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New York is a mecca for queer culture of all stripes. Set in the heart of downtown Manhattan, just a short walk from the cruising piers of Christopher street and the cocktail lounges of Chelsea, the Tribeca Film Festival is a natural home for Lgbtq creators and projects. From lesser known indie films to highly anticipated studio television shows, experimental Vr and new online work from queer up and comers pushing the conversation into new territory, the festival’s 16th edition offers plenty for the queer-minded.

Read More: Why ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Is the Most Anticipated Screening of the Tribeca Film Festival

Here is a guide to the five best Lgbtq projects playing the festival this year.

“Tom of Finland”

Now, here is a biopic we can get behind (or underneath, whatever your preference).

The cult icon Tom of Finland is renowned for his homoerotic drawings of beefcakes in...

Theresa Caputo gives Scandal star Guillermo Diaz a reading on this week’s Long Island Medium — and also helps a daughter whose mother died of a drug overdose. Theresa, who got her biopsy results back last week, does the reading for Diaz — who fans might also known from films like Half Baked and Stonewall — while in Los Angeles. She then also channels for a woman who also believes that she has the gift. Watch the emotional clip below as Theresa performs a reading for client Sarah, whose mother died of a drug overdose when she was just eight. Theresa tells her:...read more...

Lorna Luft, daughter of the late Judy Garland, gave an emotional performance of her mother's signature tune "Over the Rainbow" at New York City's Feinstein's/54 Below on Wednesday night - the first she's ever given of the song, she says. "I've never sung this song," Luft told concertgoers before the performance. "Not because it was too hard for me emotionally, but because I always felt you can't improve on perfect. But I thought to myself, if I'm ever going to sing this, now is the time." The emotional moment came 47 years to the day after Garland died at the age...

Lorna Luft, daughter of the late Judy Garland, gave an emotional performance of her mother's signature tune "Over the Rainbow" at New York City's Feinstein's/54 Below on Wednesday night - the first she's ever given of the song, she says. "I've never sung this song," Luft told concertgoers before the performance. "Not because it was too hard for me emotionally, but because I always felt you can't improve on perfect. But I thought to myself, if I'm ever going to sing this, now is the time." The emotional moment came 47 years to the day after Garland died at the age...

It's been 77 years since Judy Garland made Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg's 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' forever famous. Just last night, her daughter, Lorna Luft, brought the beloved song back to life something she has never done before now at Feinstein's54 Below, in a moving tribute to Stonewall, Orlando, and of course, her late mother. Check out the entire, emotional performance below...

Roland Emmerich is entering the awards season fray once more.  The filmmaker behind such blockbusters as "The Day After Tomorrow" and "Independence Day" attempted to make a smaller, more serious film with 2011's "Anonymous."  That Shakespearean era tale was touted as a possible awards player before it debuted at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival to mostly negative reviews.  Any hopes for prestige recognition were quickly dashed. Now, after segueing into more familiar territory with "White House Down," Emmerich is returning with a slightly more personal tale, "Stonewall." Roadside Attractions announced today it had acquired the period drama for a release later this Fall (which pretty much means at least a Toronto debut).  "Stonewall" is a fictional drama set around the real events that took place at the Stonewall Inn in New York City during 1969.  The Stonewall Riots found the gay community fighting back in a series of violent protests after...

Fans of Scandal know Guillermo Díaz as torture-addicted Gladiator Huck, who’s been known to lick his colleague-turned-enemy-turned-lover Quinn (Katie Lowes) and do unspeakable things to her in parking garages. Nearly 20 years ago, though, Díaz was an emerging actor who’d just starred opposite Parker Posey in Party Girl and was looking for a breakout gig. Enter Stonewall.

Díaz booked his first leading role as La Miranda, a larger-than-life drag queen (and I’m not just talking about her hair), in Nigel Finch’s fictionalized account of the days leading up to the birth of the modern Lgbt rights movement...

