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Queer Matter : News, Reviews And Interviews
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Will we still Love Lucy after watching Aaron Sorkin’s Biopic?
Academy Award-winning writer/director Aaron Sorkin well known for his time for West Wing (of the White House) has now moved in to the Ricardos house. The home of Lucille Ball and her husband Desi Arnaz. His highly anticipated new movie Being The Ricardos is about a time when not everyone loved Lucy. They are…
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The Butch Monologues, Last Stand
The Butch Monologues are a powerful and often humorous collection of secret stories exploring sexuality, vulnerability, and desire taken from interviews with butches, masculine women and transmen, living worldwide. Originally a London-based group of butches, transmen and gender rebels brought together in friendship and solidarity have been touring the globe since 2015 with this…
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Operation Hyacinth : a Polish queer thriller with a real kick
It seems like so many countries have undergone a dark period in their history when they undertook merciless witch-hunts against the LGBTQ population. In the US it started in 1953 under Eisenhower, and what became known as The Lavendar Scare lasted some four decades. In that period thousands of people lost their livelihoods and…
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Make Me Famous : the story of the charismatic queer East Village artist Ed Brezinski
Brian Vincent’s fascinating, albeit somewhat chaotic, documentary on the queer East Village painter Ed Brezinski, is a great addition to other profiles of some of his peers that were released recently. Firstly there was Chris McKim’s incisive documentary of the exceptionally talented artist David Wojanarowicz who died of AIDS in 1992 just 37 years old. Then…
