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Queer Matter : News, Reviews And Interviews
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Chemical Hearts : a rather pedestrian teenage romantic drama
Actor turned writer/director Richard Tanne’s sophomore film Chemical Hearts is a rather pedestrian teenage dramedy about unrequited love. Adapted from Krystal Sutherland’s novel of the same name its the story of 17 years old high school student Henry Page (Austin Abrams) who is a cross between a bookish nerd and a homeless romantic. He is…
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PLATONIC : looking for love in all the wrong places
Erin C.Buckley‘s sparking new queer web series PLATONIC is about the trials of searching for love and when you are a thirty-year-old something-single in Brooklyn Olive (Summer Spiro) is a lesbian and Billy (Ryan King) is straight and her best friend and their brief (and always off-kilter) romances fit neatly into each 5 min…
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PS Burn This Letter Please : a glimpse into NY’s gay drag scene in the 1950’s + 1960’s
In 2007 John Maloof a young graduate working on a history project bought a suitcase full of photographic negatives in a Chicago auction hoping that one or two them maybe useful in his research. However what he discovered that day was a treasure trove of what is undoubtedly one on the finest collection of street…
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The Boys In The Band are coming Back
To mark the 50th anniversary of Mart Crowley’s Ground breaking queer play THE BOYS IN THE BAND in 2018 director Joe Mantello mounted a Broadway revival with a cast of all-gay actors. Both a critical and commercial success, it won the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play. Ryan Murphy, the celebrated queer…
