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  • Miami’s Flaming Classics : a must for all queer film aficionados

    Miami’s Flaming Classics : a must for all queer film aficionados

      We love the fact that our community keeps claiming back terms once thrown at us derogatively and which we now use as a celebration of our queerness.  Flamers was one such word, and here it is now used describing a rather fabulous series of some outrageously wonderful LGBT films that so deserve reviving. Flaming Classics,…

  • John Mahoney will always be Broken Hearts Club’s Jack to us

    John Mahoney will always be Broken Hearts Club’s Jack to us

      The British born veteran character actor JOHN MAHONEY has died aged 77.  Best known in mainstream entertainment as the dad in the sitcom “Frasier”  for all of its 11 seasons, portraying an ex-police officer often disturbed by the gentleness of his younger son Niles played by David Hyde Pierce. Although he never came out publicly as gay, he…

  • BPM sweeps the boards at France’s Lumiere Awards

    BPM sweeps the boards at France’s Lumiere Awards

      Just one week after it won GALECA’s prestigious DORIAN AWARD for Foreign Language Film, ROBIN CAMPILLO’S  masterful movie BPM BEATS PER MINUTE  seminal movie on the AIDS pandemic in France swept the boards of the LUMIERE AWARDS.  It makes up in part for the fact that the American Academy failed to put the movie on the shortlist…

  • I.C.E. set to deport HIV-positive gay man to Venezuela, where he can’t get proper treatment

    I.C.E. set to deport HIV-positive gay man to Venezuela, where he can’t get proper treatment

    Written By Daniel Shoer Roth of  The Miami Herald Posted with permission from Tribune Content Agency Ricardo Querales fears that his days are numbered.  He has HIV. Querales showed up in mid-January at the headquarters of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Miramar, Fla., to comply with a routine supervision order in place for several years as part…