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Sarah Paulson talks about the inspiration behind her role in the film ‘Run’

Sarah Paulson’s latest thriller Run was recently crowned Hulu’s most-watched movie ever during its opening weekend.

AHHHHHHH‼️ #RunFilm ranks as the most watched film on @Hulu EVER since premiering!! This wouldn’t be possible without each and every one of you. YOU MADE THIS HAPPEN!! On behalf of everyone on the @OfficialRunFilm team, we are so grateful!!!! I guess I am your mom??? pic.twitter.com/mQf9Hw0tMJ
— Sarah Paulson (@MsSarahPaulson) November 24, 2020

Run was previously going to come to theatres on Mother’s Day weekend back in May to fit in, ironically, with the movie’s plot line about the twisted relationship between a mother (Paulson) and her homeschooled and wheelchair-bound teen daughter (Kiera Allen).

Now that movie has come out just in time for quality time on edge with family. Sarah Paulson shared the incredible (and jump scare-like surprise) for the Hulu film.

Elsewhere on Paulson’s agenda, she admitted back in September that returning to American Horror Story for season 10 felt “intimidating and nerve-wracking” after numerous TV and movie productions stopped or altered production schedules due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

She also praised her colleagues for the “extraordinary” consideration they gave, so that everyone could return to filming as safely as possible.

https://twitter.com/MsSarahPaulson/status/1319311348040282112?s=20

Hulu also has another big release coming with Happiest Season, a holiday rom-com that was recently picked up for streaming instead of going to theaters. The movie starring Kristen Stewart, MacKenzie Davis, Alison Brie, Dan Levy and Aubrey Plaza could very well make for another big win for Hulu coming hot off Run, but we’ll have to see, of course.

Netflix’s Latest Queer Holiday Movie ‘New York Christmas Wedding’ Is A Heartfelt Surprise

Netflix’s latest LGBTQ+ holiday movie, A New York Christmas Wedding, follows lead bisexual character Jennifer Ortiz (Nia Fairweather) as she explores the world of what could have been.

She is currently second-guesses her impending wedding to her fiancé, and gets cold feet when his overbearing mother insists on a massive Christmas wedding for her son with little regard for the bride’s interests.

As is the stuff of Christmas flicks, a twist of fate brings Jennifer, who’s reeling from the recent loss of her father and the long-ago loss of her best friend, Gabrielle (Adriana DeMeo), together with her guardian angel, Azrael (Cooper Koch). He conjures an alternate world in which Gabrielle and Jennifer’s father are still alive and Jennifer gets a second shot at love with Gabrielle.

Early reviews suggest this romance movie may not be the best you’ve ever seen but if you’re running out of Christmas romance movies on Netflix (which is hard to do) then check this out.

If you’re wanting to dive in, here’s what you can expect:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-S416uvCJo&feature=emb_title

A New York Christmas Wedding is one of several Christmas movies this year that feature queer leading characters. Among them is the first studio-backed Christmas flick with queer lead characters, Happiest Season, directed by Clea DuVall and starring Kristen Stewart and Mackenzie Davis.

Eva Green And Gemma Arterton Cast In Virginia Woolf Lesbian Romance

Screen International have confirmed that Eva Green and Gemma Arterton have been cast in the lead roles of Vita & Virginia, film about the romantic relationship between Bloomsbury Group novelist Virginia Woolf and writer-gardener Vita Sackville-West.

The love between these two women, and their mutual admiration for each other’s work, went on to inspire Woolf to write Orlando; which documents the adventures of a poet who lives for several centuries, changing sex from man to woman.

Sackville-West’s son Nigel Nicolson later wrote:

The effect of Vita on Virginia is all contained in Orlando, the longest and most charming love letter in literature.”

The film’s director by Chanya Button, commented

The prospect of collaborating with Dame Eileen Atkins, Eva Green and Gemma Arterton in bringing the mercurial passion that Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West shared to life is beyond a privilege. We so often associate women of the past with oppression, bound by the duties of marriage, propriety and domesticity; but what Vita & Virginia offers is an example of a relationship where bold, brilliant women bent these institutions to their will at great personal cost.

Focusing on the time in 1927-8 during which Woolf wrote Orlando, the novel their relationship inspired, Vita & Virginia will be a visceral love story, a vivid exploration of creativity, and an energised perspective on one of our most iconic writers”.

Samira Wiley Is a Conflicted Mother In New Kitty Genovese Movie ’37’

Samira Wiley may have exited Orange Is the New Black this season, but the actress – who played fan favourite Poussey Washington – is moving on to a new challenge.

Wiley’s new film 37 is a powerful drama and a fictional account of the 1964 rape and murder of Kitty Genovese, and the 37 people who “did nothing” as it happened.

Directed by Danish actress and filmmaker, Puk Gratsen, the film’s retelling is told entirely from the perspectives of her apathetic neighbours.

Wiley plays Joyce Smith who, with her husband and son, fled the race riots in Harlem and have just moved into the Queens neighbourhood.

Talking about the movie to Hollywood Life, Wiley said

As an actor, I want to do a lot of different roles and different from the things people know me for. So that was the first thing that definitely attracted me to the role.

The Kitty Genovese story, which I actually wasn’t familiar with before this film. Researching and figuring out the particulars of what happened that night was definitely — I felt like — a story that needed to be told. To be able to have the opportunity to not only tell that story but also working with such an amazing cast and especially Michael Potts, I just felt like I learned so much to better myself as an actor.

She added

Honestly, I really do think something like that is possible in happening today. I think people are so afraid of speaking up because I think there’s this notion of: “If I’m the first one to say something, then I’m going to be the first person that suspicion is cast on.”

‘Love is All You Need?’ Movie Envisions a Heterophobic Society

In movies and films that feature gay characters, it’s incredibly common that their storylines focus on homophobia or the struggles they have as they come to terms with their sexuality. But, despite this, the concept of a world that is prejudiced against someone’s sexuality is often a difficult one to grasp for heterosexual viewers.

