Actor Josh O’Connor, fresh off his Emmy win for The Crown earlier this year, has announced his next project: a gay World War I drama titled The History of Sound. O’Connor joins actor Paul Mescal (Normal People) in the film, based on a short story by Pulitzer Prize-winning […]
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Glasgow Film Festival to feature 6 incredible LGBTQ films this year
Glasgow Film Festival is giving us the LGBTQ representation we deserve this year. Running across 12 days from 26 February to 8 March, the annual festival will host more than 380 film screenings, talks and special events that includes nine world premieres, 10 European premieres […]
Moffie: a masterpiece with this brutal but radiant story of young gay desire on the Angolan war front
The Afrikaans word “Moffie” is South Africa’s answer to “faggot”: an anti-gay slur used liberally and illiberally across the country’s tangle of languages, in casual playground teasing or brutal bigoted assault alike. If it sounds ineffectively soft and silly on the tongue, trust that it […]