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Queer Matter : News, Reviews And Interviews
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TOAST
The only one food that Nigel Slater’s mother could cook without ruining it was toast, and so consequently this was his staple diet as a young middle-class boy grooming up in Wolverhampton, a town in the British Midlands, in the 1960’s. Late at night Nigel would surreptitiously read cookery books in bed by torchlight pining…
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ULTRASUEDE : IN SEARCH OF HALSTON
Halston was the US’s first haute couturier to be taken seriously. From milliner to revered iconic fashion designer in a very short this flamboyant and fun-loving man firmly put his sartorial stamp on everything in the Studio 54 era so that his ‘star’ on Fashion’s Walk of Fame in NY rightly proclaims ‘The 70’s Belonged…
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ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA
In the dead of night, a group of 10 men, including a police commissioner, his Arab driver, a prosecutor, a doctor, diggers and two self confessed killers drive through the desolate steppes of the Anatolian countryside, and the empty winding roads are only lit by the headlights of their convoy. They are searching for a…
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FREE MEN aka LES HOMMES LIBRES
This is the story of Younes a young illiterate Algerian Moslem immigrant living in Paris and making a quick franc from selling things ‘off the back of a lorry’ when he meets a nice guy who’s in trouble, and happens to be Jewish, so Younes changes from being a bad boy into a good boy…
