“Scream, Queen!” Infamy, Horror and Mark Patton at Outfest Los Angeles
by chris carpenter – This month’s 37th annual Outfest, the Los Angeles LGBTQ Film Festival, promises to be a total scream. Among the approximately 200 short and feature-length films from around the world to be screened, is an eye opening documentary exploring the gay/anti-gay history of one of the most notorious horror films of all […]
Cheyenne Jackson: The Life of a Family Man
FROM AMERICAN HORROR STORY TO DISNEY’S LORD OF THE UNDERWORLD by joel martens What can I say? We have a fascination with Mr. Cheyenne Jackson. He’s a handsome, talented, gay man who is super-funny and plays sexy, dark characters who have a tendency to live on the wild side. On American Horror Story’s fifth season, […]
The Imperial Council: 50 Years of Fabulous – Holding Court and Bearing Witness
by tim parks – As one of the oldest LGBT organizations around the globe and certainly the oldest in North America, the International Court System of the United States, Canada and Mexico has a rich and storied history. Founded in San Francisco by renown activist, drag queen and performer José Julio Sarria in 1965—who would […]
Get Your Shorts Off! Palm Springs International ShortFest Turns 25
by chris carpenter – Temperatures are heating up in Palm Springs, so shorts will be going on and coming off with abandon this month… short films that is! Approximately 325 of them will be screened during the 25th Anniversary Palm Springs International ShortFest. The largest short film event in North America, ShortFest programmers receive […]
RAGE Reviews: Celebrating Pride at the Movies
by chris carpenter Rocketman–the appropriately flamboyant, occasionally surreal Elton John biopic–may be the gayest movie of the summer (at least from a major studio) but its hardly the only one. As Pride month/season gets underway, there are a number of new and re-released LGBTQ movies definitely worth checking out. But first let’s talk about Rocketman, now […]
Full Release! 2019 Summer Movie Preview
by tim parks – Last year provided moviegoers with some quality LGBTQ representation with films like The Favourite, Boy Erased, The Miseducation of Cameron Post, Call Me By Your Name and Love, Simon. There was Bohemian Rhapsody of course, with its knock out performance by Rami Malek, which nabbed him a Best Actor Oscar. Naturally, […]
Brown & Out Fest V: Celebrating The Latinx Experience
by joel martens – What do the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall Riots in New York City, the 50th Anniversary of the passing of gay icon Judy Garland, and National LGBTQ Pride Month have in common you might ask? Well, for CASA 0101 Theater in Boyle Heights, each of these events represent a part of […]
RAGE Reviews: Sexual Politics
by chris carpenter “Is sex political?,” a reporter asks the openly gay, real-life filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini in a newly-released biopic. “Of course,” Pasolini replies, “There’s nothing that isn’t political.” This query opens Pasolini, Abel Ferrara’s 2014 movie that is only now being released in the US thanks to Kino Lorber. It opens this weekend in […]
Newport Beach Film Fest: Celebrating “The Big 20” and Queer Shorts Galore
by chris carpenter – Smile for the camera Newport Beach Film Festival, it’s your birthday! Begun as a small-scale event initially, NBFF will be celebrating 20 years of stellar growth in local repute and international recognition from Thursday, April 25 through Thursday, May 2. Each year, the festival strives to bring to Orange County the […]
MAPPLETHORPE
A LIFE IN CONTRAST Documenting a Legacy with Director Ondi Timoner ~ by joel martens ~ To say Robert Mapplethorpe was provocative is an understatement. Great cutting-edge artists often are, because they challenge social norms. For those of us who remember his work, early career, and the surrounding controversies around his photography, that reality isn’t […]