Darker Before They Get Brighter
By Yen Tan | October 25, 2018
Darker Before They Get Brighter
Director Yen Tan on growing up gay in Malaysia, his journey in America, and how it all relates to his poignant AIDS drama 1985.
Tag: LGBTQ films
We’re Post-Homophobia, Right? Wrong.
By Andrew Fleming | June 28, 2018
By Andrew Fleming | June 28, 2018
We’re Post-Homophobia, Right? Wrong.
Andrew Fleming details the rejection he has faced with his new film, the gay romantic comedy Ideal Home, starring Steve Coogan and Paul Rudd.
Finding the Faith, or What I Learned Working with At-Risk LGBTQ Youth
By Damon Cardasis | January 12, 2018
By Damon Cardasis | January 12, 2018
Finding the Faith, or What I Learned Working with At-Risk LGBTQ Youth
Damon Cardasis on his experiences making Saturday Church, which shows a positive path forward for Christianity in the LGBTQ community.
[to tell other people’s stories]
By Zia Anger | December 27, 2017
[to tell other people’s stories]
Zia Anger gives her personal take on the controversy surrounding David France and his film The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson.
Why BPM (Beats Per Minute) is the Film 2017 Needed
By Adam Baran | October 23, 2017
By Adam Baran | October 23, 2017
Why BPM (Beats Per Minute) is the Film 2017 Needed
Adam Baran is energized by the French drama about AIDS activists, and offers up a list of ways those similarly inspired can get involved.
[to tell other people’s stories]
By Zia Anger | October 18, 2017
[to tell other people’s stories]
Zia Anger gives her personal take on the controversy surrounding David France and his film The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson.
“Genital Warts and All”: Bruce LaBruce on Taxi Zum Klo
By Bruce LaBruce | September 5, 2017
By Bruce LaBruce | September 5, 2017
“Genital Warts and All”: Bruce LaBruce on Taxi Zum Klo
In advance of the film's Metrograph screening this Friday, Bruce LaBruce revisits Frank Ripploh's 1980 gay classic.
How Gregg Araki’s Nowhere Helped Me Survive Adolescence (and Find Myself as a Filmmaker)
By Mark Pariselli | July 5, 2017
By Mark Pariselli | July 5, 2017
How Gregg Araki’s Nowhere Helped Me Survive Adolescence (and Find Myself as a Filmmaker)
Mark Pariselli explains how a debilitating case of flu led him to discover the ultimate teen movie, and how it reshaped how he saw the world.
Bruce LaBruce’s Academy of the Underrated: Moment by Moment
By Bruce LaBruce | October 25, 2016
By Bruce LaBruce | October 25, 2016
Bruce LaBruce’s Academy of the Underrated: Moment by Moment
A bomb on its release, this John Travolta-Lily Tomlin camp feminist melodrama can be mined deeply for covert clues about its two stars' sexuality.
Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator) Talks Todd Haynes’ Carol
By Stuart Gordon | November 24, 2015
By Stuart Gordon | November 24, 2015
Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator) Talks Todd Haynes’ Carol
A recent convert to the fiction of Patricia Highsmith is transported back to his past by a spot-on adaptation of her once-scandalous second novel.