Being 17, the latest offering of the acclaimed French auteur, André Téchiné, at 73 is a visually gorgeous film. It tells of a lust/hate...

This coming Saturday, HBO will air a biopic of Bessie Smith, one of the highest paid Black singers of the 1920s and a foundational voice...

In 2004 a first-time filmmaker, Rodney Evans, edited and produced a narrative film, Brother to Brother , that encompassed an extended and...

One of the most unsettling features of “Kuchu” are interviews with Giles Muhame, the smirking 22 year-old editor of  Uganda’s Rolling...

“Check It” is the name of a movie, but it was first the name of a street gang of gay and trans kids of color in Washington, DC. After...

Dear White People (2014) is one of the smartest and funniest satires on screwed-up American Black/white relations ever. I can't think of...

Modern African nations are largely creations of Western imperialism. Once the colonial powers and their administrative authority...

The 2017 edition of Frameline, the San Francisco LGBT film festival, screened a gorgeously restored copy of Issac Julien’s Black queer...

August Wilson's early masterpiece " Ma Rainey's Black Bottom " debuted on Broadway in 1984. The play broke revolutionary ground by making...

As I entered the screening of the recently-completed documentary Major!, presented by Spectrum Queer Media and part of Oakland’s 2016...

The breakout film of 2016, Moonlight, can be described in two words: instant history. For the first time, we see a film with African...

Pariah means outcast. The film, Pariah, follows the development of Alike, a seventeen-year-old high school student in Brooklyn struggling...

Jennie Livingston’s groundbreaking documentary, Paris Is Burning, was filmed in the 1980’s, hit the festival circuit in 1990, began DVD...

In 2007, queer representation was, in a word, lacking. What was available was decidedly whitewashed, offering glimpses of a simplified...

In 1997, a French/Guinean film set in West Africa opens, shockingly, with two young men kissing each other wildly and passionately in the...

Enough said, right? Or maybe you were looking at the boobs?  Well, let me put this in a bit of context, since the context brings in an...

If you had told me that the best, most artful film to come out of East Africa so far was an anthology of shorts about the difficulties of...

The Green Book, a narrative feature about a lovable, casually racist Italian American lug driving the effete, supremely talented,...

Start with a classic teen triangle. Tunde's bestie from childhood, the supersexed Marley, is sleeping with the Nordic-blond-god jock...

- A Gay Black Man Revisits   A few years before he died, the visionary arts philanthropist Jim DeSilva told me a story that I have not...