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Trans Cinema: a History

Trans Cinema: a History

On 25th February for Glasgow Film Festival we presented a talk about the history of trans cinema as a prelude to a screening of a film being released in the UK, A Fantastic Woman. We listed a bunch of films you could see as part…

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Bruce LaBruce: Representing the Unrepresentable

Bruce LaBruce: Representing the Unrepresentable

I came to fruition as an artist, so to speak, during the gay sexual liberation movement. The engine of the gay movement in the seventies and eighties, right up to the mid nineties, was militant, extreme, with unapologetic sex and sexual experimentation. I used pornographic…

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Interview with Charles Lum director SEX and the Silver Gays

Interview with Charles Lum director SEX and the Silver Gays

Charles Lum spoke to us about senior gay men, porn, sex and orgies, racism and some history of LGBT night life. His film SEX and the Silver Gays screens 2nd October at 6.15pm How did you meet the Prime Timers (PTimers PTers)? Bob”Woof,” the PTimers President attended…

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Interview with Marc David Jacobs about Derek Jarman’s Sebastiane

Interview with Marc David Jacobs about Derek Jarman’s Sebastiane

Marc David Jacobs introduces Derek Jarman’s first feature film Sebastiane, a sexually explicit controversial queer reworking of the Christian myth of Saint Sebastiane. The film screens at Glasgow Film Theatre, October 2, 7:30-9pm. Why is Sebastiane screening now in SQIFF? Everyone loves round numbers, right? …

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Interview with Yaani Supreme Producer of Women And The Word: The Revival

Interview with Yaani Supreme Producer of Women And The Word: The Revival

The Scottish Premiere of Women and the Word: The Revival screens on the October 2nd at the CCA. The documentary is a road movie of the slam poetry Revival Tour and a celebration of the written and spoken words and lives and loves of queer…

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Interview with Lisa Plourde director of Gender Troubles: The Butches

Interview with Lisa Plourde director of Gender Troubles: The Butches

The UK premiere of Gender Troubles: The Butches screens in the Braw Butches event on the 1st October at Glasgow Women’s Library. The screening is followed by a discussion led by poet and activist Jo Johnson. Gender Troubles: The Butches is a documentary dealing head on…

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Queer Horror: a conversation with horror academic Jordan Phillips

Queer Horror: a conversation with horror academic Jordan Phillips

Jordan Phillips knows all things queer and horror and is postgraduate researcher at Queen Margaret University. At SQIFF this year, he will introduce a selection of classic queer horror movies, including A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge described as ‘The Gayest Horror Movie Ever…

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Interview with Shaleece Haas director of SQIFF Closer Real Boy

Interview with Shaleece Haas director of SQIFF Closer Real Boy

The award-winning documentary Real Boy, directed by Shaleece Haas is our SQIFF Closer on the 2nd October. It is a touching portrait of trans musician Bennett and his search for family while he becomes a man. One of the film’s stars Joe Stevens will be…

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Fingernails and Plaid Shirts

Fingernails and Plaid Shirts

Ciara Maguire previews SQIFF’s Queer Women in Love season. If, like me, you’ve been in a post-SQIFF comedown haze for the past month or so, you’ll be pretty pleased to hear about the Queer Women in Love season they have lined up this month. Throughout…

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