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Diff’rent Strokes

8 March 2015 London  Fifty Shades of Grey continues a well-worn and lucrative literary tradition of bad writing about kinky … More

Dakota Johnson, E L James, Fifty Shades of Grey, Jamie Dornan, Sam Taylor-Wood

A Not So Simple Man

8 November 2014 London The Imitation Game brings the life of gay mathematician Alan Turing to the big screen. Despite … More

Alan Turing, homophobia

We Don’t Need Another Hero

15 July 2014 London Australian swimming star Ian Thorpe becomes the latest sports celebrity to admit he’s gay. But is this … More

Australia, coming out, homophobia, Ian Thorpe

Uh Huh, Her

Her, Spike Jonze’s unbearably winsome film about a man who falls in love with his computer operating system, drowns in a sea … More

Her, Joaquin Phoenix, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Scarlett Johannsen, Sex, Spike Jonze

The Thrill of the Lash

23 June 2014 London Roman Polanski’s film version of Venus In Fur – a sexual tug-of-war between a submissive director and a … More

David Ives, Emmanuelle Seigner, In Search of Lost Time, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Masochism, Mathieu Amalric, Proust, Roman Polanski, Venus In Fur

He Said, She Said

19 June 2014 London The First Stone, Helen Garner’s analysis of a 1992 sexual harassment case at an Australian university, … More

Australia, feminism, Germaine Greer, Helen Garner, sexual harassment, The First Stone

Salò Revisited

9 April 2014 London Nearly forty years since its release, Pasolini’s film Salò, based on Sade’s novel The 120 Days of Sodom, … More

120 Days of Sodom, Censorship, Marquis de Sade, Pasolini, Sadism, Salo

O Blue Come Forth

8 April 2014 London Derek Jarman’s final film, the exquisite Blue, gets a glorious re-screening in London’s IMAX cinema.  I first … More

AIDS, Blue, Derek Jarman, homophobia, IMAX, Tilda Swinton

Rhapsody in Blue

7 April 2014 London Passionate, heart-breaking and occasionally ridiculous, Abdellatif Kechiche’s wonderful film Blue Is the Warmest Colour explodes onto … More

Abdellatif Kechiche, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Blue is the Warmest Colour, Cannes, coming out, homophobia, La Vie d'Adele, Léa Seydoux, Lesbians, London Film Festival, Sex

The Long Walk to the Altar

30 March 2014 London As same-sex marriage becomes legal in the United Kingdom, is it time for LGBT people to stop thinking … More

Gay marriage, Gayle Rubin, homophobia, Ian McKellen, Jesse Bering, Mark Simpson, Metrosexual, Sex

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