Aiming to solve this is new movie Love is All You Need? The film, which stars Ana Ortiz, Leisha Hailey, Briana Evigan, Tyler Blackburn and more, envisions a world where it’s not gay people who are judged for their sexuality – it’s heterosexual people.

In the film’s fictional version of society, teachings against the ‘sin’ of heterosexuality are even taught in church.

In the film, quarterback Jude has a girlfriend but she forms a connection with male frat pledge and journalist student Ryan.

The film also focuses on elementary student Emily who gets a crush on her best friend Ian and is excited to take part in the school’s production of Romeo and Julio (which the school’s theatre director decides to change to Romeo and Juliet) as if she’s cast as Juliet, it means that she’ll get to kiss a boy – but her classmates find out that she’s heterosexual and begin to bully her.

Love is All You Need? is based on a short movie about a little girl named Ashley who is harassed by her parents and even physical abused by her peers just for being a “ro” (the movie’s slur for heterosexual people) and it eventually leads her to commit suicide. The short was incredibly successful, racking up 40 million views online.

Speaking to After Ellen, the director and co-writer of the the project, K. Rocco Shields, explains how the short film came to be:

I went to bed one night after listening to a reporter on the news talk about how she couldn’t understand why kids were killing themselves because they were gay. And I thought about how I wished this woman could feel what it would be like to be marginalized and be the proverbial other, then maybe she would understand. We need to feel things in order to make change.”

The director and co-writer also adds,

I’m not claiming originality. I’m just putting a different spin on it. And the idea is for mainstream America to really understand what it is like to be bullied and mistreated because you are different.”

For more information on where you can watch Love is All You Need? visit the official website.

The L Word’s Writer / Director Rose Troche Is Looking To Make New Queer Virtual Reality TV Series

Rose Troche is perhaps best known as the co-executive producer, writer and director of the Showtime series The L Word.

However, she has also directed episodes of Six Feet Under, Ugly Betty and Law & Order, but first came to prominence in 1994 with her directorial debut Go Fish, which premiered at Sundance.

Troche is now turning her attention to a new venture, and collaborating with Virtual Reality pioneer, Morris May – who was responsible for Specular Theory on ground-breaking films on date rape and police brutality, to make an 8-part ensemble comedy series entitled LGBTQIA.

Casting is underway and she is seeking a partner for what she hopes will be an ongoing series set in a high , which doubles as a community center at night.

The narrative will follow people who turn up to attend LGBTQIA group meetings, which descend into mayhem.

She intends to shoot the first two episodes, each of 8-10 minutes, in late August in time to premiere at the Sundance Film Festival’s New Frontier program.

Talking to Forbes, Troche said

I want to take what works from the old model and explore new ground in how we go through production. I am creating the bible for all eight episodes and there will be a narrative cliffhanger and also a tech cliffhanger at the end of season one, so you can start to be interactive with the promise of what is to come in season two.”

Ellen Page & Evan Rachel Wood Discuss Their Latest Collaboration ‘Into the Forest’

Ellen Page and Evan Rachel Wood have talked to Monsters and Critics about their new collaboration, Into the Forest.

The apocalyptic movie, which Page produced as well as co-stars in with Wood, is based on Jean Hegland’s novel of the same name.

However, it isn’t your typical end-of-days movie.

Forget the zombie attacks or fire and brimstone, this drama from writer-director Patricia Rozema looks at the psychological side of complete loss.

It’s a story about two sisters who struggle to survive in a remote country house after a continent-wide power outage.

Page recently explained Into the Forest was a metaphor for grief. The way the sisters believe power will be restored, groceries re-stocked and things will go back to normal play into our own fears of change and impermanence — all expectations and attachments we ultimately have no control over.

They’re dealing with just an overall sense of grief, and loss of what they’ve known and what they were about to expect, which I think is just a huge part of what being alive means. Page also touches on the decision she made two years ago to come out as gay as “the best decision I’ve ever made.

I still get a little emotional talking about. I feel like a different person and I feel so lucky, so fortunate for that because that’s not the case for a lot of people who come out.”

Watch the trailer below;

One Million Moms Go Into Meltdown Over ‘Once Upon A Time’ Lesbian Storyline

Hate group One Million Moms have gone into melt down about a recent episode of ABC’s “Once Upon A Time” that featured a lesbian kiss .

According to their press release:

ABC’s “Once Upon a Time” introduced a lesbian couple during this week’s episode which 1MM and parents find completely unnecessary. On the other hand, the producers said the inclusion of homosexuality in a show popular with kids was “important.” Many families watch the program based on beloved children’s fairytales, but unfortunately, ABC has distorted and twisted the storylines in these fables.”

The offending episode, named Ruby Slippers, aired on April 17th and featured Ruby from Little Red Riding Hood and Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz kissing, making them the first-ever gay couple to appear on the show.

One aspect that really makes One Million Moms angry is the fact that “the munchkins from Oz watch.”

The press release continues:

True Love’s kiss has been a staple of this show since the beginning. This past Sunday’s episode was just another example of how in a fairytale, as in life, love is love,” co-creators Adam Horowitz and Eddy Kitsis said in a statement about the LGBTQ storyline. Horowitz added that the storyline will be as “exciting, emotional, and heartfelt as any other love story.”

“Once Upon a Time’s” executive producers have also said their gay advocacy is “important to do” and something that needs to be “normalized,” not “marginalized.” Last year, when hinting the coming storyline, they said, “It (the LGBTQ relationship) is something we think is due and important to do on the show. This is the world we live in.” The producers repeated the mantra “love is love” and again admitted that their goal was to normalize and push gay relationships “as a part of everyday life.”

