Chemsex: sensationalist film or useful warning?

Vancouver Queer Film Festival screens film on London’s gay sex and drugs scene

By Devon Delacroix

The steamiest scenes at the 2016 Vancouver Queer Film Festival

Sexing up the big screen

Created for Vancouver Queer Film Festival

Arts

Ab Fab hijinks to make big screen debut July 22

Edina and Patsy are living large and loud on the French Riviera

By Jeremy Willard

Arts

Top five films not to miss at Inside Out 2016

Canadian talent graces the silver screen

By Chris Dupuis

Arts

How roller derby changed a trans girl’s life

In the Turn follows 10-year-old Crystal from shy girl to badass skater

By Adrienne Ascah

Arts

Why we should look at the pictures and remember Mapplethorpe

Vancouver Queer Film Festival screens new film about gay icon

By Tony Correia

Arts

Fake gay and lesbian marriages in China

It’s a thing, and it’s depicted in Inside the Chinese Closet, showing at the 2016 Human Rights Watch film festival

By Serafin LaRiviere

Arts

What a gay basketball player and a trans MMA fighter share

Courageous doc Game Face at the 2016 Toronto Black Film Festival

By Pat Johnson

Arts

Lesbians getting laid

Christina Zeidler on Portrait of a Serial Monogamist and how women are hooking up these days

By Chris Dupuis

Arts

Love is being executed in Iran

Based on the 2005 deaths of two gay men, filmmaker Darwin Serink’s Aban + Khorshid is more relevant than ever

By Serafin LaRiviere

Arts

The origins and future of HIV disclosure laws

Alison Duke’s film, Consent, examines the activism and impacts of the 2012 Canadian Supreme Court decision

By Chris Dupuis

Rendezvous with Madness film fest challenges stigma

The 2015 lineup brings ‘boldest, most eclectic and provocative programming yet’

Created for Workman Arts

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Inside Out Ottawa run down

The biggest films to watch this year

By Chris Dupuis

Culture

Vancouver film proceeds despite anti-trans petition in Europe

Opposition reinforces the film’s importance, say filmmakers

By Nathaniel Christopher

Thirty years of Reel Pride in Winnipeg

The film festival promises to be bigger than ever for its anniversary

Created for Real Pride Network

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Adam Garnet Jones’ Fire Song

The Cree/Métis filmmaker’s latest deals with being queer in Aboriginal communities

By Jeremy Willard

Zombies, heartbreak and gay porn at Rainbow Visions

Edmonton’s brand new LGBT film festival has it all

Created for Rainbow Visions

Arts

Scott Ferguson steps down as executive director of Inside Out

Ferguson explains why he left and what’s next

By Chris Dupuis