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    FLICKer: It’s Still Your Bed

    November 21, 2020 / No Comments

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


    David comes home from college to his family’s farm to find that his parents have hired a young man named Brent, who is also sharing his room. David is still in the closet and wants to come out to his high school friend, and he also finds himself drawn to his new roommate and tries to determine if he is gay.

    Sorry, I guess Youtube just put up this new restriction for viewing their age-restricted videos on other sites.

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    FLICKer FADE SUNDAY: Scene from the Men’s Toilet at a Ceilidh

    January 12, 2020

    RELEASE BLITZ: My Iron Knight by S.J. Coles (Excerpt)

    April 14, 2022

    FLICKer FADE SUNDAY: Rose Canyon

    May 3, 2020
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    FLICKer: Pria (Man)

    November 14, 2020 / 1 Comment

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


    In a time of great expectation and pressure stemming from the traditions of his upbringing, Aris, a gay Muslim teenager living in rural Indonesia-finds himself increasingly drawn to his well-traveled English teacher despite his upcoming marital preparations to a woman he harbors no romantic feelings for. With his whole life planned out for him by his overprotective mother, Aris struggles with the conflicting notions of tradition, duty and his own personal idea of happiness.

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    BLOG TOUR: Worth The Fight by C.F. White

    October 10, 2025

    RELEASE BLITZ: There You Are by CJane Elliott (Excerpt & Giveaway)

    July 27, 2020

    RELEASE BLITZ: Not Used To Cute by Becca Seymour (Excerpt & Giveaway)

    August 22, 2020
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    FLICKer: Missed

    November 7, 2020 / 1 Comment

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


    An estranged son trying to reconcile with his homophobic father

    (Sorry, Youtube took down the video. You can still watch it here.)

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    RELEASE TOUR: The Moon Over the Oak by C.J. Ravenna (Excerpt & Giveaway)

    October 16, 2023

    FLICKer: Orange Cheesecake

    May 15, 2025

    MUSIC MONDAY: Am I Really Going To Die & Blue Drift by White Lies

    February 28, 2022
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    FLICKer FADE SUNDAY: Tonight It’s Me

    October 25, 2020 / 1 Comment

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


    A young hustler finds himself in uncharted waters when he spends the night with a client who’s far from the “johns” he’s used to servicing.

    NSFW

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    AUDIO BLITZ: Imry by Crea Reitan

    December 9, 2025

    AUDIO TOUR: On A Midnight Clear by Lily Morton (Excerpt & Giveaway)

    January 21, 2023

    RELEASE BLITZ: Secrets & Lies by Brooke Blaine & Ella Frank

    November 29, 2021
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    FLICKer FADE SUNDAY: Eden

    October 18, 2020 / 1 Comment

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


    Genesis 2:8 “And the Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed”. In this story, João (Nuno Pardal) and Pedro (Pedro Sousa Loureiro) live in this garden. What João wants the most is for Pedro to be happy and the only way he found to make that happen is to support him in his escape with Sara (Sara Barros Leitão). On the other hand, Pedro learned how to love João and does not want to leave the garden. But one of them ate the forbidden fruit

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    NEW RELEASE BLITZ: Forbidden Love by Lee Colgin (Excerpt & Giveaway)

    May 20, 2020

    COVER REVEAL: The Caretaker by C.P. Harris

    February 29, 2024

    AUDIO RELEASE BLITZ: The Humbug Holiday by Lane Hayes (Excerpt & Giveaway)

    December 25, 2022
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    FLICKer FADE SUNDAY: Papercut

    October 11, 2020 / No Comments

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


    “Two closeted actors on their way to their first high profile awards ceremony fight both expectation and each other, as intimacy and insecurity collide in the back seat of a car.”

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    BLOG TOUR: Flowers of Flesh and Blood by Amy Tasukada (Excerpt & Giveaway)

    May 30, 2020

    RELEASE BLITZ: The Things We Find by B.L. Maxwell (Excerpt & Giveaway)

    September 28, 2022

    BLOG TOUR: As Far As I Can Tell by Philip Gambone (Excerpt + Q & A with Author)

    December 3, 2020
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    FLICKer FADE SUNDAY: Ecstacy

    October 4, 2020 / No Comments

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


    “He would do anything to be touched by his former lover once more. Directed by Kyle Reaume, Ecstasy is an arthouse drama that explores and challenges the relationship between love and violence.”

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    Release Blitz: The Deeper You Go by Logan Grey (Excerpt & Giveaway)

    May 9, 2020

    NEW RELEASE: House of the Devil by Crea Reitan

    December 18, 2022

    NEW RELEASE BLITZ: Slashed and Mashed: Seven Gayly Subverted Stories by Andrew J. Peters (Excerpt & Giveaway)

    November 13, 2019
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    FLICKer Fade Sunday: Off Track

    September 27, 2020 / No Comments

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


    When two Youtubers present their fictional relationship for an online show, the performance becomes so convincing that one begins to unravel as he descends into a dark obsession with the very fantasy that he created.

    TW: nasty things were shoved in somebody’s mouth

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    12 TOUR DAYS OF CHRISTMAS: Snowed In Charity Anthology

    December 13, 2024

    RELEASE BLITZ: The Loner by Riley Hart (Giveaway)

    January 23, 2023

    NEW RELEASE BLITZ: The Star Gods’ Slave by A.T. Lander (Excerpt & Giveaway)

    April 10, 2022
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    FLICKer FADE SUNDAY: Beyond Repair

    September 20, 2020 / No Comments

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


    A young man is sent to live with his homophobic brother after he is forced out of the closet.

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    BLOG BIRTHDAY + BEHIND THE BLOGGER TAG

    January 1, 2021

    COVER REVEAL: Blooded by Nat Kennedy (Excerpt & Giveaway)

    August 27, 2021

    COVER REVEAL: Burn It Down by Nicole Dykes

    May 19, 2025
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    FLICKer FADE SUNDAY: Delivery Boy

    September 13, 2020 / 1 Comment

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


    Hard-working Chunho delivers dumplings to fancy apartments in Hong Kong. Among his deliveries, he pines for the cute British expat who seems not to notice him whenever he shows up with his steaming package. But just when things start to look romantic for these two, class differences threaten to get in the way.

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    RELEASE BLITZ: Draw by V.L. Locey (Giveaway)

    September 16, 2020

    BOOK TOUR: The Witch Brothers Saga by Adam J. Ridley (Excerpt & Giveaway + Guest Post)

    July 27, 2022

    BOOK TOUR: In The Line Of Fire by Jaxon Altieri (Excerpt & Giveaway)

    July 4, 2020
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