Homosexuality continues to be over-represented in the media because producers want people, and especially kids, to think it’s normal and everyday life. In reality, that is their fairytale.”

So there you have it — this month’s generous helping of stupidity, courtesy of One Million Moms.

‘Once Upon A Time’ Introduces First Same-Sex Relationship

Once Upon a Time has been teasing us for years, but now they have finally introduced us to the shows first same-sex couple.

Alas SnowQueen fans, it isn’t Emma and Regina.

SPOILER ALERT: Do not read ahead, if you have not watched episode 18 of Once Upon A Time.

The new couple on the block is Ruby aka Little Red Riding Hood and Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz.

In a series of flashbacks, Ruby and Mulan team up with Dorothy in Oz to take down the Wicked Witch.

Romance blossomed between the two women after a fateful sleeping curse lead Ruby to the Underworld to bestow true love’s kiss on Dorothy to wake her.

Executive producers Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz originally revealed an LGBT couple would be joining the show after a screening of the season premiere last year.

Talking to Entertainment Weekly, Kitsis said

We know that community have been big supporters of the show and we would love to be able to tell a love story that reflects that”

Horowitz added.

It’s something we want to do this year. It’s something we think is due and important to do on the show. This is the world we live in.”

Viewers originally speculated that the relationship could occur between Mulan and Aurora – after it was hinted that the pair loved each other – but Kitsis and Horowitz did not reveal which characters the arc would feature until the episode aired.

Watch a sneak peek below.

Gillian Anderson’s New Film ‘Sold’ Aims To Raise Awareness On Child trafficking

Gillian Anderson is best know for her role as FBI special agent Dana Scully in hit show The X-Files, but now she is bringing her star power to an important issue with her newest film, Sold.

Based on a true story, Sold tells the intense, emotional story of one 13-year-old girl’s quest for freedom after finding herself a victim of human trafficking between Nepal and India.

Anderson plays a U.S. photographer named Sophia who tries to rescue the girls imprisoned, together with NGO workers like Sam, played by David Arquette.

Ahead of the movie’s release, the United Nations brought together Anderson and a special panel of distinguished writers, artists and activists- to discuss the role that the arts can play in the fight against child trafficking and prostitution.

Sold was directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Jeffrey Dean Brown, executive produced by Oscar winner Emma Thompson, and produced by Jane Charles.

New Movie ‘Me Him Her’ Is Blurring The Lines Of Sexuality

Son of director John Landis, Max Landis has been making waves in Hollywood for quite sometime now. He can be credited for writing the likes of Chronicle, American Ultra, and Victor Frankenstein.

Now he’s moving into the director’s chair himself to tell a gay-themed tale called Me Him Her.

The movie stars Luke Bracey (Point Break), Dustin Milligan (90210), and Emily Meade (The Leftovers) as three L.A. millennials trying to figure out their lives.

Interestingly Landis says much of it is based on a true story, telling EW recently that,

Most of the things in the movie really happened to me. There are large elements of the movie that are based on a true story, which is the only thing I’ve ever written like that. I almost never write about myself in scripts. Me Him Her is sort of the lone exception to that rule.”

He also mentions that he wanted to “learn on” a movie that was of a smaller scale than his science fiction films. Still, Me Him Her looks pretty manic, and not at all a low-key rom-com.

Check out the trailer below:

The film gets a limited cinema release and will be available via VoD from March 11th in the US.

Iconic Lesbian Book ‘The Ladies Almanack’ Turned Into a Film

In 1928, Djuna Barnes published The Ladies Almanack. Complete with illustrations and writing that has been described as “archaic”, Barnes’ book detailed the lesbian social circle that was based in Paris at the time.

And while many of the names have been changed in order to protect the women (some of whom include Natalie Barney, Radclyffe Hall, Dolly Wilde, and Janet Flanner), the events of The Ladies Almanack and the settings (such as Natalie Barney’s Paris salon) are very real indeed.

While The Ladies Almanack isn’t Barnes’ best known book (that title goes to Nightwood), it is still an incredibly important one.

With Barney, Hall and Flanner being some of the most important artists of their time, across poetry, literature and painting, the book offers a rare insight into their social and personal lives from someone who was actually right in the middle of it.

That’s why it’s especially good news that The Ladies Almanack has been turned into a film.

Having been in the works for three years by filmmaker Daviel Shy, it is described as “not just a movie, it is a movement.” The filmmaker explains that “the film takes place in an imaginary city comprised of Paris and Chicago, using architectural similarities to suggest that both cities are one and that “in Paris, the center of our creative community is a living room in Aubervilliers. (An inner-ring suburb just Northwest of the city proper.)” and “in Chicago, the spaces that have served and fed our artistic community for many years figure prominently in the film.”

The film, which mostly features non-professional actors (including Eileen Myles and Hélène Cixous), has already been filmed. However, there is still work to be done until it is totally complete, which is why The Ladies Almanack has a Seed & Spark page.

The goal is $15,000 (with just over a month to go) and pledges will go towards things such as final sound mixing, colour correction, and festival costs.

New Action Packed Teaser For ‘Wonder Woman’ Has Arrived

The new Suicide Squad trailer wasn’t the only thing to debut on The CW’s special DC Films Presents: Dawn of the Justice League. As another surprise, host Kevin Smith unveiled the first footage from Wonder Woman, the upcoming film starring Gal Gadot as the Amazon superheroine.

Since Wonder Woman has only been filming since last November, this is far from a finished look at the movie. But it does have a few intriguing glimpses of Wonder Woman in action, and it also shows her as Diana Prince, the secret identity that she adopts in man’s world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9Ur4De7yT8

There’s still a lot about the Wonder Woman movie that hasn’t been announced. It has been confirmed that at least part of the film is set during World War I, and Connie Nielsen was recently signed to play Wonder Woman’s mother, Queen Hippolyta of the Amazons.

