Teenagers Franky (Josh Wiggins) and Ballas (Darren Mann) have been best friends since kindergarten and are totally inseparable. Both are handsome jocks who are on the school swim team together and very popular with all the girls in their class. Then one drunken night after they have celebrated Franky’s 16th birthday, the two … Continue reading
To mark this year’s International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia, Vangardist Magazine has teamed up with Mauthausen Memorial and Serviceplan Group to pay attention to the little-known history of what went on in this Nazi concentration camp in Austria. Mauthausen was specifically built to imprison and murder anyone the Nazis deemed undesirable, including homosexual men, … Continue reading
Sport is still one of the last bastions of homophobia. For every brave gay man or woman who dares to stick their head over the parapet and publicly ‘come out,’ there are thousands of professional athletes and sportsmen and women who are scared rigid about all the negative consequences that come with revealing their sexuality. There have … Continue reading
Mario (Max Hubacher) is a star professional footballer in the junior league in a small Swiss Town and he is desperately hoping to win a place in the senior team in Germany next year. So does his pushy father a failed footballer who is now egging his son to fulfill the ambitions that he himself simply … Continue reading
This very dark melodrama is the feature film writing/directing debut of French Canadian actor Yan England and is a chilling tale of the possible consequences of unchecked schoolyard homophobia. Sixteen-year-old Tim (Antoine Olivier Pilon) used to be a star athlete on his school track team, but after his mother died he lost all interest in … Continue reading