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…
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…
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…
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? …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…