Those of you - um - lucky enough to live in NYC may be interested to hear that the Gus Van Sant produced and Cam Archer directed Wild Tigers I Have Known has been released for your cinematic enjoyment.

The film concerns 13-year old Logan, a fagling who doesn't quite understand his m4m yearnings, particularly for his classmate, Rodeo Walker. In an effort to reconcile his emotions, Logan develops a new identity: Leah, who starts a phone-based relationship with Rodeo. When Rodeo asks to meet Leah in person, Logan has some tough decisions to make - come out as a homo or keep living a lie. That's some deep shit.

Check out the trailer, after the jump...

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It seems a day doesn't pass without another article on the seemingly imminent breakdown of the worldwide Anglican Church, a distintegration exasperated by the American Episcopal Church's own infighting. Well, you know what, man-loving Archbishop Gene Robinson's had enough.

Speaking in Hartford on Monday, Robinson said the media (that's us) should stop blowing things out of proportion. He also took some time to admonish the bickering Bible thumpers, saying:

In a world facing 40 million people dying of AIDS and an increasing gap between rich and poor, this seems like a waste of our time and energy, debating the rightness and wrongness of gay and lesbian people and their relationships... I think it breaks God's heart that we would be focusing on such an internal issue, instead of focusing upon the world which, as I understand it, Jesus called us to...

Robinson left for the Sundance directly after the speech, saying, "Hey, the world includes celebrity-saturated film festivals, bitches!"

Robinson's in Sundance to help promote For The Bible Tells Me So: the Grand Jury nominated documentary in which he and four other gay Christians appear And, by the looks of this picture, he'll be scoring some wicked Andrew Sullivan and cruising the slopes. Sweet.

This here's a picture from the Outfest-endorsed Sundance premiere of Save Me, the Robert Cary directed conversion therapy drama starring Chad Allen, Judith Light and Queer as Folk's Robert Gant.

We've posted some other pictures after the jump. Before you click through, however, let it be known that we heart Judith Light like whoa. Seriously, these pictures prove that she's the ultimate fag hag. Meanwhile, Tara Reid's hit a new career low...

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We have an admission: we're in love with an Evangelical. Yes, we know we've given the Evans some shit in the past, but that's because so many of them are pricks. Not Mary Lou Wallner. She's a fucking bad-ass bitch hell bent on rectifying the monster movement's wrongs. The rebellious religionist's firmly aligned against the clamorous Christian's homo-hating ways. But the Little Rock, Arkansas-based activist hasn't always been so inclusive.

When her daughter Anna Wakefield came out of the closet, Wallner wrote her a letter in which she said:

I will never accept that in you. I feel it's a terrible waste, besides being spiritually and morally wrong. For a reason that I don't quite fathom, I have a harder time dealing with that issue than almost anything in the world.

Wakefield offed herself soon after. Reeling from the death of her daughter, Wallner had a spiritual awakening and in an effort to combat homophobia among her peers, she founded To Educate About the Consequences of Homophobia (TEACH) to, well, provide a little pro-gay pedagogy.

Not surprisingly, Wallner's come up against some resistance of her own, even within her own family. Sitting down with Nerve's fantastically named Reverend Astrid Storm, Wallner laments:

No one in my family, really, except my husband. My ex-husband, daughter, son-in-law — they all think I'm completely wrong in this. It really hurts. And they all live in a small rural area within two miles of each other, so I don't have many hopes for them changing their minds.

But at least there's women like Wallner fighting the good fight. Even if she's not making that much progress, she's certainly getting a lot of positive attention outside the movement: she's featured in Daniel Karslake's For the Bible Tells Me So, a Sundance selected documentary about five Christian families and their gay off-spring. So not only is she a rabel-rouser, she's a movie star!

Mary Lou Wallner, we want your babies! Okay, well, maybe not babies (first, we don't like children and second we don't know how that'd work out), but we think you're pretty fucking radical.

• The interview between Joel Heller and For The Bible Tells Me So director, Daniel Karlslake? The documentary follows five Christian families coping with a gay member and will be showing at Sundance. Very fresh.

• Speaking of fresh, there's nothing like a little New Zealand fagling's blog to quench that certain pang. Mild, subtle and oh-so-light.

• For the hungry folk, you may be interested in news that the Food and Drug Administration's deemed cloned meat A-OK. We warn you, this dish may take awhile - which is fine by some.

• If you're looking for something more on the sour, bitter side, perhaps you'd like to partake in some of Chris Crain's somewhat offensive notes on acceptance of terrorism vs. homosexuality in Islam. Yes, it sounds like a stomach ache waiting to happen, but you do a digestive. [Citizen Crain]

• A bit hard to swallow but certainly worth a thought, there's Saddam Hussein's heart. In his farewell letter, Hussein describes this mythical dish as "...big enough to embrace all without discrimination."

• Want to satisfy that sweet tooth? Take a bite out of new Jossip editor Debbie Newman. Best to get her fresh out of the oven. You know how those things start to rot...

The Sundance Film Festival can be pretty gay to begin with. But, starting tonight, Queer Lounge will make sure that both out and closeted celluloid-loving filmmakers, execs, and stars have a physical spot to hook up at the biggest Indie bash of the year.

For those of you treking out to Park City, be sure to check out the many GLBT parties and talks Queer Lounge will be sponsoring. If we weren’t chained to out desk, forced to blog all week long, we’d be jetting over to catch Rosie O’Donnell and her spiky-haired wife chat about their gay cruise (not the kind that star in Mission: Impossible movies) documentary. Where Rosie goes, excitement follows.

This year’s Queer Lounge’s theme couldn’t be more fabulous: classic, 1940’s Hollywood. We love it!

Queer Lounge Builds Audiences For Gay Films At Sundance [Out in America]
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