LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music

While a few high-profile films have broken the mould of the type-cast or side-lined LGBT character in recent decades, such as Ang Lee’s 2005 Brokeback Mountain or Todd Haynes’s 2015 Carol, equality of LGBT representation in cinema still seems some way off: a US study on the top 100 films of 2016 showed only 1.1 per cent of speaking characters were gay, lesbian or bisexual, no speaking character was identified as transgender, and only one film featured a gay protagonist. That film was Moonlight.

In BPM (Beats Per Minute), protagonists dance, have sex, and fight like fully realized people, portraying AIDS as a disease not of the dying, but of those fighting to survive.

From up-and-comers making splashy debuts, to reliable favorites stepping up their game, these filmmakers are having a great year.

What do you do when your relationship conflicts with your religion?

We talk to the director of ‘The Death And Life Of Marsha P. Johnson’, a film about the radical queer activist once photographed by Warhol

The fourth annual OUT at the Movies Int’l LGBT Film Fest will screen 18 films, present 18 filmmakers, actors or documentary subjects and hold eight parties in venues throughout Winston-Salem

‘Pick Up’ Starring Travor Thompson (Switched at Birth), Louis Hunter (The Fosters) and Marque Richardson (Dear White People) released on Vimeo today, to coincide with National Gay Men’s HIV Awareness Day – 9/27

In the summer haze of the Coney Island boardwalk, a teenage boy begins to wonder, and worry.

The series follows Luke and Nate, two homebody roommates in a swanky LA apartment, as they try to figure out the boundaries of their no-boundaries friendship. Full of sharp dialogue, exciting guest stars, sexy-twists and hilarious turns, Indoor Boys adds a little more heat to your summer.

Durbanites will have to wait until late September to enjoy the seventh annual Durban Gay and Lesbian Film Festival

As a celebration of independent film, Raindance Film Festival aims to showcase the most groundbreaking and memorable stories out there. At our LGBT strand, we celebrate the work of filmmakers from around the world to examine the everyday life, complexity and diversity of the LGBT experience.

The Kaleidoscope Film Festival in its third year has morphed and expanded into an LGBT arts and culture festival.

This past weekend’s Arpa International Film Festival was a momentous occasion for the arts and Armenia. It is probably not news to many how difficult it can be to be openly LGBT within our Armenian community.

The British consul-general touts the great progress the United Kingdom has made regarding LGBT rights and brings its #FiveFilms4Freedom program to Orlando.

Our resident LGBT travel columnist Adam Groffman shares his favorite LGBT travel movies to get you inspired for your next adventure!

Cinema Arts Centre in Huntington once again hosts the Long Island Gay & Lesbian Film Festival which runs this Friday through Sunday.

With a mission to distribute content for queer audiences, by queer audiences, all over the world, Revery has big plans.

In Luca Guadagnino’s acclaimed gay coming-of-age story, Hammer plays the older lover of a 17-year-old boy. He talks about the challenges of playing his third gay role – including conveying the erotic allure of a peach

The Austin Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival, founded in 1987, celebrated its 30th anniversary this weekend at the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar.

The coming-of-age gay love story was written by James Ivory, directed by Luca Guadagnino and stars Timothee Chalamet and Armie Hammer.

From exposé documentaries to star-studded awards contenders, the fall festival season heralds a very good year for quality queer cinema.

A frustrated Yorkshire lad locks horns with a new Romanian migrant worker.

In Play the Devil, I saw aspects of my own inner conflict on the road to acceptance of my sexuality A report by Natasha Barsotti for Xtra.   With bittersweetness, I watched Play the Devil lay out familiar panels of my birth island’s social, cultural and physical landscape. Director Maria Govan’s nuanced 90-minute narrative provides a glimpse of…