Golden Globe Awards 2024 where some great queer nominees went home empty handed .

    All eyes were on the GOLDEN GLOBES this season now that is no longer under the very secretive (and racist) control of the small membership of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.  Now owned by Dick Clark  Productions  (think New Year in NY) its list of nominations was the most queer-inclusive which seemed to … Continue reading

Golden Globes go Gay (ish)

The stunning LGBT coming-of-age drama Moonlight from filmmaker Barry Jenkins, based on a play by openly gay writer Tarell Alvin McCrane rightly walked away with the top prize of Best Drama at the Golden Globes last night cementing an excellent night for diversity in general.  (The movie incidentally is already number 30 in the list of … Continue reading

Golnoosh Nour: The Ministry of Guidance & other stories ‘queer in the truest & most profound sense’

As this book’s dedication asserts, these stories are “for all the queers”, and a queerer collection of short stories you’re unlikely to encounter this year. These tales are queer in the truest and most profound sense, existing at the dangerous and fertile intersection of gender, ethnicity, class and sexuality. In the first story, set in … Continue reading

Gone Girl

When the movie opens on a quiet July morning in a small Missouri town there is no visible indication we are looking at a man who has falling on hard times. It turns out that Nick Frost has been been virtually unemployed since being laid off from his job on a magazine in NY and … Continue reading

GOOD AS YOU

It’s New Year Eve in Rome, and Adelchi is fussing around his apartment making sure everything is just perfect as he has a hot date. He’s been chatting online with Claudio for some time now  ….. or has he? Turns out that his intended is rather an introvert so his room-mate sister has been pretending … Continue reading

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