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The discreet gay men of Dhaka, Bangladesh
On the surface of it the choice of Dhaka , Bangladesh to be the next city featured in ELSKA the leading LGBTQ photographic bookzine seems a very odd decision to say the least. The rights of the local LGBTQ community ights are heavily suppressed and homosexuality is still illegal in the Country The…
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Jonny Ward’s ☆☆☆☆☆ review of the revival of Philip Ridley’s masterpiece VINCENT RIVER
VINCENT RIVER ☆☆☆☆☆ TRAFALGAR STUDIOS, LONDON This is a must-see, muscular revival of a play first performed at the Hampstead Theatre back in 2000. Philip Ridley’s masterpiece has lost none of its explosive power with this production which is directed by Robert Chevara with great clarity and an unbroken line of tension from curtain…
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Southern Pride : the struggle to organize Gay Pride in the Deep South
For his 5th documentary queer Canadian filmmaker Malcolm Ingram has returned to the American South where he shot his award-winning Small Town Gay Bar in 2006, Now he is back in two small towns in Mississippi on the Gulf Coast looking at the state of the LGBTQ community just after Trump’s election in 2016. We…
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Barbara Rubin and The Exploding NY Underground
This is a rather conventional documentary of a filmmaker who was anything but. Barbara Rubin exploded on the New York underground scene as a teenage when in 1963 her Uncle asked Jonas Mekas a Lithuanian filmmaker known as the godfather of American avant-garde cinema to give her a job. He was more than happy…
