(GLAAD) Just as the federal trial challenging California’s anti-gay Proposition 8 draws to a close, 8: The Mormon Proposition , which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, opens in select cities nationwide on Friday, June 18. This timely documentary from director Reed Cowan has been called “impassioned, informative…and absolutely enraging” by New York Magazine and “a vital, important cry for an open dialogue” by The Salt Lake Tribune . 8: The Mormon Proposition investigates the decades long campaign the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints has been waging against the rights of gays and lesbians to marry and exposes the Church’s role in financially supporting and organizing the Yes on 8 campaign.

(GLAAD) NewFest, the New York Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Film Festival, kicked off its 2010 season this week in Manhattan. To celebrate, Way Out Productions President & CEO Joe Mode is continuing his ‘In the Mix’ event series at HK Lounge on June 8. ‘In the Mix’ will feature celebrity host Jesse Archer of Sex and the City fame, and special guests including DJ Scotty Thomson and Brittany Houston.

(GLAAD) The highly contested film Ticked Off Tra**ies with Knives by Dallas-based filmmaker Israel Luna is being protested by a group of Texas transgender activists led by Kelli Busey of the group Dallas Transgender Advocates and Allies and supported by Trinity Metropolitan Community Church. Community members are protesting Q Cinema’s screening of Ticked-Off Tra**ies with Knives The protest is scheduled for Saturday June 5th, 7pm, the day the film makes its Southwest premiere at Q Cinema, Fort Worth’s International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival. The film received media attention when the Tribeca Film Festival provided a national platform for the film by selecting it for the festival and GLAAD issued a call to action in response to strong community outcry over the film’s title and the gratuitous violence it displayed against the film’s transgender characters.

(Advocate) Larry and Andy Wachowski, the writing-directing team behind the Matrix movies, have written a gay love story about a U.S. soldier and an Iraqi during wartime.

(Instinct) Though unofficial, an independent group will be handing out the first award presented to a GLBT film entry at the Cannes Film Festival on May 22. The Queer Palm award will recognize a film for its contribution to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender themes. All films selected to screen at Cannes will be in the running for the landmark honor.

(SFGN) Celebrating the Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival Centerpiece Screening of the film BEAR NATION on Tuesday, April 27, 2010. Attention masculine men (and their admirers)! This MGLFF event is just for you. Come enjoy a beer or infused vodka cocktail compliments of Vlada Mia.

(The Guardian) First Indian film to feature a gay kiss, Dunno Y … Na Jaane Kyun, likely to spark controversy The posters are ready, so is the film. The only question is whether the Indian public is too. Dunno Y … Na Jaane Kyun, a film featuring India’s first cinematic gay kiss, is scheduled to go on general release within weeks.

(GLAAD) La Mission , a gripping drama starring Benjamin Bratt as a reformed ex-con who kicks out his son after learning he is gay, opened last week in select theaters throughout Los Angeles and New York and will expand to San Francisco tomorrow. Bratt is back in his 2nd appearance at the GLAAD Media Awards in Los Angeles this Saturday. In the film, written and directed by Bratt’s brother, Peter, Bratt plays Che, a man who discovers his son’s secret life and thinks it threatens his macho reputation.

(Examiner) Actor Colin Farrell has gone public with information about his gay brother Eamon, who he says was unmercifully bullied when the two were growing up in Dublin.

(SFist) by Matt Baume “What does the Bible really say about being gay?” asks Fish out of Water , a documentary designed to help LGBTs and church folk get along. What an excellent question! We are just going to take a stab in the dark here and guess that the Bible says, “IT’S FAAAAAABULOUS (Deut 6:9).” But it’s more than just a movie: it’s also a road trip ! The Fish out of Water team is taking to the roads this summer, mostly in scary southeast states like Alabama, Mississippi, and Deliveranceburg, hosting free screenings and panel discussions. Godspeed, gays! Vaya con Dios, as they say.