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Queer Matter : News, Reviews And Interviews
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New Queer Photography : Ed Benjamin Wolbergs
Berlin-based art director and editor Benjamin Wolbergs worked on New Queer Photography for 4 years He carefully researched this book which introduces 52 contemporary photographers, including those well-established and plenty of unknown and less well-known talent. The book embraces and celebrates the queer photography scene that has emerged in recent times, helped in large…
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The Fruit Machine : two entirely different queer films with the same name
Two years ago we reviewed Sarah Fodey’s excellent doc about how in the late 1950’s the Royal Canadian Mounted Police invented the ‘Fruit Machine’ to rout out homosexuals. This inept piece of technology didn’t work at all but it didn’t stop the RCMP and the Canadian Military from having a witchhunt for decades to…
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The Extinction of Fireflies : a real dud of a film
The only way a stage drama works as a movie is when it is filmed as is, and in the theater. Or the playwright can be persuaded to rewrite/adapt it, especially for the screen for as a different medium it requires different scripts. Actor turned writer/director James Andrew Walsh did neither of these and…
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100 BOYFRIENDS by BRONTEZ PURNELL reviewed by Jonathan Kemp
Brontez Purnell is a flaming powerhouse of creativity: writer, dancer, singer, filmmaker. Impressively restless and productive. His latest outing is this bold, sassy, sexy roulette wheel of a book in which he celebrates the marginal, the promiscuous, the lovelorn, the endlessly horny, hookers and hook-ups, fuck buddies and fuck-ups. I read it first in a…
