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Queer Matter : News, Reviews And Interviews
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Memories of A Penitent Heart debuts on PBS 7/31
When Puerto Rican filmmaker Cecilia Aldarondo’s mother was clearing her garage out in 2008 she called her daughter and asked if she would be interested in a box of decaying 8mm home movies and several hundred slides that she had just uncovered. Little did she know then when she agreed to take the box did she ever imagine…
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Superfruit couldn’t be more super (or fruity).
Mitch Grassi and Scott Hoying founding and current gay members of the Grammy-winning a cappella quintet Pentatonix have also taken a wee vacation from the group to form Superfruit. Grassi recently told OUT Magazine that the duo are a little more gay-friendly and a lot more open, more sexual, more liberated, which we can certainly confirm.…
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Boys For Sale
One of the most surprising facts to come out of first time filmmaker Itako’s intriguing documentary about the whole culture of young Japanese rent boys, is that they were also so relatively normal and matter-a-fact about their profession that they had all chosen as an easy way to make money. Most of the 10 boys…
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Landline
This is a tale of a family that has secrets that it keeps from each other, until they get found out that is. It centers on two sisters : 20 something-year-old Dana (Jenny Slate) who is almost grown up, or so she thinks. She works as a copywriter at a trendy Manhattan magazine, and lives…
