In Bayard & Me, award-winning filmmaker Matt Wolf shares the little-known story of civil rights activist Bayard Rustin and the lengths he went to legalize his relationship with his partner Walter Naegle. The civil rights activist is best known for organizing the March on Washington and advising Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. In the 1980s,…
The first thing I did after finishing Alden Peters’ documentary Coming Out was to Google the term ‘coming out.’ It wasn’t that I couldn’t define it for myself but that I couldn’t define it for others. And that was when it occurred to me: the question was also a significant part of the answer. It’s…
Do I Sound Gay? is a new documentary feature that offers an in-depth look into the stigma often attached to “sounding gay.” It was released Friday in New York City and well be expanding to other cities in following weeks. After a break-up with his boyfriend, journalist David Thorpe embarks on a hilarious and touching…
Same Difference is a feature length documentary film that shows the difference between learning in a supportive school climate versus an oppressive school climate, featuring stories from Justin Aaberg and Graeme Taylor. Same Difference presents the lives of two real-life adolescent boys who identify as gay from a young age. The film demonstrates a schools’ responsibility…
Today Psychology Today made the decision to stop accepting online listings from mental health practitioners who offer to “cure” LGBT people. In a letter last week to the leadership of Psychology Today, HRC requested that they stop publishing such listings, and, to build on the publication’s history of LGBT inclusion and affirmation, also post an article…
WASHINGTON – Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) called on Psychology Today to stop accepting online listings from mental health practitioners who offer to “cure” LGBT people. HRC leadership made the request directly to executives of the publication in a letter that further urged them to build on Psychology Today’s history of LGBT inclusion and…
VICE just released the final part from its special, three-part episode of Profiles by VICE titled Gay Conversion Therapy, in which VICE investigates the controversial practice of “curing” gay people by attempting to turn them straight. In Part Three, VICE meets openly gay New York State Senator Brad Hoylman, who sponsored a conversion therapy ban…
Join filmmakers Helen S. Cohen and Mark Lipman along with Dr. Grace Dammann for the San Diego premiere of the new feature-length documentary States of Grace at the Hillcrest Cinemas on Tuesday, March 10, at 7:30 p.m. Dammann’s life was forever changed when a driver crashed head on into her car during a routine commute across the Golden Gate Bridge in 2008. States of…
Judy and Dennis Shepard joined “The View”, Friday to talk about the new documentary about their son, “Matt Shepard is a Friend of Mine.” The film tells the story about their son, Matthew, and his life and tragic death. Michele Josue, a close friend of Matthew’s, directed the film and also appeared with the family…
Seriously, what is it about porn that turns people off? I’ve never understood so I suspect I’ll never understand others’ aversions to it. And what a pity. If only because as a result of porn, there have been some very, very good documentaries about the subject. Wrangler: Portrait of An Icon (2008), was a critical…
