Tackling the turbulent developments in terms of sexuality often provides a perfect backdrop for a gripping film.  However, with XXY, released on September 15th the coming of age drama has been taken further and explores the complexities of intersexuality.  In its main character of Alex, played with real sensitivity by Argentinian Ines Efron, XXY looks at how appearances are deceiving; Alex is a hermaphrodite.  Richly layered in its observations of family life and the stresses that such biology can put on parent daughter, parent son relationships XXY is a powerful film that must be seen to be fully appreciated.

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Once again the GYC are donning their shades packing their tent and preparing to smile all weeked long at the Best Boutique Festival in Europe!  We will be covering the whole weekend from our special GYC tent in the idyllic Robin Hill Country Park on the Isle of Wight.  Just like last year, if any of you lovely GYC girls and gals are heading over to the Garden Isle for the weekend get in touch and lets have a party!  The festival this year is bigger and better than any previous Bestival with all the usual entertainment and some exotic twists.  Tickets are sadly all sold out but we urge you to keep an eye on the bestival website over the coming weeks for details of next year's festival.  So keep an eye on the GYC for exclusive photos and a full review of the whole weekend. 

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Released on October 3rd, Brideshead Revisited is set to retell one of the most famous stories for a generation not aware of the famous series starring Jeremy Irons.  Brideshead Revisited is an evocative and poignant story of forbidden love and the loss of innocence, set in pre-war England when privileged aristocracy fell into decline.  The story begins in1925 at Oxford, when Charles Ryder (Matthew Goode) is befriended by the louche and flamboyant Sebastian Flyte (Ben Whishaw), son of Lord Marchmain, and is quickly seduced by an exciting new world of money, glamour and outrageous behaviour. When he is invited to “Brideshead” the Flyte family’s magnificent ancestral home, Charles becomes infatuated with Julia (Hayley Atwell), Sebastian’s beautiful sister. But as Charles’s emotional relationship with the Marchmain family deepens, he finds himself continually at odds with their deepest family bond, that of their overpowering Catholic faith.

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'Silence () n. 1. complete absence of sound. 2. the fact or state of abstaining from speech. v. 1. make silent. 2. (silenced) fitted with a silencer.’

Jackie Harris, prison counsellor and ex-drag king, kills her lover's rapist in what she insists is self-defence. A literary novel with changing narrators, strong agendas and intertextual sequences, Silence is an examination of sexual violence and its repercussions. It questions the right of the media to scrutinise and pronounce judgement on a person’s life choices.

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It is a pleasure to be reviewing a film that manages to have gay characters throughout that don’t stand out, aren’t reliant upon camp or merely included for comedy effect. Avril, the latest release from Peccadillo Pictures is a touching light hearted look at how a person can change their destiny when passion is unlocked. Directed by Gérald Hustache-Mathieu and starring Sophie Quinton as Avril, a young nun about to take her eternal vows, the film is a heart warming tale of siblings separated at birth and what happens when they finally find each other.

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