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FELLOW TRAVELLERS OPERA about the decades queer romance set during The Lavendar Scare
The Story of Fellow Travelers started as Thomas Mallon’s best-selling 2007 novel, then became an Aqard-Winning Showtime television miniseries in 2023 starring Matt Bomer and Jonathan Bailey, and it became an opera in 2016 by composer Gregory Spears and librettist Greg Pierce, and which is about to be performed at the Guggenheim Center in New York. And who…
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Queer Scout tells us the MEDELLIN is the NEXT queer resort Hot Spot
If you feel that you want to break out from all the usual resorts that are packed head to toe with what often seems the world’s queer community such as Torremolinos, Sitges, Mykonos, Provincetown, Fire Island, Key West, San Francisco etc etc then here’s some good news for you. Queer Scout, a newly launched LGBTQ+…
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NY”s NEWFEST steps up to the plate when Desperado Queer Film Fest in Arizona is Cancelled
Last month, the organizers of the Desperado LGBTQ+ Film Festival in Phoenix announced that they canceled the event “in direct response” to Trump’s executive order aimed at ending diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives at publicly funded institutions. This would have been their 17th Edition. In their statement, the organisers said Continuing with the festival this…
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Matthew López’s THE INHERITANCE “the most important American play of the century. ” regional premiere at The Round House, Bethesda
Back in 2018, when Matthew López’s drama THE INHERITANCE had its world premiere in London, the august conservative newspaper, The Telegraph, hardly known for its hyperbolic headlines, declared it “the most important American play of the century. Set in New York three decades after the height of the AIDS epidemic, The Inheritance wrestles with what it means to…
