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A Dutiful Boy: A Memoir of a Gay Muslim’s Journey to Acceptance : review by Jonathan Kemp
“Pakistani culture visits the crimes of the child on his parents. I would shame them more than myself. It would be them, not me, at the forefront of public scorn and ridicule”, writes Mohsin Zaidi in this powerful memoir, and to understand this is to understand the entire nature and timbre of his dilemma, and…
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The Christmas Set Up : a brand new queer rom-com on Lifetime TV
Lifetime TV is the latest US Cable TV Channel to launch its own original LGBTQ Holiday movie this season, a groundbreaking first for the channel Part of a growing trend of adapting their signature highly sentimental rom-com where everyone is guaranteed a happy-ever-after-ending. Helmed by openly gay Canadian filmmaker Pat Mills from a script…
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The JINKX & DELA Holiday Special : one of the campest shows online
The Jinkx & DeLa Holiday Special is the story of two queens who set out to create a classic Christmas TV variety show, but just can’t agree on how. Starring the Terminally Delightful BenDeLaCreme, who after being crowned Miss Congeniality on RuPaul’s Drag Race, has carved out a highly successful career dazzling sold -out…
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Queer Punk Poetry : Lee Campbell
Brit experimental filmmaker and lecturer Lee Campbell goes ‘live ” n.b. its 7.15pm GMT First presented to audience acclaim at a recent PoetryLGBT event, this short spoken work performance charts teenage-hood; discovering one’s sexuality in private, away from one’s parents. As a teenager, you do not really know who you are. This film is…
