Golden screen
While mainstream cinema tends to ignore or stereotype LG BT people, the BFI’s annual celebration of gay and lesbian cinema brings together the best of queer film from around the world.
The event returns for its 26th outing between 23 March to 1 April 2012.
The Gala features are Kaboom, Gregg Araki's sci-fi story centred around the sexual awakening of a group of college kids, and The Four-Faced Liar, a story of four twenty-somethings looking to find themselves in New York City.
Other features include The Advocate for Fagdom, an illuminating portrait of one of queer cinema's most vital transgressors, and Jan's Coming Out, an uplifting documentary following an effervescent 50 year old as she comes to terms with her sexuality.
On both sides of the Embankment, there's a series of bronze lion heads with mooring rings in their mouths for people to tie up their boats. It's said that if the lions 'drink', then London will flood.
