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Before We Were Men
London’s National Portrait Gallery has a stunning new Exhibit that beautifully documents the vibrant 1980s London art and club scene with photographs of many of its gay stylish leaders such as Leigh Bowery, Derek Jarman and Gilbert & George. Before We Were Men is the work of photographer David Gwinnut who has captured the generation…
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Rebels on Pointe
Rebels On Pointe is a very affectionate profile by Canadian award-winning documentarian Bobbi Jo Hart on Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo an American all-male (and proudly openly gay) Ballet Company corps which parodies the conventions and clichés of romantic and classical ballet. Harte adopts a cinema vérité approach with her very entertaining film that takes us…
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Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Not these Naked Boys Reading!
London’s Naked Boys Reading are turning their attention to the work of Virginia Woolf one of the leading lights of the famed literary Bloomsbury Group in the first half of the 20th Century. Ms Woolf was also know for her rather notorious affair with the rather glamorous Vita Sackville-West but even that was not…
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Filmmaker Jake Graf talks about ‘Dusk’ & trans issues and more
On the eve of the World Premiere of his new movie DUSK at Boston’s Wicked Queer Film Festival trans filmmaker and activist Jake Graf talked to queerguru for PTV’s Channel 99. As it was International Transgender Day of Visibility the interview covered not just Dusk, and Graf’s recent viral hit Headspace, but also about some…
