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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews ‘ARMANI AND THE BIRTH OF ITALIAN FASHION’ fascinating piece of social history about the rise of Armani, Gucci & Versace
A certain kind of magic happens when the worlds of ambitious gay men and alluring, equally ambitious women collide, never more so than in the designer fashion world with male designers and their supermodel friends and Hollywood muses. Armani And The Birth of Italian Fashion, a documentary by John Maggio, traces the rise of a…
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Filmmaker Elliot Tuttle wins his fight to get his highly controversial ‘BLUE FILM’ released intO US movie theaters
Here’s the first teaser trailer of BLUE FILM, a new movie by Eliiot Tuttle that has faced significant controversy and festival rejection (including Sundance and SXSW) due to its provocative subject matter, which includes an empathetic portrait of a pedophile. The film centers on a camboy whose client is revealed to be a former teacher…
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Queerguru’s David Allen reviews BERNSTEIN’S WALL the story of the music Maestro
I was introduced to Leonard Bernstein’s work in my mid-20’s (a while ago now) when a friend gave me an ‘Essential Bernstein’ CD; I’d only ever seen snippets of ‘West Side Story’ up to that point. It was a CD I listened to often at the time and continue to now when the mood takes…
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Miami is about to screen TWO major new FASHION DOCUMENTARIES
This month Miami hosts two major Film Festivals. OUTshine is one of the largest LGBTQ+ cultural festivals in the world, which started back in 1998, whereas the Miami Film Festival started 4 years earlier and has grown into a premier international cultural event specializing in Ibero-American and independent cinema. This year, both Fests are screening…
