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Valentina : a (happy) trans coming out story

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  Valentina  is a very impressive feature film debut from Brazilian writer/director  Cássio Pereira dos Santos that tells the heartbreaking coming-of-age story of a transgender teenager.  It starts with teenage Valentina (Thiessa Woinbackk) being unable to get into a night club with her friends because her official ID card still lists her with her male … Continue reading



What If I Am Gay? a look back to 1987

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American TV Networks have always been notoriously puritanical and homophobic by nature.  We remember the story of Red Hot + Bue the very first album Red Hot Benefit Series which sold over a million copies worldwide, raised nearly $1m for the activist group ACT UP, and was heralded as one of the first major AIDS benefits in … Continue reading



Woke : how a closeted French Muslim”s coming out changed everyone”s lives

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  Sullivan Le Postec created the  award-winning series, Woke for Studio 4, the French public broadcaster’s web fiction platform in 2017.  Now available globally, it is the story of the melodramatic comings and goings of an LGBTQ Drop In Center in Lyons, which is suddenly turned upside down with the arrival of Hitcham (Mehdi Meskar) … Continue reading




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