Cobalt Blue : when a brother and sister both fall in love with the same handsome stranger
Homosexuality was just decriminalized in India in 2018 but there has been a small steady flow of LGBT movies for a few years before that. Because of the legal situation and society’s taboos, many were made on the down-low and struggled to find a way to access the audience they deserved. However some … Continue reading
Coffee Date
Divorced computer programmer Todd got more than he bargained with when he allowed his slacker brother to set him up on a Blind Date. The ‘Kelly’ he had been chatting to online shared his passion for art-house movies and they had already established a bond even before they met. Turned out that his brother had … Continue reading
‘Coming Out” 1989 : the first and only gay feature film made in East Germany.
‘Coming Out” is a unique part of queer history being the first and only gay feature film made in East Germany. And if that is not enough, it actually premiered on November 9th 1989 …. the day the Berlin Wall fell. The story centers on a young teacher Philipp (Matthias Freihof) who enters a … Continue reading
Continental
Malcolm Ingram’s delightful new documentary is ostensibly about New York’s most famous gay Bath House , but is as much the story of Steve Ostrow it’s larger than life founder. Ostrow’s colorful tale is very Runyonesque and makes for fascinating hearing, more so as Ingram seems fit to never challenge any of his more outrageous statements … Continue reading
Copa 181 : the story of a gay sauna that is a home away from home
The immediate future of Brazilian queer cinema may not look to rosy right now after the vitriolic homophobic President Jair Bolsonaro has recently declared that government funds will now be withheld from cinema projects containing LGBTQ content. Hopefully this (and he) will not last long as Brazil has become such a valuable source for … Continue reading