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Love in the Time of Diaspora

Manila Death Squad director Dean Colin Marcial looks at Isabel Sandoval’s new film, Lingua Franca, through a distinctly personal lens.

November 26, 2019

Why Beyond the Hills is the Most Underrated Queer Film of the Decade

Jeremy Hersh, who's currently crowdfunding his debut feature The Surrogate on Kickstarter, makes the case for Cristian Mungiu's 2012 drama.

November 21, 2019

The Cinema of the Other

David Charles Rodrigues on how his personal history inspired him to make Gay Chorus Deep South a film for mainstream America.

November 6, 2019

I Make a Film, the Film Makes Me

Jessie Jeffrey Dunn Rovinelli on So Pretty, a fictional autobiography which came to shape her and how she saw herself and the world.

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.

October 25, 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.

June 28, 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.

January 12, 2018

[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.

December 27, 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.

October 23, 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.

October 18, 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.

September 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.

July 5, 2017