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Two new Exhibits to celebrate our LGBTQ History
Since writing about Brooklyn Historical Society’s new Exhibit On The (Queer) Waterfront which traces 150 years of queer history in their Borough, we have come across another couple of US Museums who are curating very similar exhibitions. The Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) is currently planning Queer California: Untold Stories the first-of-its-kind that will…
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GIRL : Lukas Dhont’s Award Winning Cannes Debut
One of the best received feature film debuts at the Cannes Film Festival was Belgian writer/director Lukas Dhont whose film Girl picked up both Caméra d’Or award, for best first feature film, as well as the Queer Palm. It is the transitioning story of teenage Lala (Victor Polster) who has always dreamed of being a ballerina…
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Queerguru’s JONNY WARD reviews CIRCA ‘fascinating and challenging in equal measure”
Circa ☆☆☆☆ Old Red Lion Has the LGBTQ community reached a crisis point? Has the hard won promise of endless sexual freedom begun to conflict with a desire to settle down and lead heteronormative lives? This revival of the 2016 play Circa approaches this dilemma in a deliciously complex way. A cast of five…
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From Zero to I Love You
For his sophomore feature film as a writer/director Doug Spearman reunites with Daryl Stephens who not only starred in his Hot Guys with Guns debut, but who was also a co-cast member of the groundbreaking Noahs Arc TV series. Stephens plays Pete a successful copywriter in Philadelphia who has a penchant for dating men…
