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Queer Matter : News, Reviews And Interviews
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Nuts
This is the mostly true story of the larger-than-life J.R. Brinkley who turned out to be one of the country’s biggest and most successful medical charlatans of the last century. Documentarian filmmaker Penny Lane= chose to tell this totally bizarre tale by mainly blending animated visuals with archival footage and using narration by different actors. She starts by…
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Europe’s Historic Agreement on LGBT Rights
Just two days after the Orlando Massacre when homophobic U.S. Republicans were tripping over each other to tell the media how very sorry they were, GOP Congressman then simply refused to allowed the House to even take a vote on the passage of an amendment barring federal contractors from discriminating against employees on the basis…
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Love Must Prevail : Broadway sings for Orlando
‘Love Must Prevail’ was the message from dozens of Broadway megastars who put out a benefit single for the LGBT Center of Central Florida as a tribute to the victims of last week’s shooting in Orlando, which took the lives of 49 people and injured 53 more. Musical director Seth Rudetsky who with producer James…
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C. Fitz talks about Jewel’s Catch One
For 42 years Jewel Thais-Williams ran Catch One the first African-American female-owned disco in Los Angeles which provided an inclusive, exuberant and one-of-a-kind environment for gays of color to party in. It became so much more that as Jewel sought to offer a welcoming alternative, a place for expression and celebration that was a refuge…
