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Remembering Patient Zero and the Wreckage of Antigay HIV Fear April 26 2021 7:56 PM EDT It was a beautiful, sunny spring morning in 2019. I awoke to a message from my friend, Richard Vaughan, who was in Toronto and had caught the opening of a new film at the Hot Docs Film Festival the previous night. "Hey, did you hear?" he wrote. "We just won the queer lottery: you and I are in a documentary with Fran Lebowitz!" It was a typical jovial message from Richard, my friend who maintained a prolific output, writing novels, nonfiction books, reviews, poetry and plays. The film he was messaging abou...

As the 1990s approached, films began to offer more positive portrayals of LGBTQ people, often as the loyal best friend/confidante, with characters beginning to be more fleshed out, having lives rooted in their sexuality but not necessarily ruled only by it (i.e. Fried Green Tomatoes, 1991). Straight society could identify with the queer search for happiness despite facing oppression and traditional values (i.e. The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, 1994). One remaining taboo was public displays of affection and intimacy, especially two men kissing. That hurdle would be overc...

David Oyelowo to be honored by Ashland Independent Film Festival; his Oregon-filmed ‘The Water Man’ will open event Updated Mar 03, 2021; Posted Mar 03, 2021 Actor David Oyelowo made his directing debut with "The Water Man," which will open the 2021 Ashland Independent Film Festival. (Photo: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)Getty Images Facebook Share Following notable acting roles in such projects as “Selma” and the “Les Miserables” miniseries, David Oyelowo made his directing debut with “The Water Man,” a feature that filmed in Oregon in 2019. The film made its world premiere ...

Veneno Veneno, 2020, still from a TV show on HBO Max. Season 1, episode 4. Cristina “La Veneno” Ortiz Rodríguez (Daniela Santiago). THE FOURTH EPISODE of HBO Max’s Spanish-language biopic Veneno (2020) etymologizes its title, the national pet name of Spain’s late trans icon Cristina “La Veneno” Ortiz Rodríguez. In the limited series’ most memorable sequence, Cristina (an intoxicating Daniela Santiago) descends on Parque del Oeste, the center of trans sex work in 1990s Madrid, to mark her territory among peers and bullies. Dressed in a slinky harem ensemble—complete with a...

Flee.(Sundance Film Festival) Queeries is a weekly column by CBC Arts producer Peter Knegt that queries LGBTQ art, culture and/or identity through a personal lens. It may have mostly happened in the living rooms of movie lovers, but the Sundance Film Festival just successfully pulled off its first — and hopefully only — pandemic edition. And with it came the same quality of LGBTQ-themed filmmaking we have come to expect from a festival that has built a pretty unparalleled reputation in that regard in its four decades of existence. Alongside the many new films that will surely go on ...