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An Evening with LAITH ASHLEY
Singer/songwriter, model, actor, and activist Laith Ashley is making his way down South to perform at the Sunshine Cathedral in Fort Lauderdale. His musical and television career include Strut, a television program about transgender models, which was produced by Whoopi Goldberg. In 2018, Ashley performed his music at L.A. Pride, and later that year he…
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Queer Genius award-winning Doc : chronicling five visionary queer artists: is Re-Released
Chet Pancake’s award-winning indie documentary “Queer Genius,” chronicles five visionary queer artists: Eileen Myles (Award-winning American writer and poet), Barbara Hammer (Filmmaker and producer), Jibz Cameron (performance artist and actor), and Black Quantum Futurism (Rasheedah Phillips and Camae Ayewa A.K.A. Moor Mother, literary and artistic creatives) who unapologetically break down barriers in their creative fields…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews the restored version of I’ve Heard The Mermaids Singing
I’ve Heard The Mermaids Singing is a remastered 1987 Canadian comedy-drama that is being re-released in the US this week. It was the first English-language Canadian feature film to win an award at the Cannes Film Festival, and is both a queer and indie cinema cult classic. It’s considered to be one of the…
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Books Beyond Bars & Bent Bars Project: Helping the Queer Incarcerated Community
Books Beyond Bars UK is a collective of volunteers who send books and other educational materials, free of charge, to incarcerated LGBTQIA+ people across the United Kingdom. The decision to launch this project in the UK was been inspired by our sister project in the US, LGBT Books to Prisoners. The team there…
