My mother took me to my first concert when I was a young teen. Ever the stylish trailblazer, she wore a halter top, hot pants, go-go boots and a cape as she led me into a giant arena in Cleveland to see none other than Elton John. She stood and sang the whole time and... Continue Reading →
The third annual Split Screens TV Festival which opens today Wednesday 29th June and runs until Monday 3rd June in New York will honour the trailblazing writer, producer, director, author and podcast host Janet Mock with its 2019 Vanguard Award. Although Janet Mock will be unable to attend the event in person on Saturday 1st... Continue Reading →
As part of New York's LGBTQ film festival NewFest's monthly Coming Out Again series at The Quad cinema, filmmaker and actor John Cameron Mitchell will present director Douglas Hickox's 1970 dark comedy Entertaining Mr Sloane, based on the play by Joe Orton. Mitchell, who can be seen in the new Hulu series Shrill, describes Sloane on the Quad... Continue Reading →
As part of the New York Public Library's (NYPL) Stonewall 50 exhibition and related series of events, this Thursday 14th March 6 - 8pm The Drag March & Other Tales of Glamour and Resistance: A Storytelling Workshop will take place at Tompkins Square Library, East Village. Open to all, its the first in a series of... Continue Reading →
Al Pacino in William Friedkin's Cruising, 1980. As William Friedkin’s controversial movie Cruising starring Al Pacino as an undercover cop investigating a serial killer targeting gay men turns forty in 2020, Friedkin announced on twitter than he’s just finished work on a new home entertainment edition to be released in the UK this year. See... Continue Reading →
Following its world premiere at last year’s Toronto Film Festival, Chanya Button’s Vita & Virginia will open the 2019 BFI Flare London LGBTQ+ Film Festival on 21st March. Adapted from a play by Elieen Atkins, Elizabeth Debicki stars as Virginia Woolf opposite Gemma Arterton as the enigmatic aristocrat Vita Sackville-West. The film focuses on their passionate... Continue Reading →
Shot on black and white film, which gives the movie an authentic, grainy, period look, the exquisite 1985 is directed and co-written by Yen Tan. Beautiful in its simplicity, all filmmaking elements come together with perfection to create an utterly absorbing, deeply moving film with fine performances all-round. Cory Michael Smith stars as Adrian, a... Continue Reading →
