Something to read, something to watch and something to listen today.

If you’ve got an hour to spare and fancy some seriously rude banter between a self-titled ‘gay bear’ and a Hollywood movie director, check out the first Blow Hard podcast. It’s a hilarious barrage of anecdotes and innuendo between Kevin Smith and his buddy Malcolm Ingram (who directed recent, hairy feature doc, Bear Nation) as they talk films, beards and cock and reach new levels of double meaning! Check it before Tom Cruise’s lawyers pull it down…

…Gay director James Bolton (The Graffiti Artist, Eban and Charley) tells the Bay Area Reporter that life imitated art while making his recent film adaptation, Dream Boy. Apparently the filmmakers encountered a lot of local homophobia while shooting the gay movie in Louisiana, the setting of the story in the original novel, and Bolton wouldn’t go back in a hurry…

…Gen Silent is a sad, moving, but also heart-warming look into the silent minority of older LGBT people living in care homes who hide their sexuality for fear of discrimination and abuse. This is the generation who launched the gay rights movement and for who there is no ‘happy ever after’. You can watch the trailer below: