Category: LGTQ

Cultural issues, LGTQ

Fencesitter Films Creates a Unique Film Festival for All Shades

By Mike Szymanski All kinds of film festivals exist: those focused on vampires, or cannabis, or veganism. Filmmaker Kyle Schickner’s has dreamt for the past three decades to have a festival of movies that cater to his specific interests: telling stories that focus on women, people of color, and the LGBTQ+ communities. Of course, some quite prominent individual film festivals exist for each of those, … Continue reading Fencesitter Films Creates a Unique Film Festival for All Shades

Mike Szymanski
About The Artist, LGTQ, Plays

The Play ‘Bisexual Sadness’ Explores What a Bi Person Sacrifices When it Looks Like They’re Going Straight

Despite its title, the provocative play “Bisexual Sadness” is more funny than sad. It will get you thinking, but it won’t make you cry. And, I guarantee it will make you laugh. “I wanted to show what it means for a bi person to be open in a heterosexual relationship, and how some people in the community react,” says playwright India Kotis, who is 26, … Continue reading The Play ‘Bisexual Sadness’ Explores What a Bi Person Sacrifices When it Looks Like They’re Going Straight

Mike Szymanski
LGTQ, Movie Review

‘Summoning Sylvia’ Will Make You Squeal With Delight

Summoning Sylvia Rating: 8/10 Directors: Wesley Taylor and Alex Wyse Style: Horror Comedy Time: 75 minutes Rated: R Trailer: https://www.summoningsylvia.com/trailer Review by Mike Szymanski Three friends kidnap their friend for a bachelor party and rent an infamous haunted house. The friends are gay — very gay, and flamboyantly so. The reason they are so over-the-top (and we all know those who are actually that way) is … Continue reading ‘Summoning Sylvia’ Will Make You Squeal With Delight

Mike Szymanski
LGTQ

Happy Pride Month

In life there are certain things that words cannot describe. The past year has been beyond difficult and confusing. It has shown us that the world is not perfect. We as an global community have made mistakes, but it has also shown our humanity. We’ve been there, standing together as an community through the hardest of times and yet we have been able to celebrate … Continue reading Happy Pride Month

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Arts, LGTQ, Movie Review

Film Review of “In France Michelle Is A Man’s Name”

By Vernon Nickerson How many fathers have introduced/given their transgendered children things as adults as if they were children who were never allowed to say no thanks and or reject the offer? Writer-Director Em Weinsten highlights in a taut short film the primary issue of this dynamic where something is demanded from another without asking permission or without determining if a “gift” was what was … Continue reading Film Review of “In France Michelle Is A Man’s Name”

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Arts, LGTQ, Movie Review

“AVIVA” Extremely Stunning Storytelling

By Liisa Cohen AVIVA, written and directed by the incredibly gifted Boaz Yakin, is an intensely sensual, borderline erotic, love story told through the lens of gender fluid dance, romance and unapologetic physical interactions. It is very gender fluid. The character Aviva is a young Parisian who develops an online romance with a New Yorker named Eden. After a long-distance courtship they meet in person, … Continue reading “AVIVA” Extremely Stunning Storytelling

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Arts, Cultural Arts, Fiction, LGTQ, Luminous Expression, Luminous Expression Issue, Luminous Expression Magazine, Plays, Poetry, Prose, Short Stories

Luminous Expression Issue #1

  Luminous Expression   Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night. Victor Hugo A SETTLED MATTER A short play By Stanley Toledo   Characters Mr. Keith – official #1 Ms. Dessa – official #2 P.N. 40 – a robot Voiceover – male or female Time/Location … Continue reading Luminous Expression Issue #1

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