Bettie Page Reveals All

Bettie Page was a stunningly beautiful American model who in the 1950’s became known as the Queen of Pinups. She was hardly a shy blushing maiden and her lack of inhibition posing for ‘camera clubs’ had made her an instant hit.   She was Miss January 1955 as one of the earliest Playmates for Hugh … Continue reading

BETTY : “It’s called being down for my girls.”

  In 2018 Crystal Mozelle’s film Skate Kitchen about a bunch of skateboarding teenage girls in NYC first bowed, becoming an instant coming-of-age queer classic. Now two years later HBO will premiere the first episode of BETTY a brand new TV show based off of the characters and stories of Skate Kitchen, just stretched over six gorgeous … Continue reading

Between Certain Death & A Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing Up in The AIDS Crisis : reviewed by Jonathan Kemp

Reaching sexual maturity is an overwhelming enough experience at the best of times: worrying that everything is functioning properly and there was nothing untoward about what one did or how one did it; but for an entire generation, like myself, reaching puberty in the 1980s, that stage of our lives was made scarier yet by … Continue reading

Between The Shades : 50 people give their views on sexuality and gender

  Filmmaker Jill Salvino’s fascinating documentary  ‘Between The Shades ‘so effectively articulates the continuing dialogue about gender and sexuality that many of us have been participating  in, even if has been conducted just inside our heads.  Rather than elicit the opinions of professional experts, Salvino gathered some 50 + people from all over the spectrum  … Continue reading

Between Two-Spirit : Becoming A Woman At Sixty

Approaching his 60th birthday after having just come through a life threatening illness, Chris Muth a Professor of Management at a High School of Engineering in Geneva decides it’s time for a change. However he’s not thinking about a conventional retirement to a cottage by the sea, or even taking a World Cruise like other senior citizens, … Continue reading

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