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  • Making The Boys

    ‘Making the Boys’ is a fascinating look at the 1968 groundbreaking play ‘The Boys In The Band’, and a profile on its writer and creator Mart Crowley.  The breakthrough play about a Birthday Party full of funny, but self-hating gay men was the very first off-Broadway play written by an openly gay man which was all about gay man. Pre-dating…

  • A Finished Life : The Goodbye & No Regrets Tour

    Gregg Cour is a 48 year old  gay man with AIDS who, after being HIV+ for half of his life has decided that he simply does not want to start yet a new regime of different medications. As he explains, after a while the body comes immune to drugs taken continually and hence the need to…

  • The Parade

    I know I was laughing far too hard at the opening scenes of this wickedly funny comedy because from the word go I knew the plot was horribly un-pc. This is a Serbian movie that poked fun about widespread homophobia but also indulged in racial slurs between all the different peoples that once made up…

  • Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You

    The thing I really loved the most about this movie was the title, which is actually a wonderful sentiment that I never really wanted to believe in, but now I am in my dotage I’ll admit has more than a smidgen of truth to it. James is the teenager who is at the receiving end…