Pride events around the world have been cancelled due to the coronavirus. Given what’s going on in the United States, there seems to be little to feel good about, much less celebrate.
But one song might just bring some happiness into your heart.
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In the bonus interview on the DVD for his 2014 film “4 Moons,” director Sergio Tovar Velarde revealed he was inspired by the concept of the four stages of a man’s life. In this film, he crafts the story of men of various ages struggling with coming out, accepting themselves and forging lives with love.
A schoolboy acts on his attraction to an older pal, forcing his parents to come to terms with his sexuality. Two college friends fall in love, but the stress of the closet might be too much for both of them. A thirtysomething couple, together for years, find their relationship threatened by an outsider. An older man faced with the end of his career and perhaps the finality of his life becomes obsessed with a hustler.
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I get asked so often: Where are the positive portrayals of gay men?
There’s such a hunger to see stories of decent men living lives full of love.
Maybe it’s because the world is so shitty and getting shittier every day. But representation matters, and the stories we share with each other are important.
And American pop culture is a wasteland.
“God’s Own Country” is at last on DVD.
The film focuses on Johnny (Josh O’Connor), a young man whose life is forever changed when he is forced to work with a Romanian immigrant on his Yorkshire farm.
Johnny simmers with rage, drinks himself blotto when he can and has quick sex with random locals.
But when his ailing father forces him to work with Gheorghe (the handsome Alec Secareanu), Johnny finds his irritation falling way to desire and then something much more powerful.
DC and IDW Publishing’s “Love is Love” welcomes the best and brightest comics creators today to honor the victims of the Pulse shooting in Orlando in June.
Marc Andreyko (“Batwoman”) has gathered such talents as Paul Dini, Gail Simone, Phil Jimenez and Brian Michael Bendis as well as a few folks you don’t typically associate with comics: Patton Oswalt, Taran Killam, Morgan Spurlock and Matt Bomer.
Most of the stories in this 144-page trade paperback run just one page.
One page?
What kind of impact can one page deliver?
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