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Queer Matter : News, Reviews And Interviews
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The Winners of the new Gay Travel Awards
We’ve always been a tad dubious about any business claiming to the best after all the years that British Airways somewhat unilaterally declared itself ‘the world’s favorite airline’. Even though half the queerguru team are Brits, it was never ever our pet airline …..in fact we really quite loathed it. Although we are at best…
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Desire Will Set You Free
We’re not sure if young American filmmaker Yony Leyser based in Berlin is aiming to be a modern day Christopher Isherwood with his first feature that sets out to show a slice of the contemporary edgy queer scene in Berlin, but he obviously used the great man of letters as his inspiration. Leyser’s improvised story…
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Men Do It Better Than Women Pt.1
This is no shallow chauvinistic claim in this case but just the simply reality that no matter how skimpy the costumes Catherine Zeta Jones and her fellow dancers wore in Cell Block Tango in the movie Chicago (which won Zeta Jones an Oscar), there is simply no comparison with their performance than with this all-male version. From…
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Filmmaker Eric Juhola talks about Growing Up Coy
The Mathis are a remarkable family whose courage and determination rarely faltered when they supported their youngest child Coy who started transitioning from male to female in kindergarten after it was clear that Coy felt he was a girl. Growing Up Coy documents the family’s fight for her right to use the girls’ bathroom in a landmark…
