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The Beauty President : the real story of the drag queen who ran against Bill Clinton

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  If Joan Jett Blakk had her way back in 1992 then William Jefferson Clinton would have never have been the 42nd President of this USA. Ms Blakk was an African-American openly gay drag queen….. the alter ego of queer activist Terence Alan Smith… and she was running as a write-in presidential candidate at the … Continue reading



Veteran queer actor UDO KIER gives the performance of a lifetime in SWAN SONG

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  Queer filmmaker Todd Stephens is on a mission.  Over the past two decades, he has single-handedly done his level best to show that his hometown Sandusky, Ohio is a great place for members of the LGBTQ community to live.  In 1998 he persuaded Lea DeLaria to join the cast of Edge of Seventeen a sweet … Continue reading



Baloney : the story of a struggling boy burlesque/stripper group

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  According to the English dictionary,  the meaning of ‘baloney’ is nonsense.  And that is what this directing debut of filmmaker Joshua Guerci really is : harmless nonsense.  It’s a documentary of the ‘Gay All-Male Group’  (that includes a woman and a straight man) in San Francisco who are struggling pre-covid to find bigger audiences … Continue reading



Can You Bring It : Bill T. Jones and D-Man in the Waters

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  This compelling powerful documentary tells the story behind the most celebrated and performed work by the iconic queer choreographer Bill T Jones.  He created ‘D-Man In The Waters’ in 1989 one year after losing his life partner the dancer/choreographer Arnie Zane to AIDS.  It was the height of the pandemic that was decimating the … Continue reading



Pray Away : the rise and fall of ex-gay ministries

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  As an out-gay man, you may sense in advance that the new documentary Pray Away will probably be upsetting, but it still doesn’t prepare you for the sheer horror stories it uncovers.  This is one of the most despicable things we have watched for sometime……not the actual (totally excellent) film by Kristine Stolakis but … Continue reading



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