Mink Stole (EATING OUT, GIRL PLAY)
“The only absolutely, deliberately gay movies I ever see are the ones I’m in, so I have to go with BUT I’M A CHEERLEADER (mother of a lesbian), GIRL PLAY (mother of a lesbian), and EATING OUT 2 (mother of a gay son). If fantasies count, though, the one I’d truly love to see is a Disney/Pixar version of the stories of David Sedaris — sort of like Altman’s SHORT CUTS only in 3D animation.”
Discover Mink Stole in the latest installment of the Eating Out series, EATING OUT 3: ALL YOU CAN EAT now available on DVD at WolfeVideo.com!
You can also find Mink Stole in dozens of the legendary classic films of John Waters including PINK FLAMINGOS!
Harvey Milk Gets His Day!
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was up late into the evening the night of National Coming Out Day and the National Equality March (October 11th) signing more than 100 bills he had recently threatened to veto. Thankfully Senator Mark Leno’s Harvey Milk Day was in the Yes pile!
The new law designates May 22nd (Harvey’s birthday) as Harvey Milk Day in the State of California.
Read more details HERE.
And we couldn’t resist posting Oscar-winning MILK screenwriter Dustin Lance Black’s moving testimony before the California Senate Education Committee on behalf of the bill. Click to watch it above.
LOLA Star Ashleigh Sumner Talks to CherryGrrl
“In And Then Came Lola – the much talked about, highly praised, and increasingly popular new lesbian film currently making the festival circuit – Ashleigh Sumner plays “Lola.” The film is funny, sexy, exciting, and enormously appreciated by the lesbian community – and so is its star. Despite being extremely busy these days with Lola – which also stars Jill Bennett, Cathy DeBuono, and Jessica Graham – and her career in the art world, Sumner recently took time out to talk to Cherry Grrl and fill our readers in on what it was like to be a part of the movie, her very artistic side, and even her personal life – sorry ladies, she’s taken.
Read the full interview HERE. And sign up to be notified when the DVD is available from WolfeVideo.com.
Melonie Diaz: “The lesbians love me!”
ITTY BITTY TITTY COMMITTEE star Melonie Diaz proudly reveals her status as an icon for lesbians in a new Black Book Magazine career overview.
“The lesbians love me,” she proclaims.
We do, we really do!
Tune in to see Melonie this fall on the Final Season of Nip/Tuck. And get your copy of ITTY BITTY TITTY COMMITTEE right now from Wolfe (where it’s on sale for $14.95)!
Balls Across America on CNN
You gotta love the gay undercurrent of filmmaker/activists Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno on CNN launching their “Balls Across America” campaign last week in New York City to the strains of Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive.” It’s all part of the amazing work of The Yes Men and the theatrical premiere of their exciting new documentary, THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD. Opening in NYC at Film Forum on October 7 and in Los Angeles on November 6th. More cities coming soon. Click to find dates in your town now and find out how you, too, can help fix the world. (And yes, we can presume the gay undercurrent is intentional since out gay Yes Man Andy Bichlbaum does indeed say Yes to Men).
Ron Cowen & Daniel Lipman (QUEER AS FOLK)
RON: “My favorite is THE CHILDREN’S HOUR. The screenplay by Lillian Hellmann is a chilling and heartbreaking study of the destructive effects of viciousness and lies, as well as a courageous indictment of the McCarthy Era. Still rather pertinent. The performances by Audrey Hepburn and Shirley MacLaine are exquisite. The direction by William Wyler (my favorite director, by the way) is matchless. How typical, and ridiculous, that certain PC people would dismiss it. Their loss.”
DAN: “My favorite Gay film has got to be the original French version of LA CAGE AUX FOLLES. Outrageous. Uproarious. And, ultimately, a very moving love story about tolerance and acceptance. With an absolutely sublime, masterful (mistressful?) performance by Michel Serrault. I was especially glad that there were subtitles during the scene where Ugo Tognazzi tries to teach Serrault’s “Albin/Zaza” how to be butch. I don’t believe I’ve ever heard such screams of laughter in a theatre. It would have drowned out dialogue in any language.”
Discover Ron and Dan’s pioneering gay drama, AN EARLY FROST on DVD today from Wolfe or get your hands on the complete boxed set of their landmark Showtime series, QUEER AS FOLK.
Silas Howard (BY HOOK OR BY CROOK)
“My favorite LGBT film is Lizzie Borden’s BORN IN FLAMES. Super queer in its humorous radical take over of the state-run media estate and an awesome girl bike gang! We need a movie like that again. a fantasy of rebellion where a diverse coalition of women emerges to blow the System apart. The fantastic Isabel (Adele Berti) as a speak-truth-to-power performer for the metropolis’s futuristic radio station. Oh yeah!”
See the trailer for Silas’s classic butch/trans buddy movie, BY HOOK OR BY CROOK and buy the DVD today. You can also see him in the awesome lesbian short, DON’T MESS WITH TEXAS (on the SHE LIKES GIRLS 4 lesbian shorts collection).
Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema
LGBT History Month: DVD Of The Week!
FABULOUS! THE STORY OF QUEER CINEMA is an IFC Original Documentary that explores the emergence of gay and lesbian films from the beginning of the gay rights movement in the 1960s to the “New Queer Cinema” of the 90s, the proliferation and influence of gay and lesbian films festivals, the discovery by the film business of the gay market; the explosion of gay images in the mainstream media and the current phenomenon of all things gay. The story of gay and lesbian cinema is closely related to the world surrounding it, and the use of popular culture is a backdrop against which the film examines important cultural, political and social moments- and movements that intersect with gay life.
FABULOUS! features interviews with Alan Cumming, John Cameron Mitchell, John Waters, Todd Haynes and many others. The film is directed and produced by award-winning filmmakers Lisa Ades and Lesli Klainberg (In the Company Of Women, Indie Sex: Taboos).
FABULOUS! is on sale now at WolfeVideo.com for only $7.95!