Florida Agenda

By WARREN DAY Even in places that are LGBT friendly, such as South Florida, you wouldn’t get the chance to see many of the gay films if it weren’t for special festivals, such as the Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival (MGLFF) running from April 27 through May 6 in South Beach. From production to [...]

By WARREN DAY After a winter of disappointing films, “Bully” is a powerful reminder of a time when motion pictures sought to not only entertain, but to move people to action by showing injustice in a way that touched both our hearts and heads. And while most films fade from memory in a day or [...]

By WARREN DAY If you’ve ever wondered just how bad a big studio movie can be, then “The Wrath of the Titans” provides an excruciating answer: cringe-inducing dialogue, blurry and unimaginative special effects, actions sequences without wit or originality, characters you know little about and about whom you care even less, costumes from Wal-Mart, and [...]

By WARREN DAY As far as the major studios are concerned, there are three seasons in which they release films, and once you understand that you’ll know why theaters are currently showing such dreck as “This Means War,” “Journey 2,” “Project X,” and “A Thousand Words.” None of these was able to muster even 50 [...]

By Warren Day Stephen Schwartz has had an illustrious career as the composer of musicals for the stage (“Wicked,” “Pippin,” “Godspell”), and also for animated musicals produced by Walt Disney (he’s the winner of three Oscars for Best Song). The one musical that didn’t seem to work so well seems to have stuck in his [...]

By Greg Shapiro In spite of a wildly moody weather pattern (cold for five minutes, then hot for the next three hours), spring is in the air in South Florida, and 2012 promises to be a prolific year for gay writers and authors of LGBT-interest fiction and non-fiction. You will want to get your spring [...]

By Jarrett Terrill Among the thousands of online petitions categorically aimed at reducing “bullying” in schools, a highly successful movie producer, Harvey Weinstein, is advocating one. The petition on the Care2 Network (thepetitionsite.com) asks the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) reverse its decision to “restrict” (or give an “R” rating) to a documentary about [...]

By Rory Barbarossa The star of the blockbuster “Harry Potter” films is solidifying his credentials as an LGBT hero. Actor Daniel Radcliffe has long been a supporter of anti-bullying efforts and, for the past two years, an unofficial spokesperson for the Trevor Project, the not-for-profit organization which provides crisis and counseling services for LGBT youth. [...]

Photo: MAX ADLER plays Dave Karofsky on FOX’s ‘GLEE’, a teenager struggling with his identity. Rory Barbarossa Last week’s episode of the hit series “Glee” (Tuesday, 8 p.m. ET, WSVN-7) drew attention to the national epidemic of gay teen suicides, with the outing of character Dave Karofsky (Max Adler), a jock and bully who had [...]

Internationally renowned gay artist Steve Walker, who died from a reported heart attack in his home in Costa Rica on January 4 at the age of 50, will be eulogized at a funeral service this weekend in Canada. The service will take place on Saturday, February 25, at Our Lady of the Visitation Parish, 5338 [...]