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J.D. Disalvatore, a leading producer of LGBT films and a gay rights activist, died Thursday at her home in Sherman Oaks after a long battle with cancer, a publicist announced. She was 51.

Disalvatore produced writer-director Jonah Markowitz's Shelter (2007), which won a GLAAD Media Award for best feature film in limited release and in 2012 topped a list of the 100 greatest gay movies of all time.

Her résumé also includes the short film Gay Propaganda (2002), Eating Out 2: Sloppy Seconds (2006), A Marine Story (2010), Elena Undone (2010) and Perry & Emile (2012).

Disalvatore served as Outfest's...

Back in 2007, we ran an article called Gay Sex Scenes that Made Movie History. A delightfully naughty exploration of firsts and foresk- ... er, foremosts in terms of gay male intimacy on the silver screen, it celebrated some of the films that blew the celluloid closet to bits, one modesty sock at a time.

Six years later, it's shocking just how far pop culture has come in terms of normalizing gay characters and stories, and how much bolder the gay film audience has grown in demanding films that speak truthfully to their sexual experience (though, it must be said, the films that answer the call are usually decidedly outside of the mainstream). So we've decided to bring you an update to our foundational piece that looks at what has happened since. Of course, since most of the ground breaking was done over the last four decades or so, our focus is...

Brace yourselves. This list of the Top 100 Greatest Gay Movies is probably going to generate some howls of protest thanks to a rather major upset in the rankings. Frankly, one that surprised the hell out of us here at AfterElton.

But before we get to that, an introduction. A few weeks ago we asked AfterElton readers to submit up to ten of their favorite films by write-in vote. We conducted a similar poll several years ago, but a lot has happened culturally since then, and a number of worthy movies of gay interest have been released. We wanted to see how your list of favorites had changed.

We also wanted to expand our list to 100 from the top 50 we had done previously. We figured there were finally enough quality gay films to justify the expansion. And we wanted to break out gay documentaries onto their own list (You'll find the...

A cast of older professionals like Lee Majors (Out Cold) and Lupe Ontiveros (Storytelling) mixed with some fresh faced up and coming hunks of the silver screen that include Matthew Montgomery (Socket), Matthew Leitch (Below) and Marco Dapper (Eating Out 2: Sloppy Seconds) get ready to take on one of the scariest villians in horror lore and Greek mythology -

"Medusa" 

Medusa is known for having a hair full of snakes and for turning anyone that ever looks at her eyes into stone. Plot details are still scarce on "Medusa". This is the only plot synopsis available to date: A Columbia University professor attempts to fight the evil spirit of the mythological Medusa.

Medusa is still in pre-production. Filming is set for Romania where Jorge Ameer will be taking on writting, producing and directing duties.

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A movie franchise is like a shark. For it to stay alive, it has to move forward. It’s a lesson that the Eating Out franchise would do well to learn.

I liked 2004’s Eating Out a lot. The campy gay sex farce was downright revolutionary coming after decades of earnest, angsty coming out dramas (and two years before Another Gay Movie).

2006’s Eating Out 2: Sloppy Seconds wasn’t as successful, but it wasn’t a disaster.

But Eating Out 3: All You Can Eat, now playing in limited release, is the weakest entry in the series so far. It’s not that parts of it aren’t funny. It’s just that the movie takes absolutely no chances, choosing instead to change a few details and repeat what came before in the first two movies.

Q. Allan Brocka, the creator of Logo’s Rick & Steve the Happiest Gay...

Not all of us spent our high school years pining for the quarterback of the football team. Some of us were more drawn to the shy, sensitive types — the kind of guys who actually listen when you speak, and who have something interesting to say in return.

Like gay men, nerds have had to face down plenty of stereotypes over the years. Pocket protectors and bad haircuts? Ridiculous. A stutter and an obsession with computers? Not necessarily. Plagued by neurosis and insecurity? Well, okay, that last one’s pretty much spot on.

What is it about nerds that can be so sexy? It partly is their awkwardness in social situations. Honestly, who really wants to make small talk at a party anyway? Give me an actual conversation — and this is where nerds shine, the result of having read actual books and newspapers. The fact that a guy has never heard...

Groundbreaking director Kenneth Anger has been chosen as the recipient of the 10th annual Outfest Achievement Award, which will be presented at Outfest 2006's opening-night gala July 6 at the Orpheum Theatre. Anger's movies range from 1947's Fireworks to 1963's Scorpio Rising, films which pioneered the presentation of homoerotic images; in 1959, he authored Hollywood Babylon, a best-selling compendium of Hollywood scandals. In other Outfest developments, five projects have been chosen for the Outfest Screenwriting Lab, designed to nurture emerging screenwriters: Sebastien Gauthier's Fucking Preston, Luther M. Mace's On the Low, Samuel Park's Shakespeare's Sonnets, Dasha Snyder's To Do and Isaac Webster's Amos and Lowell. Outfest also has added two new films to its lineup: Ron Oliver's Shock to the System: A Donald Strachey Mystery, starring Chad Allen, and Phillip J. Bartell's Eating Out 2: Sloppy Seconds, billed as the first American gay sequel.