Billy Porter to be honored with Provincetown film fest’s Excellence in Acting award at...
Billy Porter — the Emmy, Tony and Grammy Award–winning, Golden Globe–nominated actor, singer, director, writer, and producer — will be honored with this year’s Excellence in Acting Award at the upcoming Provincetown...
This year’s Toronto International Film Fest rich with good gay movies
The 14th annual Toronto International Film Festival I(TIFF) drew major stars, press, paparazzi and audiences to their cosmopolitan Canadian city for the first two weeks of September. TIFF has become the premiere showcase for...
Martha’s Vineyard LGBTQ film festival goes online this weekend, May 1–3
With so many events postponing or canceling in response to COVID-19, here's one coming attraction that film fans should love: the fourth annual Spectrum film festival—a three-day event (online this year) that...
‘Every Body’ dispels gender myths, represents the ‘I’ in LGBTQIA+
The new documentary "Every Body," received high praise in a recent Boston Globe review and is currently on screen around Boston. According to the Globe it delivers much-needed representation of intersex people's...
Trans singer earns Oscar nomination for Best Original Song
Despite outcries over the lack of diversity among this year's (most years?) Oscar nominees, the esteemed voters of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have made at least one progressive move in their 2016 props.
Said esteemed voters recognized...
Bright Lights Film Series (virtual) | December 10, 2020
In 2020, we binge-watched a whole lot of Netflix content and podcasts — and most of the stories that stuck with us had one thing in common: They were about the power...
Secrets, Surprises: LGBTQ films stand out in Boston Jewish Film Festival
This article appears in the November/December 2023 print issue of Boston Spirit magazine. Subscribe for free today.
It’s no surprise that stellar LGBTQ films are featured in the always thoughtfully...
Powerful program playing at Boston LGBT Film Festival
(Editor’s note: This story appears in the March/April 2017 print edition of Boston Spirit magazine. Subscribe for free today.)
For much of its nearly 30-plus years of existence, the Boston LGBT Film Festival’s organizers heard from skeptics...
His brilliant career: Mark Harris delivers rich portrait of entertainment legend in ‘Mike Nichols:...
Author Mark Harris knew it was “going to be weird” to write about the 2003 HBO miniseries “Angels in America” for his biography of director Mike Nichols. Harris,...
Boston’s 40th annual Wicked Queer LGBTQ+ film fest screens April 5-14
Life may begin at 40, but Wicked Queer Boston’s LGBTQ+ Film Festival, has been living large for a long time. Adventurous, eclectic, edgy programming that looks back...
