Queers On Screen

With your help, we want to highlight and congratulate the out and proud queer actors & filmmakers who are not afraid to make queer stories!
If you know of Queer Filmmakers making Queer Films, we would love to know the details so we can promote them here!!!
email queersonscreen@googlemail.com
thank you thank you thank you

QUEER FESTIVAL OF THE MONTH

The XPOSED International Queer Film Festival in Berlin is always one worth waiting for - amazing program, retrospectives that you never see at other festivals and a rocking trailer!!!! Check it out and if your in Berlin - head down to the Moviemento Cinema from the 29th of May until the 1st of June! Can't Wait!

Sunday, October 17, 2010

Chris Colfer is a GOD

Every time they give him some storylines they just get better and better!
check out this from last season

then check out this from this season!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0k57e00HYA
we couldnt embedd it, but follow the link, its amazing!

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Theo Alexander???

Is my one great question at the moment,
with True Blood filling the void of the with a number of sexually beautiful Gay Characters, I was wandering which one may actually be gay, and the only one I can question is Theo Alexander, the former 'Talbot' husband of the now crazy king!
In the little research I have managed to do, nothing I can find can decipher whether or not he has in fact been down there in real life, but his over powered sense of culture and history and he is greek, leads me to hope that yes, he is, but will keep this on the radar and keep u posted once we confirm.

Saturday, July 24, 2010

XPOSED in 2009

The Berlin Queer Short Film Festival's hot Trailer from Last Year!
Check it Below!

Sunday, May 30, 2010

A Break from the Queers??

NO! it seems like, sadly, that a lot of the great shows are now taking a break, or are cancelled.
Must we wait so long for Modern Family to return? No More Ugly Betty! The Pain!
Although, there is the favourite TRUE BLOOD coming up, but who exactly on this show is really queer?
We know that Nelson Ellis who plays the fabulous Lafayette is not queer, but what about Kristin Bauer who plays PAM?
She is one fabulous lesbian vampire, really naughty and devilish and very unapolagetic!
BUT as we found out through the GIVE A DAM campaign, Anna Paquin is  Bi-sexual, so all we need now, is that Pam bites her and we get some really nice Queer Action.
Although rumours are going crazy of lots of Gay Vamps coming in on this new season, which should be interesting, I wander how many were cast that are actually queer???
But we also still have maybe 5 WEEKS left of GLEE, maybe less, and then what? for LGBT inclusive shows? not so much, can we just rely on the synthetic but delicious True Blood?
I guess we need to get out and see some REAL QUEER FILMS at the REAL QUEER FILM FESTIVALS made by REAL QUEER FILMMAKERS starring REAL QUEER ACTORS!

Sunday, May 23, 2010

MAJOR QUEERS ON SCREEN!!!!

ANOTHER DAY, AND ANOTHER HOTTIE COMES TO US!

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

the queers are angry

and so they should be after fellow gay writer, exercising his right to vent venomous ink on a national setting, pitched the idea or notion that gay actors can not really play straight.
HELLO SUE SYLVESTOR and HELLO JANE LYNCH.
Really, I don't know who would want to put this out there after all of the troubles gay actors have to acutally get parts. Acting is Acting, and there are some really fucking good out and proud gay actors, and there shouldn't be any other alternative.
Does being a closeted gay actor enhance ones acting skills? It surely would kill something inside of them, and it surely hurts all of the other OUT actors who have to then try extra harder to prove themselves that being true to oneself is not going to affect your career, even though it does.
AND WHAT THIS ASS WRITES ABOUT SEAN HAYES AND JONATHAN GROFF ! really, fuck off, these two guys are so fucking talented they could act like a cow and be convincing, even maybe a straight cow, or a transgendered elephant, either way, to say that they can not act straight is not realy a critic, but more like an attack.
Something personal must have gone down here, maybe the newsweek writer got rejected by one of them, or maybe he just hasn't gotten laid in so long that anyone who may be even a little gay is super gay and stupid. That is usually the attitude of people who need sex. Maybe if he just got laid, he could write something better, more progressive and helpful? maybe even something true.
Sean Hayes We Love You!

