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HIGHER GROUND

The most satisfying aspect of actor Vera Farmiga’s directorial debut movie is that although it is about the spiritual conflict of one woman as she drifts between skepticism and religious faith it never ever takes sides as she strives for the higher ground. We first see Corrine as a child when she responds to her … Continue reading

HILLARY a new doc on The Woman Who Won The Presidency

Bored rigid by the seemingly interminable Democratic campaigns, and too enraged at the outrageous way that the current incumbent of the White House is hell-bent on destroying life as we know it, then HULU may have the answer for you. They have just released the very first trailer for a brand new documentary simply … Continue reading

His Wedding Dress

This debut feature from newbie Cuban filmmaker Marilyn Solaya is a grim tale about a transsexual’s relationship with a naive straight man back in the country’s dark days of 1994 before the President’s daughter Mariela Castro started to champion equal rights and tolerance for the LGBT community. This particular story is based on a real life one … Continue reading

Historian Stephen Vider delves into LGBTQ life and the American home

THIS ARTICLE WAS REPRINTED FROM https://www.eurekalert.org/ ITHACA, N.Y. — Both academic studies and popular representations of LGBTQ history have typically focused on battles for public space and visibility. As gay liberation activists put it in the 1970s: “Out of the closets, into the street.” But the intimacy of domestic space was an equally crucial aspect … Continue reading

Historian JULIO CAPO on QUEERMIAMI the new Exhibit that looks at our Community’s past

To mark the 50th Anniversary of Stonewall Inn Riots, gay historian/academic and author of Welcome to Fairyland : Queer Miami before Julio Capó Jr. has curated a new exhibit at HistoryMiami Museum . Queer Miami : A History of LGBTQ Communities traces our community from its roots to the current day. Queerguru took a … Continue reading