By David-Elijah Nahmod  Pat Rocco (1934-2018) was ahead of his time. A gay activist during the days and years before Stonewall, Rocco had the courage to make queer themed films before it was safe to do so. Around 1969 he produced and directed Drifter, a feature length drama about a bisexual hustler. Unable to secure

By Mikey Rox Virtual screenings and collaborative showings with partner organizations across the country allowed home audiences to enjoy Sundance Film Festival’s elevated and celebrated independent films — for $15 a pop streaming via Sundance’s online portal — that this year included 14 queer-inclusive entries. From dramatic narratives and documentaries to shorts and a touch

By Chris Azzopardi ‘Paris Is Burning In Paris Is Burning, a strut is a defiant act, an exertion of suppressed power. In the mid-to-late 1980s, when the landmark documentary was filmed, these moves couldn’t be showcased just anywhere. Today the same is true, as the call to end violence against trans people and to confront

By Chris Azzopardi ‘Polyester’ John Waters staged a live chicken decapitation for his 1969 debut feature Mondo Trasho. In the following year’s Multiple Maniacs, he made anal sex with rosary beads a thing. And in Pink Flamingos, Divine, his drag muse, committed fully to her art by eating real dog crap for a scene. So

By Chris Azzopardi Three Men and a Baby actor Steve Guttenberg is on roller skates, and that’s just the beginning of Can’t Stop the Music, the quasi-autobiographical film about the Village People. The 1980 film is a gay wonderland from another time, another place, another gay galaxy: when guys used to rock crop tops (oh

By Chris Azzopardi Won’t You Be My Neighbor? For over 30 years, national treasure Fred Rogers welcomed kids who felt different to his “neighborhood.†Maybe you were there, enchanted by the trolley and talking puppets. Maybe you, like me, felt like you didn’t fit in with the other kids, and maybe, again like me, Mr.

By Chris Azzopardi | Unforgettable moments from Academy Award-winning gay faves, yours forever to stream Call Me By Your Name Oliver (Armie Hammer) is facedown on the bed, fully clothed. He’s just arrived at his professor’s (Michael Stuhlbarg) home in picturesque northern Italy, and as the professor’s son, Elio (Timothée Chalamet, astounding in this breakout