Chicago – There are few civil rights events shrouded in mystery like the Stonewall Inn Riots – a June night in 1969 in New York City, when gay liberation was born. Witnesses and participants in the riots have grown exponentially over the years (“I was there.”) and the who, what and how the riots began have also been in dispute as time goes by. All of that perspective is realized in Ike Holter’s incendiary stage play “Hit the Wall,” presented by the Chicago Commercial Collective at the Greenhouse Theater in Chicago.

Play Rating: 3.5/5.0

“Hit the Wall” began its life at Steppenwolf Theatre’s Garage Rep in 2012, and had a successful run Off Broadway in New York City last year. A majority of the original cast is back for this revival, as director Eric Hoff takes Holter’s plsy and builds stage craft that feels like the revolution that began on June 28th,...

Roland Emmerich will direct Jeremy Irvine in "Stonewall"Roland Emmerich is a size queen. I had the world's shortest interview with him while he was promoting Anonymous, a rare trip away from the ginormous epic blockbuster spectacles he prefers to make. But that was, in its own peculiar academic-enraging way, also supersized with CGI and a lusty embrace of conspiracy theories. In fact he ended our interview defending the size of his pictures.

It has to be big or I don't like it."

My mind raced back to that interview today when the news broke that Emmerich plans to make a drama about the Stonewall riots which poured gasoline on the then tiny embers of the gay rights movement. He'll film Stonewall before embarking on the long gestating Independence Day sequels. Young beauty Jeremy Irvine (War Horse, The Railway Man) has the lead role as a man who has a...

Today, we're featuring Frederick Weller, circa 1994. Weller's Broadway credits include Glengarry Glen Ross Ensemble Drama Desk Award Take Me Out Drama Desk nominationSeascape The Rehearsal The Little Foxes Six Degrees of Separation. Off-Broadway Reasons to Be Happy Still LifeIn a Dark, Dark House Some Men Drama Desk nomination Mother Courage Take Me Out The Shape of ThingsLucille Lortel nomination Curtains Ensemble Obie Award The Country Club Plunge. London The Shape of Things Take Me Out. Film When Will I Be Loved The Shape of Things The Business of Strangers Stonewall. TV 'In Plain Sight' series regular amp many guest spots.

Guillermo Diaz visits the Apple Store Soho for “Meet The Cast: Scandal”

Birthday shoutouts go to Ang Lee who is 59, Sam Raimi is 54, and Weird Al is 54. Here’s his greatest song.

Sean Maher will guest star on Arrow later this season, where “He’ll play Mark Scheffer (aka DC Comics’ Shrapnel), a bomber who terrorizes Starling City — and Kevin Alejandro’s Sebastian Blood.”

Thomas Roberts on Russia: Have A Little Faith In Me

NBCUniversal addressing anti-gay content in “Halloween Horror Nights” show at Universal Studios

Kurt Cobain Said He Thought He Was Gay As A Child.

Johnny Weir has retired, and will provide Olympic skating commentary for NBC at Sochi. Bless His Heart.

Last year Sarah Silverman filmed a pilot for NBC that wasn’t picked up. You can see Susan 313 in its entirety below, with an introduction by Sarah. Do you think it should have been given a chance?...

Zachary Quinto and Judith Light share a laugh in NYC.

Birthday shoutouts go to Aaron Eckhart, who is 45, Al Jarreau is 73, and Barbara Feldon is 80. In ratings news, The Carrie Diaries held steady, and is on the bubble for renewal.. Karl Urban will star in an untitled futuristic pilot for Fox, produced by Jj Abrams. It's "set in the near future when all Lapd officers are partnered with highly evolved human-like androids." Good Times is the latest classic sitcom to get the big screen treatment..Jane Lynch will star in the web series Dropping The Soap, which "goes behind-the-scenes of faux daytime sudser “Colliding Lives” as the program struggles to stay afloat in the new era of TV." Jane is exec. producing as well, along with the Web Therapy team of Dan Bucatinsky, Don Roos, and Lisa Kudrow. Is Zachary Quinto getting ready to propose to Jonathan Groff? Who wouldn't?...

