You can take filmmaker Silvia Del Carmen Castaños out of Laredo, but you can’t take Laredo out of Castaños
When filmmaker Silvia Del Carmen Castaños was younger, they’d make frequent walks across the Texas-Mexico border to visit their grandmother’s…
LGBTQ+
Review: The Essence of Boston’s Oldest Gay Bar is Captured in ‘Playland’
“Playland,” from director and screenwriter Georden West, premiered at the Wicked Queer Documentary Film Festival last month, intriguing an audience…
36th Connecticut LGBTQ+ Film Festival Shorts Program (Oct 6th to Oct 15th)
As of October 15th, OutFilm CT wrapped up its 36th Connecticut LGBTQ+ Film Festival in Hartford. Originally scheduled for June,…
Grrl Haus Festival Celebrates Feminist and Gender-inclusive Filmmaking, Featuring Three Emerson Creators
Experimentation intersects with gender inclusivity at Grrl Haus Cinema, a film program that screened their latest festival at The Brattle…
5 Films that Paved the Way for ‘Bros’
The gay rom-com “Bros” came out Sept. 30, 2022 as the first-ever major studio film starring and written by an…
LA Queer Film Festival Accepting Submissions for 5th Annual Event
The LA Queer Film Festival, one of the 12 film festivals under the umbrella of the Los Angeles Film Festivals,…
Pride Month Starter Pack: Ten New Queer Films to Catch This Year
Every year when LGBTQ+ Pride Month rolls around, we revisit some of our queer classics: “Pricilla, Queen of the Desert,”…
Thirty Years Ago, New Queer Cinema Was Born at Sundance
At the 1992 Sundance Film Festival, the Barbed-Wire Kisses panel kickstarted a film movement that revolutionized LGBTQ+ media forever.
“Fuck the World!” and the Queer Anger of “The Living End”
Victoria Mallorga Hernandez reviews “The Living End,” which represents a rabid indictment of the Reagan and Bush administrations and their hand in the genocide of a generation of LGBTQ+ people, but through a language imbued with camp panache.