On the bright but billowing afternoon of March 17, Lavender and Green Alliance, founded by Brendan Fay in 1994, assembled on 48th Street to march in the Saint Patrick’s Day Parade on New York’s Fifth Avenue. Little more than a decade ago, the idea of an Irish LGBTQ group marching ...

Alice Maio Mackay’s beguiling horror film, “The Serpent’s Skin,” has the trans Anna (Alexandra McVicker) leaving her hometown to go live with her sister Dakota (Charlotte Chimes) in the big city. She quickly meets (and sleeps with) Danny (Jordan Dulieu) but has “day-mares” — visions that haunt her. When Anna discovers she has a supernatural ability that can cause others to bleed...

Backlashes say as much about culture as the media they’re aimed towards. With her first two films, “Raw” and “Titane,” French director Julia Ducournau was a rising star. In 2021, “Titane” won the Palme D’Or at Cannes, only the second film made by a woman to do so. Although both these films fit into body horror, “Titane” found her working on a larger scale. The Cannes premiere of...

On the evening of Thursday, March 12, 1987, while most New Yorkers headed home from work, approximately 300 people gathered at the LGBT Community Center in the West Village to form the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, ACT UP. They were galvanized by a speech the gay activist and playwright Larry Kramer gave two days earlier, calling for the creation of a group that would bring a...

This year’s edition of Queering the Canon, a festival dedicated to promoting classic LGBTQ films, offers seven features about queer lives in small towns. The program opens March 26 at 7:30 pm with a 2K restoration of the “Desert Hearts.” Director Donna Deitch’s film, set in 1959 Reno, respectfully depicts the love that develops between Vivian (Helen Shaver), an English p...