It’s refreshing to find that filmmakers still have new LGBT coming-out stories that are fresh and throw a different perspective on what is inevitably a difficult rite-of-passage for most gay youth. For her sophomore feature writer/director Eliza Hittman sets her story in Brooklyn where 19 year-old Frankie (Harris Dickinson) is struggling hard to find his own identity, sexual … Continue reading
In the second episode of Queer Britain the UK’s BBC3 TV series that gets under the skin of queer culture and shines a light on the challenges faced by the LGBTQ+ community, You Tuber and journalist Riyadh Khalaf looks at body image pressures in the gay community. As part of his investigation meets Jamal, who … Continue reading
Artist/photographer/writer Tom Bianchi who specializes in male nude photography has a new exhibition that opens today (and runs to Sept 16) of images he took of the gay mens paradise in the 70’s: Fire Island Pines. Called ‘Fire Island Pines Polaroids 1975-1983’ which is also the title of a memoir that Bianchi published a couple … Continue reading
It’s that time of year again when ESPN persuades 23 top athletes and sportsmen to drop trou and bare all for their annual Body Issue. The front cover is of footballer Ezekiel Elliott, but you will also want to look out for the pic of openly gay British born-American Olympic Skier Gus Kenworthy who is … Continue reading
Nico (Guillermo Pfening) an out-of-work actor has these wonderfully large soulful eyes that whilst they may not land him the movie role he has set his heart on, they do help him get by in N.Y. even though he is both homeless and broke. Back home in Argentina he was a very successful TV … Continue reading