Category: LGBTQ+
Flare 2025
Flare 2025 returned to London with a vibrant celebration of LGBTQ cinema from around the world. From hilarious comedies to poignant love stories set in conflict zones, the festival offered bold, unforgettable stories that reflect the diversity and resilience of queer lives today.
VISIONS OF QUEERNESS
Derek Jarman’s Sebastiane and Paul Schrader’s Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters were screened this summer by the BFI in two distinct strands, yet together they form a powerful meditation on queer identity, masculinity, and artistic resistance. Created in eras of censorship and constraint, both films remain landmark works that continue to inspire.
Rays of Light in the Midst of Darkness
In a time of growing global division, three thoughtful works—Red, White & Royal Blue, Heartstopper, and the opera Omar—offer moving stories that center love, identity, and quiet resilience. Whether through the joy of queer romance or the strength of personal conviction, each reminds us of the power of simply telling one’s story.
Queerness from London to Seoul
From Seoul to London, a wave of bold, life-affirming queer stories is reshaping the cultural landscape. Across film, theatre, and performance, artists are confronting gender, identity, and belonging with honesty, beauty, and imagination—offering not just representation, but revelation.
FLARE 2022
It is heart-warming to see the BFI Flare film festival return for its first in person festival in two years. A beautiful celebration of the lives of queer people from around the world.
Black Queer Voices
Brave Beauties shot from 2014 onwards consist of a series of portraits of Trans women, gender non-conforming and non-binary. Many of the women photographed are also beauty pageant contestants. They enter these pageants in order to change the mind set of those present. Those who are often happy to persecute trans-women. So, these images challenge transphobic stereotypes and stigmas.
Voices from the Rainbow
This year’s Flare LGBTQ+ Film Festival brings together a vibrant, moving, and often humorous selection of global cinema that highlights the diverse experiences of queer, trans, and non-binary lives. From Cold War romances to cross-generational connections and subversive drag histories, Flare showcases films that challenge, uplift, and celebrate the resilience of a community still navigating love, identity, and liberation.
ÊTRE UN TRANS ACTIVISTE EN TURQUIE AUJOURD’HUI
La Turquie ne remplit que 4 critères sur 22 selon l’indice européen 2016 des droits de l’Homme élaboré par Transgender Europe (TGEU). TGEU a également préparé un rapport sur l’évaluation des meurtres de transgenres, la Turquie est le 8ème pays avec le plus grand nombre de crimes transphobes dans le monde.