Neil Patrick Harris: Oscar Host. Good Choice? The Tony and Emmy winner will be first openly gay (male) Academy Awards host ever.
LGBT Film
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Whiplash (movie 2014) review: Damien Chazelle directs a visually and aurally accomplished drama that gives J.K. Simmons a devil of a role. Also in the cast: Miles Teller.
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The Way He Looks movie: Gay teen love story about blind boy who falls in love with a school friend is Brazil entry for Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.
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Love Is Strange (movie 2014) review: John Lithgow and Alfred Molina add depth to Ira Sachs’ moving gay romantic drama. Marisa Tomei and Cheyenne Jackson costar.
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The Girl in Tails (movie 1926) review: Karin Swanström and Hjalmar Bergman show that to fight oppression women must stand up and scandalize.
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Gay Marriage Legal in Utah and Lesbian Movie wins 2 Utahn Awards showing Timing is Everything + Academy announces ‘fierce’ Oscar competition.
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Edouard Molinaro: La Cage aux Folles’ Oscar-nominated filmmaker. La Cage aux Folles director Edouard Molinaro collaborated with Catherine Deneuve, Jeanne Moreau & Orson Welles Edouard Molinaro, best known internationally for…
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Norma Bengell and John Herbert in As Cariocas. Norma Bengell: Iconic (and controversial) Brazilian film, stage & TV star made history as first actress seen naked (full frontal) in a…
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Daniel Radcliffe: Gay sex scene with Dane DeHaan in Kill Your Darlings will “startle” fans. Daniel Radcliffe: Gay sex scene in ‘Kill Your Darlings’ will ‘startle’ fans Daniel Radcliffe, 24,…
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Dirk Bogarde. Dirk Bogarde: Victim star took no prisoners in his letters to Dilys Powell Letters exchanged between film critic Dilys Powell and actor Dirk Bogarde – one of the…
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Cary Grant and Randolph Scott having some pool fun. Cary Grant and Randolph Scott marriages (See previous post: “Randolph Scott and Cary Grant: Gay Lovers?“) The English-born Cary Grant was…
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Randolph Scott and Cary Grant ca. 1933: Gay lovers? Randolph Scott and Cary Grant: Gay lovers or good friends and roommates? (See previous post: “Randolph Scott Movies: From Westerns to…
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Ramon Novarro ca. 1925. Ramon Novarro: Mexican-born actor was first Latin American Hollywood superstar Mexican-born actor Ramon Novarro, the original Ben-Hur and one of MGM’s biggest stars of the late…
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Léa Seydoux in Blue Is the Warmest Color. ‘Blue Is the Warmest Color’ graphic novel writer Julie Maroh discusses Abdellatif Kechiche’s film adaptation + lesbian sex scenes Julie Maroh, the…
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Behind the Candelabra with Michael Douglas as Liberace and Matt Damon as Scott Thorson. ‘Behind the Candelabra’ HBO Hit: Liberace movie starring Michael Douglas and Matt Damon nearly breaks record…
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Léa Seydoux and Adèle Exarchopoulos in ‘Blue Is the Warmest Color.’ Lesbian love story Blue Is the Warmest Color wins Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or The 2013 Cannes Film Festival…
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Richard Griffiths in The History Boys with Dominic Cooper. ‘Harry Potter’ actor Richard Griffiths dead at 65: Renowned for gay roles in ‘The History Boys’ & ‘Withnail & I’ Richard…
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James Franco “gay sex movie” Interior. Leather Bar. will replace the sexually explicit “gay sex movie” I Want Your Love, featuring Jesse Metzger and Brenden Gregory. James Franco ‘gay sex…
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Gay Movie Scenes: Paul America in Andy Warhol’s My Hustler. Controversial Gay Movie Scenes at LACMA: Andy Warhol & Gus Van Sant + Jean Genet Whether or not you find…
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I’m So Excited 2013 with Miguel Ángel Silvestre. I’m So Excited: Flamboyant Pedro Almodóvar trailer just can’t hide it Pedro Almodóvar’s upcoming movie, I’m So Excited / Los amantes pasajeros…
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‘Kill Your Darlings’ Daniel Radcliffe: Gay poet Allen Ginsberg. Daniel Radcliffe gay poet in ‘Kill Your Darlings’: Sundance movies Beasts of the Southern Wild, Keep the Lights On, Middle of…
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Transgender movie tops Madrid lesbian, gay, and transsexual film festival Movies about gender – or rather, transgender – identity were the top winners at the 2012 edition of LesGaiCineMad, Madrid’s…
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Lon McCallister: Boy-Next-Door troubled gay relationship with William Eythe If remembered at all, Lon McCallister is associated with Boy-Next-Door roles in several 20th Century Fox “family” movies of the mid-…
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Arnold Schwarzenegger bodybuilding & image building: Total Recall vs. selective recall Austrian-born Arnold Schwarzenegger may be an inept actor and may have been an even more inept (Republican) governor of…
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Clint Eastwood chair speech. Clint Eastwood chair speech at Republican National Convention It was less a bizarre “Clint Eastwood Chair Speech” than a bizarre “Clint Eastwood Chair Performance Artwork” at…
James Garner. James Garner movies: ‘Grand Prix’ & ‘Victor Victoria’ among TCM highlights James Garner, whose film and television career spanned more than five decades, died of “natural causes” at…
Buck Angel documentary Mr. Angel. Buck Angel documentary ‘Mr. Angel’ DVD: Life of the transgender adult star In the United States, it’s Thanksgiving Day on Thursday, Nov. 28. It’s an inspirational…
Una Noche (movie 2012) review: Lucy Mulloy proves herself a capable screenwriter-director with this mostly Havana-set refugee drama.
Call Me Kuchu (movie 2012) review: Though focused on anti-gay bigotry in Uganda, this well-made documentary is a reminder that deadly hate is a global plague.
Gay Erotic Thriller Wins Cannes Award + Jerry Lewis ‘Disastrous’ Comeback + ‘Pussy Riot’ Documentary
Gay erotic thriller Stranger by the Lake: Cannes Film Festival’s Queer Palm winner. Gay erotic thriller ‘Stranger by the Lake’ is Cannes’ Queer Palm winner Writer-director Alain Guiraudie’s gay erotic…
John Kerr. John Kerr: ‘Tea and Sympathy’ gay teen on stage and screen has died John Kerr, best known for playing the sensitive (and suspected to be gay) adolescent opposite…
Drew Denny. Drew Denny discusses The Most Fun I’ve Ever Had with My Pants On Filmmaker, performance artist, songwriter, actress, screenwriter Drew Denny’s first feature film, the partly autobiographical The…