OutFest 2023

22.07.2023

The Mattachine Family (Review) – Outfest 2023

The Mattachine Family is now showing at Outfest, Los Angeles. If anyone ever tells you life is like travelling down an empty highway, they are lying. Life is far more like a rocky mountain path. As we walk, we face sudden obstacles, uncertain detours and a sky that can go from bright sunshine and stunning vistas to low clouds and torrential rain in a heartbeat. We know there is no turning back as we work our way up to the summit in the hope that we find ourselves along the way. For the LGBTQ+ community, this path is often even

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20.07.2023

Down Low (Review) – Outfest 2023

Down Low is awaiting a UK release date. Sometimes when your world falls apart, something good miraculously emerges from the rubble. Gary (Zachary Quinto) is a divorced and only recently out-of-the-closet gay man with a major headache (literally), as he has been diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour. Longing for a happy ending, Gary hires a local twink masseur Cameron (Lukas Gage), for a bit more than your standard massage; the touch of a man having eluded Gary all his life as he attempted to hide his sexuality from his wife, and his two sons. The freewheeling and sex-positive Cameron

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19.07.2023

Studio One Forever (Review) – Outfest 2023

Studio One Forever premieres at Outfest Los Angeles on Tuesday, 18th July 2023. Everyone has heard of Studio 54, the New York temple of disco excess, where celebrities mingled with those lucky to get past the beauty police on the door. But, outside of the United States, few have probably heard of Studio One, America’s first major gay disco with space for 1,000 punters on its legendary dance floor in West Hollywood. Studio One may have acted as the inspiration for Studio 54, but unlike 54, Studio One was a community venue that remained open from 1974 – 1993 with

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