Premiering earlier this week at SXSW, “Wildness” serves as a portrait into the world that is the Silver Platter, Los Angeles’ oldest trans Latina bar, as it becomes home to a group of newcomers in search of a place to call their own. Director Wu Tsang — a trans-identified queer 30 year old artist/performer of Chinese and Swedish descent — [...]
Premiering in Chicago at the 2012 Peace on Earth Film Festival, Illinois expat Charlie Gage’s “Inspired: The Voices Against Prop 8” chronicles the events that proceeded the 2008 passage of California’s Proposition 8, a ballot initiative that sought to amend the state Constitution to define marriage as being only between a man and a woman. Once passed — by a [...]
Ganadora del premio Biznaga de Plata (Premio Especial del Jurado) en el 14º Festival de Cine de Malaga, “El casamiento” es la última película del realizador uruguayo Aldo Garay, el cual ya tiene en su haber otras como “La Gloria de Hércules” y “Señorita Candidata”. “Esta es la historia de ‘El casamiento’, una historia sencilla y tierna de gente común que [...]
When Allen Andrade was found guilty for the murder of Angie Zapata, his conviction became significant to hate crime legislation because “Colorado was the first state to pass a hate crime statute in 1998…but Angie’s murder was the first time the murder of a transgender person was prosecuted as a hate crime in the U.S.” “Photos of Angie” is a [...]
Originally published in Extra Newspaper When the Reeling International Film Festival first began in 1981, it was nothing more than a small collection of films presented at the Chicago Filmmakers’ 90-seat screening room. Since then, it has grown to become one of the longest running lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) film festivals in the world, second only to [...]
Madrid recibe la 16° edición de LesGaiCineMad Falta muy poco y ya la ciudad lo sabe. Este 3 de noviembre, mientras el frío se resiste a llegar a Madrid, el cine LGBTQ llenará de colores las salas de cine. Es que llega una nueva edición de LesGaiCineMad, más concretamente la número 16, y ya acercándose a la mayoría de edad, [...]
“20 años no es nada” dice el tango. Y si en nuestro caso lo que celebramos son sólo 5, podemos decir claramente que estamos ante algo que recién comienza. Y así es. Llamale H comienza año a año con la finalidad de instalarse en Montevideo en setiembre, y en todo el país durante varios meses. Pero se puede decir que [...]
Mosquita y Mari (or MyM for short) is a promising story of love and friendship – of a tender coming-of-age narrative with raw glimpses into the bittersweet and often overlooked struggles experienced by the unlikely pair of 15-year-old teenagers depicted in the film, and many others like them. Set in Huntington Park, California, MyM tells the story of Yolanda Olveros [...]
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