BFI Flare 2017 explodes like a glitter cannon across London’s Southbank next week. Loverboy’s resident movie maniac, Fallon Gold, gives us some of the highlights she’s most excited about. So, it is happening again. Our annual takeover of the BFI, a queer paradise full of film, fun and festivities. This year sees the usual excellent […]
Yesterday, 17th May, was International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia. To mark it the BFI, London screened the 2014 documentary Matt Shepard Is A Friend Of Mine. Loverboy’s Fallon Gold went along and explains why it is so vitally important that this life-affecting film be shown. In 1998 Matt Shepard was taken by two […]
This year BFI Flare screened some well loved classics and Loverboy fell in love with them all over again. Fallon Gold rekindled her love for Desert Hearts and swooned at the cool genius of its director Donna Deitch. As queer kids and younglings we often have to search for representations of ourselves where we are […]
The poignant themes of choice and the closet bookend the 30th BFI Flare; Fallon Gold wonders what she might do if she was a football star in the making or a 70s feminist in the face of the pressures of fame, family and love. BFI Flare 2016’s opening night premiere is Ben A Williams’ The […]
BFI Flare is 30 years old; Fallon Gold goes along to find out what birthday delights we have in store For queer film lovers, BFI Flare is like Christmas. For a week and a half. As we take over the Southbank (is the collective noun a camp of queers?), unwrapping the cinematic goodies with our […]
