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Retake
For his feature film debut Nick Corporon chose to co-write and direct a road movie with a difference. True having a lonely middle-aged gay man pay for the services of a young hustler to accompany him is hardly new, but the journey they undertake together makes this intriguing resourceful wee drama a very suspenseful edgy thriller. When Jonathan…
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The Guy With The Knife
As I was living in the UK in the 1990’s I had never heard of the case of Paul Broussard a 27 year old gay man in Houston Texas who was the fatal victim of a hate crime in the early hours of July 4th 1991, until I came across this excellent intriguing new documentary.…
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Mariano Vivanco : Portraits Nudes Flowers
Peruvian photographer Mariano Vivanco’s stunning new book ‘Portraits Nudes Flowers’ features highlights of his last ten years of work. This celebrated genius with the camera has been shooting with some of fashion’s major big hitters and in fact the foreword to this beautiful collection that includes some spectacularly sensuous nudes is by Domenico Dolce &…
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Coming Out
Unless you are gay or fit in somewhere along the queer spectrum you will never ever really be able to appreciate the traumas of coming out of the closet about your sexuality in this heteronormative world. There is simply no one way of doing this, and when young filmmaker Alden Peters decided it was…
