Russell Tovey’s star keeps on rising

British heartthrob Russell Tovey hasn’t slowed up at all even in Lockdown.  He and Gallerist ROBERT DIAMENT are the hosts of TALK ART at London’s NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY to discuss some of the great LGBTQ art in the NPG.  (check here). Tovey also just gave such a sublime performance in THE SISTER an intensely suspenseful thriller now streaming … Continue reading

Russia steps up the crackdown on their LGBTQ+ community : could it happen next in the West?

  Ten years ago Russia’s Kremlin introduced legislation restricting LGBTQ+ rights, known as the “gay propaganda” law, which banned any public endorsement of “nontraditional sexual relations” among minors. Then in 2020, Putin pushed through constitutional reforms to extend his rule by two more terms and also included a provision to outlaw same-sex marriage.   Two years … Continue reading

Russian Chefs are saying ‘Bollocks’ to Putin

  Russian Restaurant Owners and their staff, like the crew from Funky Food 11 restaurant in the photo above, are so pissed with the Authorities about being stripped of their livelihoods during the continuing Lockdown they are literally stripping naked. Hundreds of bar, restaurant and cafe employees have taken to posting pictures  photographs of themselves … Continue reading

RUST & BONE

Jacques Audiard has followed his 2009 masterpiece, the multi-award winning ‘A Prophet’ with an intense exhilarating emotional roller coaster of a movie that has you sitting right on the edge of your seat throughout the entire 2 hours.  Just as you think that life cannot get any worse for the two protagonists, it does … … Continue reading

RUSTIN : the story of the most powerful gay and human rights activist who never got the recognition he deserved

      It’s been 20 years since the award-winning documentary Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin by Nancy D. Kates and Bennett Singer was on our screens.  So this new Netflix feature RUSTIN written by Academy Award Winner Dustin Lance Black and Julian Breece is well overdue.    Rustin was an African-American leader … Continue reading

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