Monday, April 26, 2010

JANE LYNCH DON'T STOP!




seriously, this woman is fucking amazing, firstly I would like to say that she is one of the best actors around today, secondly, she seems to be one of the most courageous woman in hollywood.
I can't seem to remember what I first saw her in, as she seems to have been in everything, from a small part in this tv show to another small part in that film, to a scene stealing guest role in another show, she just doesn't stop, and nor should she. I would die if she ever took a break. 
Currently she is acting as coach Sue Silvester on fox's GLEE, which is amazing and very LGBT invclusive, her character, while straight, does blur the lines, with her masculine approach to teaching and discipline. In real life, Jane is now engaged to her beautiful girlfriend and with the current hype of Glee, we really look forward to seeing this lesbian wedding everywhere when the time comes and for Jane to be out proud and happy on the cover of every magazine in town! 
She knows how to bring it to the peoples, and she will. There is no stopping this one! Thankfully!!!

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

UGLY BETTY PRETTY MARK SAD FAREWELL

Just because UGLY BETTY is finished, doesn't mean we will be seeing less of this talented fellow who we all grew to love and adore and secretly fantasize about being our lavishly sexy and sweet boyfriend on the most inclusive LGBT TV show in years!
Not only did his character amuse us to the point of almost lizzing, but he also reflected alot of the known bias and prejudice in the life of a single gay man. He was not only the giver and main player of these stereotype prejudices, but also the receiver of some, and that really gave his character so much more strength and depth. When he fell in love with and took on a fatty un groomed gay man as his boyfriend I was simply overjoyed! Then when he cheated on him with a much hotter stud, I was also overjoyed, as this is what happens, not just to the fatties out there, but to all of us, and it was great to see this represented.
What was also wonderful to see on the silver screen, is it silver, or just small, or wide and big, depending on your TV set I guess, was how he became a mentor to the young confused Justin, Bettys nephew who came out towards the end of the season and ended up with the cutest little boyfriend. It really was sooo sweet and to put such forward storylines in primetime, it was like reliving the golden girls, who most people forget, was also a very, ahead of its time, LGBT inclusive program.
Now that is a pair I would LOVE to see in a TV show, Michael Urie and Betty White, wait, they have been together already, when Betty White guest starred on Ugly Betty. But if they were to have their own show, it would be a runaway hit!!!!
GOOD BYE MARK ST JAMES! 

Hallo MICHAEL URIE!!!!!


Friday, April 9, 2010

Jesse Tyler Ferguson – HOT QUEER NERDY LOVE

If you can call it all that? were not sure, but he does have a very nice appeal, and we do believe he has scored a great role on this show 'modern family'. it took us a while to get into it, mainly because the name of the show is just so unappealing, and possible because of Julie Bowen. But once we sat down, it was a favourite after the first 5 minutes. Really well made television and good to see his character is just a normal kind of fucked up family queer. He is gay, practically married and living in the suburbs but still keeps his family around him, despite their problems. I like that. Plus this Jesse Tyler guy seems to be quiet dark, not in the show, but behind the smiles and happy faces I see in google, I look forward to a very dark character emerging from this guy, I know its in there, and its gonna be spectacular! Fingers crossed its a dark disturbed queer too.

Saturday, April 3, 2010

scared of playing gay?

I was involved in a casting last year for a short film called 'Torten im Sand/ Cakes and Sand' and we had to cast my lover, and there were a number of great gay actors available, yet, the majority were scared. SCARED.? They didn't want to be typcast as a 'gay actor'. This I find a really strange concern.
Some could not do it as their agents didn't want them staring in a Queer Short Film, nothing against the queers of course, it just wasn't the right role for their talent and this road was not one they wanted their people to go down.
Strange right? I here this happens alot. I feel this stinks. I would like to change it.
First I would like to introduce the lovely Gay man who did take the part, who was not afraid to play a gay character in a short film. Jan Andreeson, an up coming German Actor who was really, simply inspiring to work with!

Thursday, April 1, 2010

Peter Paige

How lovely were the days when you could turn on the Telly and see the ever so fashionable Emmett living the ever so fashionable life in the gaybourhood of the gay heaqrt warming drama Queer As Folk?

I would always be so envious of his courage and his self confidence (not to mention his body), his character was not only strong and feminine, but was also sexy and thoughtful, you didn't want to punch this guy, you wanted to dance with him, bake with him and then maybe have really out there sex with him!

