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Unsettled: Seeking Refuge in America
Tom Shepard started his excellent and unsettling documentary about the plight of a handful of LGBT 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. In fact Shepard points out…
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Gus Kenworthy is going home to Mummy
Throughout history there has always been a lot a talk about the ‘special relationship’ between the U.S. and U.K. Our Editor is an ex-Brit and now a naturalised American so we think about it a lot. We are therefore so very happy that on the eve of the UK Election which may send the…
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I’ll Be Home at Christmas takes on a whole different meaning for the LGBTQ+ community
Queerguru is adding PANTENE to our List to Santa on who’s been very nice this year. The hair care peeps have got together with the Trans Chorus of Los Angeles and GLAAD to highlight a challenge that the trans community face each Christmas season. Evidently some 44% of LGBTQ+ people feel that cannot go…
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63 UP : Filmmaker Michael Apted’s monumental reality series that has followed 14 Brits now for 55 years
There seems to be a very fine line between observer and voyeur as we watch ’63 Up’ the latest addition of Michael Apted’s extraordinary series of films that he has been shooting for the past 55 years. Following the lives of some 14 Brits every seven years, the power of this precursor to the…