Gadot will make her cinematic debut as Wonder Woman in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice on March 25.

The Wonder Woman movie will follow on June 23, 2017.

Australian Movie ‘All About E’ Is Like ‘Thelma & Louise’ But Gayer and More Diverse

All About E is one film that has garnered a lot of positive critical reception. Not only did the film land a spot on our list of the best films from the Cinema Diverse event but it also won the Chicago Great Gay Screenplay competition as well.

Also worth noting is the fact that All About E‘s writer/director Louise Wadley took part in the Outfest Scriptwriting Lab. So, now that you know the level of talent behind the film, I suppose you want to know ‘what’s it all about?’.

The best way to describe this one is ‘a gay Thelma & Louise‘. Indeed, although that iconic movie thrived on (and made its way into our hearts because of) subtext, All About E has got more than enough maintext to keep you warm at night. Its lead is the titular E, an Arabic Australian woman who hosts Spanish themed nights at a local gay club.

But when she wants to ditch her matador get up and host a night that celebrates her Lebanese background instead, racist boss Johnny gives her a giant, resounding ‘no’.

The morning after Johnny puts his foot down, E and her gay BFF Matt find that E accidentally brought home a whole bunch of cash with her and the two have plans to open up their own club.

Unfortunately, trouble soon comes when they discover that the money belongs to Johnny leading E to her ex-girlfriend Trish’s farm to hide out, vowing to make it right with her former partner.

With a synopsis like that, there’s clearly a lot to love about All About E. It’s a little bit funny, it’s got a little bit of romance and while we wouldn’t call it ‘gripping’ in the traditional sense, the drama surrounding the criminal antics are a huge draw as well.

What’s also positive is to hear Louise Wadley’s thinking behind the film, as she told Lesbian.com her inspiration:

The inspiration was born out of a deep frustration of not seeing my Australia represented on screen. Where is the multicultural world that is the reality of most Australian Cities ? You just don’t see it. We need to catch up with our story telling and our casting. Why not have a woman of color be the lead?

So her cultural background doesn’t have to be the whole story just as why not have lesbians in other roles in drama as just a fact and a part of their character not the reason for the whole story. So it isn’t a coming out story. It isn’t a story that is just about being Arabic Australian – it’s a beautiful story about finding yourself that’s also a road movie, a thriller and a love story.”

And on All About E‘s love scenes, the writer/director explains that

I wanted to show a beautiful love scene between two women that was both passionate and real but also one that was complex and told a story like all of our other scenes.”

All About E is now available via Wolfe Video.

What’s It Like to Grow Up Trans in the South? New Documentary ‘Deep Run’ Answers

One phrase that we’ve heard a lot recently is ‘the transgender tipping point’; the idea that now, finally, we are seeing trans characters in the media and trans people’s stories being told on our TV and cinema screens.

For example, there’s trans woman of colour Sophia Burset on Orange if the New Black, 2015 film Tangerine follows two trans working girls, Amazon series Transparent follows a family dealing with their parent’s transition. And of course, recently there’s been the high profile transition of Caitlyn Jenner of Keeping Up With the Kardashians fame.

But while the trans tipping point has given us more trans characters and stories about trans characters that aren’t exploitative or dehumanising, that doesn’t necessarily mean that life has gotten any easier for the average, real-world trans person. Murders of trans people are at a historic high in the US, with at least 20 trans women having been murdered this year.

The intolerance against trans folk is particularly potent in the south of the United States, with these states locations being infamous for their high levels of religion and low levels of acceptance. Exploring what it’s like to be a trans person in this area is a new documentary called Deep Run, which follows trans man Cole Ray Davis in a ‘coming of age’ story that follows five years of his life living in rural North Carolina, including how he find acceptance from his family, his girlfriend and his church community.

Already, Deep Run has picked up several awards including Best Documentary at the Austin Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival as well as Emerging Talent Award at Outfest Los Angeles LGBT Film Festival, but these aren’t the only endorsements attached to the film.

In addition to critics praising it as a beautifully shot piece that really does its subject and its atmosphere justice, Oscar-winning actress Susan Sarandon (who is also Deep Run’s executive producer) says that the film is now more important than ever and she also tells The Advocate that;

There’s people that’s just trying to make ends meet, can’t find a job, problems that a lot of people have in the United States right now with poverty and hunger and homelessness, and then on top of that you add the challenges of transitioning without money for [medication], without real counseling, without the kind of support from a community that is so important when transitioning, and it became more and more important to me that this documentary was something people should see to understand other types of situations where people are transitioning and not just the glamorous life of Caitlyn Jenner.”

Davis also spoke the publication about his life and experiences during Deep Run:

[Making the film was] fun and sporadic, more overwhelming than anything,” he says “It is difficult living openly trans in the Deep South, there are times when it can be scary, but for the most part I just brush it off and live my life. I fought so hard for acceptance because I thought I deserved spiritual help as much as anyone else did. And I was so tired of hearing Christians say we believe that only God can judge, yet their whole practice seemed to be about judging, and I just thought I wanted to challenge that,and see if I could be accepted.”

Visit the Deep Run website to find out how you can see the film.

https://vimeo.com/132882263

Could It Be? Kristen Stewart And Chloe Sevigny Set To Star In A Movie Together

Rumours has it, that two of our favourite actresses are set to star in a new film about the life Lizzie Borden.

Lizzie Borden was famously tried and eventually cleared of brutally killing her father and step-mother with an axe in 1892. No one else was ever charged.

According to report Kristen Stewart and Chloe Sevigny have signed on to the as-yet untitled psychological thriller, directed by Pieter Van Hees, with Sevigny taking on the part of Borden.

Reports suggest Stewart will play Bridget Sullivan, the Borden family’s live-in maid, who some believe was in a relationship with Lizzie.

Borden’s trial was the subject of much public interest and speculation long after her acquittal, and the deaths of her father and stepmother are remembered as one of the most mysterious murders of all time.