I can only imagine how wonderful it must have been to play such a character. Peter Paige is a very talented actor, but also very versatile, his talents perceed him and his process will be a legacy. When you go through his filmography, he has worked on so many different projects and played many different characters. I would love to see him again, on the Telly, warming our little hearts with more tales of his lovely gay life, because, he is lovely, and I want to see more.

Thursday, March 25, 2010

FUCKING LOVE HER !!!!



THE FACT THAT THIS AMAZING WOMAN PLAYS THIS INSANELY HILARIOUS CHARACTER MAKES ME SMILE VERY HARD!!!!!

Sunday, March 21, 2010

ever blazing barrowman

The proudly courageous John Barrowmann is one of our all time heroes!!! He is a very openly gay man, very successful actor and a very handsome man. What is great about John is that he leaves an impression on most people, no matter how bland and ordinary he looks. He may be the man to bring home to your mother and ease her worries about your homosexual lifestyle, but he is also a fighter, in a not so subtle way.
John has managed to get a message out to the world, that hey, its ok to be gay, and if you have a problem with it, then get over it. Taken from the fantastic, fighting homophobe campaign - 'Some People Are Gay. Get OVER It!

Only a truly brave person can put his feet first and challenge the system his career is up against, and this guy seems to do it so effortlessly. He still manages to be hugely successful in both Television Series, such as Torchwood, where his character is very open about their sexuality. Then you have is enourmously huge Theatre career, the next step for this man is major motion pictures, and I will be the first in the ticket line up to support what should be a very huge career for this non seemingly larger then life actor. What surprises me most about him is his plainness, which is not a bad thing, he is a very ordinary looking fellow, very handsome and cute, yet still curiously wonderful and mysterious.  Normally I am not attracted to this type of person, but it is more what this man, John Barrowman does, that makes him attractive, then what he looks like.
He may be extremely attractive, but what I find attractive is how he has chosen to approach his career and how he stands to be his own! Live Queer and Normal. All Hail John Barrowman!!!

Sunday, March 14, 2010

Bring back the Brannan!!!

Jay Brannan played one of the cutest, hottest and sexiest actors in Shortbus, our never ending queer faveourite film. However since then he has not been in much. We are not sure why, as he clearly had alot of taltent and was not so bad to look at either, but we have also learned and heard that he is a clearly talented musician, and perhaps, we are putting dots together, maybe that is where his passion is and what  his focus is now on. As his songs are very cute and he has no trouble in pulling a crowd, this is for sure a good career move, however, we want him back on the silver screen.
Someone cast him asap!!!

Thursday, March 4, 2010

does REX LEE have an Entourage?

One of the best characters on this show, the one character that actually has a real connection to another character, albeit, a very obnoxious character, Jeremy Pivens 'Ari Gold', Rex Lee's gay asian assistant 'Lloyd' is by far one of the funniest gays on television!
'Lloyd' seems to be the assistant I can relate to, working for someone who be-littles you at every moment and makes your life hell, knowing how much you want to succeed and not caring, but secretly caring. Yet, 'Lloyd' still seems to have some respect and love for this man 'Ari'. I wander how much of Rex Lee's personal experience has gone into this character?
I also wander how Rex Lee's life has changed by playing this character and how close these two really are to each other. It's time I start researching the wander that is Rex Lee, and maybe I can one day be in his Entourage, cuz he clearly deserves one!

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

off to the sea !!!

Daniela Sea was first on our radar when we saw her in "short bus", one of the best queer movies of all time! She then popped up again in "Itty Bitty Titty Committee" and then as a series regular in "The L Word" playing female to male trans Max.
Daniela is paving her way through film and tv taking on many great queer roles and we hope we see her in many many more. She has a very striking on screen presence and as much as we loved "The L Word" they seriously underused her and gave her very lame lines. We hope that someone else taps into her talent and blows it up on to the big screen again for all of us to enjoy!

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

HOT HOT HOT

Simon Amstell!!!!! We knew him as the present from the British Quiz Show "Never Mind The Buzzcocks" and were fascinated with him and then find out he is out and openly out and hot and cute and really fucking funny!!! He is also a stand up comedian and performs constantly around the mother country. Check out this clip from the Buzzcocks below with Amy Winehouse.



we want to see him in more and more and more, and maybe in less and less and less !!!


in this one Amy spits!