Here is last week's caption pic winner. This week's caption pic is at the bottom of the page.

Thanks to everyone for participating! The winner is ...

"Now according to my mugging app, you're supposed to give the coat, your jewelry, and everything in your parse. I think they meant purse, though."

Thanks to Dostka for this week's winning caption!

Weekend Birthdays! (Note: Birthday shoutouts are for out entertainers, allies, or for any celeb that seems to have a following on Ae). Alan Cumming (above) is 48, Patton Oswalt is 44, Alicia Keys is 32, Paul The Octopus would have been 5, Eddie Van Halen is 55, Anita Baker is 55, and Michael Trevino (below) is 28.

In ratings news, Glee was up over 30%, and has its second best ratings of the season. In other good ratings news, Days Of Our Lives hit a 21 week ratings high for The Wedding Fallout week of January 14th.Speaking of soaps,...

Beloved drag performer Sherry Vine dropped in on "Totally Biased With W. Kamau Bell" on Thursday, appearing as "The Spirit Of Stonewall". Addressing the historical importance of the Stonewall riots -- which were name-checked by Obama in his inaugural address -- Vine explained that it was the first time "the entire gay alphabet stood up against the police and reminded them that we are Americans, too."

Vine went on to reveal the philosophy of her particular civil rights movement: a brick. Watch the clip above, and for more from this episode visit the "Totally Biased" YouTube page.

The Scandal Season 2 winter finale is upon us... and Fitz' life hangs in the balance.

Who knows what to expect on the installment, but it's safe to assume we'll at least get the answer to the new question on everyone's lips: What the Huck?!

I had the chance to catch up with Guillermo Diaz about Huck's role in the shooting and more. He promises tonight's episode of Scandal does not disappoint. But don't just take my word for it. Read on for excerpts from our exclusive Q&A...

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TV Fanatic: What's been the biggest change in going from a show like Weeds to a show like Scandal?

Guillermo Diaz: The biggest thing for me has been they're two completely different characters, which I couldn't be happier about. I mean, I love playing Guillermo on Weeds, but you always try to make the characters really different and each character his own person,...

Though openly-gay Newsweek journalist Ramin Setoodeh’s infamous 2010 article “Straight Jacket” was certainly a misguided piece of criticism, it unfortunately brought to light an all-too-common misconception held by both Hollywood decision makers and members of the public at large – that gay actors are incapable of adequately portraying straight characters on-screen.

History, of course, shows that ludicrous assertion to be entirely false – particularly considering the number of closeted gay actors from earlier eras who vaulted to stardom specifically because they were able to convincingly portray straight romantic leads.

Of course, those were much more intolerant times – times in which actors were continuously pressured to hide their sexuality for fear they’d be rejected if the truth came out (a sadly valid point in those days). Now, however – while we still have a long way to go – there’s an emerging crop of openly-gay actors who are proving it’s possible to...

One of our favorite mantras around the AfterElton offices is “because visibility matters.” Indeed, the idea that gay and bisexual men need to be visible, both to ourselves and to the wider culture, is one of the principle reasons AfterElton.com even exists. After all, it is only by being visible to family, friends and the world that we’ve been able to overcome the stereotypes and bigotry used to justify discrimination against the Glbt community.

That quest for visibility explains why we have done so many polls including the AfterElton Hot 100, the Fifty Greatest Gay Movies, the Top 50 Gay TV Characters, and the 50 Best Gay Books. After all, it’s not as if Entertainment Weekly is going to ask gay and bisexual men which guys we think are the hottest, which movies mean the most to us or, in the case of our latest poll, which celebrities we most admire.

Reviewed by Amy R. Handler

(March 2011)

Directed by: Crayton Robey

More than four decades after it premiered on stage and in movie theaters, people are still talking about “The Boys in the Band.” So what’s it all mean, and where do we go from there?

