Photo journal: The Pride March – Fierté Montréal 2021
August’s proudest moment in Montreal is the annual pride parade. Perfect weather and joyful crowds.
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Before Stonewall Review: No Going Back
The documentary Before Stonewall was originally released in 1984. Now, on the 50th anniversary of the historic Stonewall riots, the newly restored film is being re-released. [read on]
The Sunday Sessions: Religious (Re) Programming
The documentary The Sunday Sessions takes an observational approach to exploring a controversial practice known as conversion therapy. The film gives viewers the opportunity [read on]
Take 2 on Love, Simon: An Authentic Story
This film tells the coming out story of a teenager in high school as he communicates with an anonymous classmate through email.
Montreal Fringe Festival Capsule Reviews # 3 : Three Great Shows
Reviews of The Morning After the Life Before, The Detective, The Dame, and the Devil, and This is Not She.
Frosh week: Bitter Ending to Obnoxious Festivities
An incident involving drunken freshmen men and two women reveals some of the fault lines in mixing too much alcohol with complicated changing sexual values.
Through My Brown Gay Lens – From Aligarh to Orlando
The events in Orlando are the latest manifestation of ongoing ignorance. Karan has a proposal how to address this ignorance in all its forms.
Through my Brown Gay Lens in Tokyo
Finding a spot in Tokyo that is open to gay foreigners reveals both what is cross-cultural and what is specific in lgbtq culture.
Through My Brown Gay Zootopian Lens
Animated film praised for handling difficult topics suffers from its own prejudices and stereotypes.
Swan Lake Subversive
Dada Masilo reinvents the classic by mixing ballet and African dance, but the challenges in this excellent show don’t stop there.
Review: The Danish Girl
The Danish Girl focuses on an artistic couple’s transition when Einar Wegener puts on a dress and stockings to pose for his wife.
Through my Brown Gay Lens : Merit(ocracy) in my name
The myth of equality and the reality of equality are two different things for a brown, gay immigrant and other peoples of colour.
UPop: Learning for Its Own Sake
Learn about a new topic and get in on the discussion by attending UPop.
Through My Brown Gay Lens #1: Introductions
When Sinj came to Montreal to be a filmmaker, he wondered if and where he would find his people.
Eastern Boys: The Lost Boys of Paris
An unlikely love affair between a businessman and a young hustler.
Film Review of Sex (ed): Let’s Talk About Sex
Fascinating documentary looks at how sex ed reflects the often moralistic and rigid values of American society.
The Imitation Game: The Price of Being Different
War films are made a dime a dozen, because the two world wars have dominated a large part of the cultural discourse of the Western world for the past hundred years. But The [read on]
The Eye of the Abused. Tom à La Ferme Review.
Dark and documentary-like, Xavier Dolan’s new film pits a homosexual man against his cruel and inhumane abuser.