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Taiwan : Marriage & Hot Bean Curd Sellers
There are two reasons why you may want to hop on a Taiwan bound plane these days. First because they have just been the latest country (and the first Asian nation) to legalize same sex marriage for which we heartily congratulate them. Secondly, it’s the home of 26 year old Chen Yitin who has become…
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Luna Park : a film about love and life
There are many ways that we can help fight homophobia, and probably none is more important than empowering a new generation who dare to take a stand on their own. There is no more effective way of getting your message than using the sheer power of film, and that is exactly what a young French…
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Tom of Finland
As part of a compelling trend to document crucial parts of the history of the growth of the LGBT community comes this timely, and rather excellent, biopic on the life and work of one of the most influential and celebrated figures of twentieth century gay culture. Touko Laaksonen (Pekka Strang) was a middle-class Finnish Army Officer who…
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Crazy All These Years
When Ben’s (Christopher Howell) sister suddenly dies, he has to step up the plate and return home to take care of his bed-ridden mother. The moment he steps back inside the family home in some god-forsaken rural town that he left for the bright lights of N.Y. some 20 years ago, the reasons he was in…
