Happy Anniversary Wolfe! Distributor Celebrates 25 Years of Bringing Visibility to Gay & Lesbian Films
March 8, 2010
Twenty-five years ago, before Wolfe became the largest exclusive distributor of gay and lesbian films in the world, movies like Brokeback Mountain and Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire could not and did not exist, let alone garner nationwide distribution. Cut to 2010: Wolfe is celebrating its 25th Anniversary with a legacy of [...]
Movie Review: “The Baby Formula”
March 1, 2010
There were a lot of good things about writer and director Alison Reid’s film, “The Baby Formula.” There were also a few confusing things and, unfortunately, one or two disturbing things. But, overall, it was definitely a successful entry into feature films for Reid, whose first short film won the Directors Guild of Canada’s Crystal [...]
The L Word BOOK Has Arrived!
February 22, 2010
Longtime, committed, and knowledgeable Jennifer Beals’ fans have known for quite some time that the actress and the character that we loved to watch her bring to life for 6 seasons, Bette Porter, are actually not that different from one another. Sure, Beals is straight and Porter wasn’t an actress, but one thing that does [...]
Artist Spotlight: Shelly Quest
February 15, 2010
Shelly Quest is a 30-year-old out lesbian musician who grew up New York City but is now traveling the world and performing as MC in the German band I:LYKE. She is proud, determined, and passionate about what she does and here we get to know more about this exciting new artist, in her own words. [...]
Behind the Celluloid: The Making of “Following the Heart”
February 8, 2010
BY SPENCER MAHONEY “Engaging the law, per se, is a scary predicament for people wishing to attain equality.” The above is one of the last sentences author and screenwriter Isabel P. Ball uses to finish the accounts of her story, a story that is currently being developed as an independent film. In many ways, this [...]
Same-Sex Family Themed Film a Hit at Sundance
February 1, 2010
Lesbian director Lisa Cholodenko’s The Kids Are All Right premiered at the Sundance Film Festival last week (1/25) to overwhelmingly positive reviews, resulting in the festival’s most visible bidding war. Rumored suitors for the film – that stars Julianne Moore and Annette Bening as lesbian moms whose teenage kids (played by Josh Hutcherson and Mia [...]
The Gay & Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association Announce First-Ever Dorian Awards Winners
January 25, 2010
Last week, The Gay & Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association announced winners for the group’s first-ever Dorian Awards, honoring their year’s best in film and television A Single Man’s lead Colin Firth took Film Performance of the Year for his heartbreaking portrayal of a gay man looking for love in the 1960s. Firth prevailed over Precious [...]
GLAAD Partners with Sundance Institute for 2010 Film Festival
January 18, 2010
The 2010 Sundance Film Festival begins this week on 1/21/10 and will run through 1/31/10 in Park City, Utah. The festival, which has always been inclusive of LGBT films, actors, and filmmakers, has partnered with the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) this year to further increase our community’s visibility at the well-known and [...]
Award-Winning LGBT Graphic Novel Miniseries Continues With New Release
January 11, 2010
What happens to a girl with a stolen destiny on her journey to Lesbos? The House of the Muses is a powerful miniseries that explores one possibility behind the 2,500-year-old poems of Sappho. Pam Harrison is the creator, author, and illustrator of the ground-breaking LGBT miniseries that illuminates the latter days of Sappho of Lesbos [...]
Mini-Comic Features Lesbian Vignette Among “Casual Encounters”
January 4, 2010
Hot off the presses, the new indy comic “One Night Stand,” written by David Hopkins, is available now at select stores. The mini-comic series (that is the collaborative work of 32 artists) features a collection of one-page stories all about “casual encounters” where sex and intimacy, guilt and anonymity, and risk and fantasy are explored. [...]
