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Every major Hollywood studio passed on Behind the Candelabra. Steven Soderbergh had a script by Richard LaGravenese, two of the most acclaimed actor...
Moonlight won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2017, in a ceremony that will be remembered for the wrong reason — the envelope mixup, the *La L...
Call Me by Your Name is the BoysDo film. Not because it was made for this platform — it wasn't — but because it inhabits, more fully than any other...
God's Own Country arrived in the same year as Call Me by Your Name, and the comparison was immediate and instructive. Both films are about a young...
Andrew Haigh made Weekend in 2011 and All of Us Strangers in 2023, and between those two films something changed — in Haigh, or in what cinema can...
Passages was given an NC-17 rating in the United States — the rating that, in practice, makes theatrical distribution impossible — for a scene of ma...
William Burroughs wrote Queer in the early 1950s, directly after the accidental shooting death of his wife Joan Vollmer in Mexico City — an event th...
On December 17, 2018, Tumblr destroyed something that had taken a decade to build. With a single policy update — a blanket ban on all adult content,...
Gay pornography has a history. Not a shameful one, not a footnote to real culture, but a genuine history — of studios founded by gay men who saw a mar...
In 1971, a man named Chuck Holmes rented a small space in San Francisco, bought a camera, and began making gay pornographic films with a level of prod...
