Backspot – queer-led feature film directorial debut for Toronto’s D.W. Waterson, with executive producer Elliot Page

posted Sunday, February 26, 2023

by: Bryen Dunn in Film, Queer, Streaming Online

Principal photography has started on the queer-led, highly anticipated BACKSPOT, marking the feature film debut of creator/director D.W. Waterson (That’s My DJ), and starring award-winning actor Devery Jacobs (Reservation Dogs, Marvel’s Echo), and newcomer Kudakwashe Rutendo in lead roles. The film’s title derives from a backspotter, or someone who lifts and throws a flyer, or top girl, in the air […]

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Gay Mean Girls, Season Two, features an all new cast of queer POC leads

posted Thursday, February 23, 2023

by: Bryen Dunn in Queer, Streaming Online

Canadian web-series, Gay Mean Girls, premieres its second season on YouTube on Feb. 24, 2023.  Originally based on a viral short film by Heyishi Zhang that amassed 3.5 million views in 2015, the web-series premiered its first season in 2019 to a sold-out screening at TIFF Next Wave.  In Season 2, the popular web-series will […]

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Swallowed – queer horror flick about two friends on a drug run gone bad

posted Tuesday, February 21, 2023

by: Bryen Dunn in Film, Queer, Streaming Online

Swallowed is the Sundance Festival award-winning queer  horror film from director Carter Smith. After a drug run goes bad, two friends must survive a nightmarish ordeal of drugs, bugs, and horrific intimacy in this backwoods body-horror thriller. Set in a remote township on the border between Maine and Canada, it’s a story about friendship and […]

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Out of Mind Festival Unveils 2023 Lineup of LGBTQ+ Artists – Feb 25, 2023 (Los Angeles)

posted Monday, February 20, 2023

by: Bryen Dunn in Featured Events, Lesbian, Music, Queer, Trans

Out of Mind Fest, the groundbreaking music festival fostering a diverse, inclusive, safe space for artists and fans, takes place Saturday, February 25 at  The Echo in Los Angeles, California. Presented by Gay Asstrology, Half Moon, and Errant Ent in association with Live Nation, Out of Mind Fest will feature a wide-ranging bill featuring such LGBTQ+ and BIPOC […]

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Canada’s Queer and Racialized Funniest People Punch Up in New Documentary Series ‘Killjoy Comedy’

posted Tuesday, February 14, 2023

by: Bryen Dunn in Comedy, Queer, Streaming Online

There’s a queerer, fatter, ‘diasporic-ier’ documentary series about the future of comedy coming our way. Killjoy Comedy will be released on OUTtvGo on Tuesday, February 14, 2023. Killjoy Comedy is a six-part series featuring some of Canada’s most exciting new voices in comedy. Killjoy Comedy puts the microphone in front of our favourite Black, Indigenous, racialized, queer, fat, women, and […]

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Stars – arthouse indie film about the struggles of displacement that women face on the streets of NYC

posted Sunday, February 12, 2023

by: Bryen Dunn in Film, Music, New York City, Queer

Stars is the new black and white arthouse dramatic feature film about female homelessness in NYC, with an all-female lead ensemble, including legendary rapper Rah Digga, the one and only Sophia Lamar, and underground starlet Debra Haden.  It’s an original story about a group of homeless women who must learn that a glimmer of hope […]

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The Blue Caftan – an Arabic story of forbidden love

posted Friday, February 10, 2023

by: Bryen Dunn in Film, Queer, Streaming Online

The Blue Caftan (French: Le Bleu du caftan) is a 2022 Arabic-language drama film directed by Maryam Touzani. It depicts a woman and her closeted gay husband, who run a caftan store in the medina of Salé, Morocco, and hire a young man as an apprentice. Halim and Mina run a traditional caftan store in one of Morocco’s oldest medinas. […]

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The First Fallen – small town Brazilian community grapples for hope during the early years of AIDS

posted Friday, February 10, 2023

by: Bryen Dunn in Film, Queer, Streaming Online

The First Fallen takes places at the turn of 1983 in a small Brazilian town, where a group of LGBTQIA+ men and women celebrate the New Year with no idea of what’s on the horizon. The biologist Suzano knows something terrible is disrupting his body. Uncertain of his future and discouraged by the lack of […]

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The Way Out – queer horror movie about recovery, and vigilantism

posted Friday, February 10, 2023

by: Bryen Dunn in Film, Queer, Streaming Online

In The Way Out, Alex is an aspiring singer/songwriter, a drug addict who’s been damaged from childhood abuse. After the death of his father and inheriting the family home, he takes in a roommate, a fighter, who takes Alex under his wing, teaching him how to fight back and stand up to abusers. But soon […]

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Buddies in Bad Times Theatre announces programming for the 44th annual Rhubarb Festival – Feb 8 to 11, 2023 (Toronto)

posted Sunday, February 5, 2023

by: Bryen Dunn in Events, Featured Events, Lesbian, Queer, Theatre, Toronto, Trans

Rhubarb Festival, Canada’s longest-running new works festival is back for its 44th year this February. In a new four-day format, The Rhubarb Festival transforms Buddies in Bad Times Theatre into a hotbed of experimentation, exploring new possibilities in art-making and performance. This year’s festival, curated by festival director Clayton Lee, brings together both local and […]

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