Providence LGBTQ Film Festival to showcase stories about identity
For 26 years, the Providence LGBTQ Film Festival has been an essential component of Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival (RIIFF), one of New England’s largest and most prestigious festivals presenting features...
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...
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 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...
VOICE OF COLOR: HBGC Welcomes ‘Noah’s Arc’ creator Patrik Ian-Polk to Boston to Screen...
Award winning director, screenwriter, singer, actor and producer, Patrik Ian Polk is coming to Boston!
Polk will join the roster of special guests at the Hispanic Black Gay Coalition’s (HBGC) 4th annual Youth Empowerment Conference.
HBGC’s...
Boston’s LGBT Film Festival hits screens all over town
For the all-volunteer staff of the Boston LGBT Film Festival, watching movies—lots of movies—is a necessity. Voraciously logging in hours in front of films from around the world is how the programmers assure audiences...
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...
OUT Film CT receives Connecticut Humanities cultural fund grant
With their 35th annual Connecticut LGBTQ Film Festival coming up (June 3–12), OUT Film CT has been awarded an $8,300 CT Cultural Fund Operating Support Grant by Connecticut Humanities, an affiliate of...
When Worlds Collide: Shot on Cape Cod, Boston Lyric Opera’s ‘Svadba’ debuts in January
Boston Lyric Opera (BLO) is known for its adventurous interpretations of both classical and contemporary opera. When the 2020 COVID shutdown demanded that performance organizations devise new...
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...
