Last Friday 28th March #outinthelineup was the opening film of the Brisbane Queer Screen Festival ! — at BRISBANE POWERHOUSE.

Doco on gay surfers jumpstarts the discussion Surfersvillage Global Surf News, 21 March, 2014 – If you thought rugby league player Ian Roberts was gutsy when he came out as gay spare a thought for anyone in the surfing world who wants to follow in his footsteps. A new a film about gay surfers is […]

Film-makers Thomas Castets and Ian Thomson have just had a very big weekend. Their groundbreaking surf film, Out In The Lineup, has just won both the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the Sydney Mardi Gras Film Festival, and the Best Surf Film Award at the Byron Bay International Film Festival. Out In the Lineup is a […]

It’s not hard to figure out why surf films feature heavily in the Byron Bay Film Festival each year. While the love of waves and the water is a universal theme, a number of films on the 2014 program steer away from surf culture stereotypes. Every good surf film features beautiful breaks and those on […]

Brooklyn Nets centre Jason Collins, battles for a rebound with Los Angeles Lakers opponent Jordan Hill during the clash at the Staples Center. Photo: AP Jason Collins became the first openly gay player in the four major US professional sports leagues on Sunday night when he got court-time in Brooklyn Nets’ 108-102 NBA victory over the […]

“It started with a Google search. I typed in the words ‘gay’ and ‘surfer’” They’re not the first words spoken in Out In The Lineup but they make a fitting starting point for a review. Because although Out In The Lineup is a documentary it’s also a journey and those words are the embarkation point. They’re spoken by David Wakefield, […]

Minutes after NFL Draft prospect Michael Sam announced he’s gay, Sports Illustrated ran an article in which several anonymous people working in the NFL threw cold water on the news. It’s a sobering reminder that the environment Sam is about to enter isn’t entirely supportive of gay players. The most horrible quote came from an […]

San Francisco: Google marked the Winter Games in Sochi by flying the gay flag on Thursday in a search page Doodle that linked to a call for equality in the Olympic Charter. Showcasing the flag and the excerpt served as an online rebuttal to Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak, who warned spectators and athletes […]

Washington (AFP) – US telecoms giant AT&T came out Tuesday against Russia’s anti-gay law, as activists ramped up a global campaign for Olympic sponsors to follow suit ahead of the Sochi winter games. “We stand against Russia’s anti-LGBT law,” said AT&T, the biggest US cellphone and landline operator, in a blog on its corporate website, […]

Coke has been criticized for continuing to sponsor the Olympics in Russia despite that country’s antigay laws. While LGBT activists pressure Coca-Cola over its sponsorship of the upcoming Sochi Olympics in Russia, the company made the biggest inclusive moment during another highly-watched sporting event — the Super Bowl. Coca-Cola’s multicultural “It’s Beautiful” ad included a […]

Melbourne: Tennis legend Martina Navratilova has warned it will be “impossible” to separate sport from politics at the Sochi Olympics after Russia passed a law targeting homosexuals, a report said on Sunday. The openly gay star has been critical of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in the lead-up to the Winter Games next month, accusing […]

The mayor of Sochi has added a bizarre twist to the gay rights saga enveloping the Winter Olympics by claiming that not a single gay person lives in his city. With the controversy surrounding Russia’s “gay propaganda” law continuing to rage, Anatoly Pakhomov made comments to BBC television program Panorama that will do nothing to […]