Van Hees’ version is the latest in a long list of film and TV adaptations, most recently starring Christina Ricci as Borden.

Former Bond Girl Diana Rigg Wants To See A Lesbian 007

Former Bond girl Dame Diana Rigg said she would love to see a black or lesbian 007.

The Game of Thrones actress – who played Contessa Teresa di Vicenzo in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service – was the only woman to win Bond’s heart, but put a ring on the superspy (Sadly she died immediately after the wedding).

She told the Radio Times:

A black Bond would be lovely. I wouldn’t like to see a female Bond, because we wouldn’t want to lose the Bond girls. But we could have a lesbian Bond, why not?”

Why not? Because we’ll get our hearts broken, that’s why.

Check out: 10 Bad-Ass Actresses Who Should Take the Lead in James Bond

‘From This Day Forward’ Documentary Features A Family Coping With a Parent’s Transition

Between Sophia Burset on Orange is the New Black, Maura on Transparent and Caitlyn Jenner of Olympic and Kardashians fame, recently, the conversation about trans folk has really focused on those who come out and choose to transition once they already had families. But, with the first two names on that list being fictional and with Jenner’s own documentary series being given the E! reality drama touch, those stories aren’t necessarily relatable.

Perhaps offering a better look (or at least a different one) at how families adapt and change once someone in the family comes out as transgender, is From This Day Forward.

For the Shattuck family, that person is their dad, Trisha. Before getting married, Trisha told Marcia that she liked to dress up in women’s clothing but, perhaps out of naivety, Marcia didn’t think anything of it, just assuming it was a kink that shouldn’t be disclosed out of the bedroom. For Trisha, however, this most definitely wasn’t a kink, it was her gender identity.

When Marcia and Trisha’s two daughters, Laura and Sharon were five and eight years old (respectively), Trisha came out and announced her plans to transition.

From This Day Forward reveals that the emotional toll of keeping her identity a secret was very difficult for Trisha, and in the trailer, she says that “being transgender is like walking around, silently crying unless you have an opportunity to express yourself”.

Unfortunately, Laura and Sharon weren’t best pleased with the timing of Trisha’s coming out and they want to know why their dad didn’t wait until they were older.

Sharon Shattuck (who also directed the documentary) also wants to know about her parents’ love as, when Trisha began to transition, her and Marcia nearly got a divorce.

Plus, for a straight woman who now is now married to another woman, there’s although the question of sexuality, though Marcia says that “it’s this inner being that is the attraction, and it’s just always there. And there’s nothing really that can break it if it’s there for you”.

On top of this, there’s the fact that Sharon is getting married and From This Day Forward considers a conversation that Sharon and her dad had when she was 13, when her dad hoped that one day she’d wear a dress to walk Sharon down the aisle.

It doesn’t seem right to call this one a learning documentary and it’s certainly not hard-hitting but From This Day Forward does manage to be serious and yet heart-warming at the same time.

The film is currently doing the film festival circuit so visit its website to find out when it’s showing near you.

First Glimpses Of Ruby Rose With Milla Jovovich in ‘Resident Evil: The Final Chapter’

As we all know, actress and model Ruby Rose has broken free of Litchfield Prison and landed a role in the upcoming Resident Evil: The Final Chapter.

The new cast member of the Paul W.S. movie seems to be enjoy filming.

Along with cast members – Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter, Eoin Macken, Fraser James, Rola, and William Levy – Rose has been snapped in loads of cool behind-the-scenes photos from the set of Resident Evil: The Final Chapter.

The new film picks up immediately after the events in Resident Evil: Retribution, where humanity is on its last legs.

As the only survivor of what was meant to be humanity’s final stand against the undead hordes, Alice (Jovovich) must return to where the nightmare began – Raccoon City, where the Umbrella Corporation is gathering its forces for a final strike against the only remaining survivors of the apocalypse.

In a race against time Alice will join forces with old friends, and an unlikely ally, in an action packed battle with undead hordes and new mutant monsters.

Rose’s character is called Abigail, but no other information about her role has been released yet.

The Resident Evil franchise has been one of the most successful game-to-movie adaptations ever, grossing more than $915 million worldwide.

Resident Evil: The Final Chapter will be distributed in the U.S. by Screen Gems in January 2017.

Dianna Agron And Paz de la Huerta Sizzle in Trailer for New Queer Feature Bare

Get ready for Bare, Dianna Agron’s queer drama about a young woman living in Nevada, who becomes romantically involved with a female drifter played by Paz de La Huerta.

In this first trailer, we get a pretty extensive look at the start of the relationship between these two as Dianna’s character must make the choice between a life she’s used to and the thrills of drugs, sex, and stripping.

The film, is written, produced and developed by Purple Milk aka Natalia Leite and out producer Alexandra Roxo, two independent filmmaker from Brooklyn. Together they have worked on documentaries, like the upcoming Serrano Shoots Cuba, and the web series Be Here Nowish (which you can watch on KitschMix.tv), which they wrote and also starred in.

Natalia Leite said about the film,

It’s kind of an add romance in that they’re like oil and water. They’re such different characters in the story but they fall for each other and sort of change each other’s lives. Alexandra and I pulled together the financing, found another producer to start collaborating with, a local New Mexico producer, Chad Burris, because we knew we wanted to shoot there, in a small desert town.”

Check out the trailer right here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8p5RhFZTm0

Dianna Agron Discusses Her Three Queer Roles

Dianna Agron is perhaps best known for her role as Quinn Fabray in the hit FOX TV show, Glee.

Quinn certainly faced some hardships as the series went on, including a teen pregnancy storyline and the time a car accident left her temporarily paralysed, but one of her high points include the time she slept with (lesbian character) Santana Lopez; twice.

