama set in the lush English countryside, following a young man’s struggle to come to terms with his sexuality at the end of his older brother’s wedding.
True Wheel Director Nora Mandray’s 2015 documentary focuses on Fender Bender, an inspirational bicycle workshop for queer, transgender and women’s communities in Detroit.

Alan Gemmell, Director fiveFilms4freedom, British Council comments, “fiveFilms4freedom is a ground-breaking LGBT film festival supporting freedom and equality all over the world and showcasing some of our finest short filmmakers. By bringing together the British Council and films from BFI Flare we are promoting LGBT cinema in countries that make up fifty percent of the world’s population. On 25 March we are asking the world to watch a movie together and show that love is a basic human right.”

BFI Flare London LGBT Film Festival runs from 19-29 March 2015, and will also attempt go beyond London’s borders not just with fiveFilms4freedom, but also by offering other gay-themed films to British audiences via BFI player, while some of the movies from Flare will screen at select cinemas around the country.

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Max Irons Lets The World Know He Wasn’t Impressed With His Dad Jeremy Irons’ Gay Marriage Comments

March 18, 2015 By Tim Isaac 2 Comments

A couple of years ago Oscar-winning actor Jeremy Irons rightly came in for a lot of criticism for comments he made to Huffpo live about gay marriage, where he suggested he thought it would allow fathers to marry their sons in order to avoid inheritance tax.

It’s taken a while, but now someone has asked what his actor son, Max Irons (Red Riding Hood, The Host, The Riot Club), what he thought about what his father said.

What Jeremy said back in 2013 was, “Could a father not marry his son?”

When it was pointed out that gay marriage wouldn’t legalise incest, he answered, “It’s not incest between men”, as “incest is there to protect us from inbreeding, but men don’t breed.” This led to him worrying fathers will marry sons just for the tax breaks, although it does seem that he genuinely believed incest between a father and son isn’t illegal (which is rather worrying).

He also added, “It seems to me that now they’re fighting for the name. I worry that it means somehow we debase, or we change, what marriage is. I just worry about that.”

Max though wasn’t impressed, telling OUT that after hearing about his dad’s comments, “I remember thinking, ‘You don’t know what you’re talking about, you’re thinking about a problem out loud.’ I know my father, I know his views are similar to mine. As long as you don’t harm anyone else, what you do and who you love are nobody’s business. He has since clarified as far as I understand, and truth be told, if you pushed him to explain what he was talking about, I don’t think he’d actually know.”

He also quips, “Well my father hasn’t proposed to me lately.”

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ACTORS: Max Irons, Jeremy Irons

James Franco Really Wants To Know Whether He’s Gay Or Not

March 18, 2015 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

James Franco has a very important question for James Franco – and it’s one many other people have wondered over the years – is he gay?

Franco doesn’t like to do the usual thing, so for an interview in Four Two Nine magazine, he decided he was going to interview himself, or at least the straight James was going to interview the gay James. That led to him asking himself the inevitable question

Here’s what he had to say: “Well, I like to think that I’m gay in my art and straight in my life. Although, I’m also gay in my life up to the point of intercourse, and then you could say I’m straight. So I guess it depends on how you define gay. If it means whom you have sex with, I guess I’m straight. In the twenties and thirties, they used to define homosexuality by how you acted and not by whom you slept with. Sailors would fuck guys all the time, but as long as they behaved in masculine ways, they weren’t considered gay.”

As so often with Franco, it’s an answer that sounds well thought out and articulate, but is actually less smart than it first appears. For a start, you can’t define homosexuality as anything but being sexually attracted to other men, as that’s what it means in a very literal sense. Being ‘gay’ meanwhile has a far greater social component, but even there justifying it by how people thought of it in the past ignores the role of prejudice and also ignorant perceptions of gender roles in how those earlier conceptions of sexuality were formed.

It also leaves open what it means to be ‘gay in my life up to the point of intercourse’, as it starts to sound like he’s trying to co-opt what he sees as the upside of gay-ness without having to personally deal with the downside – not the sex, but the bigotry and oppression many gay people face.

Franco is dealing with an interesting issue – how much of being ‘gay’ is to do with sexual attraction and how much is socially constructed, but what he says is rather ill-thought out. It’s nice he’s trying to work it out, but he could do with digging a little deeper.

