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    FLICKer FADE SUNDAY: Sapphire

    January 26, 2020 / No Comments

    Featuring LGBT short films I found around the interwebz a.k.a Youtube. Okay sucky intro, but yeah, that’s it.


    16 year old Saffie finds her summer holiday slowly consumed by a wave of unfamiliar feelings towards a new friend.

    Small town summer aesthetics is ~ ♡!

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    January 9, 2021

    RELEASE BLITZ: Forever Rebel by Garrett Leigh (Giveaway)

    April 30, 2025
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    FLICKer FADE SUNDAY: Sunset

    January 19, 2020 / No Comments

    Featuring LGBT short films I found around the interwebz a.k.a Youtube. Okay sucky intro, but yeah, that’s it.


    In the days following Pearl Harbor, a duty-bound Jewish gay man (Niccolò Walsh) must decide whether to serve overseas or remain in New York City with his bohemian lover (Ryan Trout). Honor, responsibility and patriotism collide with sexuality, otherness, and of course, love.

    “Not yet.“

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    NEW RELEASE BLITZ: Escape by Sean Ian O’Meidhir & Connal Braginsky (Excerpt & Giveaway)

    September 16, 2021

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    October 19, 2022

    BOOK BLITZ: The Wicked Lies of Habren Faire by Anna Fiteni

    September 9, 2025
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    FLICKer FADE SUNDAY: Scene from the Men’s Toilet at a Ceilidh

    January 12, 2020 / No Comments

    Featuring LGBT short films I found around the interwebz a.k.a Youtube. Okay sucky intro, but yeah, that’s it.


    It’s a family affair, and Rory (Ben Walsh) is on familiar ground. He knows each burly man who comes in for a mid-dance piss break, and his dad is playing the fiddle in the band. But Dan (Joe Sefton), his visiting boyfriend, couldn’t be further out of place – and there’s something Rory hasn’t told him. Once Rory manages to coax him out the cubicle, previously unaddressed questions over masculinity and communication are brought to the fore and their conversation unfurls into a flaming row, paused at regular intervals by urinating family friends, and incongruously underscored throughout by the rising ceilidh music coming through the wall.

    At first I was wondering why this won awards because this is just two blokes and their drama. The film had me going “you have every right to be angry, English boy” and just like that, it shifted to “let’s go hug poor Scots boy“.

    Now I know.

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    NEW RELEASE BLITZ: The Basilisk’s Lover by Alexa Piper (Excerpt & Giveaway)

    August 7, 2021

    MUSIC MONDAY: Yippie Ki Yay by Hippo Campus

    April 17, 2023

    COVER REVEAL: Zero by Ana Night (Giveaway)

    January 24, 2023
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    FLICKer FADE SUNDAY: Water (Vattnet)

    January 5, 2020 / No Comments

    Featuring LGBT short films I found around the interwebz a.k.a Youtube. Okay sucky intro, but yeah, that’s it.


    James leads a lonely life in a luxurious castle in which his parents run a hotel. He never goes out with friends, spends his spare time in his room and peeks at the hotel’s guests out of boredom. Generally hides in his room, to stay away from his wannabe-controlling mother, who has no insight in the life of her son, James is forced outside when a group of handsome Swedish soccer players staying at the hotel capture his interest. When he finds one of the boys injured at the hotel’s swimming pool, James offers his help and smuggles the boy into his room and locks the door. Locked up with a strange boy in his own room, James experiences the complexity of his own sexual feelings and insecurities for the first time.

    WATER | VATTNET is a short coming-of-age film about family, loneliness and sexual identity. It examines the confusing period of adolescence and the first homosexual feelings of a young boy in a refreshing, open and stylish way.

    Eeh?! After going through all that trouble only to end up in the thanks-for-helping-me zone? Should have taken that kiss the first time.

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    NEW RELEASE BLITZ: Big Love by Rick R. Reed (Excerpt & Giveaway)

    May 18, 2020

    RELEASE BLITZ: A Share in A Secret by Jude Tresswell (Excerpt)

    May 12, 2020

    NEW RELEASE BLITZ: Through Smoke and Shadow by L. Alyse Amidon (Excerpt & Giveaway)

    April 12, 2025
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    FLICKer FADE SUNDAY: Tomorrow – A New Year Film

    December 29, 2019 / No Comments

    Featuring LGBT short films I found around the interwebz a.k.a Youtube. Okay sucky intro, but yeah, that’s it.


