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The True Adventures of Wolfboy

  In the opening scenes of  the film the furry faced ‘Wolfboy’  is at an old fashioned  Carnival being aggressively encouraged by his father to have some fun. Meanwhile he is also being mercilessly taunted by some teenage boys from his school.  We not only feel as unhappy as Paul the Wolfboy but are also … Continue reading

The Typist : a short film about the hypocrisy of being gay in the Navy during the 1950’s

  Having just previewed  Kristine Stolakis debut feature film PRAY AWAY that Netflix is releasing in August I am simply fuming with anger.  Not with the documentary itself which is totally excellent, but the subject matter.  It is a profile of the “pray the gay away” movement which damaged so many lives, and even ending … Continue reading

The Unlikely Story of The Lesbians of First Friday

  This is a very personal story for filmmaker Kathryn L Beranich as she was part of a small group of lesbians in the small city of Roanoke, Virginia who socialised together in the 1980’s.  There were huge feminist movements elsewhere in the USA but for the most part these mainly white privileged closeted women … Continue reading

The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin

Even with the major advances that the LGBT community has made in the past few decades it is still not blessed with an over-abundance of its own heroes/role models. It therefore comes as no surprise that when one rises up and is blessed with an incredible innate talent to articulate how many of us feel, and … Continue reading

The Way He Looks

The lazy summer is over and Leo and his best friend Giovana are back in High School for the new term when curly headed new boy Gabriel joins the class for the first time. Suddenly the cosy closeness of the two old friends is threatened when Giovana discovers that the newcomer will not be her … Continue reading

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