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Queer Matter : News, Reviews And Interviews
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Mr Soul! the queer man who was the pioneer of Black TV in the US
Growing up as a white Jewish kid in London in the 1960’s carried with it a great deal of cultural delights in a decade that was hailed as ‘swinging,’ but as I grow older I realise that my slice of middle-class England was so frightfully British. We may have given birth to the Beatles…
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FIRST DAY for a transgender girl at High School @ HULU
Full credit to the Australian TV Channel ABC ME for both their insight and judgement for producing this excellent children’s TV mini series FIRST DAY about a transgender girl’s first year of high school. Originally an award winning short film, it stars transgender actor Evie Macdonald as Hannah, who must face the challenges that…
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The Iris Prize : The British ShortList
For new queer filmmakers . the Iris Prize is like The Holy Grail. With its £30000 prize money it continues to be the only LGBT+ short film prize in the world which allows the winner to make a new film. It all happens at a Festival of the same in Cardiff, Wales, which in…
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Matthias + Maxime : another superb queer drama from Xavier Dolan
The prolific French/Canadian Xavier Dolan is unquestionably one of the ten best queer filmmakers today. And he’ll be at the top of of the list too. In 2009 at the tender age of 20 his debut film I Killed My Mother, which he wrote, directed, produced and starred in, won him three prestigious awards…
