Festival report on BFI Flare London LGBT Film Festival 2015 including Dressed as a Girl, The New Girlfriend, Tab Hunter Confidential, 54: The Director’s Cut, Save the Tavern and Something Must Break
So what if you didn’t like Looking or the Joiners Arms? Solidarity isn’t a matter of taste
Screw your consumer preference. It’s not about whether you like pistachio. It’s about whether you want to live in a world without ice cream.
BFI Flare 2015 preview for Sight & Sound
A preview (first published in Sight & Sound) of the 2015 edition of BFI Flare London LGBT Film Festival, including I Am Michael, 54: The Director’s Cut, Dressed as a Girl and a range of archive and documentary work
Mother love: Xavier Dolan interview for Sight & Sound
An interview for Sight & Sound with Xavier Dolan, the young Quebecois director whose films are marked by domestic powerplay, exuberant aestheticism, lustful violence and his recurring obsession, mother love
Sight & Sound article about older LGBT people on film
An article from the March 2015 issue of Sight & Sound about the recent rise in visibility of older LGBT characters in film
Black Cap saved from redevelopment… for now
Camden Council has rejected a scheme to turn the first-floor bar and terrace of iconic LGBT pub and cabaret venue the Black Cap into flats
Guardian feature about closure of LGBT venues
A link to an article published in the Guardian on Wednesday February 4 2015 about the closure of a quarter of London’s LGBT venues, and other spaces around the UK. for reasons including the property investment boom
How can two dozen drag queens in a TV studio be so boring?
This week there was an all-drag audience on Celebrity Big Brother’s Bit on the Side. What does the fact that the show was deathly dull tell us about drag culture today?
Now it’s the Black Cap’s turn to face redevelopment
Camden Council plans to approve a scheme to turn the upper floors of the iconic Black Cap into flats. But will noise levels be too high for new occupants?
Not Television’s top 10 posts of 2014
A round-up of 10 favourite blog posts from Not Television’s first year, 2014, on subjects including Mat Fraser, Alternative Miss World, Leake St graffiti tunnel and the threat of luxury redevelopment
