A drag queen victimized by a homophobic attack seeks vengeance against one of his attackers in Femme. Jules (Nathan Stewart-Jarrett) is a London man who performs in drag shows as Aphrodite Banks. While going into a store to buy cigarettes in full make-up, Jules ends up being viciously beaten by a group of thugs including …
gay bashing
From director Xavier Dolan (Laurence Anyways), comes this darkly humorous psychological thriller. After the death of his lover Guy, Tom (Dolan) travels from Montreal to the countryside and stays at the farm of Guy’s family, while attending the funeral. Guy’s mother Agathe (Lise Roy) never knew that her son was a homosexual and his psychotic …
Just northwest of Los Angeles is the California beach town of Oxnard. There is nothing particularly special about the town and, chances are, the average person wouldn’t even know where it is. Except of course, that Oxnard was the site of a horrendous alleged hate crime, which received nationwide coverage in the United States. Valentine …