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(Queer) Filmmakers Pledge to End Complicity : Solidarity with Palestine
The advocacy group Filmmakers for Palestine has just published a declaration of their intent not to work with Israeli film institutions in protest of the ongoing war in Gaza. The list of signatories include a significant number of LGBTQ+ actors, writers, and directors (and allies) that so far include Tilda Swinton (“The Room Next Door”),…
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To lose one may be regarded as a misfortune, to lose two looks like carelessness …… how Palm Springs & Miami gets less gay
Palm Springs is known as the gayest town in the USA with some 50% of the 50,000 residents identifying as queer even though its a city with mostly gated retirement communities and golf courses, surrounded by desert that reaches temperatures of well over 110°F . This year, it may seem a little less gay now…
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Singer Conan Gray at the MTV Awards proves that ‘camp is still very much alive and well’!
It wasn’t until the other night, when watching the MTV Awards, that we realised that ‘camp’ is still alive and well! We had wrongly assumed it was just one of the things hastily discarded by Generation X as being irrelevant and outdated. But then again, we guess it’s hard to be rid of a verb…
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Whilst the US Adminstration stops all AIDS support globally, IRELAND renews its YOU, ME & HIV Campaign to make things better for people living with HIV
In 2024, the United States helped to provide HIV treatment to more than 20 million people around the world. It tested 84 million people for the virus and provided preventive care for several million more. All of that changed in late January, when 270,000 health-care workers, who were supported by the US President’s Emergency Plan…
