While in LA for the Oscars, Eddie Redmayne took time out to head the Los Angeles LGBT Youth Center, where he met some of the users of the service – something he’s described as shocking, such as learning that 40% of Los Angeles’s homeless youth are LGBT. He also took the time while there to record a video in order to help raise some funds.
Redmayne of course played Lile Elbe in The Danish Girl, about one of the first people to undergo gender confirmation surgery. Following a few comments that raised eyebrows – such as his suggestion that his movie had single-handedly thrust transgender issues into the limelight – it appears he decided to go and see what the real issues are for himself.
The LA LGBT Youth Center is the only place in the city to offer 24/7 support to young LGBT people, including housing and other services. It relies on the public for support, so if you want to help out, head to http://www.lalgbtcenter.org/donate. Take a look at Eddie PSA below.
We’ve had a couple fo brief looks at Pixar’s return to the sea for Finding Dory, but it’s only now that we’ve got a proper trailer, which gives us a good look at the movie, with Ellen Degeneres’ forgetful fish finding out about her past.
If only when he was winning, Sam Smith had said he was an openly gay man and proud to be part of the LGBT community, and left it at that. However, his mistaken contention that no openly gay person had ever won an Oscar (plenty have, but no openly gay actor has) resulted in anger, ridicule and a lot of people wincing at his faux pas.
In mathematical circles there are few people as respected as Srinavasa Ramanujan, a man who managed to make major strides in the field, despite the fact the he was almost completely self-taught and developed his skills in isolation. It’s almost surprising a major biopic about him has never been made before, but now one is on its way.
They’ve dealt with continental drift, coming face ot face with dinosaurs, a massive thaw, and for one of them the inability to hang on to acorns. However, in Ice Age: Collision Course the threat is a bit more cosmic. You can get a taste in the trailer below.
Synopsis: ‘In the 3D animated comedy, The Angry Birds Movie, we’ll finally find out why the birds are so angry.
What We Have has had a successful run at LGBT film festivals around the world and is now making its way to DVD. As a result, we’ve got a new trailer.
In the last couple of weeks you could have been forgiven for thinking that it was just a formality that The Revenant would get the Best Picture Oscar, but in the end things worked out differently as the excellent Spotlight picked up the biggest gong. However, The Revenant didn’t leave empty-handed, with Alejandro González Iñárritu picking up his second Best Director Oscar in a row (only the third person to do so), Emmanuel Lubezki getting Best Cinematography, and Leonardo DiCaprio finally getting a Best Actor gong.
Over the past few months stories and video of actress Ellen Page has been doing the rounds, showing her confronting notorious homophobes such as GOP presidential hopeful Ted Cruz. It’s all been as part of her new docu-series project, Gaycation, which sees her travelling to different parts of the world alongside best friend, Ian Daniel, to see LGBT life in numerous different countries and explore how those people are treated and the struggles many of them face.