2022 LGBTQ+ Month

“As far as I’m concerned, granting a permit to a group of homosexuals to parade down Hollywood Boulevard would be the same as giving a permit to a group of thieves and robbers. ” With those words blocked Los Angeles Police Chief Edward M.

“I never had a bad encounter for being a gay Asian designer,” said fashion designer Alan del Rosario. “It has to do with how I present myself.

“This unruly, unclassifiable film – perhaps the sole entry in the hybrid genre of radical-lesbian-feminist sci-fi vérité – premiered two years into the Reagan regime, but its fury proves as bracing today as it was back when this country began its inexorable shift to the right,” wrote Melissa Anderson of The Village Voice about Born in Flames in 2016 after the film’s restoration premiered at the Anthology Film Archives. Indie director Lizzie Borden, in her feature film debut, made a radical film that took five years to shoot and cost $40,000.

Outfest’s television festival, The OutFronts, opened on Friday, June 3, at the gorgeous 1920s movie palace of the Ace Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. While the security of the event was kept to high standards and every guest was asked to go through a metal detector, once inside a colorful scene revealed itself in jubilee.

"Frances is bisexual," Bobbi (Sasha Lane) exclaims, unprompted while grilling Nick (Joe Alwyn), an actor, about his character’s sexuality in a play. “Don’t you feel a bit conflicted… you’re playing a gay character and you’re a straight man.

It was a film, Boys Don’t Cry by Kimberly Peirce (1999) that dramatized a tragic real-life story of a boy in the body of a girl long before most of the population even was aware of the term “transgender”. It was a film, Philadelphia by Jonathan Demme, (1993) that evoked deep sympathy and compassion for a loving couple of two men, one of them dying of AIDS.

For the past century, LGTBQ+ themed has been part of Spanish and Latin American cinema, addressing sexual diversity as a central focus. On the one hand, condemning homophobia and discrimination that is still present in the lives of many people and, on the other hand, proposing crucial turning points in the process toward tolerance and inclusion.

Belgian documentary filmmaker Michiel Thomas (36), born and raised in a tiny cozy village called Neerpelt, is currently touring the international film festival circuit with his new feature documentary Gemmel & Tim. This intimate true crime drama explores the lives and untimely passings of Gemmel Moore and Timothy Dean, two gay Black men who in 2017 and 2019 respectively died from meth overdoses at the home of West Hollywood politico Ed Buck.

Andy Warhol was born in 1928 in Pittsburgh to immigrant Slavic parents. As a child, he caught a nervous system disease called Sydenham’s Chorea, which may have been the cause of his skin blotchiness.

In March, Golden Globe winner Michaela Jaé Rodriguez sat down with HFPA member Elisabeth Sereda for an exclusive interview. The first Golden Globe for a trans actress shared her thoughts about being who she is, how she got there, and where her career would take her.