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    Defiant and Resilient as Ever, the San Francisco Transgender Film Festival Returns!

    Defiant and Resilient as Ever, the San Francisco Transgender Film Festival Returns!

    The San Francisco Transgender Film Festival (SFTFF) returns November 8–19, showcasing brilliant trans and gender non-conforming films. Founded in 1997, SFTFF is the world’s longest-running film festival of its kind,…

    Two Binge-Worthy Series Look at Queer Lives in the Past

    Two Binge-Worthy Series Look at Queer Lives in the Past

    By Gary M. Kramer– Two bingeable miniseries depict queer life in the past, illustrating how gay characters lived double lives during a period when it was dangerous to be out.…

    Two Amazing New Movies: Maestro and Killers of the Flower Moon

    Two Amazing New Movies: Maestro and Killers of the Flower Moon

    By Jan Wahl– Who knew the last two films I just saw in the theatres would be absolutely terrific? Very different: we go from a famed conductor to the Osage…

    Scary, or Just Plain Weird, Films

    By Jan Wahl– This is the time of year when I remember movies that terrified me as a child, and movies that still completely freak me out as an adult.…

    Documentary Make Me Famous Brings to Life ‘Hungry, Hustling’ Artist Brezinski and His Quest for Fame

    Documentary Make Me Famous Brings to Life ‘Hungry, Hustling’ Artist Brezinski and His Quest for Fame

    By Gary M. Kramer– Brian Vincent’s spry documentary, Make Me Famous, at the 4 Star Theater through November 3, showcases the largely unheralded gay painter Edward Brezinski (nee Brzezinski). Brezinski…

    The Magic of George Hurrell

    The Magic of George Hurrell

    By Jan Wahl– George Hurrell’s Hollywood Glamour Portraits 1925–1992 by Mark A. Vieira is one for the ages. It is the most beautiful coffee table book for gift giving or…

    Mill Valley Film Festival Offers a Cornucopia of Queer Cinema

    Mill Valley Film Festival Offers a Cornucopia of Queer Cinema

    By Gary M. Kramer– The Mill Valley Film Festival, October 5–16, features several high profile queer films (not available for preview) including Nyad starring Annette Bening as Diana Nyad, a…

    Cassandro Is a Great Biopic of the Gay Lucha Libre Wrestler

    Cassandro Is a Great Biopic of the Gay Lucha Libre Wrestler

    By Gary M. Kramer– Regardless of what one may think about the sport of wrestling, Cassandro, set in the world of lucha libre, is an exciting and moving story of…

    Trans Filmmaker Talks About Adapting Aristotle and Dante for the Big Screen

    Trans Filmmaker Talks About Adapting Aristotle and Dante for the Big Screen

    By Gary M. Kramer– Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, opening September 8 in the Bay Area, is trans writer/director Aitch Alberto’s superb adaptation of the award-winning…

    The Forties and the Fifties: Fascinating and Freaky

    The Forties and the Fifties: Fascinating and Freaky

    By Jan Wahl– Oppenheimer joins Barbie as they take the box office by storm. Nobody expected the movie about America’s blonde doll and her hunky boyfriend Ken to join up…