28th February 2023
A deep dive into the public opinion and discourse on queer relationships and love. Who is the top and who is the bottom? A long-running question and/or joke as old as time within the queer community and society at large. The heteronormative lens in front of queer representation appears in all aspects of culture. The ...
20th February 2023
The LGBTQ+ charity Stonewall recently found that more people identify as bisexual than gay or lesbian, making bisexuality the most common identity after heterosexuality. This doesn’t surprise me: truthfully, I’m a bit surprised if I speak to a woman under 25 who isn’t bi. It seems that our generation might be moving further away from ...
12th January 2023
Tom Gilbert explores the intergenerational divide between today’s queer youth and the queer elderly. “It stems from a deep fear of ageing ourselves. It’s almost impossible when we’re young and beautiful to look at someone we consider not attractive and realise we too are going to become that person.” I’m talking to Trevor Diamond, a ...
7th November 2022
Writer Eva articulates the importance of queer representation and communities in her review of Immigrant Stories. The Scottish Queer International Film Festival (SQIFF) celebrated the last event of its Mini-Series on Friday 21 October and I had the pleasure of attending the screening Immigrant Stories with LGBT Unity Glasgow. They are a community-led group which ...
16th October 2022
Short films are not often the focus of a cinematic experience. Longer format films are often seen as the ultimate storytelling medium and therefore populate most of our screens. This is a rather sad phenomenon as short films can offer another way of engaging with the visual medium – one which is more open to ...
13th April 2021
All too often, queer cinema seems to be for straight women instead of for queer people. “I do it for the girls and the gays, that’s it” is the number one phrase I am sick of hearing right now. You’ve probably seen it on Tiktok or Twitter or in an Instagram caption at some point ...
