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The Big Day for an Indian same-sex Couple
. Netflix’s The Big Day” showcases six weddings that represent the highest end of India’s $50 billion wedding industry. This is a conservative country where arranged marriages are still more popular than the ‘swipe left’ culture of the West. They are not only very traditional but when you are as wealthy as the families featured…
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Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché — bittersweet portrait of a punk pioneer
Poly Styrene, the first woman of color in the UK to front a successful rock band, introduced the world to a new sound of rebellion. She used her unconventional voice to sing about identity, consumerism, postmodernism, and everything she saw unfolding in late 1970s Britain. As the frontwoman of X-Ray Spex, the Anglo-Somali punk…
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Stay Home to enjoy Miami Beach”s Winter Party
Miami Beach’s Winter Party Festival is an annual, celebration of music, dance, and community, produced by the National Task Force to raise critical funds for the LGBTQ community. This year in response to the Pandemic it is an exclusive virtual experience that starts right now March 4-6, 2021. Founded in 1994, the original Winter…
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Queer As Fundamental : a new webseries from Matt Alber
Queer country singer/songwriter Matt Alber first tried his hand at filmmaking in 2018 when he teamed up with Jon Garcia (The Fall Trilogy) to produce Room To Grow. This chronicled the lives and stories of seven LGBTQ+ teens and families in cities across the country, offering an up-close and intimate glimpse into their daily…
