Culture

Why Daily Xtra asked Tom Hardy about his sexuality at TIFF

Many TIFF stars welcome questions about their sexuality on- and off-screen

By Kevin O’Keeffe, Robin Perelle

Opinion

Being gay means nothing

In an age of inclusiveness, where does sexuality fit in?

By Sky Gilbert

Arts

Ultra-nationalist Russian homophobes gone wild

A new horror film from Blake Mawson has a dangerous secret, and needs your help

By Jeremy Willard

What a gay basketball player and a trans MMA fighter share

Courageous doc Game Face closes 2015 Vancouver Queer Film Festival

By Pat Johnson

Arts

Plus ça change: abuse and attraction in North Bay, ON

What We Have plays at 2015 Vancouver Queer Film Festival

By Pat Johnson

Arts

Seeking redemption as a lesbian cop in rural South Korea

A Girl at My Door is centerpiece film of 2015 Vancouver Queer Film Festival

By Joseph Bardsley

Arts

Gay Thai film on family and love is pleasantly disorienting

How to Win at Checkers (Every Time) plays at the Vancouver Queer Film Festival

By Niko Bell

Arts

Bearded Ladies: How Rosamond Norbury frolics with drag

‘I’ve never seen someone who can make people relax like that,’ says film director

By Natasha Barsotti

Arts

Take a stroll with two average teenage, black, Muslim queer men

Naz and Maalik plays at the Vancouver Queer Film Festival

By Natasha Barsotti

Arts

Meet one of the granddaddies of gay porn

Peter de Rome documentary celebrates 8mm pioneer of pleasure-seeking

By Brett Josef Grubisic

Arts

In the Turn: trans girl blossoms in roller-derby collective

Documentary on the Vagine Regime plays at Vancouver Queer Film Festival

By Adrienne Ascah

Power

Witness captures violent police raid at Montreal’s Sex Garage

Photojournalist Linda Dawn Hammond documents historic 1990 event of ‘Montreal’s Stonewall’

By Richard Burnett

Arts

Beloved Russian filmmaker recast as love-struck gay bottom

Eisenstein in Guanajuato to open Vancouver Queer Film Festival

By Brett Josef Grubisic

A winning gay Thai love story

Josh Kim’s touching film about family and loss screens at the Vancouver Queer Film Fest

Created for Vancouver Queer Film Festival

Culture

Horror at Vancouver’s Queer Film Festival

And other films on the program director’s personal favourites list

By Pat Johnson

Out on Screen and in Vancouver

One of the West Coast’s largest queer arts events celebrates the best in LGBT films

Created for Vancouver Queer Film Festival

Arts

Zanzibar film fest shines light on LGBT issues

Festival director hopes to open dialogue in conservative land

By Megan Dolski

Travel

Six great films to inspire gay travels

Gay films show viewers LGBT rights struggles, with a city, country or wider cultural milieu as backdrop

By Michael Luongo