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Queerguru’s Janet Prolman reviews MAMA BEARS : journeys of trans kids fighting for acceptance
If you have ever teared up at the PFLAG (Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) contingent at a Pride march, bring out the handkerchiefs for this film. The Mama Bears are moms from a background of fundamentalist, conservative Christianity who face the dilemma of reconciling their profoundly anti-LGBT belief systems and communities with…
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Queerguru’s Andrew Hebden reviews “Freedom: 50 years of Pride’
There couldn’t be better timing for this documentary. Not because it’s being released over Pride weekend in London but because it reminds everyone, as Channel 4 TV faces privatization, that powerful, passionate work is driven by purpose, not profit. If that sounds a bit whole grain for your gluten-free palate don’t worry, it’s also…
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How To Build A Sex Room
If you are so over all those HGTV programs on how to make your house look fancy, and have finally realized that every room the handsome Property Brothers refurb looks exactly the same, then read on. The latest addition to all those TV house makeover rooms says it all in its title HOW TO…
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AIDS The Unheard Tapes – tragedy and joy from voices no longer with us
In the 1980s and 90s, as a new and apparently unstoppable disease ravaged the gay community, volunteers began to record for posterity interviews with the men infected with what would eventually be identified as the HIV virus, and with their friends. The tapes are now archived at the British Library and have never been broadcast…