When the then down-and-out playwright Mart Crowley composed a script from the mansion where he was house-sitting, he had no idea he would change the course of history. The script was “The Boys in the Band,” and the play opened on April 14, 1968, at Theater Four — off-off-Broadway in New York City. Under the direction of Robert Moore (“Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”), “The Boys” ran for 1,001 performances and stunned audiences from virtually every strata of society. Two years later, director William Friedkin (“The Exorcist”) recreated the production for film with the original cast — and the movie was every bit as provocative as the live performances preceding it.

Reviewed by Amy R. Handler

(March 2011)

Directed by: Crayton Robey

More than four decades after it premiered on stage and in movie theaters, people are still talking about “The Boys in the Band.” So what’s it all mean, and where do we go from there?

When the then down-and-out playwright Mart Crowley composed a script from the mansion where he was house-sitting, he had no idea he would change the course of history. The script was “The Boys in the Band,” and the play opened on April 14, 1968, at Theater Four — off-off-Broadway in New York City. Under the direction of Robert Moore (“Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”), “The Boys” ran for 1,001 performances and stunned audiences from virtually every strata of society. Two years later, director William Friedkin (“The Exorcist”) recreated the production for film with the original cast — and the movie was every bit as provocative as the live performances preceding it.

A well-meaning film about homophobia aimed at schoolkids, that suffers a little from comparison to the likes of Queer As Folk, says Peter Bradshaw

Produced by the campaigning group Stonewall for distribution in secondary schools, and supported by governmental bodies including the mayor of London, this film aims to tackle homophobia. Any movie that sets out to root out bigotry has to be a good thing. But I couldn't help thinking that the standard of writing and characterisation was a little bit broad, and frankly not up to the level of TV dramas such as Skins or Queer As Folk. The main characters are at school – though the actors mostly look a bit older than that – and they are gay, straight and bisexual. Writer-director Rikki Beadle-Blair does an interesting job of showing that, though race and class prejudice seems to be relatively dormant, ugly homophobia is alive and kicking, and...

This week is the final airing of the syndicated movie review program At The Movies, marking a true end-of-an-era for those of us who grew up eagerly anticipating the weekly thumb wrestling of critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert.

In September of 1975 Chicago Tribune writer Gene and Chicago Sun-Times writer Roger were reluctantly paired for the monthly PBS show Opening Soon at A Theater Near You, which ran for two seasons before being renamed Sneak Previews.

The show became a huge hit for PBS, which decided to syndicate it with Gene and Roger remaining as hosts until 1982, when contract negotiations fell through. They were replaced by liberal commentator Neal Gabler and human block of wood Jeffrey Lyons, who would become best known for siring a quote whore (more on that later.)

Gabler left after three years, unhappy with the direction of the show, and was replaced by Michael Medved, who...

It is probably accurate to say that there aren’t too many actors who could convincingly play the utterly ruthless, borderline psychotic gang leader Po Boy in the just released Cop Out and be just as completely believable as the much more gentle gay nurse Angel on NBC’s Mercy. But actor Guillermo Diaz has just that ability which has allowed him to work steadily in both television and movies for the past fifteen years.

Probably best known for his role as Guillermo on Showtime’s hit series Weeds, the thirty-four-year old Diaz has also played a punk rocker, a drag queen, and a surfer just to name a few of his many roles. And it's that ability to slip in and out of so many varied characters that likely ensures the out and proud New York City native will be working for many years to come.

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File this one under "Thanks for nothing, Shrub." That would be the really bulging file I keep on my desk. So what's the issue?

This week Huffington Post blogger Ryan Grim reported that a new book coming out about President George Bush includes the fact that Bush declined to denounce same-sex marriage in his commencement speech at Furman University in 2008 because he wasn't "...going to tell some gay kid in the audience that he can't get married."

No, he was just going to get elected by demonizing the gay kid, and every other 'mo in the country, by allowing henchman Karl Rove to orchestrate two of the most anti-gay presidential campaigns ever run in the U.S. Two campaigns the fueled a wave of constitutional amendments banning same-sex marriage across America.

But, hey, Bush wouldn't actually deliver the bad news to the gay college kid himself because he's such a stand up guy.