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Queer Matter : News, Reviews And Interviews
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2020 Calendars SO HOT you’ll need someone to put the fire out
It’s that time of year again when our inboxes get filled with samples of next years calendars, most of them featuring scantily clad men who haven’t eaten a single carb all year. One of our favorites features Australian Firefighters who for good measure are photographed with their pets, as if there is is not …
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Jim Parsons & Greg Berlanti producing more Queer History
Queer producers Jim Parsons and Greg Berlanti have announced that they are going to make a new TV series called EQUAL that will profile some of the most important leaders and activists in the fight for LGBTQ rights. The four-part mini series for HBO will feature Harry Hay the founder of the Mattachine Society…
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Queen of Lapa : the story of Brazilian Trans Activist Luana Muniz
The Brazilian transgender activist Luana Muniz was considered such a fascinating character that her life has been the subject of no less that three documentaries. This latest one by Theodore Collatos, and Carolina Monnerat was completed just before Muniz died og a heart attack in 2017 aged 59. She was larger than life figure who…
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Daniel Lismore ‘a living work of art’ creates crystal clad costumes for the Opera
English National Opera’s Artistic Consultant Daniel Kramer who is staging a revival of Harrison Birtwistle’s iconic masterpiece THE MASK OF ORPHEUS had the inspired idea of inviting artist/designer Daniel Lismore to design the costumes. Lismore, once described by Vogue as ‘England’s most outrageous dresser‘ has used 400,000 Swarovski crystals so that each of the…
