A Very Natural Thing follows a New York school teacher on a search for love. He dates two very different men as he struggles to define the kind of homosexual he wants to be. Angst free sex is mixed with … Continue reading LGBT Movies: A Very Natural Thing (1974)
Sticks and Stones follows a squabbling gay couple who throw a party at their Fire Island beach house. The guests are a mix of hippies, divas and clowns who sing, chatter and hook up. The half improvised film had a … Continue reading LGBT Movies: Sticks and Stones (1970)
Do you remember the first time you saw a happy gay film? Mine was 1978’s La Cage Aux Folles. You may have seen the remake (1996’s The Birdcage) or the musical… but have you seen the sequels? In honor of … Continue reading LGBT Movies: The La Cage Aux Folles Trilogy
Doug, a popular upperclassman, takes Peter, a shy freshman, under his wing at the University of Toronto. Will they fall in love or is their romance only in Doug’s head? 22 year old director/co-writer David Secter kept things just ambiguous … Continue reading LGBT Movies: Winter Kept Us Warm (1965)
Querelle, a handsome sailor, visits a port town to explore his sexuality. There he commits a murder, betrays his friends and has lots of sex. Writer/Director Rainer Werner Fassbinder was experimenting with style. The pornographic story is performed by deadpan … Continue reading LGBT Movies: Querelle (1982)
“For as long as I can remember I’ve hated myself” ~ Rocketman. American culture says encouraging things to abuse survivors. “It wasn’t your fault.” “You deserve love.” “You can be healthy and successful.” These things come with conditions. “You just … Continue reading Movie Review: Rocketman (2019)
It is extraordinary, in this over-permissive age, to believe that this modest film could ever have been considered courageous, daring or dangerous to make. It was, in its time, all three.” ~Dirk Bogarde, Actor, c 1988. When a gay man … Continue reading LGBT Movies: Victim (1961)
‘I would like a Romeo and Romeo story about simple young men, working-class young men’ ~ Anthony Blond, Publisher In 1964 London’s biker culture was still in vogue, kitchen sink drama was all the rage and 1957’s Wolfenden Report had recommended … Continue reading LGBT Movies: The Leather Boys (1964)
A vapid rich couple acquires a handsome android servant. When the frustrated wife gets too friendly the yuppie husband gets jealous. How long till they push their new guest into HAL 9000 territory? Life Like succeeds as a campy erotic … Continue reading Movie Review: Life Like (2019)
Love that not even a war can destroy. A French peasant hides a wounded German soldier during World War II. They slowly fall in love. Philippe Vallois was directing Gay/Bi cinema in France well before it was mainstream. His tone … Continue reading LGBT Movies: We Were One Man (1979)
There’s an early scene in The White Crow where Rudolf Nureyev, the Russian ballet dancer, stares intently at his sleeping dorm mate. The man is naked with a sheet artfully arranged to show a hint of shapely buttock. The audience … Continue reading Movie Review: The White Crow (2019)
“Based on the book series The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare, Shadowhunters tells the story of humans with angelic blood who have been given the responsibility of protecting the world from demons. Also involved are warlocks, vampires, fairies, and werewolves.” … Continue reading Shadowhunters. Series Finale. (Spoiler Space)
“Innocence is no excuse…” ~ Friends Forever Friends Forever (aka Venner for altid) is a Danish coming of age film about a shy straight teen who befriends a brash gay bully at his new school. The catch? It was released … Continue reading LGBT Movies: Friends Forever (1987)
“I am a boy. I just have to try a little harder.” ~ Druck This week David came out as trans on the German web series Druck. Their love interest, Matteo, was shocked though fans had seen it coming for … Continue reading LGBT Movies: Trans Short Films
In 1998 a human girl named Liz fell in love with an alien boy named Max in the novel The Outsider. It would be the first of Melinda Metz’s 10 Roswell High novels. In 1999 they would meet again on … Continue reading Roswell New Mexico. Episode 01.13. (Spoiler Space)
A lot of straight male reviewers look at Leaving Metropolis and have a real problem with it because they say there is no way that a straight man would ever fall in love with a gay man. But having been … Continue reading LGBT Movies: Seducing Straight Men
The Season 4 Finale of The Magicians aired on April 17, 2019. The title: “No Better To Be Safe Than Sorry.” The show long since departed from the Lev Grossman novels and has now opened the door to uncharted territory. … Continue reading The Magicians. Episode 04.13. (Spoiler Space)
Robert Mapplethorpe was a groundbreaking photographer who rose to fame in the 1970’s and 80’s. When he was diagnosed with AIDS he increased his artistic output and his market value rose. He would achieve a new level of infamy after … Continue reading LGBT Movies: Mapplethorpe (2018)
Just because you are the first to be diagnosed doesn’t mean you started the epidemic. ~ Dr. Robert M. Grant, AIDS researcher at the University of California, San Francisco. An erotic musical romance about the media’s scapegoating of homosexuals during … Continue reading LGBT Movies: Zero Patience (1993)
“People came for the queer and stayed for the folk.” ~ Peter Paige Say you’re writing a pilot episode for a show about a group of LGBT+ friends. Where is it set? How diverse is your cast? How many principal … Continue reading LGBT Media: Television Protagonists
I’ve always been uncomfortable with the rigid boundaries and very narrow definitions of what it means to be a man, and where sexuality can be experienced and expressed. ~ Keith Behrman Something happened at Franky’s 17th birthday party. Now his … Continue reading Movie Review: Giant Little Ones (2018)