    New Year’s Eve 1999 finds college-bound Clark and Trevor concerned about the future of their friendship, and a request for Clark to be Trevor’s wing man ensures things will never be the same again.

    The question now is, what happens tomorrow?!!

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    November 10, 2022

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    July 7, 2020
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    FLICKer FADE SUNDAY: Made For You – Christmas Film 2019

    December 22, 2019 / No Comments

    Featuring LGBT short films I found around the interwebz a.k.a Youtube. Okay sucky intro, but yeah, that’s it.


    A Christmas story about two men in a long-distance relationship

    Crying happy tears ‧⁺( ᵒ̴̶̷̥́ ◡ ᵒ̴̶̷̣̥̀ )⁺‧ ~ ♡

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    NEW RELEASE BLITZ: Aidan and the Alien Invasion by Damian Serbu (Excerpt)

    July 28, 2026

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    November 10, 2022

    RELEASE BLITZ: Love In The Balance by Brigham Vaughn (Excerpt)

    August 30, 2020
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    FLICKer FADE SUNDAY: Gryning (Stockholm Daybreak)

    December 15, 2019 / No Comments

    Featuring LGBT short films I found around the interwebz a.k.a Youtube. Okay sucky intro, but yeah, that’s it.


    At the break of dawn, two adolescent boys start to see each other in a whole new light.

    Screamed “I’m not a fag!” then proceeds to kiss him LOL. This is a really cute. LOVE ~ ♡ !

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    October 10, 2024

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    January 27, 2020

    RELEASE BLITZ: Real Trouble by Elle Keaton (Excerpt & Giveaway)

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    FLICKer FADE SUNDAY: The Date

    December 8, 2019 / No Comments

    Featuring LGBT short films I found around the interwebz a.k.a Youtube. Okay sucky intro, but yeah, that’s it.


    Two guys meet on a blind date. But it is not the usual kind of date and it doesn’t go quite as expected.

    Eh?? Here I was thinking they were two people with disabilities going out on a blind date.

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    BLOG TOUR: The Defiant Alpha by Susi Hawkes (Excerpt & Giveaway)

    January 14, 2021

    NEW RELEASE: Inescapable Fate by Jessamyn Kingley (Excerpt)

    June 18, 2026

    BLOG TOUR: Heart Of The Holidays by Pat Henshaw (Excerpt & Giveaway)

    December 9, 2020
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    FLICKer FADE SUNDAY: Dreamcatcher

    December 1, 2019 / No Comments

    Featuring LGBT short films I found around the interwebz a.k.a Youtube. Okay sucky intro, but yeah, that’s it.


    A sexual discovery story of a young woman, Anne, who must first learn to love herself before loving someone else.

    Wow! I can feel the USTs all the way here. I’m glad she finally embraced herself.

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    July 6, 2020

    BLOG TOUR: Hoodoo House by Peter E. Fenton (Excerpt & Giveaway)

    July 9, 2024

    BLOG TOUR: Paradise Bound by Deanna Wadsworth (Excerpt & Giveaway)

    June 4, 2024
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    FLICKer FADE SUNDAY: Sisak (India’s First Silent LGBTQ Love Story)

    November 24, 2019 / No Comments

    Featuring LGBT short films I found around the interwebz a.k.a Youtube. Okay sucky intro, but yeah, that’s it.


    “After 71 year of independence, the Supreme Court of India decriminalized homosexuality on 6th September 2018. Homosexuality in India continues to remain a taboo. Many love stories fail to find a voice. Sisak is a dedication to all the silent, unsaid love stories.“

    This is so beautiful and sad and happy at the same time it got me teary eyed. The tension nearly killed me. I love how they’re communicating through books!!!

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    MUSIC MONDAY: Industrial Love Song by These New Puritans feat Caroline Polachek

    May 19, 2025
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