THE POWER OF PERSPECTIVE: Scorsese, Pitbull, ‘Bionic Woman’ provide star power at San Diego International Film Festival
by chris carpenter – The 18th annual San Diego International Film Festival (SDIFF) will celebrate a diverse array of movies and artists from Tuesday, October 15 through Sunday, October 20. This year’s festival has a theme of “The Power of Perspective. Come Watch With Us.” The festival is the signature annual event presented by the […]
Cinema Diverse 2019: Holy, Hot, and Sexy
by chris carpenter – Back-to-school month sees the return of the 12th annual edition of Cinema Diverse: The Palm Springs LGBTQ Film Festival, whose mission is, “dedicated to advancing and further strengthening our diverse gay community through the establishment of a world-class film festival that presents lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender cinema from around the […]
Love Outside Convention: Director Chanya Button Discusses “Vita & Virginia”
by joel martens ~ History has a lot to teach us about fighting for what you want in the face of oppressive social conventions. Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West were two women who—though alive at a time when expectations of marriage, motherhood and subservience to a husband were de rigueur—quietly defying those strictures by creating […]
“Q” Stands for “Queen” at QFilms 2019
by chris carpenter – Raise your hand if you have heard of José Julio Sarria, aka “The Grand Mere, Absolute Empress I de San Francisco,” aka “The Widow Norton” of the Imperial Court? I was recently humbled to learn that I did not know about this gender non-conformist who reigned over San Francisco gay society […]
Brittany Runs a Marathon: Beyond the Obvious With Director Paul Downs Colaizzo
~ by joel martens ~ Being the brunt of a joke is a trope that the media industry has relied upon for a very long time. The “Nellie” gay guy, the ditzy, dumb blonde or the funny fat girl are all characters we all know and have laughed at. Outliers who don’t always get that […]
RAGE Reviews: Gay Days of Summer
by chris carpenter – The typically over-heated month of August has long been referred to as the “dog days” of summer. I have no idea why. This year, however, we can think of August as the gay days of summer based on all the LGBTQ-themed movies now in theaters, on home video, or fresh from […]
“Scream, Queen!” Infamy, Horror and Mark Patton at Outfest Los Angeles
by chris carpenter – This month’s 37th annual Outfest, the Los Angeles LGBTQ Film Festival, promises to be a total scream. Among the approximately 200 short and feature-length films from around the world to be screened, is an eye opening documentary exploring the gay/anti-gay history of one of the most notorious horror films of all […]
Cheyenne Jackson: The Life of a Family Man
FROM AMERICAN HORROR STORY TO DISNEY’S LORD OF THE UNDERWORLD by joel martens What can I say? We have a fascination with Mr. Cheyenne Jackson. He’s a handsome, talented, gay man who is super-funny and plays sexy, dark characters who have a tendency to live on the wild side. On American Horror Story’s fifth season, […]
The Imperial Council: 50 Years of Fabulous – Holding Court and Bearing Witness
by tim parks – As one of the oldest LGBT organizations around the globe and certainly the oldest in North America, the International Court System of the United States, Canada and Mexico has a rich and storied history. Founded in San Francisco by renown activist, drag queen and performer José Julio Sarria in 1965—who would […]
Get Your Shorts Off! Palm Springs International ShortFest Turns 25
by chris carpenter – Temperatures are heating up in Palm Springs, so shorts will be going on and coming off with abandon this month… short films that is! Approximately 325 of them will be screened during the 25th Anniversary Palm Springs International ShortFest. The largest short film event in North America, ShortFest programmers receive […]