2025 was a dismal year for queer films in several ways. While there were a few high-profile gay films, even in film festivals there were far less lesbian and trans movies, especially the latter.
Ariel Messman-Rucker is an Oakland-born journalist who now calls the Pacific Northwest her home. When she’s not writing about politics and queer pop culture, she can be found reading, hiking, or ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about women in comedy. In 1895, William Kennedy Dickson made the short The Dickson Experimental Sound Film. The “film” is ...
IT SEEMS LIKE everyone’s down on the Seattle Gay Film Festival these days [see “Don’t worry, be happy,” 10/21 —Eds]. Queer folk lament, “We realized ‘Gay is OK’ 30 years ago,” or “If I wanted to watch ...