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UK Naked Boys Reading Self-Gratification and more
These Naked Boys must really love their literature. Why else would they strip down to their birthday suits in the midst of winter when most of the northern hemisphere is buried under piles of snow. On January 13th, in conjunction with the Trace Queer Artist Collective, NBR are presenting Self-Gratification : a celebratory look…
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Miami’s fabulous Gay8 Latino Street Festival
Last year Miami gave birth to Gay8 (GayOcho!) the city’s very first Latino LGBT art, music and food street festival in Miami’s historic Little Havana and it was a sensational success with some 17,000 people swelling the crowds throughout the day . We know that for a fact, as we were there too. Now on January 15,…
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Silence
It took Martin Scorsese several decades to bring Shūsaku Endō’s 1966 celebrated epic novel Silence about religious persecution in 17th Century Japan to the screen, and this obvious project of passion is one of the filmmaker’s most visually stunning movies to date. Endō, a Japanese Roman Catholic, based his story on an historical figure Cristóvão Ferreira a Portuguese…
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Golden Globes go Gay (ish)
The stunning LGBT coming-of-age drama Moonlight from filmmaker Barry Jenkins, based on a play by openly gay writer Tarell Alvin McCrane rightly walked away with the top prize of Best Drama at the Golden Globes last night cementing an excellent night for diversity in general. (The movie incidentally is already number 30 in the list of…
