Uncle Gloria : One Helluva Ride

Some people wait an awful long time before they start to come to terms with the fact there were born with the wrong gender, or indeed have the wherewithal to deal with it.  Gloria Stein is one such person as she waited until she was 66 years old until she transitioned.  In this slightly stranger-than-fiction … Continue reading

Uncle Howard

Filmmaker Aaron Brookner set out to find the lost negatives of ‘Burroughs : The Movie’ a critically acclaimed film made by his uncle Howard Brookner who had died of AIDS in 1989 aged just 34 years old. Before his untimely demise Howard had made just two feature documentaries …..the other one was on Robert Wilson the … Continue reading

Uncle Howard @ #PIFF16

Filmmaker Aaron Brookner set off to find the lost negatives of Howard Brookner’s 1983 definitive documentary of William S Burroughs. and in the course of his investigations discovered so much more about this dynamic and influential queer filmmaker who died of AIDS in 1989 aged 34 years who was also his Uncle Howard.  This compelling … Continue reading

Uncle Howard : a Tribute to filmmaker Howard Brookner

  Unquestionably one of the best movies with LGBT content to premiere at this Sundance Film Festival was filmmaker Aaron Brookner’s delightful tribute to his filmmaker Uncle that who he adored and who sadly died of AIDS in 1989 at the tender age of 34.    Howard Brookner packed a lot into his short life … Continue reading

UNCLE VANYA : a star studded Virtual reading for the Actors Fund

  Online Theater during the COVID 19 Lockdown is getting bolder and better.  This week sees a star-studded World Premiere reading of Neil LaBute’s new adaptation of Uncle Vanya, perhaps the most poignant of Anton Chekhov’s masterpieces: This bitterly comic meditation on frustrated love and the pitiful wages of self-sacrifice in late-19th-century Russia stars out gay actor … Continue reading

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