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Will Ferrell defends trans community ahead of new documentary, ‘Will & Harper’

Graham Robson September 27, 2024

Actor Will Ferrell has spoken out ahead of his new documentary, Will & Harper, which is released on Netflix on September 27, saying transphobia exists because: “I think we fear what we don’t know.” Three years ago, Will Ferrell was filming a movie when he received a most surprising email: his dear friend of nearly […]

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Plans for London’s first LGBTQ+ cinema approved by Southwark Council

Graham Robson September 20, 2024

Plans for what is believed to be London’s first LGBTQ+ cinema have been approved. Simon Burke and Piers Greenlees, who opened the area’s first LGBTQ+ pub, The Rising SE1, in April last year, plan to open The Arzner, comprising a cinema and cocktail bar, which is named after Dorothy Arzner, a pioneering lesbian filmmaker who […]

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Queer East Festival: On The Road to bring LGBTQ+ stories from Asia to the UK, including a trip to Brighton

Graham Robson September 12, 2024

Queer East Festival: On The Road will head out across the country, including a trip to Brighton, from September to December, offering its biggest tour yet and showcasing a line-up of contemporary feature films, documentaries and shorts as well as special events that highlight a wide range of LGBTQ+ stories from East Asia, Southeast Asia […]

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Will Ferrell praised for new documentary with trans best friend, Harper Steele

Graham Robson September 7, 2024

Will Ferrell has been praised for a new documentary with trans best friend Harper Steele, former head writer at Saturday Night Live. Three years ago, Will Ferrell was filming a movie when he received a most surprising email: his dear friend of nearly 30 years was coming out to him as a trans woman. That […]

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Daniel Craig talks about “touching, real and natural” gay love scenes in new film, ‘Queer’

Graham Robson September 4, 2024

Daniel Craig attended a photocall for his new film Queer – an adaptation of a novella by American writer William Burroughs – during the annual Venice Film Festival on Tuesday, September 3. The actor, 56, was seen larking around with his co-star Drew Starkey, 30, as they promoted the same-sex romance movie in which they […]

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Film ‘Love, Venezia’ – “the world’s hottest gay love story” – prepares for festival debut

Graham Robson August 14, 2024

Filmmaker Steve Balderson is set to captivate audiences worldwide with Love, Venezia, a poignant film featuring a diverse LGBTQ+ love story, which is woven through the enchanting canals and historic palazzos of Venice, Italy. The film trailer – especially the uncensored version – is already trending across the world on social media (over 500,000+ views […]

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Queer singer-songwriter Omar Apollo to make acting debut in Queer, a new film based on William S Burroughs’ semi-autobiographical novel

Graham Robson July 24, 2024

Queer singer-songwriter Omar Apollo is to make his acting debut in Luca Guadagnino‘s upcoming film Queer, based on William S Burroughs‘ 1985 semi-autobiographical novel of the same name , which is set in Mexico City in the 1940s. Omar will star opposite Daniel Craig and Drew Starkey in Queer, which follows the story of Lee […]

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FILM REVIEW: QUEEN TUT gets under the skin of the world of queer performers and gay activism

Brian Butler July 23, 2024

Reem Morsi’s marvellous film Queen Tut has at its heart two struggles, which intermingle to give the movie its dramatic and emotional journey. Drag performer and activist Malibu, played impeccably by trans actress Alexandra Billings, is fighting to save a Toronto LGBTQ+ historic bar and club – Mandy’s. Troubled Egyptian teenage boy Nabil (Ryan Ali) […]

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This Friday – a DOUBLE BILL of awesome trans film at the Duke of York Cinema as part of the 11th Annual Brighton International Trans Film Festival

Graham Robson July 15, 2024

This Friday it’s a double bill of trans film at the Duke of York Cinema in Brighton as part of the 11th Annual Brighton International Trans Film Festival, which received a record number of submissions this year. The first screening is of incredible short films from all over the globe with doors at 6.30pm and […]

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“A cinematic marvel.” Trans activist Paul B Preciado’s ‘Orlando – A Political Biography’ is a bold and joyous celebration of trans and non-binary identity, told through the lens of Virginia Woolf’s iconic novel

Brian Butler July 11, 2024

Trans activist Paul B Preciado has taken Virginia Woolf’s 1928 gender-fluid classic novel Orlando and made a powerful film essay that combines the life stories of over 20 trans and divergent people with many elements and direct quotes from the novel. The effect is a stunning cinematic marvel, as the 20 characters assume the role […]

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