This year's QSFF25 program is packed with stories from across the globe spanning genres and tones, but these are some of the films that are going to leave you filled with joy. From laugh-out-loud comedies to fun and light-hearted tales, if you're looking for something to put a smile on your face you'll find it at the Queer Screen Film Fest 2025 with films like Twinless, Manok, From All Sides, Niñxs, Really Happy Someday and Mixed Shorts.
Queer Food is so excited to be partnering up with Chroma Wine to bring you our Wear it Purple Night. Come along and join Queer food for a speical pasta and wine night at Cafe Stepping Stone Dickson.
Without even realising it, your world sometimes gradually gets smaller: less walking, fewer days in the office, cancelling on friends. Watching plans disintegrate on the chat as friends struggle to settle on a date or place for a catch-up. You might start to feel a bit flat or disconnected. Subtle changes in habit and mood take hold. Could you be … lonely?
The United States, long viewed as a global leader in democracy and human rights, has been added to the CIVICUS Monitor Watchlist, a list reserved for countries experiencing significant declines in civil liberties. This development, which unfolded in March 2025 under President Donald Trump’s second term, sends ripples far beyond America’s borders, including through Australia’s own LGBTIQ communities.
If you’ve been on the internet lately, chances are you’ve heard an intriguing – and perhaps even startling – descriptor applied to men’s eyewear: “slutty little glasses”. Coined by online creator and culture critic Blakely Thornton, the term was earlier used to describe the fashionable wire-framed specs sported by actor Jonathan Bailey’s character in the film Jurassic World Rebirth. Lately it’s been applied to a broader range of men’s glasses.
It’s astounding – time really is fleeting. In 1975, a spark from Australia’s creative underground ignited a wildfire of rebellion, expression and belonging. Fifty years on, The Rocky Horror Picture Show still pulses with the same energy, testament to both the wild, loud powerhouses behind its genius, and the rituals that have become folded into the film’s very being.
A JUMP TO THE LEFT. WHO GETS TO BELONG?
Australia in the 1970s was on the cusp of radical change, grappling with ideas of self-expression, gender, identity and sexuality. Into this upheaval burst a strange and irreverent little…
Online game marketplaces itch.io and Valve’s Steam have recently delisted or completely removed more than 20,000 titles from their storefronts, after not-for-profit group Collective Shout pressured payment processors to change their rules.
Coriolanus is one of Shakespeare’s least performed plays; perhaps because the hero is so pugnacious and classist, impressive in his strident vehemence, but lacking the vulnerability of a Macbeth or Othello.
The LGBTQIA+ community is so much more than six colours, and everyone has their own ideas about what it means to be part of this diverse rainbow community. Diversity and inclusion are not just values, they are the essence of this exhibition. They are the threads that connect, provoke dialogue, and create magic.
