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Filmmaker Adam Garnet Jones talks about FIRE SONG
It is an achingly beautiful story compassionately told and one that is tinged with more than it’s share of sadness, as openly gay Garnet Jones shows how tough it is for LGBT people to be themselves in this tight small communities. After picking up Awards on the Film Festival circuit, the movie is being released by Wolfe…
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1960’s Teenage Heartthrob Bobby Vee dies aged 73.
Bobby Vee the clean-cut all American pop singer who was a teenage idol and heartthrob in the 1960’s who died yesterday couldn’t have been more worlds apart than the androgynous singer Pete Burns who also passed away this week. Vee was just 15 years old when got his first break and answered an advert for musicians…
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Flamboyant Pete Burns dies aged 57
Pete Burns the Brit pop-singer who became a Reality TV personality, died suddenly yesterday after a massive cardiac arrest. He was 57 years old. Boy George mourning his passing, described Burns as ‘one of our great true eccentrics‘. Burns found fame as a member of a proto-goth group originally called Nightmares in Wax before they…
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Remembering Pulse at P Towns Swim 4 Life
Filmmaker Brandon Cordeiro was in New York the day after the massacre at the Pulse Club in Orlando and immediately on hearing the news, he became one of organizers of the spontaneous Vigil held later that day outside the Stonewall Inn. Later back home in Provincetown he decided that an appropriate way to both memorialize…
