Reel BlaQue Film Fest

03/12/2026

03/12/2026

covers . What's important to understand is that we have shifted the conversation from Trans folk being the butt if the jike and/or the cautionary tale , boogeyman to complex nuanced human beings with fully lived experiences in film and television.

07/26/2024

Me: It's a discrimination against nerds everywhere!
Also me: "You quotin' my quotes?"🤔
Also ALSO me: "Well,ACHTUALLY..."🤓
I really DID write this article tho.
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https://texastrendmag.com/2024/07/25/nerds-everywhere/

08/22/2023

“I don’t know about most, actually. I’m still coming together. But If I’m healthy, then I can go onstage at Let’s Make A Deal and be the best Wayne Brady that everybody wants and expects,” he said. “I can be the best dad that [daughter] Maile needs. I can be the best friend to Mandie, the best son to my mother, and one day, the best partner to someone, because I’m doing this for me.” -Wayne Brady

03/21/2023

Ten Black LGBTQ+ creatives have been named as part of the three-year program, which offers each a $10,000 grant and aims to increase their access to Hollywood's professional networks, resources, insider knowledge and funding.

11/06/2022

Houston Cinema Arts Society presents Elegance Giovanni's THE INSPECTION at MFAH
Thursday, Nov. 10th @ 8p
Tickets: https://hcaf2022.eventive.org/schedule/633dcf234ed0a100afe2fafb
SUMMARY : Ellis French is a young, gay Black man, rejected by his mother and with few options for his future, decides to join the Marines, doing whatever it takes to succeed in a system that would cast him aside. But even as he battles deep-seated prejudice and the grueling routines of basic training, he finds unexpected camaraderie, strength, and support in this new community, giving him a hard-earned sense of belonging that will shape his identity and forever change his life.

SUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/A24subscribeFrom writer/director Elegance Bratton and starring Jeremy Pope, Raúl Castillo, Aaron Dominguez, with Bokeem Woodbine, an...

04/12/2022

For Black gay filmmaker Micheal Rice , 2020 was a tipping point. Like the rest of the world, the Brooklyn-based documentarian (“party boi,” “black diamonds in ice castles”) began the first quarter of 2020 avoiding transmission of the coronavirus by isolating himself under strict quarantine g...

02/07/2022

February 7th is National Black HIV Awareness Day.
This observance is an opportunity to increase HIV education, testing, community involvement, and treatment among black communities. The first National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NBHAAD) was marked in 1999 as a grassroots-education effort to raise awareness about HIV and AIDS prevention, care, and treatment in communities of color.