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the experience awakens their long-dormant feelings for each other. Before We Grow Old (Heute oder morgen) deals with a young couple in Berlin who is starting a polyamorous three-way relationship with a doctoral student from London . Niels (Maximilian Hildebrandt) and Maria (Paula Knüpling) have been a couple for two years. Their relationship is open, sexuality and adventure determine their carefree everyday life. When the two get to know Chloe (Tala Gouveia), who is increasingly becoming an integral part of their lives, the three young people let themselves go according to the Berlin free spirit and plunge into one or the other love adventure.

Brazilian director Thales Corrêa’s Bathroom Stalls & Parking Lots follows Brazilian transplant Leo and his friends as they search San Francisco to pursue Leo’s American crush. When the bar-hopping quest takes them into seedier venues, they face unforeseen obstacles that challenge the way they approach relationships.

Fresh off the bus in New York, a young man struggles with his attractions to a transgender dancer and the city’s flamboyant kiki ballroom scene in the heartfelt and sensual trans love story Port Authority.

In Last Ferry a gay Manhattan attorney named Joseph (Ramon O. Torres) arrives on Fire Island during the offseason in search of a fun escape from his lonely city life. Things do not go as hoped: he’s drugged, robbed and witnesses a murder. Then, he’s taken in by the kind-hearted Cameron (Sheldon Best) and his friends, including the killer Rafael (Myles Clohessy).

Riot Girls is a Canadian post-apocalyptic science fiction film, set in the town of Potter’s Bluff, where a mysterious virus has killed all the adults and left society entirely in the hands of rival teen gangs. The film stars Madison Iseman and Paloma Kwiatkowski as Nat and Scratch, a lesbian couple who must go behind enemy lines to rescue Nat’s brother Jack (Alexandre Bourgeois) after he is captured by the wealthy and powerful West Side gang led by jock Jeremy (Munro Chambers).

The Chinese drama A Dog Barking at the Moon centres on the fallout of Juimei’s (Naren Hua) discovery that her husband Huang Tao (Wu Renyuan) is secretly gay, and a pregnant woman who finds herself caught between her unhappy mother and homosexual father

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Gay Scottish MP John Nicolson

No amount of “

cajoling, threatening, or persecution makes heterosexuals gay or homosexuals straight. In my own case, I knew that I was gay from an early age.

”“No amount of prayer, mockery by school gym teachers, classroom bullying, or tabloid fury could alter that fact.

” “ I’m so sick

of the words ‘gay’ and ‘lesbian’. They’re just people... One day I want my son to come home from school and be like, ‘I found this guy, and I love him.’ And I’m gonna be like, ‘Yes, you do, and that’s ok.’

Actor Josh Hutcherson

#pride A proud supporter the LGBTQ Community

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