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Queer Matter : News, Reviews And Interviews
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First glimpse of SPIKE LEE’s latest movie ‘HIGHEST TO LOWEST that just premiered at Cannes Film Festival
Spike Lee is not the most prolific of filmmakers, his last one was Da 5 Bloods some five years ago, so any new release is highly anticipated and a welcome addition to our viewing choices this month. Lee’s very stylistic films have examined race relations, colorism in the black community, the role of media in contemporary…
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Isherwood’s classic queer novel ‘A SINGLE MAN’ is now adapted into dance theatre piece by Jonathan Watkins for The Royal Ballet
Tom Ford is a modern Renaissance man with a host of artistic endeavors under his belt. Some know him as the designer who turned Gucci around, but we think his debut as a filmmaker was much more significant. In 2009, he directed A Single Man based on the 1964 novel of the same name by…
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Mario Paglino and Gianni Grossi : the gay married couple who gave Barbie (and us) real glamour have sadly died
In a near-depressing world where the self-serving Orange Buffon in The White House has lost total touch with reality, we so desperately need to be able to escape to a different reality to feel good about the world and ourselves. Sadly, this week, in a fatal car crash, we lost one of the most talented…
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Will & Grace co-head writer JON KINNALLY is ‘IM PRANCING AS FAST AS I CAN’ even though he says Madonna will always take her time
Very few of us know it BUT JON KINNALLY has been part of our gay lives for over 20 years. He was one of the Head Writers of the multi Emmy-winning WILL & GRACE, which really broke the mould when it came to producing authentic LGBTQA+ stories. on TV. With such a talented cast that…
