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Casting a gay eye over Comic-Con 2010

The fan-geeks have packed away their lightsabres, wizard staffs and Wonder Woman bracelets and San Diego’s wet dream to everything sci-fi and fantasy, Comic-Con, is mothballed for another year.
And we’re going to have to wait at least another year for any hint of a gay superhero or major gay character in a comic book movie [...]

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Latin American queer cinema invasion

Last year I reported that South East Asia was becoming a major centre of gay movie-making, but this year it’s been the turn of Latin America, who’s individual countries have been turning out hit gay movies at an impressive rate.
I recently reviewed new DVD release Raging Sun, Raging Sky, a lush, erotic fable from Mexican [...]

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Gay movies in Development Hell

While researching this article I came across an older, similar piece on Entertainment Weekly about the difficulty in getting gay movies greenlit in Hollywood. It lists some gay movies stuck in perpetual development hell and some at the starting block.
One of the gay movies that EW namedrops as being ready to roll is a celluloid [...]

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Gays in Space

Back in the early ’90s a veteran Star Trek writer credited with penning one of the original TV series’ most famous episodes (The Trouble With Tribbles) submitted a new script for the Next Gen‘ reboot. It had a gay couple integral to the storyline. Roddenberry loved it; Paramount baulked – apparently Middle America wasn’t ready [...]

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