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“Rose: a true story and song ” : John Jarboe
“Rose: a true story and song ” is by John Jarboe our very own favorite Beaded Lady from The Bearded Ladies Cabaret in Philadelphia. It was was filmed in quarantine using social distance practices in the Beardcave This is a commission by Works & Process Artist (WPA) Virtual Commissions that was set up to…
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“Closet Cases: Queers on What to Wear” reviewed by Jonathan Kemp
Sartorial innovation has become something of a trademark, even a cliché or stereotype, of the (in)famous ‘homosexual sensibility’ (think Queer Eye). In Susan Sontag’s 1964 essay, ‘Notes on Camp’, she writes: “A sensibility (as distinct from an idea) is one of the hardest things to talk about.” Better, perhaps, to show rather than tell,…
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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…