And although her not-so-platonic relationship with Santana wasn’t given much screen time, Agron’s portrayal of the character made her a favourite in the hearts of many queer viewers.

Following her portrayal of Quinn, Agron has gone on to star in two more queer pieces of media.

One of these is the Hollow In The Land, a film about a “tomboyish lesbian” who goes to work at a pulp mill. Her character has already had to deal with her father’s imprisonment for murder and a year later, her brother goes missing, and so she on a quest to find him.

And then there’s Bare, in which the actor plays a woman called Sarah Barton.

In Bare, Sarah meets and falls for an older woman (played by Paz de la Huerta from Boardwalk Empire) and soon she is coaxed into a wild world, that involves drugs and getting a job at a “truck stop strip club”.

These roles are all massively different and in an interview with PopSugar, the actor has shed more light on the different ‘looks’ of each of them. Of Quinn, Agron says that “she was all about the lash. Loved a lash, loved an eyeliner, and mascara.”

Of her role in Hollow In The Land, however, the actor explains that

it’s not dissimilar to my own life, but it’s not similar to my own life — its just finding a balance” and that as an actor “you can draw on experiences that you’ve had, but then at the same time you can turn it into something that is so different than anything you’ve ever experienced”.

As for Bare, in which Agron has her first on-screen nude scene, the actor reveals that she did “nothing” to prepare for it:

I was very communicative with our director. I knew they didn’t want to film anything in a gratuitous way, everything was going to be very art house — in and out of focus. I was very comfortable with all of that.”

Bare was released in April, 2015. Hollow In The Land does not yet have a release date.

Eddie Redmayne Transforms Into Transgender Artist Lili Elbe In Trailer For Oscar-Hyped Drama ‘The Danish Girl’

The first trailer for The Danish Girl, starring Eddie Redmayne as famous transgender, has been released.

The film, based on the book of the same name by David Ebershoff, focuses on

the true story of transgender pioneer Lili – born Einar Wegener – who became one of the first people to have gender reassignment surgery in the 1930s.

The trailer opens with the beautiful love story between Einar and his wife Gerda, who falls for the ‘charming and mysterious’ artist.

When one of Gerda’s models fails to show for a painting session, she persuades her husband to pose for her in a dress, unaware of how meaningful the moment is for him.

The dress-up spirals into a joke as the pair create a new identity for him, the beautiful and enigmatic Lili, heading out for the evening to see whether they can fool others.

But Gerda soon realises it is no longer a game for her partner, who experiences a revelation and admits to feeling more like her true self as Lili than she ever has, declaring, ‘This is not my body’.

With her wife’s support, Eddie’s character then embarks on the life-changing process of gender reassignment surgery.

Speaking previously about the movie, Eddie called the portrayal of transgender artist Lili Elbe ‘his most challenging role yet’.

Redmayne told GQ magazine:

I was actually offered The Danish Girl before Hawking… People go, “Oh are you doing this transformative thing?” It’s not a concerted choice. I think it will be a unique experience.”

Meanwhile, Academy Award-winner Hooper – who previously worked with Redmayne on Les Miserables – has revealed there was no other actor than the hugely talented Eddie for the role.

I was a great believer in him as an actor. I think also there’s a certain gender fluidity that I sensed in him, that I found intriguing and it led me to think he might be a really interesting person to cast in this role. I felt that there was something in him that was drawn to the feminine. That was something that I felt he might be interested to explore further.”

The Danish Girl opens in New York and Los Angeles on November 27, and in additional cities in December.

Ellen Page and Evan Rachel Wood Take Their New Film ‘Into the Forest’ to Toronto Festival

YES! We’re getting sneak peck at Ellen Page and Evan Rachel Wood together in their upcoming drama about seclusion, Into the Forest.

Their new movie premiers at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival

A brief description states:

In a not-too-distant future, sisters Nell and Eva find themselves shuttered in their home. Surrounded by nothing but miles of dense forest, the sisters must fend for themselves using the supplies and food reserves they have before turning to the forest to discover what it will provide. They are faced with a world where rumour is the only guide, trust is a scarce commodity, gas is king and loneliness is excruciating. And yet somehow miraculously, love still grows.”

We’ve no idea when will get to see this one in the cinemas, but all we can say is ‘Ellen keep them coming’ – 🙂

Dianna Agron Lands Another Lesbian Role in ‘Hollow In The Land’

According to Deadline Reports, the actress has landed a lead role in Hollow In The Land, an indie drama from writer-director Scooter Corkle.

She will paly Alison, a tomboyish lesbian who works at a pulp mill. A year after her father was put away for murder, she’s in a troubled state, but her troubles get worse when her brother goes missing. She sets out to find him.

Agron recently featured in the queer movie Bare.

Bare tells the story of a young girl called Sarah Barton (Agron), living in Nevada, who becomes romantically involved with a female drifter played by Paz de La Huerta.

From there, she is introduces to a life of stripping, drugs, and metaphysical experiences that teach her what happens when real life catches up with dark fantasy.

The film, is written, produced and developed by Purple Milk aka Natalia Leite and out producer Alexandra Roxo.

‘In the Absence of the Sun’ Follows Struggles of Queer Women in Indonesia

It’s a little known fact that Indonesia has the highest Muslim population in the entire world. With 87% of the population being of the Islamic faith (and most of the remaining 13% being Roman Catholic), it means that the country is incredibly conservative.

For women in Indonesia, this puts a high amount of pressure and heavy expectations on them. Women are expected to settle down, marry, have children and be good mothers and wives – and it also means that if you are a queer woman, you shouldn’t expect your sexuality to be accepted by the masses.

This is something that new narrative feature film, In the Absence of the Sun, wants to show. Directed by Lucky Kuswandi, the new film follows the lives of three different Indonesian women over the course of one evening, all in different circumstances but each of them struggling because of the country’s societal norms.

