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
The rom-com ‘Red, White and Royal Blue’, the series ‘Heartstoppers’ and the opera ‘Omar’ show that the best way to fight intolerance is simply to tell your story.
Queerness from London to Seoul
In the current toxic and homophobic climate in many countries, the UK’s glorious Flare film festival makes a welcome return. Two films stand out.
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.