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    Young Hunter Explores Gay Male Teen Sexuality with a Twist

    Young Hunter Explores Gay Male Teen Sexuality with a Twist

    By Gary Kramer– Out gay Argentine filmmaker Marco Berger applies his patented style—long, lingering, homoerotic shots of two guys, more silence than dialogue—to a kind of thriller narrative in his…

    French Miniseries Proud Is Worth Cheering

    French Miniseries Proud Is Worth Cheering

    By Gary Kramer– Now available on DVD is Proud, an engaging, three-part French mini-series from 2018 about fathers and sons, gay life in France, and the politics and social change…

    Films to Watch During Frameline’s Final Weekend

    Films to Watch During Frameline’s Final Weekend

    By Gary Kramer– Frameline 44 ends Sunday, but there are several films worth checking out this weekend. Here is a rundown (in chronological order) of what to watch. In director…

    Highlights of Frameline 44

    Highlights of Frameline 44

    By Gary Kramer– The 44th edition of the Frameline Film Festival will take place virtually September 17–27 this year. The festival opens with a screening of S–t and Champagne, about…

    Looking at A Different Story Decades Later

    Looking at A Different Story Decades Later

    By Gary Kramer– Now available on Blu-ray and DVD is the 1978 queer romantic comedy-drama A Different Story. The film received mixed reviews upon its original theatrical release—its sexual politics…

    Gay USA Screening and Panel Will Revisit 1977 SF Pride Parade

    Gay USA Screening and Panel Will Revisit 1977 SF Pride Parade

    By Gary Kramer– The San Francisco GLBT Historical Society Museum and Archive is hosting a special screening of the late, great, gay filmmaker Arthur J. Bressan, Jr.’s landmark 1977 documentary…

    Ambitious Boys State Shows Teens Learning About Government

    Ambitious Boys State Shows Teens Learning About Government

    By Gary Kramer– The new documentary Boys State, directed by Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss, is as ambitious as the young men the filmmakers follow. Four teenagers in Texas are…

    Gay Filmmaker Recounts Survival Story From 1926

    Gay Filmmaker Recounts Survival Story From 1926

    By Gary Kramer– Gay filmmaker Richard Bell’s handsomely-mounted period piece, Brotherhood, tells the true story of an ill-fated camping trip at Balsam Lake in Canada on July 20, 1926. This…

    Four Films to Inspire Pride

    Four Films to Inspire Pride

    By Gary Kramer– It’s Pride, yeah! Or, yeah? With COVID-19 canceling the parade, and the unrest in the wake of George Floyd’s death and the stirring activism that followed, what…

    The Cinematic Rainbow

    The Cinematic Rainbow

    By Jan Wahl– There are so many great movies about Pride! In earlier issues of our fine paper, I’ve written about these: 2014’s Pride is an under-seen movie about gay…