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Logo re-releases iconic Black queer TV series NOAHS ARC : now FREE on You Tube
15 years ago we just couldn’t forgive LOGO for cancelling NOAHS ARK after just two seasons even though it had been their highest rated original series ever. This groundbreaking and exhilarating series centered on the lives of Black gay men in their own narratives without a hint of all the cliched stereotypes that were…
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What Bohemian Rhapsody didn’t want to show you : Freddie Mercury’s boyfriends
The reason that so many gay men loathed the ill-conceived BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY that somehow managed to be both a box 0ffice smach and a unmitigated critical disaster, was because of the cack handed attempt to whitewash Freddie Mercury’s personal life. The whole movie had been micro-managed by the remaining members of Queen who wanted…
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Goodbye Norma Jeane : the story of the man who made Marilyn Monroe
Goodbye Norma Jeane ☆☆☆☆☆ Above the Stag Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson) died of an overdose on 5th August 1962 in Los Angeles at the age of 36 and this astonishing production is set during that torrid summer’s day. Jack Cole (played by Tim English) wakes up to this news on his sofa…
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Jordan Bryon on BIRDS IN THE BORDERLANDS which looks at gender and sexual identity in the Middle East
Australian qenderqueer filmmaker JORDAN BYRON spent 5 years in the Middle East documenting the lives of local queer people whose sexuality was causing both them and their families to be shunned and physically harmed. Their powerful & thought provoking film is having its US Premiere at Wicked Queer: The Boston LGBT Film Festival very…
