I AM MICHAEL is the incredible true-life story of Michael Glatze (James Franco), a high profile queer youth activist who created a national controversy when he claimed to no longer be gay and became a straight Christian pastor. The film follows Michael from his life in San Francisco with his boyfriend Bennett (Zachary Quinto), where he pursues political activism, a […]
MOONLIGHT A young man deals with his dysfunctional home life and comes of age in Miami during the “War on Drugs” era. The story of his struggle to find himself is told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love while grappling with his own sexuality. A.O. Scott of the […]
If you have been introduced to John Waters, Baltimore’s bard of bad taste, via the movie/musical/movie musical of Hairspray, hold onto your pearls and prepare to be shocked (and delighted)! Waters’ second film, never released in theaters, can now be experienced in a perfect new 4K restoration on the giant screen. Divine, though unknown, is already a black lipstick-wearing diva […]
SAVE THE DATE! The 30th annual Connecticut LGBT Film Festival is coming June 2 – 10, 2017. IT’S BIG. IT’S HAPPENING. Click here to check out the 2017 Festival!
(85 min, US, 2016) Director: Ira Sachs. Screenplay by Ira Sachs and Mauricio Zacharias. Cast: Greg Kinnear, Jennifer Ehle, Paulina Garcia, Theo Taplitz, Michael Barber, Alfred Molina. In New York City, real estate is drama of the highest order. Out director Ira Sachs’ previous movie, Love Is Strange, starred John Lithgow and Alfred Molina as a newly married couple who […]
In 1989, on the floor of Congress, Senator Jesse Helms implored America to “Look at the pictures,” while denouncing the controversial art of Robert Mapplethorpe, whose photographs pushed social boundaries with their frank depictions of nudity, sexuality and fetishism — and ignited a culture war that rages to this day. Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures does just that, taking an […]
This powerful documentary reveals the details of the little-known crime known as the largest gay mass murder, before this year’s tragedy in Orlando. On June 24, 1973, a gay bar in New Orleans’s French Quarter called the Up Stairs Lounge was deliberately set on fire: 32 people were killed, and no one was ever brought to justice. In fact, what […]
SAVE THE DATE! This November we’ll be bringing you the best in LGBT film in partnership with the EROS student group at Trinity College. More info about EROS here.
Cast: Eddie Redmayne, Alicia Vikander, Ben Whishaw, Sebastian Koch, Amber Heard. Director Tom Hooper calls 2015 ‘the tipping point’ for transgender rights, citing the critical raves won for actor Eddie Redmayne’s role as a young man in 1920s Denmark who follows his inner knowledge that he is meant to live as a woman. Last year’s Best Actor Oscar winner for […]
TATTOO Set during a repressive 1970′s Brazil, Tattoo follows the lives of men who refuse to live, and love quietly. The most flamboyant of the group is unquestionably Clécio – a powerhouse of unapologetic energy and sexuality. When Clécio’s lover brings home his sexy brother-in-law Fininha, an 18-year-old policeman, Clécio falls in love and things quickly spiral out of control. […]