CUMMING

Is the name of his fragrance, but androgyny is the name of his game. Alan Cumming Describes his sexuality as Bi-sexual, but that is just his sexuality, his persona, his entire personality is QUEER and this is what we love about him.

From his earliest Hollywood productions you could sense the Queer that is Alan Cumming, from the last dance in "Romy and Micheles high School Reunion" to his latest forway into Cable Televisions "The L Word". Alan is the man made to play great queer roles.

He has one of the most Androgynous faces in the world as well as a very Androgynous talent. In each role you see Alan Cumming, you also see someone new. It is a rare gift that someone can keep their individuality as an actor yet believably portray a completely different persona on screen.

Alan Cumming has the talent of a thousand oscar winners and is an Idol of ours! We want to see him in more and more great queer roles and hope that you can, if you have not already, discover his genious!

Monday, March 1, 2010

Leisha Hailey - WE MISS YOU


When we first got into watching the L Word, it was not until season 3, so the first two we kinda missed out on, but after season 4, we fell in love with Leisha Hailey, who possibly played one of the strongest most out spoken lesbian on Television and apparently, we dont know for sure, is also very out spoken in real life too!!!

We think she is the bees knees, simply a joy to watch every scene she was in and what was most upsetting about the L Word being cancelled is that we knew sadly it may be a while before we would see her again on our screens.

There was rumour of her getting a spin off series, but apparently that did not take. I remember lots of people saying how annoying she was and how her voice made them want scratch their eyes out, but I found her voice and everything about this actress inspiring.

Maybe it was her character, or maybe it was the way she portrayed 'Alice' either way, she made me into an unlikely fan and i hope hope hope that one day we see her again, in another queer focused role playing another strong character!!!! Come Back Leisha, we miss you!!!!

Sunday, February 28, 2010

MY QUEER DREAM

PRIME TIME ABOUT TIME !

Luke Macfarlane is one of the most interesting new out actors around. I say this because I have been curious about him for a while after seeing "Brothers and Sisters" and wandered, really, is he or isn't he? Then I find out and read, yes, he is openly gay AND to top it all off, is playing a very well rounded, sensible and one of the only characters that seem to make sense on this show where everyone is completely complicated and getting themselves into more and more shit. His character seems to think before he acts. Which leads me to asking, does Mr Luke also think before he made the choice to play a gay character on a very well esteemed Television program screened on the very two face ABC network.  A network that has me confused since the editing out and bannishment on Adam Lambert, but then the support to the gay storylines in this "oh so wholesome" program, which in alot of ways, is not so wholesome, just grown up and full of fantastic writing.
I LOVE that Macfarlane is playing this character and I love that the execs at ABC gave this character to him and I hope he gets more and more GREAT roles for his portrayal of this gay character because I think he is doing a great job of it and is just showing how more and more Gay Actors should be playing Gay Characters on the Screen!!!!!

Justin Bond

The other week we were watching one of our Favourite naughty delights, "Ugly Betty", and saw, beneath shaded glasses, a familiar face, after a quick imdb research, our theories were confirmed. The beautiful Justin Bond (who we were first introduced to in the Queer-o-rama film "Short Bus" by John Cameron Mitchell) was there, playing the tranny version on Fay Sommers.

He is AMAZING! in almost everything he does, he does with such grace and style, all the while he does it by being true to his queer self. He is an idol and I will enjoy watching everything that comes from this man.

I had the fortune to meet him one night in my brief New York visit at a very queer party, and he was all I imagined, amazing, delicate, fabulous, glamorous and completely queer to the bone.
I hope we get to see him in more Films and hopefully more Television shows!

OUR LOVE TO PORTIA !!!



One of our Favorite Lesbians in the whole world finally played a lesbian character on one of our most beloved shows "Nip Tuck", Portia De Rossi !!!!
Recently Portia has married her long time girlfriend Ellen Degenerous and also became very active in speaking out about Marriage Equality. We love her for this and especially for one of her speaches on "The View"(see the link below)



BUT
What is most lovable about PORTIA is that she is completely UNFORGIVING about being a homosexual actress!!! That is who she is and she loves it!!!!

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