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Finished “The Crown”? Then here’a another new Brit TV series to watch !
At the same time that the World is lapping up every single curtsey and all the Royal shade throwing in The Crown which represents the very best of British TV, this other new series from the Uk has landed in our intray. Hardly in the same category in any sense of the word, and…
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Uncle Frank : a mature coming-out story to grab your heart strings
Since he won an Academy Award for writing American Beauty in 1999 openly gay writer/director/producer Alan Ball has been focusing on creating new work for television. His groundbreaking series such as Six Feet Under and True Blood swept up Golden Globes and also won Ball a very loyal following too. Now he is back…
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UNCLE VANYA : a star studded Virtual reading for the Actors Fund
Online Theater during the COVID 19 Lockdown is getting bolder and better. This week sees a star-studded World Premiere reading of Neil LaBute’s new adaptation of Uncle Vanya, perhaps the most poignant of Anton Chekhov’s masterpieces: This bitterly comic meditation on frustrated love and the pitiful wages of self-sacrifice in late-19th-century Russia stars out gay actor…
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AIDS MEMORIAL QUILT VIRTUAL EXHIBITION FOR WORLD AIDS DAY
It maybe be hard for some of us to take in but 2020 actually marks the 40th anniversary of America’s first AIDS case. Since then, almost 700,000 people have died, the LGBTQ community has been stigmatized by the virus, and we are still without a cure. To help us remember all those that we…
