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...
LGBTQ films light up screen at Boston Jewish Film Festival, Nov. 7–19
The Boston Jewish Film Festival (BJFF) reaches a major milestone this year, as it celebrates its 30th anniversary, making it one of the region’s most enduring and reliably solid film events.
Running November 7–19 at...
Pride Center of Vermont’s Glow program hosts virtual movie night
Pride Center of Vermont's Glow LGBTQ+ Women's Programming & Events has come up with its own way to stay socially connected "by enjoying a good dose of lesbian camp together"—well, "virtually" together,...
Boston’s 39th Wicked Queer LGBTQ Film Festival starts Friday, March 31
Films about the LGBTQ experience in all its shadings and dimensions, and sharing that experience in a darkened cinema with kindred spirits, is an event still rare enough to leave the house...
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...
Provincetown film fest selections focus on foundations of marriage-equality movement
As the landmark U.S. Supreme Count ruling legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide reverberated, the Provincetown International Film Festival (PIFF), which ended the week prior to the ruling, showed prescience in showcasing a documentary about the early...
‘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...
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...
LGBTQ film festivals across New England respond to COVID-19
Some cancel, some postpone, others wait and see. LGBTQ film festivals in New England are responding to social distancing requirements brought on by COVID-19 like all major gatherings across the country, and...
Let’s go to the movies: In-person screenings and a stellar lineup mark the return...
After two years of virtual screenings due to theater closures during the pandemic, Wicked Queer: The Boston LGBT Film Festival is back—or at least partly back. The long-running and much-beloved festival will...
