Kelly Walker’s directorial debut plots Jane’s mourning for Fiona as she tries to find peace and space beside Fiona’s wife, Gemma (Corbin Reid), and Fiona’s seven-year-old son, Bailey (Elohim Nycalove).
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'Bringing up Baby' (1938) is a Revolutionary Queer Protest
Bringing up Baby rejects norms and subverts expectations in this sub-textually queer screwball comedy.
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But Just How Gay is ‘The Lighthouse'(2019)?
God is the ultimate Daddy in the film noir horror, The Lighthouse.
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The 10 Best LGBTQ+ Films of the 2010s
With the decade having come to a close and a new ‘roaring’ ’20s dawning, now is a great time to look back on some of the media that has shaped us over the past ten years.
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That’s So Gay… A Column Investigating LGBTQ+ Subtext in Film
For the LGBTQ+ society, subtext were the only morsels we got from fiction.
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Renault’s ’30 Years in the Making’ Advert is What the LGBTQ+ Community Has Spent Lifetime Asking For
Twitter, whilst controversial, is a wonderful place for people to share their opinions regarding TV and movies. What many of us call “Gay Twitter” has become a hub for the discussion of our community in the media. It is a place where we feel safe enough to speak up about the way the media represents…
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BHFF REVIEW: LGBTQ+ Horror Shorts ‘Slayed!’ Present An Exciting New Chapter for Horror
Whether we’re protectively defending our favourite misunderstood “monsters”, thirsting after a vengeful witch, or intricately dissecting the plot’s subtext to match our queer theories; it’s a genre we’ve passionately invested in despite our community’s seeming absence from its stories.
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Iris Prize LGBT+ Film Festival 2019 Festival Highlights
Now in its thirteenth year, the Iris Prize Film Festival returned to Cardiff earlier this October, and is the world’s largest LGBT+ short film award. International and inclusive, unapologetic and eclectic, Iris provides a platform for a staggeringly diverse range of voices and stories that remain underrepresented and underserved by mainstream cinema. Here are a…
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Here’s the Punchline: A Queer Fan’s Hopes for the Jay and Silent Bob Reboot
You know what would be Kevin Smith’s biggest power move yet? He’s made a lot in his life and career. Like, a lot. But the biggest wouldn’t be going from a no-budget, no-big-name, no-studio-support indie movie to a huge, multimillion dollar franchise studded with more stars than a smog-free night sky (but wow, what a…
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The Online World of Shipping, and How Gay Teens Are Curating Their Own Media
There are communities on Twitter for almost any interest or hobby, and ‘Stan Twitter’ is a part of the site’s foundation. For every person tweeting pictures of their cat, there’s another logging on and stepping into a timeline where they comfortably scream into the virtual void about niches. This is nothing new for the internet,…
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