If former England rugby union player Ben Cohen and All-American wrestler Hudson Taylor are the face of straight-gay allegiance, then I’d say it’s a very good thing indeed. They both appear in new feature-length documentary Legalize Gay, along with other figures from across the spectrum of LGBT equality campaigning, including former Miss New York Claire Buffie, college football star turned political hopeful Brian Sims, and Jeshawna Wholley, recognised by Barack Obama for her work within the community.

Christopher Hines’ movie follows a new generation of activists, both gay and straight, as they take up the fight and work together in campaigning for LGBT equality in marriage, at work and in sport. And they have public opinion gradually turning in their favour. As Joe Solmonese of the Human Rights Campaign says: “we are at an historic tipping point”.

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Gay themed thriller, Simple Moves, has just finished shooting in New York City and is now in post production for a late-2012/ early-2013 release.

Pau Masó and David Damen’s psychological thriller is about a young illegal immigrant drawn into the world of gay prostitution after his mother’s suicide. Russian boy Aleksandr, played by Masó, must reconcile with his past and the abandonment by his family in order to come to terms with his new self.

26-year-old actor/writer/director Paul Masó, originally from Spain, cut his teeth on horror short Who’s There? and followed it up with feature-length scarer Haunted Poland, which received a gong at the American International Film Festival. He also does an impressive sideline in music videos homages on his YouTube channel.

With five movies currently in production, including a feature version of Who’s There?, Masó is a face to watch. You can see him acting in Joel Scheidegger’s 2010 gay short What About Boys? below.

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Untitled Gay Movie 2012 might not have a title yet, but it just got itself a story summary – you might even call it a deconstruction of the traditional superhero movie, taking the common idea of a latex-clad crimefighter coming out to play at night and flipping it on its head:

“A repressed, married man leads a nocturnal double life as a slave to his dark sexual impulses. A life-changing encounter turns him into a reluctant vigilante, but an ambivalence towards those he helps and a blurred moral compass threaten to corrupt his actions.”

If this sounds like a movie you’d like to see, then ‘like’ this site – the more ‘likes’ we get, the greater chance there is of getting the movie made. We’ll be serialising the full screen story over the coming weeks/months.

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That Gay Movie blog is to develop an original film project using a collaborative, open source approach to filmmaking.

Crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter and IndieGoGo have revolutionised the way many gay movies are now funded and have helped to more closely connect audiences and filmmakers. That Gay Movie aims to harness some of that crowd muscle, not to raise coin, but to raise awareness. Simply put: the more people who follow, repost or ‘like’ this blog, the more likely we are to get our movie made.

The film will be developed as an ‘open content’ project, using a Creative Commons license, which means any company or moviemaker will be able to use, distribute or rehash the idea and even keep any profit they make from it.

‘Untitled Gay Movie 2012′ will take shape on this site and we hope to bring you news of collaborations and remixes as they happen.

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(Dir. William Clift. US, 2011. 118 mins).

The title to this recommended new gay movie release might suggest a fluffy rom-com, but what you get is a smart, stylish and highly original ‘Proposition 8′ dramedy with another stand-out performance from Matthew Montgomery.

He stars as lonely, awkward, obsessive advertising exec Paul Roll. It’s at his friends’ gay wedding that he meets handsome, charming activist Jim and starts to hear wedding bells, but first he must clear the hurdle of his shy, self-doubting nature. Not helping the situation are Paul’s rich, bickering parents and a new advertising contract with an ultra right wing, pro-Prop 8 organisation – something he’s keen to hide from Jim and his circle of friends.

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