One of the women is named Gia who returns home to Jakarta (the capital city of Indonesia) after building up her career as a filmmaker in New York City. The use of ‘home’ soon appears to be ironic, though, as she experiences a huge, unexpected culture shock.

So, as queer woman having a hard time in the big city would do, she calls up her ex, Naomi, and asks her for a tour. Sadly though, even Naomi recognises that the religious beliefs of the country means that “there’s no place for [them]”, and she states that eventually they’ll both have to become “breeding stock”.

Then, there’s Indri and Mrs Surya, two women who are more than happy to prescribe to the traditional way of life. Indri is just 24 but she’s desperately searching for Mr. Right, hoping that he’ll be good to her and pay her bills, and she’s turning to the online dating scene to help her find him.

Mrs Surya, meanwhile, has just lost her husband and after finding that there’s “nothing to hang onto anymore” since people only know her because of her husband’s name, she’s devastated to find out that he had another woman in his life; a prostitute named Sofia.

Because of the dramatic nature of films, In the Absence of the Sun is perhaps not as hard-hitting as a documentary would be. However, if you’re looking for some kind of insight (at least, a small one) into Indonesian society, then it’s still a prime example.

Visit the film’s Twitter page to find out where you can watch it.

Amber Heard Discusses the Importance of Being Out in Hollywood

Actress Amber Heard came out during an event organised by GLAAD in 2010, saying she believed that denying or hiding something is an inadvertent admission that it’s “wrong”.

On her decision to come out, she recently told The Times:

At that time I didn’t know of anyone else in my position who was a working female lead actress. I don’t want to have to deny my sexuality in order to be me. But I don’t want to have to be defined by it. I’m fundamentally opposed to trying to edit myself to be palatable or popular. I don’t give a f**k. I fight, but I shouldn’t have to.”

Heard also admitted re-writing her lines for Magic Mike to suggest that her character was bisexual and enjoyed the film’s “reversed gender roles” .

It’s a film about men seeking sexual attention. It gives the power position to women. My character’s function has nothing to do with her sexuality.”

Going on, she said she thought celebrities who stay in the closet are “inadvertently admitting it’s wrong” to be gay or bisexual.

She went on:

I personally think that if you deny something or if you hide something you’re inadvertently admitting it’s wrong. I hate the idea of a label just as much as anyone else but I’m with who I’m with. I’m not a better actress than I was yesterday and my personal life should have no effect on that.”

An increasing number of celebrities are choosing to come out publicly. Cara Delevingne mostly recently confirmed her relationship with the singer St Vincent during an interview with Vogue, while Ellen Page announced she was gay at a conference for LGBT teens last year.

10 Bad-Ass Actresses Who Should Take the Lead in James Bond

So rumour has we’re getting a new James Bond lead, and while other news outlets rush to tell which guy will get the job, we decided to look at the potential female contenders…

Historically the Bond franchise has always implied that a women’s place is in the bedroom. James is a serial shagger and comes across as either a cheeseball or an oaf when it comes to seduction. A significant amount of his sexual partners end up dead. On the one occasion he marries (On Her Majesty’s Secret Service) his wife also dies. Those who live are rarely seen again, unless they’re evil double agents. They also have demeaning names like Honey Rider, Pussy Galore or Octopussy.

So it about time they switched up. Here are the 10 Bad-Ass actresses we think should take the lead in James Bond.

1. Jaimie Alexander

She’d treat dudes the way Bond traditionally treats women, or maybe she’d be a badass lesbian, either way it’s something I could get down with, and Jaimie Alexander has proven in all her movies she’s a sexy lady who would totally take her martini shaken, not stirred.

2. Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie is very sexy, and has time and time again proven that she can successfully pull off action roles, while also bringing depth to hercharacters. She can be subtle, she can be intense, so she should played Bond.

3. Emily Blunt

Well… I mean… come on. She’s pretty much the most obvious choice for the next James Bond. Give me a break.

4. Anne Hathaway

It might seem weird, and I know Bond is traditionally from the UK, but if they were to completely re-invent the series, couldn’t you just see Hathaway as an American Bond with a soft side she hides under her jaded bad girl facade? Yeah, I could dig that.

5. Emma Watson

I know with Craig’s Bond they explored the origins of James Bond, but what if they did his earlier years? Like early-late 20’s Bond? What made him choose this career path? We could always do with more backstory and Emma Watson would be a great young Bond.

6. Cate Blanchett

Are you looking at the above picture? The argument makes itself.

7. Lena Headey

If Lena Headey played Bond the character would be rowdier, a bigger womanizer (if possible), a heavier drinker, and a dirtier fighter. Yeah, I think I’d enjoy that.

8. Rachel Weisz

She’s dark, she’s classy, she’s sexy, she’s British, and she looks good in a suit. I mean, what more do you need?

9. Kate Beckinsale

Well, if we’re going to suggest a woman to play Bond I obviously can’t leave out the ultimate British bad girl: Kate Beckinsale. If anyone could play a female bond, it’s this broad.

10. Michelle Rodriguez

Michelle Rodriguez is a sexy, badass, mature woman. If she can play action, I think she can handle Bond.

‘Open Windows’ Documentary Interviews Older European Lesbians

While being a lesbian in modern day society isn’t easy by a long shot, it is substantially better than what it once was. These days, there’s lesbian representation that is diverse across continents, races, age groups and gender presentation. There are also Pride events and it is now accepted for politicians, companies and celebrities to support the LGBT community rather than shun them. In fact, if you aren’t on the side of LGBT equality, you’re usually a minority in that opinion.

But before the turn of the century, these things were all but a pipe dream. There was a time not so long ago when not only did lesbians have no rights protecting their identities, but they didn’t even have words to describe their sexuality either; how could you know you were a lesbian when a) people didn’t like to talk about it and b) there were no lesbians in TV shows or movies who you could relate to?

