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Al Pacino hosts a gala screening of DOG DAY AFTERNOON at The Actors Studio
Sidney Lumet’s ‘Dog Day Afternoon has become something of a cult classic since its release in 1975. Based on the real-life story of a bungled bank robbery and hostage situation that couldn’t have gone worse if they tried. Starring Al Pacino, John Cazale, James Broderick, and Charles Durning,the movie was both a critical and box office success.…
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Queerguru’s Andrew Hebden reviews “Triangle of Sadness” a funny & surreal satire at London Film Festival
If, by some random cataclysm (or Mondays as we now call them), you only got to see the first three scenes of the satire Triangle of Sadness you would still have rarely seen a more finely observed depiction of how money and status wreak havoc in our culture. The rest of this funny and occasionally…
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‘Boy with the Bullhorn: A Memoir and History of ACT UP New York’
In 1987 when Ron Goldberg was just 28 years old he discovered that ACT UP, the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power was about to hold a rally near his workplace. He was not normally into any form of political protest, but like all of us gay men at that time he was scared, angry, and more…
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Gay Under the Taliban: a Channel 4 Report
Only 6 days ago The Guardian newspaper ran a story about the death of Hamed Sabouri a gay Afghan. According to his family and partner, he was detained at a checkpoint in the city in August, tortured for three days, and then shot. The abduction, torture, and murder of this gay aspiring medical student,…
