Living in the United States for the first time, Paul Struthers is craving to explore San Francisco and his Oakland neighborhood. But first, there’s a film festival to put on. The United Kingdom-born new director of exhibition and programming of the Frameline film festival — the world’s largest and longest-running LGBTQ film festival…
When the 17th annual Tribeca Film Festival opens this week, New York audiences will have a chance to catch some of the most anticipated queer films of the year. Sebastián Lelio’s “Disobedience” will play in New York days before its theatrical release; the film stars Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams as two women who must hide their attraction in their tight-knit Orthodox Jewish community…
Ruth Blank looked into the camera while kissing Roman Blank, her husband of 65 years. “He is the love of my life. He is my darling,” she said. Theirs was the model marriage. They had it all — love, business and family. “No one can outdo the family we have,” said Roman. But at 95 years old, Roman came out of the closet. Even more shocking is that Ruth, his loyal wife, was aware of the secret for almost 60 years.
There was something unusual about the fresh-faced groom that day. The priest at the San Jorge church in A Coruña, north-western Spain, didn’t see anything special, and the smattering of relatives in attendance weren’t saying anything. But both ‘Mario’ and his bride, Marcela, were women.
The Oakland Symphony’s expansive “Notes From …” series has generally cast a celebratory spotlight on the music of geographically specific cultures — Armenia, Vietnam, India and more. But on Friday, Feb. 9, Music Director Michael Morgan took the orchestra and its patrons in a wonderfully oblique direction, with a concert at the Paramount Theatre devoted to “Notes From LGBTQ.”
2017 was a big year for cinematic depictions of queer life. From stately biopics to sweeping romances, movies centered on LGBTQ experiences have garnered increasing variety and attention in recent years. Last year, Emma Stone portrayed tennis pro Billie Jean King in the ’70s-set “Battle of the Sexes;” Chilean drama “A Fantastic Woman”… Read the full article HERE.
One can imagine that when Touko Laaksonen finally arrives in Los Angeles and realizes the full impact his work hath wrought, it went down much the way it did in Dome Karukoski’s living biopic “Tom of Finland.” Operating in near secrecy in Finland during the 1950s and ’60s… Read the full article HERE.
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