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‘Turn Back Time’ with Rita La Roy singing Gay Love in 1929
This gentleman with the rather most outrageous hairstyle is in a rather déclassé nightclub inhabited by a mix of swanky dressed swells and rough looking sailors. He is listening to Rita La Roy a movie star of the early talking pictures, as she croons “Gay Love” to the crowd in the 1929 film “The Delightful…
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Gay Gotham: Art and Underground Culture in New York
Gay Gotham: Art and Underground Culture in New York a new exhibition that opened last week at the Museum of the City of New York looks at how the marginalization of LGBT people in the 1920’s – 1990’s also gave rise to a great deal of creativity. The show looks at queer networks that grew in…
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Miami GEMS Festival Shines
Last year the prestigious Miami International Film Festival celebrating its 31st edition launched “GEMS” a second festival to its annual activities, a 4-day event to present the “jewels” of the fall season. The Event was such a success that is now a permanent fixture in MIFF’s calendar. Held at the iconic Tower Theater on 8th Street in…
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We’ll Vote for President Panti
We are patting ourselves on the back in the U.S. for the fact that we are most definitely going to elect the first Female President who will take over from the country’s first ever African/American President, but Ireland may go just one step more. In an interview with Irish Central today Drag queen Panti Bliss discussed the…
