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Hollywood Must Do Better
In a new report out the LGBT advocacy group GLAAD claims that most major Hollywood studio films either totally avoid our community or they ensure that LGBT figures are simply the butts of jokes or putdowns. In 2014, for example, only 17 of more than 100 studio releases included lesbian, gay or bisexual characters, and…
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Alan Cumming : the new Queen of the Meat Market
Showtime TV have just taken over a passion project that out-gay Scottish/American actor Alan Cumming had been developing with director Rosemary Rodriquez (‘The Good Wife’) of a 30 minute dark comedy series based on the story of one of N.Y.’s most flamboyant restaurateurs Florent Morellet. Morellet opened the restaurant that bore his name in the early…
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Happy Birthday Pedro
Its the 66th Birthday of one of our very favorite gay filmmakers. From ‘What Have I Done To Deserve this?’ to ‘Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown’, ‘Bad Education’ and ‘All About My Mother’ etc. we have unreservedly loved ALL his movies. Here’s a clip of your last one that sums up how…
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Viva Ireland…. and other Oscar Hopefuls
When it comes to Countries selecting their Official Submissions to the Academy of Motion Pictures in the hope of being Nominated (an winning) a Best Foreign Picture Oscar we should never ever be surprised at what goes down. Of the 32 entries so far (last year there was a total of 83) four of the…
