Category Archives: LGBTQ

Toronto 2025 Hot Docs: “Parade: Queer Acts of Love and Resistance”: The Long Road to the Big Show

The Canadian National Film Board documentary “Parade: Queer Acts of Love and Resistance” traces struggles encountered by Canada’s queer community from the 1950’s to the present day. In the 1950’s and 1960’s Canadian queerdom was a shameful and disgusting aberration  for the straight community. In 2025 it remains as such but only for a minorityContinue reading “Toronto 2025 Hot Docs: “Parade: Queer Acts of Love and Resistance”: The Long Road to the Big Show”

RKS 2025 Film: “Jimmy in Saigon”: Who Jimmy Really Was

The McDowell family loses 24-year-old son Jimmy in Vietnam in 1972. His cause of death is not entirely clear to younger brother Peter McDowell fudged with shame and mystery. Despite a June 1972 telegram arriving to advise the family of his death is the cause of death on the death certificate the truth? The contentContinue reading “RKS 2025 Film: “Jimmy in Saigon”: Who Jimmy Really Was”

RKS 2024 Film: A Freebie from the Visual Communications Archives: “Gio: A Man Wonderfully Created”

“Gio: A Man Wonderfully Created” is a 2015 American 7.5-minute short film. Gio Carneal, the son of a southern Baptist minister experienced a hostile and bully ridden 1970’s childhood. Self medication with alcohol and drugs leads to his turning to a gay bar where his newfound sense of community and his desire for full acceptanceContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: A Freebie from the Visual Communications Archives: “Gio: A Man Wonderfully Created””

RKS 2024 Film: Toronto’s 2SLGTBQ+ Inside Out Film Festival: “Sisters”: Where Does Friendship Evolve into Sisterhood and Vice Versa?

In the feature film “Sisters” Lou (Susie Yankou) and Esther (Sarah Khasrovi) are best buddies doing all manner of events together platonically. Lou is an out of the closet bisexual. Lou and Esther have a fantasy about having sisters. Then out of the woodwork at her father’s funeral. Up pops Pryia (Kausar Mohammed) and instantContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: Toronto’s 2SLGTBQ+ Inside Out Film Festival: “Sisters”: Where Does Friendship Evolve into Sisterhood and Vice Versa?”

RKS 2024 Film: Toronto’s 2SLGTBQ+ Inside Out Film Festival: “Local Heroes” Short Programme: Reality and Dreams are a Mess for the Dreamer in “How’d You Sleep”

The Dreamer (Spencer Glassman) is self described as a 29-year-old hot Jewish chick in an unconventional way but not yet famous. Unfortunately, she slept in and missed her latest audition. “What’s wrong with me?” she muses. The Dreamer has difficulty in sleeping despite her melatonin, hot milk, exercise, porn watching for some sexual release purposes,Continue reading “RKS 2024 Film: Toronto’s 2SLGTBQ+ Inside Out Film Festival: “Local Heroes” Short Programme: Reality and Dreams are a Mess for the Dreamer in “How’d You Sleep””

RKS 2024 Film: Inside Out 2LGBTQ+ Film Festival: “All Shall Be Well”

Angie Wang (Patra Au) and Pat Wu have been in a lesbian relationship for some thirty years. They live together in a spacious upscale Hong Kong condo. They do what many couples do, eating together, shopping together and entertaining. Both are in their sixties and retired although Pat has dreams of opening a Senior FashionContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: Inside Out 2LGBTQ+ Film Festival: “All Shall Be Well””

RKS 2023 Film: “Nana’s Boys”: Intense and Suspenseful LGBTQ Relationship Film

“Nana’s Boys” is an intense and suspenseful LGBTQ “relationship film” although shouldn’t we be reluctant to so quickly label it an LGBTQ film? The film could equally be applicable to a heterosexual relationship. Amari (David J. Cork) and Q (Jared Wayne Gladly) are two black men living together in New York City or perhaps Brooklyn.Continue reading “RKS 2023 Film: “Nana’s Boys”: Intense and Suspenseful LGBTQ Relationship Film”

RKS 2023 Film: “Silent Love”: LGBTQ Stressful Living

“Silent Love” will be showing at the 2023 Slamdance Film Festival in Utah on 21/25January. The film has a LGBTQ thread running through it but it is not solely LGBTQ themed. In this Polish film 35-year-old Aga rushes from Frankfurt back to Warzaw to visit her mother on her death bed. Her mother, a widow,Continue reading “RKS 2023 Film: “Silent Love”: LGBTQ Stressful Living”