Based on a true story, Savage Grace is a tale of what happens to a social climbing woman who has threesomes with her gay son. Ick. Julianne Moore plays the mom and Stephen Dillane is the dad, heir to the Bakelite plastics fortune. Mom can’t get enough of high society and dad keeps dwelling on the glories of his grandfather who built the family fortune. Eddie Redmayne takes on the role of young Tony who’s a little too tied to mummy’s apron strings. Unax Ugalde does a turn as Tony’s cute drug dealing boy toy. Apparently quite the scandal ensued.

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Chad Allen once again brings us detective Donald Strachey in On the Other Hand, Death. This entry into the series finds Don coming to the defense of two elderly lesbians (Margot Kidder and Gabrielle Rose) who are being subjected to vandalism and pressure to sell their house. But it turns out that more is going on than gay bashing as Don uncovers more secrets and pulls together the disconnected pieces of the puzzle while fighting off the advances of his lover’s ex (Damon Runyan).

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An excellent biography of Harvey Milk (Sean Penn) following the openly gay politician from his arrival in San Francisco to his assassination by Dan White (Josh Brolin). Harvey’s arrival in San Francisco with his then lover Scott (James Franco) and his struggle to reach elected office show a bleaker time in the gay rights movement provide a reminder of how things were only a couple of decades ago when the thought of even one state with gay marriage didn’t seem possible. Milk’s struggle for gay civil rights went a long way to propelling us to where we are today, despite his short time in office before he and then Mayor George Moscone were shot by Dan White (who pioneered the “Twinkie Defense” in his trial). Milk.

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Sugar follows Cliff (Andre Noble) as he falls for Butch (Brendan Fehr), a slightly unstable hustler who exposes young Cliff to a life far outside his more sheltered middle class life.

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