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  • Trans Youth talk about the labels society hangs on them

    Trans Youth talk about the labels society hangs on them

    In this new short film by award-winning trans filmmaker/activist Jake Graf he simply asked trans youth about the labels put on them by society. The result is a powerful message challenging the stigma of what it means to be trans today. Like all of Graf’s work it makes an essential contribution to the continuing dialogue…

  • Go-Go Reject

    Go-Go Reject

      Did you grow up as a skinny schoolkid dreaming that when you grew up you’d be a dancer just like Jennifer Beals in the 1983  hit movie Flashdance?  Well, Daniel did, but when he finally plucked up the nerve to go audition to be a Go-Go Boy he was turned down because he was still…

  • BANANAMAN THE MUSICAL : Everyone loves a Bad Boy, and this Show has more than its fair share.

    BANANAMAN THE MUSICAL : Everyone loves a Bad Boy, and this Show has more than its fair share.

      Everyone loves a bad boy and this show has more than its fair share.  Bananaman was a distinctively British, 80’s comic strip and TV cartoon with a hero who was very much an ironic counterpoint to the Superman or Batman phenomenon. It’s fair to say Bananaman is not that bright, but neither does he take…

  • Could you choose between these two?

    Could you choose between these two?

    Both Timothée Chalamet the star of Call Me By Your Name and Josh O’Connor who starred in God’s Own Country have been nominated for the  EE BAFTA Rising Star Award for 2018.  The good news is that the public gets to choose the winner, but the bad news is that we have no idea which one…