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Tag Archives: NewFest
LGBT is Thrown Around All the Time, But Where is the “B”?
Notes from the “BiView: Bisexual Representation in Media Panel” at NewFest2017 October 21st I attended the panel discussion on Bisexuality in the Media, the first of its kind at a NewFest/Outfest film festival. Moderated by bisexual activist and journalist Eliel … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Scope, LGBTQ Alphabet Soup, Notes in the News
Tagged 13, Alexandra Bolles, biphobia, biplus, bisexual, Bob's Burgers, Callie Torres, David J. Cork, Denarii Grace, Eliel Cruz, GLAAD, Grey's Anatomy, House, How To Get Away With Murder, Insecure, LGBT, LGBTQ, media, NewFest, Olivia Wilde, polyamory, Professor Marston and the Wonder Women, Queer, Sara Ramirez, Studio Responsibility Index, Taylor Behnke, The Bold Type, Wonder Woman
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ILLUMINATING LGBTQ LIVES – Documentaries at NewFest 2017
Features: 100 Men – My Wonderful West Berlin – A Womb of Their Own Shorts: Bayard and Me – Umbrella – DES!RE – The Son I Never Had – Resist – House of JXN “We have gay people. Hey, … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Scope, LGBTQ Alphabet Soup
Tagged 100 Men, A Womb of their Own, Bayard & Me, Bayard and Me, Bayard Rustin, Dating My Mother, DES!RE, documentary, House of JXN, Jochen Hick, Kathy Najimy, LGBTQ, My Wonderful West Berlin, NewFest, Paul Oremland, Pidgeon Pagonis, pregnancy, The Son I Never Had, transgender, Umbrella, West Berlin
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QUEER NARRATIVES at the MOVIES
NewFest 2017 Feature Length Dramas: After Louie – God’s Own Country – Against the Law – My Son is Gay – Discreet – The City of the Future – Professor Marston and the Wonder Women Last year I saw only … Continue reading
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Tagged 2017, After Louie, Against the Law, Alan Cumming, Alec Secareanu, Angela Robinson, Anthony Johnston, Bella Heathcote, Best International Narrative, bisexual, Brazil, Cinema, Claudio Marques, Daniel Mays, David Drake, Discreet, Everett Quinton, Francis Lee, God's Own Country, India, Johnny Mars, Josh O'Connor, Jury Award, Justin Vivian Bond, LGBT, LGBTQ, Luke Evans, Marilia Highes Guerreiro, movies, My Son is Gay, NewFest, Peter Wildblood, Professor Marston and the Wonder Women, Rebecca Hall, Richard Gadd, Tamil, The City of the Future, threesome, Travis Mathews, Vincent Gagliostro, Zachary Booth
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QUEER SHORTS – The Fab and the Furious
Highlights from “Boys Shorts”, “Beyond the Binary”, “Drawn This Way – Animated” & “Faith and Fury” film shorts programs at Newfest – New York’s LGBT Film Festival It probably plays to the stereotype of the typical NewFest attendee that … Continue reading
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Tagged Ama, Animation, Audience Award, Ballroom Scene, Beard, Ben Baur, Boys, Bryan Powers, Catherine Curtin, Dinner with Jeffrey, Dressed as Girl, Earthly Delights, Elegance Bratton, Eli Mak, Evan Dale Karg, Faith, festival, film, Fish Curry, Fishy, Gema, Half a Life, HBO, Hi It's Your Mother, Indonesia, John Hughes, Kendrick Prince, LGBT, LGBTQ, Manivald, Mrs. McCutcheon, NewFest, Noora, Paul Rudnick, Pria, Pussy, Queer, Reed Birney, Route 66, shorts, Something New, The Night Cleaner, Time is the Longest Distance, transgender, Walk For Me
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QUEER SHORTS – The Young and the Resistance
Highlights from “Young, Queer and Woke” and “The Queer Resistance” film shorts programs at Newfest – New York’s LGBT Film Festival Another fall in New York City. Another NewFest festival of LGBTQ films. Last year I stuffed a dozen festival films … Continue reading
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Tagged Antiman, Cinema, Coppola, D'Onofrio, festival, film, Gavan Ramountar, Guyana, Him, Intersection, LGBT, LGBTQ, LGBTQIA, Margo & May, Morgan Kahn Nichols, My Gay Sister, NewFest, Queer, Sariwala, short films, Thomas Rivera Montes, Truth and Dare, We Forgot to Break Up, Who I Am
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A Queer Baker’s Dozen of NewFest LGBT films – Part 2
Akron – I Love You Both – Women Who Kill – Don’t Call Me Son – The Cult – The Nest – (and a Lazy Eye addendum) I experienced a marathon weekend of new LGBT movies from around the world … Continue reading
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Tagged Akron, Ann Muylaert, bisexuality, Don't Call Me Son, Doug Archibald, festival, film, Hunky Dory, I Love You Both, Ingrid Jungermann, Krystal Archibald, Lazy Eye, LGBT, Manhattan Murder Mystery, NewFest, Queer, Suicide Kale, The Cult, The Nest, Women Who Kill, Woody Allen
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