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Conversations With Gay Elders: Kerby Lauderdale
Having directed/produced two major queer documentaries in the past : The Cockettes (2002) and We Were Here (2011), Emmy Award nominated filmmaker David Weissman has now created a documentary storytelling project focused on older gay men. In each of his ‘Conversations With Gay Elders’ Weissman conducts interviews with gay men in their 70’s as they…
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Mapplethorpe
Filmmaker Ondi Timoner’s spirited attempt to capture the very essence of the sheer genius who was Robert Mapplethorpe in this new scripted biopic, sadly leaves us asking for more. In the two decades of his short life that are portrayed by Matt Smith playing the troubled photographer shows a self-centred man who could manipulate…
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Elska Magazine discovers the men of London
The bi-monthly gay bookzine ELSKA that devotes each edition to the men of a major city around the world, finally lands in London for its latest issue. This maybe it’s most diverse edition yet as LGBTQ men from all around the world are attracted to the lure of this great cosmopolitan capital city. Only one…
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Four unforgettable GAY JEWISH movies from Heymann Brothers Films
Barak and Tomer Heymann together are award-winning Heymann Brothers Films who have made some of the best Jewish gay documentaries which are now being given a mini retrospective next month that the Stonewall National Museum & Archives are presenting with the Congregation Etz Chaim in Wilton Manors. Based in Israel the two talented filmmakers draw…
