Contents:
- THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
- CHIGO LBIAN AND GAY INTERNATNAL FILM FTIVAL
- CHIGO LBIAN & GAY INTERNATNAL FILM FTIVAL
- 17TH CHIGO LBIAN & GAY INTERNATNAL FILM FTIVAL
- CHIGO LBIAN & GAY FILM FTIVAL
THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
“It’s a really eye-openg documentary about old Hollywood, but ’s primarily about this gay uple that Gloria Swanson hired to wre the sre and the book, but she didn’t que seem to unrstand they were gay, ” Knight documentary is directed by Jefey Schwarz, who is behd other documentari like “I Am Dive” and “Tab Hunter Confintial. “Cloris Leachman giv a dive performance this lovely ltle dramady, ” Knight documentary highlights clu “No Straight LIn: The Rise of Queer Comics, ” which featur Chigo rtoonist Rupert Knard, creator of the first Black queer ic book characters; “Queens of the Revolutn, ” which follows agg drag queens at the foreont of the gay rights movement Cuba; and “Gemmel & Tim, ” about two victims of fluential bsman Ed Buck whose aths led to his nvictn. A HOLLYWOOD STORY, about Gloria Swanson's attempt to turn SUNSET BOULEVARD to a mil; INVISIBLE: GAY WOMEN IN SOUTHERN MUSIC, which heralds the unsung lbian songwrers behd the hs of many of untry mic's biggt stars; and Reelg Documentary Centerpiece NORTH BY CURRENT, which trans filmmaker Angelo Madsen Max's returns to his ral Michigan fay home followg the ath of his young niece.
CHIGO LBIAN AND GAY INTERNATNAL FILM FTIVAL
Other documentary subjects clu pneerg queer ic book rtoonists (NO STRAIGHT LINES: THE RISE OF QUEER COMICS); Microsoft's Ric Weiland, who beme one of Ameri's greatt philanthropists (YES I AM - THE RIC WEILAND STORY, narrated by Zachary Quto); the agg drag queens who have been the foreont of the movement for gay rights Cuba (QUEENS OF THE REVOLUTION); celebrated Chilean playwright Ivan Ojeda whose immigratn to the US led to beg a sex worker New York Cy (THE JOURNEY OF MONALISA); and the story of two people whose aths led to the nvictn of fluential bsman Ed Buck (GEMMEL & TIM). Reelg prents ne SHORTS PROGRAMS featurg 54 short films, anized them cludg Revolutns of the Heart: Sapphic Shorts; Gettg Faiar: Gay Shorts; Seekg Connectn; Keep Gog: Stori of Queer Rilience; Global Trans Shorts; and Intimaci.
ARTICLES YOU MIGHT LIKESHOWBIZ 'Scream, ' 'Paris Is Burng, ' Shea Coulee, Noah Schnapp, Broadway 2023-08-11 - Gay film director Christopher Landon—who's helmed Happy Death Day and Freaky—will take the res of the next Scream movie, Out noted.
CHIGO LBIAN & GAY INTERNATNAL FILM FTIVAL
SHOWBIZ Ariana DeBose, Outft, 'Gay Days, ' 'Drag Race, ' Keke Palmer 2023-07-28 - Queer, Osr-wng performer/actor Ariana DeBose beme one of three people who have joed the Amerin Film Instute's board of tste, The Hollywood Reporter noted. SHOWBIZ Emmys, 'Top Chef, ' Hyphen Hyphen, Da Brat, 'Transparent, ' Ben Cohen 2023-07-14Vios below - As the Emmy nomatns were announced (wh Succsn leadg wh 27 noms), openly gay Paris Barclay ma history.
17TH CHIGO LBIAN & GAY INTERNATNAL FILM FTIVAL
SHOWBIZ Rocker out, Billie Eilish, Le Evans, 'Hoewiv, ' 'Masculy' book 2023-06-30 - Josh Kiszka, ontman for the Grammy-wng rock band Greta Van Fleet, me out as gay an Instagram post, acrdg to Instct Magaze. He’s one of many directors, actors and other filmmakers who will vis Reelg for screengs, Q&As or panels, anizers film follows a rag-tag rabow water polo team om France that gets trapped a gay nversn mp Rsia while headg to the Tokyo Gay Gam. Documentary by Ada Gay Griff and Michelle Parkerson about the famo Ain-Amerin wrer, activist, and social theorist; prented by People Like Us and Women & Children First.
A Canadian fictn feature by Cynthia Roberts (1994) about a gay man (Ken McDougall) who choos legal suici over a slow ath om AIDS, staged real time the character’s bedroom.
Yet another daisy cha of narrativ the manner of La ron, this one a watchable first feature (1994) by wrer-director Jeremy Poswa that sex, both gay and straight, to make the var nnectns.
CHIGO LBIAN & GAY FILM FTIVAL
Reelg 2000, the 20th Chigo Lbian & Gay Internatnal Film Ftival, ntu Friday through Thursday, November 10 through 16; screengs this week will be at Cy North 14, Landmark’s Century Centre, and Chigo Filmmakers, 5243 N. At a hostel he hooks up wh another young transient who kdl his homosexualy, and workg for a rich, bld matron he’s sced by her sleek, libido son, who then v him to a threome wh his boyiend.
Black’s script has elements of soap opera, but he don’t boldface them, and rather than make an issue of homosexualy he allows his characters to anguish over their hop, unfahfulns, and bad cisns. Director Anthony Wall don’t reveal much about Epste’s homosexualy bis the ual stori of rough-tra adventur gone wrong and the nventnal wisdom that he sublimated his romantic longg through “his boys.
For every Danielle, whose mother accepted her trans inty and supported her MTF transn, there’s a Daniel, whose mother ially supported his homosexualy but eventually throws him out bee she n’t al wh seeg him stabbed at school and liberately h by a r (the cince of their nam is arrtg self). Gay and straight teachers try to curb the homophobia that mak school a physil and emotnal danger zone, yet a well-meang guidance unselor also remarks that she n’t image anyone wantg to beat up a “queer” stunt. On the same program, the half-hour Canadian short Insi Out Queer Youth, a llectn of films produced by teens as part of the Toronto Lbian and Gay Film Ftival’s youth outreach program–cludg Sarah and Elaa Evans’s “What About Her?, ” ncerg the rejectn of queer homels teens by Toronto’s gay and lbian muny.