Many older lesbians have seen this new era of progressive opinion and LGBT acceptance develop within society, yet they have also felt the hardships of living in a society that even at the best of times, couldn’t accept them.

In a new documentary from Michèle Massé called ‘Open Windows’, we hear what it’s like to be an older lesbian from four older lesbians themselves.

All four of the women in the film are from Europe: there’s a couple named Micheline and Jocelyne who live together in Paris and then there are two women who live in Madrid, Empar who’s married and Boti who’s divorced.

While it perhaps would have been nice to see a more regionally diverse bunch of people (attitudes towards lesbians in Western Europe will be greatly different to those in the UK or in Eastern European countries) each of the four women in Open Windows brings a unique perspective on the fight so far and what needs to happen next.

For example, Boti, having gone through a divorce from a same-sex partner, feels that same-sex divorce should also be talked about as much as same-sex marriage and that discussing that will help the entire thing seem normal. Empar, on the other hand, says that as she grew up in Francoist Spain (a totalitarian state) there was no reading material available about homosexuality and information was limited, so when she finally realised that she was a lesbian, she was relieved.

Meanwhile, Micheline and Jocelyne face their own set of troubles, such as the fact that Micheline struggled to come out until her sixties and Jocelyne holds the very real fear that people will react badly to her on the street or in her apartment building and that she will end up in a nursing home where the carers do not respect her identity.

Open Windows is currently playing in film festivals across the globe. Visit the film’s website for more information.

Indian Film Tackles the Subject ‘Corrective Rape’ and the Families who Condone These Attacks on their own Children

Sadly, ‘Corrective Rape’ is word we’re hearing way to often, and case studies across the globe have chronicled cases of ‘Corrective Rape’ on women who’ve been discovered to be gay.

Shockingly, it is the woman’s own family facilitate the rape – permitting strangers to rape them, as they foolishly assuming that that is the only corrective measure for their girl to be cured from Lesbianism and she will start thinking “Normally”

According to statistics with the Crisis intervention team of LGBT Collective in Telangana, India, there have been several of ‘corrective rapes’ that have been reported to the group in recent years.

A member of the team, Vyjayanti Mogli, said they are sure there are many more cases, but they go unreported, says

We came across such cases not because they reported the rape, but because they sought help to flee their homes.”

In most cases of corrective rape, the perpetrators are family members because of which the victims refrain from seeking legal recourse.

Victims find it traumatising to speak of their brothers/ cousins turning rapists and prefer to delete the incident from their memories and cut off ties with their families. Which is why such cases almost never get reported.”

Shockingly, it’s all in the family — the parents are in the know, the rapist is usually a relative that is handpicked by them, and it’s like a ‘disciplining project’ designed to ‘cure’ and ‘correct’ the homosexual.

It’s usually a cousin who’s roped in for this ‘project’. In some communities in South India, marriages amongst cousins are common. Many times, a girl’s parents may decide that she would be married off to a cousin (i.e. her father’s sister’s son or mother’s brother’s son) soon after her birth. Now, if this girl happens to be queer and if it is found out that she is in a relationship with another girl, elders in the family believe having sex with the ‘would-be’, even if it’s forcibly, will cure her.”

Hyderabadi girl’s film on corrective rape

Hyderabadi filmmaker Deepthi Tadanki’s upcoming film, Satyavati deals with the subject of corrective rape. The film is based on some “shocking real life instances” that took place in Bangalore.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWNphKwni8M&feature=youtu.be

When I was researching on this subject for my film, I came across two gut wrenching stories of corrective rape — one, where a gay girl was raped by her cousin so that she could be “cured” of homosexuality; and another, where family members forced a gay boy to have sex with his mother, in a bid to turn him ‘straight’. I tried reaching out to these victims, but they refused to talk.”

Explaining how difficult it is to find statistics for a topic so taboo, Deepthi says,

I wrote to NGOs who work with victims of such hate crimes seeking help with statistics. but to my surprise, not one organisation got back. Many rapes go unreported in India, and it will take years before something like corrective rape even gets talked about. That’s why I wanted to tell this story. I knew it is a sensitive subject, something that has never been dealt with before. I didn’t even have any statistics, but I had the conviction.”

Satyavati talks about a lesbian couple and their straight friend.

When the family members of the ‘straight’ girl visits her, they doubt that she is in an ‘unnatural’ relationship with one of the lesbian girls. And so, they plot a ‘corrective rape’ on their daughter as well as the gay girl,” reveals the 27-year-old Guntur native, who has turned to crowdsourcing to raise funds for the film. “Forty per cent of the film is now complete, but I am facing a financial crunch. I have been trying to crowd source money to complete the rest of the film. While lot of people said ‘kudos’ and ‘hats off’, very few are willing to make monetary contribution. But I won’t give up because a discussion on corrective rape needs to be initiated.”

Seeing Double – Cara Delevingne Plays Twin Mermaids in the New Peter Pan Film

Last year, we knew lesbian fav Cara Delevingne was cast as a mermaid in the new Peter Pan blockbuster PAN. However director Joe Wright has well and truly cashed in on her popularity by doubling her up to play (at least) two identical sea sirens.

The latest trailer shows Peter, played by newbie Levi Miller, refusing to bow down to the swash-bucklingly good Blackbeard (Hugh Jackman), befriending Hook (Garrett Hedlund), fighting alongside Tiger Lily (Carol‘s Rooney Mara) and ogling at the dreamboats floating under the surface of Mermaid Lagoon.

PAN is set for release in UK cinemas on 16^th October.

1. Jaimie Alexander

2. Angelina Jolie

3. Emily Blunt

4. Anne Hathaway

5. Emma Watson

6. Cate Blanchett

7. Lena Headey

8. Rachel Weisz

9. Kate Beckinsale

10. Michelle Rodriguez

Hyderabadi girl’s film on corrective rape

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