From scholar and filmmaker Dagmar Schultz, comes, Audre Lorde - The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992, a documentary about Lorde's years living in Berlin mentoring fellow feminists, attending speaking engagements, and performing readings on behalf of the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at the Freedom University, Berlin where Kennedy gave the "I am a Berliner" speech in 1963. There, Lorde co-founded the Afro-German movement.

February is Black History month and my editor gave me an assignment: see Pariah and discuss why, as it director (Dee Rees) seems to insist in interviews, that it is not a black film.  He even said, “Good Luck Answering This One.”  This is what I knew about Pariah: its poster has a young African-American woman on it, the film played the San Francisco Gay & Lesbian Film Festival and Meryl Streep name checked the lead actress Adepero Oduye’s performance in her Golden Globes acceptance speech last month.  That last splash was enough to make me take the Pariah challenge.

You would have a hard time missing Ike Holter in a crowd. Blazing down streets on his roller blades, gliding through crowds with his carefree attitude, this 26-year-old Chicago playwright is always on the move. Occasionally I see him at parties, with his addictive sense of humor calling out to you “Holl-ler” as he glides up with a smile. It is not unusual for Ike to attend numerous events on the North side all in one night, skating from place to place with his backpack in tow. He sat down with me, a rare occasion for this man, on an unusually cool August night to share some red wine and answer some questions about his life, career and his upcoming Steppenwolf Garage series production Hit the Wall.

A gay classic from 1956, as relevant and beautiful as it was a half-century ago.

Cross-dressing for performance–though unfortunately not the most popular pastime–has a rich history dating back to Greek theater. The term "drag" derives from Elizabethan dramaturgy notes, meaning "dressed resembling a girl." Much as troubadours have evolved into American Idol contestants and epic poets into modern spoken word artists, theatrical transvestism has been granted a new level of visibility through RuPaul's Drag Race on MTV Network's Logo channel. The series comprehensively emulates various forms of today's popular reality entertainments–fierce competition, do-it-yourself manual, talent spectacle–to present people in the LGBT community as capable as anyone else–and, in certain ways, more so.

Crazy Horse (2012) opens at The Music Box Theatre on whose website it explicitly states that no one under 18 is admitted, as if R rated titles for those under 17 were only a suggestion and not an MPAA ratings policy. With the addition of Crazy Horse, Wiseman completes a trilogy of films about iconic French institutions captured in La Danse - The Paris Opera Ballet and La Comedie - Francaise ou L'Amor Joue. Crazy Horse choreographer, must deliver three new acts in two or three weeks without closing the theater for rehearsals, which is open seven days a week with two shows a night and three on Saturdays.

As co-founder of the International Men of Leather competition, Chuck Renslow, tells documentary film director Mike Skiff, "Whatever your pleasure or fetish, we want you." The Award-winning Breaking Glass Pictures release produced by Third Rail, Kink Crusaders, documents IML as a place where a Doctor, Policeman, or licensed Psychotherapist can gather in a safe and public place to explore his/her fetishes and engage in BDSM - for the uninitiated, BDSM stands for Bondage, Discipline, and Sado-Masocism.

Openly gay, LAPD press-credentialed photo-journalist, Mike Skiff, reports for ReelGayTV and has been a longtime freelance videographer for the annual International Men of Leather competition held in Chicago where he filmed the IML documentary Kink Crusaders in 2008. The event is produced by Chuck Renslow, who co-founded IML with his late partner Dom Orejudos who started the competition in 1978.

Go Over the Rainbow interviewed Mike Skiff about the making of his latest documentary in production, The Bruno Project, his part in the movement against Prop 8, and how his first feature directorial debut, Kink Crusaders, healed from aftermath of the assault he suffered when Sacha Baron Cohen's film crew pulled a stunt at a Prop 8 rally he was documenting in Los Angeles two days before the general election.