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Bitter Years : the life of Italian Gay Liberationist Mario Mieli
Celebrated Italian queer theater and film director Andrea Adriatico’s latest movie is a biopic of Mario Mieli who was a leading figure in the Italian gay movement of the 1970s. Mieli may be little known outside of Italy but his fascinating colorful life that abruptly ended when he was just 30 years old, makes…
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Tom Shepard @ UNSETTLED : Seeking Refuge in America
TOM SHEPARD started his excellent and unsettling documentary about the plight of a handful of LGBTQ refugees in what we now wistfully call the ‘good old days’ i.e. pre 2016. Up to then this country stood by its centuries old policy of giving refugee to all those in need. His cameras show us the…
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Gay Dating Apps want us all to be NiceAF
So we love to talk about the good things that are emerging out of this Lockdown which are making us re-evaluate parts of our lives. We don’t know why it has taken so long but most of the major dating platforms for gay men have teamed up to introduce the NiceAF.org. In the first ever…
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Brit queer filmmaker BLAISE SINGH talks about PRIDE & PROTEST
If Blaise Singh had not been compelled to give up his job as an Secondary School Teacher, then we would never have gained a talented filmmaker with a fresh new voice about being Asian/Black and gay in the UK today. His passion and commitment to LGBTQ/human rights is infectious and as we see in…
