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The Capote Tapes : the story on an iconic queer writer
Confession time. Truman Capote was one of the great queer iconic figures of the 20th Century that we would have loved to have known personally. Not the version of him in the biopic Capote that won Philip Seymour Hoffman an Academy Award back in 2006. It’s the ‘real’ Capote that is captured in a…
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IRIS APFEL and her new must-have Coloring Book
Style Icon IRIS APFEL will be 99 years young this August but that hasn’t slowed her up one iota . She may be on Lockdown like the rest of us, but she is busy as ever working on several different projects. One of these is hew brand new IRIS The Coloring Book which…
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The legendary queer performer LINDSAY KEMP’s last film @ Dance on Camera Festival
Lindsay Kemp, who died in 2018 at the grand old of age was a celebrated British dancer, actor, teacher, mime artist, and choreographer. Known best for his stunning production of Flowers, a mime and music show based on Jean Genet‘s novel Our Lady of the Flowers, in which he played the lead role of ‘Divine’. Kemp’s work was…
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House of Hummingbird : a Korean queer coming-of-age tale
This debut feature film from Bora Kim of a quiet and confused 14 year old Korean schoolgirl is loosely based on her own giving a real sense of authenticity to this unique coming-of-age story. Plus its also set in 1994 which proved a significant year in South Korea’s history. Eighth-grader Eun-hee (Ji-hu Park) is the…
