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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews WHO I AM NOT : breaking the intersex taboo
Who I Am Not is a fascinating documentary chronicling the lives of two engaging, very different, black intersex people; South African ex-beauty queen Sharon-Rose, and unemployed fellow South African, Dimakatso, both of whom live in Johannesburg. Intersex people are people born with any of several sex characteristics including chromosome patterns, gonads, or genitals…
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GMHC presents The Latex Ball® Music Is My Life @Terminal 5 in NYC
The Latex Ball, annually hosted by GMHC in New York City, has celebrated over 30 years of ballroom magic. The purpose of the Ball is a celebration of life and a tribute to all those we have lost in Ballroom to AIDS-related complications. It is a commitment made in 1993 by GMHC that the…
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‘Chasing Chasing Amy’ : a personal take on how Kevin Smith’s film affected a 12-year-old queer kid’s coming-of-age
Chasing Amy, the third film from actor, comedian, and writer Kevin Smith was considered a critical and commercial success in 1997. The film is about a male comic artist (Ben Affleck) who falls in love with a woman (Joey Lauren Adams), to the displeasure of his best friend (Jason Lee). Intriguing as it was,…
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Georg Meyer-Weil: RIVERMAN his new solo exhibit at London’s Fitzrovia Gallery
In his 2023 solo Exhibition RIVERMAN at the Fitzrovia Gallery in London, George Meyer-Weil shows a new body of works on paper and canvas, depicting the male figure along waterways. His latest paintings reveal man as a small part of a much larger ‘picture’ referencing his elemental collectedness to water and the natural…
