'Homewrecker', courtesy of VanderHart Productions

The occasional news item that I like to imaginatively call ‘gay movie news round-up’ is going transglobal this week with blog-worthy headlines from no less than three continents:

…You wait all this time for a sexually explicit gay movie starring François Sagat to come along, and then two arrive together! Both have now screened in competition at Locarno’s long-established film festival and you can read a review of L.A. Zombie and a review of Man at Bath courtesy of IndieWire…

…Speaking of L.A. Zombie, looks like a battle is gearing up in Australia over the right to screen Bruce LaBruce’s gay art-porn-zombie flick. Banned by Australian censors and pulled from the Melbourne International Film Festival line-up as a result, an underground alternative to MIFF is defiantly planning to screen the film as part of a “public disobedience freedom of speech event” on 29 August.

”If the police turn up and physically stop me, what can I do?” said Richard Wolstencroft, Director of the Melbourne Underground Film Festival. “But they really hate coming to this sort of thing, they’re embarrassed … if we get 100 people along, it will be a victory.”

He’s also promised to “play something just as interesting” if the gay zombie movie does get pulled, “but it might be worse.” Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone wild! perhaps?…

…It seems even being a young, multi-million pound movie star doesn’t get you dates these days – people are so picky. Daniel Radcliffe (who’s fans aren’t talking to me) tells his transgendered musician friend Our Lady J. for Out magazine that he was in a three-year relationship that ended recently. Now he’s “chasing girls” and heading to Broadway (surely that’s an oxymoron?)…

…Vancouver’s Queer Film Festival starts today. By 22 August some 51 gay movies will have been shown, 13,000 festival programs will have been bent out of shape, 26,000 buttocks will be slightly numb, hundreds of phone numbers will have been exchanged and about a trillion glasses of wine will have been quaffed.

Closing night film is Strella, described as a “post-modern Greek tragedy”. The festival guide is packed with info and worth checking out even if you can’t attend…

…Finally, the US producers of spoof gay movie Homewrecker turned out to be prophetic (hopefully) when they decided to have the gay characters in the film refer to their partners as “husband” in support of gay marriage and against Prop 8.