The actor/director definitely has a fascination with gay subjects in his work, whether it’s starring in Howl and I Am Michael, or directing Sal and Interior Leather Bar – although even he needs to admit that in all those things, men having sex with other men (or at least having genuine sexual attraction to men) is not something that can be conveniently extracted from being gay.

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Matt Bomer & Cheyenne Jackson Join American Horror Story: Hotel

March 16, 2015 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

As was suggested before American Horror Story: Freak Show started airing, Jessica Lange has now confirmed that she’s ‘done’ with the show. While it may be sad to lose her, that doesn’t mean the next season won’t be getting a great cast – and it’s also getting a good quotient of gayness – as Vulture reports that at the LA TV Festival it was revealed Cheyenne Jackson and Matt Bomer will both appear in the upcoming American Horror Story: Hotel.

They join the previously announced Lady Gaga, with Bomer hopefully getting more screentime this time around than his brief appearance in Asylum. Jackson meanwhile is an AHS virgin.

There’s no news on who they might play, or indeed which of the other ‘regular’ actors wil return. Sarah Paulson has suggested she’d be happy to return if the scheduling works out, while Denis O’Hare also appears to be close to agreeing to do it.

Of her decision to leave, Lange didn’t give a full reason as to why she doesn’t want to stick around (in fact, quite the opposite), but did say, “We’ve had a great run. I have absolutely loved doing these four characters, and in all the madness, I loved the writers, actors, Ryan, the whole insanity of it, the stories, shooting here, shooting in New Orleans, everything… To cut to the chase, yes, I’m done.”

American Horror Story: Hotel will start airing on TV towards the end of 2015.

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ACTORS: Matt Bomer, Cheyenne Jackson, Jessica Lange

Drink Me Trailer – British vampire horror gets sexy and very gay

March 14, 2015 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Well, this looks like it might be pretty hot! Last year we had Richard Mansfield’s first feature-length film, the period thriller The Secret Path, and this year it’s the turn on his husband, Daniel, who’s offering a little vampiric horror with Drink Me.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘James and Andy, a sexy gay couple, seem to have everything they ever dreamed of…but things are about to change. Andy loses his job and they take in a handsome stranger called Sebastian. Nightmares come to life as Andy realizes that Sebastian is hiding a dark secret. Could Sebastian be the killer stalking the streets of their neighborhood? A classically sexy thriller – with a delicious vampiric touch – DRINK ME is a highly erotic and exciting film.’

The movie hits DVD on the US on April 14th before reaching the UK on April 27th. Take a look at the trailer below. [Read more…]

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New Seek Teaser Trailer – A shy writer is pulled into the gay clubbing world

March 14, 2015 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

We’ve previously had teasers for Seek on BGPS, but that was back before the movie has its world premiere. Now it’s been doing the festival circuit with some success and has been picked up for release by TLA Releasing.

The ‘film centers on Evan, a shy, budding young writer who attempts to shake off the torment of lost love while taking an assignment profiling an alluring club promoter who reigns over a world of music, lights, and drag queens. Around him are a group of twenty-something urbanites who all long for the same thing: approval. Whether it’s by someone they find attractive, or by the cities’ in crowd, or by the industry they work in, all strive for the proverbial higher branch, sometimes failing to recognize the fruit that lies within their reach.’

Ryan Fisher and Adrian Shepherd-Gawinski star, alongside Going Down In La La Land’s Matthew Ludwinski – and as you can see from the teaser below, they look good and so does the film. [Read more…]

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Jess & James Teaser Trailer – Two young gay men set off on a trip across South America

March 14, 2015 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Synopsis: ‘Jess is a bohemian youth with secrets to hide from his shrewd parents. James feels trapped living with his irritable mother. After meeting for a sexual encounter, the two young men set off on a spontaneous road trip across rural Argentina to reunite with Jess’ estranged brother.

‘On their journey, they confront strange occurrences and engage in a ménage à trois affair that brings them closer. Their newly found affection grows, all while discovering a fresh vision of freedom and happiness. Jess & James is a sexually charged road-trip movie, a love story, and a coming-of-age tale, set against the mythical landscape of rural Argentina’.

The film is currently playing film festivals and will be released by TLA Releasing in October. [Read more…]

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FILMS: Jess & James