The 48th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) opens on Thursday, September 7th with the international premiere of Oscar-winning director Hayao Miyazaki's animated epic The Boy and the Heron (Kimitachi wa Do Ikiruka) and comes to a close on Sunday, September 17th with the world premiere of Thom Zimny's Sylvester Stallone documentary Sly, exploring the close... Continue Reading →
With the 2023 Tribeca Festival opening tonight in New York, running until June 18th, we take a look at some of the LGBTQ+ highlights in this year's exciting lineup of narrative, documentary, and animated feature films and shorts. The fact the festival lands in the city during Pride Month is not lost on Faridah Gbadamosi,... Continue Reading →
The third annual NewFest Pride Summer Film Series, running June 1st - 5th, 2023 in New York, will kick off Pride month in the city in style, featuring a mix of exclusive in-person premieres and panels, virtual screenings, and social events. Fairyland. Courtesy of NewFest. Among the nine feature films being shown, is the opening... Continue Reading →
This Friday, March 24th, sees the opening of the 20th annual Outfest Fusion QTBIPOC Film Festival in Los Angeles, running in-person and virtually until April 2nd, with screenings, free community workshops, and networking events. At the Opening Night Gala at the JACCC Aratani Theatre, Pier Kids and The Inspection filmmaker Elegance Bratton will be honored with the... Continue Reading →
Earth Worship, award-winning fine art photographer Steven Menendez's latest exhibition—running at The SoHo Project Space in New York Thursday, March 30th - Saturday, April 8th, 2023—features a stunning series of landscapes and sensual portraits of male nudes "in states of bliss in the majesty of nature". Earth Worship - Steven Menendez fine art photography exhibition... Continue Reading →
The 37th BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival opens tonight with Kristen Lovell and Zackary Drucker’s outstanding The Stroll which received its world premiere in the US Documentary Competition at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, going on the win that section’s Special Jury Award for Clarity of Vision. It tells the collective history of the transgender... Continue Reading →
Renowned HIV+ theatre maker and queer arts producer Jeremy Goldstein surveys Sydney WorldPride Arts for The Queer Review, and finds a radically inclusive multi-artform festival of gender, identity, and sexuality. Beyond the Mardi Gras and the usual circuit parties, WorldPride Arts reinvents the harbour city as one of the world’s greatest LGBTQIA+ cultural destinations. I... Continue Reading →
Explorations of intimate queer relationships by 48 LGBTQIA+ artists are currently on show at a two-part New York exhibition at Lehman College Art Gallery in the Bronx and La MaMa Galleria in Lower Manhattan. Queer Love: Affection & Romance in Contemporary Art presents paintings, photographs, sculpture, video, and multimedia works that celebrate queer carnality, camaraderie,... Continue Reading →
G'day from gay down under. WorldPride (yes, all one word - I imagine it's said like, "Just Jack!") hits Sydney, Australia February 17th - March 5th, and there's plenty more than the de rigueur circuit parties and Kylie gigs to enjoy. The vibrant local arts scene has a range of options to keep you entertained... Continue Reading →
The lineup for the 30th anniversary of Queer Screen’s Mardi Gras Film Festival—running February 15th until March 2nd, 2023—has just been announced including several world and Australian premieres. A total of 166 films will screen over 16 days in cinemas, outdoors, and on demand at home alongside a program of panel discussions, workshops, industry networking... Continue Reading →
