queermatter
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Men Do It Better Than Women Pt.1
This is no shallow chauvinistic claim in this case but just the simply reality that no matter how skimpy the costumes Catherine Zeta Jones and her fellow dancers wore in Cell Block Tango in the movie Chicago (which won Zeta Jones an Oscar), there is simply no comparison with their performance than with this all-male version. From…
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Marianne Breslauer’s 1930’s gender-bending women
Marianne Breslauer’s career as a photographer in Berlin in the Weimer Republic was cut short with the advent of World War 2, and in fact only lasted from 1927 -1938. Being Jewish she had trouble getting her work published in Germany so she emigrated to Amsterdam as the Nazis were gaining power, and then moved…
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Happy 82nd Birthday Dame Maggie
With all this talk about the iconic divas who have left us in 2016, it’s a kind of a nice change to celebrate the birthday of one who is very much with us and still working at the ripe old age of 82. Dame Maggie Smith CH DBE, 6 time Oscar nominee and 2 time winner,…
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So Farewell China and Nana : RIP
To borrow an expression from H.M. The Queen, 2016 has been an ‘annus horribilis‘, and the LGBT community in particular has said goodbye to so many icons/allies/friends that the deaths of some of the less famous ones are sidelined and almost over-looked. queerguru wants to honor a couple of amazing women from totally different walks…
