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The Queen of Ireland is on her way
Like half the world we’ve been in love with Panti Bliss since we first watched THE speech about homophobia on Ist February 2014 in Dublin’s Abbey Theater that blew our socks off and immediately went viral. When Stephen Fry later presented her with a People of The Year Award he succinctly said ‘I thought it was…
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Top Ten German Gay Movies
Since it produced one of the world’s first ever explicitly gay films called ‘Different From The Others’ back in 1919, Germany has been at the forefront of making really good LGBT movies. They are usually very sensual with a penchant for really hot looking men but all with highly original and compelling plots like ‘Free…
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Gay Cult Classic BIG EDEN is re-released
When the movie Big Eden was released 15 years it instantly became a gay cult classic. Thomas Bezucha’s debut feature film is an decidedly heart-warming old fashioned romance and real feel-good crowd pleaser which picked up nine awards from leading Film Festivals around the country. The San Francisco Chronicle explained its appeal so succinctly ‘Seeing middle-aged,…
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Miss Marilyn Maye takes me for a ride
One of the joys of my other day job working with Provincetown Community Television is that I get to talk to some amazing people who have chosen to spend part of their summer on this very perfect wee Town right on the tip of Cape Cod. Many of them claim to be ‘stars’ (it…
