Promiscuous hunk meets monogamous introvert. The hunk sees a chance to leave the scene and settle down. Can these crazy kids work things out? Turns out they can’t. All the Rage morphs from a romcom into something darker and stranger. … Continue reading LGBT Movies: All the Rage (1997)
“It’s a date movie, like straight people have had for years, and I’m glad to fill that gap. I’m a big romantic at heart.” ~ Writer/Director Brian Sloan. A writer is violently rejected by their college crush. Years later they … Continue reading LGBT Movies: I Think I Do (1997)
A closeted doctor has an affair with a man. Everyone talks about their feelings. A lot. The Celluloid Closet called Making Love one of the first sympathetic films about homosexuality. That may be, but it’s also terribly dull. Want to learn more? … Continue reading LGBT Movies: Making Love (1982)
“I’m unapologetic about what we did in the 70s… We earned it. We faced such strong and harsh discrimination that to be able to completely let go and revel in who we were, I think, was very necessary.” ~ Steve … Continue reading LGBT Movies: Saturday Night at the Baths (1975)
Welcome to the Blue Jay Bar where the music is loud, the patrons are sad and everyone’s looking for love. It’s post Stonewall but men still aren’t allowed to dance together without a woman present. The shapeless script jumps from … Continue reading LGBT Movies: Some of My Best Friends Are… (1971)
ABC debuted the After School Special in 1972. A typical special would feature a story about teenagers dealing with a PROBLEM that could be examined within an hour. Other networks soon picked up the formula. In my search for obscure … Continue reading LGBT Media: 80’s After School Specials
Two gay teens plan a fun night out, only to witness a murder. Soon they must escape a gangland assassin, the police, abusive parents and predatory johns. Luckily there’s a friendly dolphin who wants to help them out. Emile Charles … Continue reading LGBT Movies: The Fruit Machine (1988)
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
