LGBTQ films
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.
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
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]
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
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]
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
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)
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
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
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.
Terence Nance (An Oversimplification of Her Beauty) Talks Roland Emmerich’s Stonewall
A filmmaker writes about Emmerich's much-derided historical drama both before and after watching it.
Zach Clark (White Reindeer) Talks Xavier Dolan’s Tom at the Farm
A Dolan hater does a 180 on the French-Canadian wunderkind after seeing his audacious psychosexual thriller.










